Grand Emperor Hotel Sauna
I'm going to Macau for the first time next week for a few days and want to know if anyone has a recent review of the Grand Emperor Sauna. A friend recommended it to me as the first one to try?
First (and last) Sanado experience
Let me preface this by saying that I have only ever been to one other sauna in Macau, Sauna 18, where I always had good service. Based on the positive reports in this thread and because I was not sure if the renovation at 18 was still going on I decided to try Sanado. Granted this was the week-end after the Chinese New Year so a lot of the girls went home. Fact is, I got there at 11PM on a Friday night and there were about 9 ladies. Considering that I bought a package in HKG for 1875 HKD, which is very close to what I would have paid for the sauna 18 package, I was disappointed by the lack of selection. Took a shower by myself since there was no-one to take care of guests and was brought to the main room where I sat down in the only available chair. There was a brief show during which the girls went from customer to customer, it only happened once the whole night and lasted about 10 minutes total.
After that, I was given a choice of 5 girls, most of them ugly, picked one because I had already paid, went to the room and after the usual massage she complained that I was too big and offered a HJ instead of FS. We settled on BJ, which eventually became a HJ anyway. I complained to the manager (the one who I was told speaks English) , he said he would get me another girl, disappeared, never came back. Several times I tried to get another girl from the other manager (a lady who turned out to also speak English) she said I would have to wait because no-one is available, then would disappear as well. Tired of waiting I decided to call it a night and asked for a room to go to sleep. No rooms, unless I paid 200 MOP, screw that I remained in the chair. Later I remembered that my package included a surcharge for an "oil massage" and inquired about it. Nobody seemed to know what that was, or care. After I insisted heavily I was taken to a room by a girl who made no effort whatsoever to communicate with me, showered me for 5 minutes, gave me a BJ for another 5 minutes and ran out of the room, guess that was in place of the oil massage.
I just found the whole experience unpleasant, I would not go back to Sanado. The only nice ladies there were the Indonesians performing the thigh or shoulder or face massage, either one of them would have met me outside the sauna if I had time, which I did not. They tried to help me communicate with management, but like I said management did not appear to care at all.
Let me add that I am a Caucasian and had the distinct impression throughout the night that Chinese customers received much more consideration than me.
Not recommended based on my apparently exceptionally bad experience.