| We went to Rios today (Thursday) between 2 - 5pm and the gut feeling you leave with is that the venue itself is really quite good. The steam rooms are perfect temperature, as are the saunas, its clean and modern. Annoyingly the big jacuzzi and one sauna were out of action when we went, and the venue didn't offer a discount to reflect this, which we didn't think was ideal. Overall though, the venue and facilities are good at Rios and if it was packed full of gorgeous people, you'd have a serious party on your hands...
And therein lies the problem. When we went at least it was busy-ish, but the people consisted of - overweight, 50+ white guys, young black guys looking moody, old white guys with serious mountain-man looks going on, giant beards down to their knees, a couple of women who haven't seen a treadmill in a decade or so...you get the picture.
It's a real shame this, and smacks slightly of an owner who's got the cash to keep it ticking over but doesn't want to invest the money to market it and get the right crowd in.
On paper then, Rios should be awesome. Central London venue, good facilities, but the clientele is not that easy on the eye.
We will go back and to be fair to it we went on a Thursday afternoon, so who knows what the Saturday night couple's night is like. Might be great, we will report back.
Oh and one final thing, L had an hour long massage and it was great apparently.
Date: 18 December 2014
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