I checked out Python Sauna in São Paulo again tonight, Sunday, and unfortunately it was really quiet. Even the guys working there looked down, and a friend who went on Saturday said it was the same. Some of the workers mentioned it feels like the place is going downhill.

It’s a shame, because the owner is genuinely a nice guy and seems to care, but I get the impression some of the workers are taking advantage of that. I honestly don’t see it surviving much longer if things continue like this.

Just thought I’d share my recent experience since I had written about it a few months back, before Pride, when it seemed more promising.

Sao paulo is so odd

with population 10X many other smaller cities, its client base can only support one sauna?

How is that? I expect SP to have at least 5 good paid saunas 

On 9/22/2025 at 9:01 AM, babybear2 said:

Sao Paulo is so odd

with population 10X many other smaller cities, its client base can only support one sauna?

How is that? I expect SP to have at least 5 good paid saunas 

Not too many years ago there were seven nice saunas in Sao Paulo.

One by one five saunas closed.  The last nice sauna of the seven to close was Fragata.  There are two remaining saunas, but they are not doing well and will likely close.  

For some strange reason, Rodolfo, of Lagoa, has a gift that keeps on giving because he (and Edgarde) ran the original Lagoa which was a wonderful, large sauna comprised of three houses that were joined together to make the three houses appear as one large sauna.   

Most know that the lease ran out and the three houses were  later sold and torn down.  Now, in the place of the original Lagoa, there is a huge condominium and office structure built where the original Lagoa stood. 

Following Lagoa's move to its smaller current location, the other six saunas in Sao Paulo closed, one by one (four closed and the remaining two will not last long). 

Rodolfo must have some magical quality that keeps his sauna the only sauna in Sao Paulo that survives for more than twenty years (the original Lagoa and the smaller current sauna).   Remarkable!