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http://nypost.com/2016/03/06/inside-the-sleezy-spa-where-everyone-has-underwater-sex/
By Christy Smith-Sloman March 6, 2016 | 2:39am
NYCs sex spa is grossing people out
One of the outdoor pools at the Queens Spa Castle.
The Spa Castle in Queens is billed as a sprawling, 22-pool Disneyland of soaks and steams.
But some patrons are anything but G-rated.
On Sunday mornings, an army of exotic dancers getting off their Saturday-night shifts descends on the complex and its not to do laps in the Pool.
Spa Castle in Queens
During two recent visits, The Post found patrons in their birthday suits, groping each other, making out and having what appeared to be underwater sex.
Last Sunday, the clientele ranged in age from toddlers to octogenarians. But that did not stop a group of five heavily tattooed twenty-somethings from engaging in splashy sexcapades in the 2-foot-deep, heated wading pool on the second floor.
House music pulsing, one of the women stripped down naked and cheerfully played with her breasts while a woman in a yellow-fringe string bikini and a man looked on. A few minutes later the nude woman stood in front of the seated man while her hand jerked in and out of the water. A couple made out a few feet away.
A male member of the group wondered out loud if they should make a liquor-store run.
It was not yet 9 a.m.
There is a big problem with customers having sex in the pools, and the management doesnt know how to handle it, said the staffer, speaking anonymously. Practically every day, couples are caught having sex in the indoor and outdoor pools. They think they are being sly about it, but theyre not. When you see somebody on someones lap bouncing up and down and the jets arent turned on, you know whats happening.
For two decades, Chons forte was building and renovating Korean-run laundries and nail salons. But in 2005, the developer with champagne tastes purchased a ramshackle warehouse on 11th Avenue in College Point for $3.6 million. He envisioned it as a family friendly hotel-spa. The spas Facebook page has even described its mission to create a light-hearted, family-oriented ambience.
The community board promptly shot Chon down, deriding the proposal as a thinly disguised hot sheet establishment, the Queens Gazette reported.
But Chon gained the support of then-Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, who helped shepherd the project through a series of city approvals.
Today it is New York Citys largest spa, with 300,000 annual visitors and sales of more than $20 million in recent years, Chon told Inc.com. He opened a second Spa Castle in Texas in 2012 and a third on East 57th Street in Manhattan in 2014.
The $25 million, 100,000-square-foot complex offers 21 spa pools, a wading pool, hydrotherapy baths, high-tech steam rooms, 10 gold-tiled saunas and services like facials and body wraps.
In the outdoor pool I would see lots of girls sitting on guys laps and they would be bobbing up and down. It was pretty obvious they were having sex.
- Whitney Ward, customer
After paying a $40 entry fee ($50 on weekends), clients don knee-length shorts and T-shirts blue for men and hot pink for women along with a watch that serves as both a locker key and charge card for food, drinks, massages and facials. For an extra $290, a client can book a private VIP room for a 90-minute massage that includes herb tea, cookies, fresh fruits and a 30-minute aromatic Jacuzzi.
The wading pool is where much of the action occurs. Its heated and equipped with underwater jets and a swim-up bar. Drinks like the Spa-tini (gin, Chambord and pineapple juice) or the Brainstorm (rum, Disaronno and pineapple juice) run $18 a pop.
I had to stop going on Saturdays because it was like a full-on, urban high-school orgy in the outdoor pool upstairs, said Whitney Ward, a 42-year-old Manhattan photographer. Under the water mushroom . . . in the outdoor pool I would see lots of girls sitting on guys laps and they would be bobbing up and down. It was pretty obvious they were having sex. Ive also seen guys rubbing one out the wet way.
One spa-goer saw a young girl smuggled into the mens dressing room. When she changed clothes, I was shocked to see breasts, wrote a Yelp reviewer in November who identified himself as John l from Queens. I did a double take. What the hell? I covered up and told the staff, but they did nothing.
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By Christy Smith-Sloman March 6, 2016 | 2:39am
NYCs sex spa is grossing people out
One of the outdoor pools at the Queens Spa Castle.
The Spa Castle in Queens is billed as a sprawling, 22-pool Disneyland of soaks and steams.
But some patrons are anything but G-rated.
On Sunday mornings, an army of exotic dancers getting off their Saturday-night shifts descends on the complex and its not to do laps in the Pool.
Spa Castle in Queens
During two recent visits, The Post found patrons in their birthday suits, groping each other, making out and having what appeared to be underwater sex.
Last Sunday, the clientele ranged in age from toddlers to octogenarians. But that did not stop a group of five heavily tattooed twenty-somethings from engaging in splashy sexcapades in the 2-foot-deep, heated wading pool on the second floor.
House music pulsing, one of the women stripped down naked and cheerfully played with her breasts while a woman in a yellow-fringe string bikini and a man looked on. A few minutes later the nude woman stood in front of the seated man while her hand jerked in and out of the water. A couple made out a few feet away.
A male member of the group wondered out loud if they should make a liquor-store run.
It was not yet 9 a.m.
There is a big problem with customers having sex in the pools, and the management doesnt know how to handle it, said the staffer, speaking anonymously. Practically every day, couples are caught having sex in the indoor and outdoor pools. They think they are being sly about it, but theyre not. When you see somebody on someones lap bouncing up and down and the jets arent turned on, you know whats happening.
For two decades, Chons forte was building and renovating Korean-run laundries and nail salons. But in 2005, the developer with champagne tastes purchased a ramshackle warehouse on 11th Avenue in College Point for $3.6 million. He envisioned it as a family friendly hotel-spa. The spas Facebook page has even described its mission to create a light-hearted, family-oriented ambience.
The community board promptly shot Chon down, deriding the proposal as a thinly disguised hot sheet establishment, the Queens Gazette reported.
But Chon gained the support of then-Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, who helped shepherd the project through a series of city approvals.
Today it is New York Citys largest spa, with 300,000 annual visitors and sales of more than $20 million in recent years, Chon told Inc.com. He opened a second Spa Castle in Texas in 2012 and a third on East 57th Street in Manhattan in 2014.
The $25 million, 100,000-square-foot complex offers 21 spa pools, a wading pool, hydrotherapy baths, high-tech steam rooms, 10 gold-tiled saunas and services like facials and body wraps.
In the outdoor pool I would see lots of girls sitting on guys laps and they would be bobbing up and down. It was pretty obvious they were having sex.
- Whitney Ward, customer
After paying a $40 entry fee ($50 on weekends), clients don knee-length shorts and T-shirts blue for men and hot pink for women along with a watch that serves as both a locker key and charge card for food, drinks, massages and facials. For an extra $290, a client can book a private VIP room for a 90-minute massage that includes herb tea, cookies, fresh fruits and a 30-minute aromatic Jacuzzi.
The wading pool is where much of the action occurs. Its heated and equipped with underwater jets and a swim-up bar. Drinks like the Spa-tini (gin, Chambord and pineapple juice) or the Brainstorm (rum, Disaronno and pineapple juice) run $18 a pop.
I had to stop going on Saturdays because it was like a full-on, urban high-school orgy in the outdoor pool upstairs, said Whitney Ward, a 42-year-old Manhattan photographer. Under the water mushroom . . . in the outdoor pool I would see lots of girls sitting on guys laps and they would be bobbing up and down. It was pretty obvious they were having sex. Ive also seen guys rubbing one out the wet way.
One spa-goer saw a young girl smuggled into the mens dressing room. When she changed clothes, I was shocked to see breasts, wrote a Yelp reviewer in November who identified himself as John l from Queens. I did a double take. What the hell? I covered up and told the staff, but they did nothing.
More at the link
