Turkey is well known with its Turkish bath "Hamam" culture and whenever someone plans to come here he always gets some advices about visiting the hamams.
It can be very beneficial to visit a hamam if you like to discover something oriental. However if you are interested having some gay experience in the hamams, frankly Istanbul does not offer you many good-quality attractions as a gay sauna. Me personally I haven't been any of them but I got many questions from you that"s why I wanted to write what information I got about them.
First of all keep in mind that hamam is an old thing even for turkish people. A random turk doesn't go hamam for cleaning. We used to have them in our neighbourhoods for our personal cleaning while Paris needed to invent perfume and umbrella.
When you are in Istanbul you might hear that people are talking about some gay friendliy hamams around eyup and sultanahmet. I advice you to be careful before deciding to go any of them it is because I heard many people were complaining about the hygiene in this places.
There is another one around taksim called as aquarius sauna as far as I have heard it is in better situation comparing to many others the only complain I heard about them is massage prices are very high and there are many rent-boys in that place so if you don't wanna face with any awkward situation please be careful from the first step. You can find their address from this link: http://www.aquariussauna.com/location.htm
There are also some other places which does not promote itself as gay friendly but gay people visits often. If you wanna find information about them you should follow the "mouth newspaper" while you are in Istanbul.
