I was there last week to use the hot tub and relieve my lower back pain until the chiropractor is back from his holiday. Quite honestly, I did not know it was a gay sauna for elderly clients, or those who are deep in the closet. The steam facilities are actually good but I was annoyed by some of the clients, most of them over 60, trying to grab my stuff (front and back) while in the hot tub, or sexually insinuating themselves despite the fact that in a very polite way I rejected their advances. More annoying than that was the rude, arrogant and hostile attitude of the older guy in the reception, yes, the obese old guy with white hair and white beard who treats the customers as though it was a boot camp or a prison. The facilities are OK, but could be better. The lockers are a pain in the rear end, they have not been replaced in decades and use some flimsy keys that can break anytime and the locks seem to get jagged every time one has to open or close the locker. They have some bunk beds that look more like a Freudian bed, I suspect they must be from the 30\u00b4s, the exercise equipment is obsolete. There is a TV room with a microwave oven, a small terrace in the back of the building. The second floor has small cabins for all the sexual activity and a small room with an old TV with gay porno videos. There is a terrace on the roof that is supposed for the customers to rest and sunbathe, yet it is also used for sexual activity, sometimes even in groups, as I witnessed. At the end  the insistence of the gay clients did not bothered me so much, I can handle gay guys coming on to me and I can politely reject them, and I can tolerate the old worn-out towels and sheets with holes. What annoyed the crap out of me was the hostile attitude of the receptionist. I saw how he dismissively talked to a Mexican-looking guy in his 20\u00b4s when the guy requested a second towel, and then I saw how he talked to an old local guy and the approach was diametrically opposed. I was annoyed by the way he threw the keys on the counter and the change and his demeanour in general. I have been to steam baths in Turkey, Greece, Budapest and even Helsinki and the rule is that those places are not for sexual activity, people go there to enjoy the steam and socialize, exercise, have some tea, sometimes play table games and even read the paper. Sometimes men and women together, with decorum and respect....Colonial Baths is nothing like this, rather it is a gay sauna for closeted elderly guys, a place that looks and is old (which does not necessarily make it a historical place) with crappy customer service provided by an A-holish receptionist who should have retired long time ago.\n\nSorry, but the old hot stones steam system and the Mad Men atmosphere does not make up for crappy and surly customer service.\n\nThe price for a locker is, by the way, 18 smackers