No sex on my first visit to a bathhouse! I was living in New York City in the late 1980s and was traveling to Toronto for work. Friends who used to live in Toronto suggested a specific bathhouse. I don't recall the name. I asked about the best time to go. They said anytime! So, as an inexperienced, naive, and newly out thirtysomething gay man, I visited my first bathhouse in the middle of the afternoon on a weekday. The place was nearly empty. I stayed about an hour. Went back to my hotel feeling silly about the whole episode.
Back in NYC I discovered sex clubs before I ventured to another bathhouse. My second visit to a bathhouse was Steamworks Chicago. Had lots of great sex. Kept going to bathhouses in NYC, SF, Berkeley, Chicago, Orlando, Dallas, Seattle, New Orleans, Berlin and London. Great sex everywhere. Some slow nights, of course. But overall, bathhouse sexcapades are the best!