[84gunner]

Managed to walk around a little during the weekend, despite a stiff neck. Didn't really see that many bbs as mentioned here in earlier posts. Wonder if it's due to "clean-up" for Olympics last year. Only saw a few bbs in some small residential areas, inside the small lanes (like a maze / puzzle). But would give a miss to those I see, as quality is not to my liking. Or maybe I just didn't walk to the correct streets.

Saw lotsa saunas around though, especially along 湖滨南路。

Tea houses, saw quite a few too, especially helping a foreigner colleague ask about the way they charge & services they provide. Saw some gems, but I personally haven't been to one myself, didn't know anything about it & haven't read up the info on tea houses at that time, so didn't go into any of them. But based on the price, we'd rather go to a sauna for full service, we feel saunas have better rooms & facilities than those tea houses, and direct to the point. I think at most, we can only rubba the girls inside the room in the tea house, which my friend is not so interested. It's also not convenient for my colleague to ON, cos he's a foreigner, doesn't speak Mandarin at all, not to mention Min Nan, and he's sharing the company apartment with other colleagues.

Haven't gone to Marco Polo Hotel area yet, though based on the info I gathered in this thread, the KTVs, saunas and pubs / discos seem to be the most popular around.

Also strange about me is, I haven't gone to the discos / pubs yet! Collected some info on discos / pubs based on the 52 pages of postings, but I'm somewhat confused especially with the location of Honey.

Several discos such as 时空隧道、星座 (I believe aka KK) and YOYO are along 嘉禾路，with KK and YOYO very near to each other, while 时空隧道 is a little distance away on the same big street. But for Honey, 1 posting said it's opposite KK, another posting said it's near 金樽 KTV, or 823 厦禾路, though on the same road, it's still quite a distance from KK & YOYO. 厦禾路 is quite a long road. I took about 2 hours to walk from 松柏路 to 天红商场，and then along 嘉禾路 to 厦禾路 / 湖滨西路、国际美食街 (禾祥西路)。