TNT Gay Health Club (Closed Permanently)

I am sad to hear that the TNT has finally died. I hadn't been in 10 years or so, but I have many, many great memories of this place. I started going in 1987 and was a regular customer with a lifetime membership until the early 2000s when I finally left Michigan. Back in the old days it used to be a wonderful place. The people were super friendly and it was a social time as well as the sex. I remember lots of guys used to go there after the bars on the weekend and frequently Lady T Tempest would give out memberships as prizes at the Gas Station. Ah, the good old days.

As a founding member I’m dismayed to hear such sad reviews about the TNT. Back in the late seventies I worked with Dan and Steven to refurbish what was once a millionaires private health club. Like many things in the Detroit area at that time it had been left to decay but we saw great potential in the place. It does have an enormous heated pool with nice shower facilities and at one time even private rooms to get your groove on. We added the “video room” ( seems funny to still say video in the digital age ) and we added a lighted disco floor ( Just like in Saturday Night Fever ) and for a while we opened up the attached Bar next to that. It was a great place to be at that time, a safe place to meet other people who shared a common interest and I don’t think I need to spell that out for you. As for the neighborhood, if you know your gay history at all, gay bars and businesses where tolerated only in the grittiest of areas in any city in the country. That being said “ Bitch your in Detroit “ it was and still is a rough town, get over it ! I wish Steven and the staff all the best.

HELL TO THE NAW NAW NAW

THIS PLACE GOT YO MANY RULES. STEVE WAS AN EVIL PERSON. MEAN TO THE STAFF AND THE GUEST. WHO LIVES IN A BATH HOUSE????? THIS PLACE WAS GREAT IN THE 80's & 90's BUT NOW JUST CLOSE UP FOR HOOD. IT'S A WRAP. FIRST ITS CLOSED THAN IT ONLY OPEN ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY????? NOBOBY GOES HERE. MAYBE 2 or 3 OLD WHITE MEN IN THERE 80's. EMPTY BUILDING. CLOSE DOWN ITS OVER BYE TNT D&S

Another Detroit Ruin

Once a great bathhouse, TNT is now not even a shadow of its former self. When the original owner died and the current owner Steven took over it all went to hell. He apparently even LIVES in the place now. Staff are exceptionally rude. Petty and ridiculous rules have pretty much kicked out everybody who used to go there, so only a handful of desperate old men can be found in the club. If anything young comes in, Steven will be notified by the front desk clerks so he can come "greet" them. Huge pool (it is 50 feet long despite what another reviewer here says) is wasted and outrageous "sign-in" procedure for whirlpool makes the whole thing a tortuous ordeal. Never-ending fees for membership and usage make this place even less appealing in today's cash-strapped economy. If you have any memories of this place from the '80's you will cry when you see it now. I had a lifetime membership for ages but cut my card and tossed it back after I'd had enough of the farce. Living in Florida now, TNT is just one more reason never to return to Detroit. UPDATE AS OF AUG. 1, 2013 TNT is reportedly closed. I am surprised the place kept going this long. UPDATE AS OF MAY 13, 2017 So it is limping along now open only on Saturday and Sunday limited hours. Interesting phenomenon here, a business losing so much patronage that it reduces itself to this level. Yet some "reviewers" here want to praise the place and bash the detracting reviewers. Well, it is interesting to note that each of those praising "reviewers" states the same thing..."I know them/him personally". Buddies or employees making a desperate effort to counter the negatives? Come on! Anyone with half a brain can figure out that bad management has ruined this place. Sure, BZ is a dark and dirty hole, but there is more fun to be found there. If a place as nasty as that can take away all of TNT's business you know something is seriously wrong with TNT.

Ppl here give it a false rep...

I go there and happen to know the workers. They are not rude, the other customers are just stupid and/or belligerent who can't follow simple directions so they have to be reminded. The place is ALWAYS clean and free of drugs, unlike that disgusting hole they call the Bodyzone. I wish there were more younger guys there but it does get pretty busy sometimes. It's hit or miss but that's usually the case wherever you go. I give the place 4 stars for it being a clean, safe environment. You can even get tested discretely there sometimes. I drop a star for the whirlpool taking forever to open.