Cabanas News

The Florida AIDS Walk & Music Festival is a great way to give back to your community. Come together for a 5K walk and an epic concert!

For over three years Michael has been a key team member at Spa Cabanas as a licensed massage therapist. He has been licensed and practicing massage for 19 years.

You may ask How big is Cupid’s Package? Well let us tell you it’s not how big it is, but what’s included (Sorry we couldn’t resist) that makes it irresistible.

Mark your calendars to attend the first ever “Pride of The Americas” which will be held in Fort Lauderdale Feb 10-12, 2023. The event, presented by Visit Fort Lauderdale, is the first pride event to focus on an entire continent with guests expected from Alaska to Argentina and everything in between.

This year marks the 9th year in a row that the readers of SFGN voted us Best Gay Guesthouse and Best Men’s Day Spa Cabanas Guesthouse. For the first time, Spa Cabanas was awarded the category of Best Massage Therapist.

Twenty-three years ago, what’s now the Cabanas Guesthouse and Spa was a quiet apartment rental complex called Sante Fe Landings. At first glance, this modest (and quite neglected) property didn’t seem like much. John Dorry and Bill Barnish (his partner) bought the property with the initial idea of it being strictly for investment purposes. However, when approached with the proposition of turning it into an elite all-male gay resort, Bill and John saw the potential for something greater, and so was the start of The Cabanas Guesthouse.

On this special occasion, we want to express gratitude to all our friends and guests who have made the Cabanas Guesthouse and Spa an award-winning place to stay. We are grateful for our devoted and tireless staff and take immense pride in the outstanding hospitality they provide. We also extend special thanks to our wonderful Men's Day Spa partner, Spa Cabanas, for treating our guests and local visitors with constant pampering. Happy Thanksgiving! On this special day, we raise a very hearty Thanksgiving glass to all of you.

Michael, originally an Iowa and Nebraska native, had spent most of his early life growing up in the agricultural Midwest, surrounded by farm life and enduring tough, cold winters. This eventually led Michael to desire a change in lifestyle and climate. In 2017, he decided he had enough of the cold winters, so he sold his house and business and headed to South Florida for a new, warmer chapter in his life.

The Cabanas Guesthouse, located in the heart of Gay Fort Lauderdale (Wilton Manors), was recently awarded Tripadvisor’s Travelers’ Choice Award! We are excited to have been selected for such an award and look forward to serving our guests with an experience that is nothing short of excellence.

Living in South Florida, I have my pick of many clothing-optional guest houses to stay at but there is one, for the life of me, I have not sunken my “teeth” into. Less than four miles from my home and right in the gay heart of Southern Florida in Wilton Manors, the Cabanas Guesthouse and Spa has been on my radar ever since I moved here in 2013. I pass it often, dozens of times a year, but I’ve never stopped in.