Babylon Sauna
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Badehaus Babylon is a gay bathhouse on Friesenstraße in Cologne, a moment from Friesenplatz and five minutes from the Ehrenstraße. It has been running for over thirty years and covers more than 1,400 m² of wellness, sauna and cruising.
It opens 365 days a year. On weekdays it runs from ten in the morning until six the next morning; at weekends and on public holidays it simply does not close.
The week has a shape to it. Wednesdays bring hourly infusions with fruit in the Finnish sauna, Thursday is student day, Friday carries a two-for-one voucher and Sunday afternoons are given over to wellness. Tuesday is the day for kinks and fetishes, rotating through a Bear Tuesday, a Wet Night in the Area 51 and a Puppy Night across the month, and the second Saturday brings a long sauna night with a midnight snack.
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| monday | 00:00 – 06:00, 10:00 – 23:59 |
| tuesday | 00:00 – 06:00, 10:00 – 23:59 |
| wednesday | 00:00 – 06:00, 10:00 – 23:59 |
| thursday | 00:00 – 06:00, 10:00 – 23:59 |
| friday | 00:00 – 06:00, 10:00 – 23:59 |
| saturday | 00:00 – 23:59 |
| sunday | 00:00 – 23:59 |
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