Outcall massage in Din Daeng
Din Daeng holds the oldest public housing in Bangkok and some of the densest living in the city, and almost nobody who books here is a visitor.
- Arrival
- 30 to 50 minutes
- Hours
- 24 hours, every day
- Therapists
- Licensed, named first
- From
- THB 900, pay after
The densest housing in the city, and hardly a hotel room in it.
Din Daeng runs between Victory Monument and the Ratchada corridor, and it is defined by two things: the expressway interchange that sits on top of it, and the public housing estates that were built here from the 1960s onward.
What Din Daeng books most
Ordered by what people here actually choose, rather than by our menu. Every one is worked on your own bed with sheets and oil the therapist brings with her.
Traditional Thai massage
Stretching and acupressure along the body's energy lines, worked through clothing without oil. Firm, and on tight muscles it can smart. Worked on your bed, so there is nothing to clear.
DetailsDeep tissue massage
Slower and heavier than an oil massage, aimed at the knots underneath rather than the surface. Say the word at any point and she eases off.
DetailsRelaxing oil massage
Long, even strokes with warm unscented oil. The most straightforward thing on the menu, and the one to pick if you simply want the tension gone.
DetailsCoconut oil massage
Cold-pressed coconut oil rather than the standard blend. Lighter on the skin, absorbs rather than sitting on top, and it is what most Thai therapists use on themselves.
DetailsOffice syndrome massage
Targeted work on the neck, shoulders and upper back for people who sit at a desk all day. The one to book if your pain has a laptop-shaped cause.
DetailsAromatherapy massage
The same slow work as an oil massage, with a scented blend chosen for what you need. Lemongrass to wake up, lavender to sleep. Most people book this one at night.
DetailsThose estates are among the oldest large-scale housing blocks in Thailand, and around them has grown one of the most densely populated parts of the city. Low-rise flats, walk-up apartment buildings, narrow lanes, small markets and a working population that has been here for generations.
The expressway is the other presence. Din Daeng is a major interchange for the elevated network, and the ramps, pillars and approach roads shape the whole district. It is noisy, it is convenient for a car, and it makes the ground level layout more complicated than it would otherwise be.
There is very little visitor accommodation here. A handful of budget hotels and short-stay places aside, this is a residential district and everybody we treat lives in it.
For us it is a district of regulars, physical-work complaints and addresses that need a block number rather than a building name.
The blocks, and how to give us an address
The housing estates here are laid out as numbered blocks rather than named buildings, which is unusual in Bangkok and is the single most important thing to know about addressing a booking in this district.
A block number plus a floor plus a unit will get her to your door. A building name will not, because most of these buildings do not have one, and the estate name on its own covers a great many blocks spread over a substantial area.
The layout inside the estates is not always intuitive. Blocks are not necessarily in numerical order on the ground, the paths between them are pedestrian rather than vehicular, and a car will get to the edge of the estate rather than to your stairwell.
So the useful message is: estate, block number, floor, unit, and which road she should come in from. With those five things a first visit is straightforward. Without the block number it is not, however precise everything else is.
The estates are numbered rather than named. The block number is the entire address.
Walk-ups, stairs and the fifth floor
Most of the housing here predates the era when lifts were standard, and that shapes the practicalities more than in any other district on our list.
The older blocks
A great many of these buildings are four, five or six storeys with no lift at all. That is completely normal here and it is not an obstacle, but she is carrying a bottle of oil and fresh linen up those stairs.
Lifts
Where lifts exist they are in the newer blocks and the taller ones, and they are usually open access rather than card-controlled.
Stairwells
Stairwells are frequently shared between several units per floor and are not always well lit at night. Nothing about that is a problem; it is just worth knowing that she may call from the bottom rather than come up unannounced.
What to mention
The one thing genuinely worth mentioning when you book is the floor. It costs you two words and it means nobody arrives out of breath.
What Din Daeng books
Traditional Thai, and the local default
Traditional Thai is the leading treatment here and its share is among the highest anywhere on our list. The population is almost entirely Thai, the stretching is what a massage means, and it is asked for by name rather than picked off a menu.
Deep tissue from physical work
Deep tissue is second and the cause is manual work. Construction, driving, delivery, market trade and factory work all produce lower back, shoulder and forearm complaints, and the pressure requested here is at the heavy end.
Oil massage at the budget end
Straight oil massage takes a solid share as the cheaper alternative, and the sixty minute treatment dominates the ninety by a wider margin than in almost any other district.
Bookings for older relatives
A noticeable share of bookings are made for an older parent or grandparent by an adult child in the same household, and for those we almost always steer toward a gentle oil massage rather than the stretching, regardless of what the rest of the family books.
The expressway, and what it does to the estimate
Din Daeng is a major interchange for the elevated expressway network, which cuts both ways for an arrival here.
For a therapist travelling by car the expressway is genuinely useful, and it is one of the few districts where a road journey can beat a rail one. From the eastern side of the city she can be here quickly at a time of day when the surface roads would be hopeless.
The problem is the ground beneath it. The approach roads and ramps carry heavy traffic, the surface streets around the interchange are congested for much of the day, and the pillars and slip roads make the pedestrian layout awkward.
There is no MRT station inside the district itself, which is the other constraint. Huai Khwang and Victory Monument are the nearest points and both involve a road leg afterwards, so the last part of the journey is always subject to the traffic.
Thirty to fifty minutes is honest. Late evening is materially better, as it is across the whole eastern half of the city.
Booking for a household rather than a person
More of our bookings here cover several people in the same flat than in any other district, which is a function of how many households have three generations under one roof.
Tell us how many people and roughly what each of them wants. We will send enough therapists rather than one person working through the family in sequence, which takes all evening.
Give ages for anyone older. For a parent or grandparent in their seventies we would generally recommend a gentle oil massage rather than the Thai stretching, whatever the rest of the household is having.
Say if anybody has a medical condition. High blood pressure, diabetes, osteoporosis, a recent fall or joint replacements all change what is appropriate, and none of them are visible.
Think about the room. A flat with several people in it needs one room that can be given over for the hour, and it is easier to decide that before she arrives than to work it out at the door.
Book earlier in the evening than you would for one person. Two or three therapists to one address takes more arranging than one does.
Therapists who cover Din Daeng
Every one of them trained in Thailand and holds a Ministry of Public Health licence. You get told who is coming before they knock.
Working with limited space
Flats in the older estates here are compact, frequently a single main room plus a bedroom, and that is worth addressing directly rather than pretending every treatment fits everywhere.
Seven of the eight treatments happen on a bed and need only enough room to stand along one side of it. That works in essentially every flat in this district and there is nothing to move.
Traditional Thai is the exception. The floor stretch needs roughly two metres by one of clear space, and in a compact flat that frequently means moving a table before she arrives, or choosing something else.
We would much rather have that conversation when you book than at your door. Describe the room in a sentence and we will tell you honestly whether the Thai will work or whether the oil massage is the better choice for the space you have.
Nobody should feel awkward about a small flat. It is the most common kind of home in this city and every therapist on the team has worked in hundreds of them.
The market streets, and the hours they keep
Din Daeng has a working clock rather than an office one, and the markets are what set it.
The morning market
The fresh markets run early, from before dawn, and the people who work in them finish when the rest of the city is arriving at its desks.
Evening food streets
The evening food streets run the other way, setting up in the afternoon and going until late, which produces a second group finishing around midnight.
Shift workers
Between them, plus the drivers, construction workers and delivery staff who live here, this district produces bookings across a much wider spread of hours than a purely residential area would.
Booking hours
In practice that means late morning and late night are both busier here than the conventional pattern predicts, and the six to eight evening slot is less dominant than elsewhere.
Getting into an estate for the first time
A first visit to one of these estates is the only genuinely awkward part of working in this district, and it is worth setting out what makes it go smoothly.
The estates are pedestrian inside. A car or a motorbike taxi reaches the perimeter road and no further, so she walks in from whichever entrance you name. Which entrance matters, because on a large estate the wrong one can be five minutes of walking round the outside.
The block numbering does not always run in the order you would expect on the ground, and the paths between blocks are not signposted. Somebody who has never been to your estate cannot reliably work it out from the number alone on a first visit.
So for a first booking, meeting her at the entrance you named is genuinely the fastest option. It takes you two minutes and saves ten. After that she knows the route and it never needs doing again.
None of this applies to the newer buildings on the main roads, which have ordinary lobbies and ordinary access. It is specific to the older estates.
Where Din Daeng ends
Westward the road runs to Victory Monument, which is a short distance and a considerably busier place, covered on its own page.
Eastward it heads toward Ratchadaphisek and the Huai Khwang and Ratchada corridor, where the towers start and the character changes completely within a kilometre.
Northward it reaches toward Sutthisan and the older residential streets on that side.
Southward it runs down toward Makkasan, Phetchaburi and the Rama 9 area, past the expressway interchange and into the newer development on that side.
The estates themselves are the thing that defines this district rather than any road boundary, and if you are in one of them then this is your page regardless of which street you come out onto.
Price in the least expensive district we cover
Din Daeng is among the cheapest places to live in central Bangkok and we are asked about discounts here more than anywhere except Pratunam. The answer is the same and it is worth explaining rather than simply declining.
One published price applies across the entire city and it does not move for the district, the building, the hour or the difficulty of the address. That means no surcharge for a fifth floor walk-up at eleven at night, and no reduction for a cheaper neighbourhood.
What we would rather do than discount is be honest about what the cheapest option actually is. Sixty minutes of traditional Thai at nine hundred baht is the entry point, there is no minimum spend and no deposit, and booking that regularly does more for a chronic complaint than an occasional longer session.
Payment is at the end in cash, by card or by PromptPay, and it is the figure from the confirmation message.
Everywhere we go in Din Daeng
Find yours below. If it is not here we almost certainly still come, so send the building name and we will confirm in a minute.
Stations
- MRT Huai Khwang
- BTS Victory Monument
- MRT Sutthisan
- MRT Phra Ram 9
- Airport Rail Link Makkasan
- Din Daeng expressway interchange
Streets and sois
- Din Daeng Road
- Pracha Songkhro Road
- Asoke Din Daeng Road
- Soi Din Daeng 1
- Mit Maitri Road
- Ratchadaphisek Road
- Vibhavadi Rangsit Road
Landmarks
- Din Daeng flats
- Din Daeng expressway interchange
- Din Daeng Market
- Pracha Songkhro market
- Big C Din Daeng
- Huai Khwang Night Market
Buildings we travel to
Listed as places we deliver to. We have no arrangement with any of them and nothing here should be read as one.
Hotels
- Bangkok Cha Da Hotel
- Nasa Vegas Hotel
- Grand Rich Boutique Hotel
Condominiums and residences
- Din Daeng housing blocks
- Lumpini Ville Ratchaprarop
- Chateau In Town Ratchada
- Regent Home Sutthisan
- Bangkok Horizon Ratchada
Who books in Din Daeng
- Long-settled households
- Families who have been in the same block for decades. Traditional Thai, asked for by name.
- Manual and shift workers
- Construction, driving, delivery and market trade. Deep tissue at the heavy end, lower back and forearms.
- Multi-generation families
- Several people in one flat, booked together, with a gentle oil massage for the oldest of them.
- Market traders
- Morning markets finishing at breakfast and evening food streets finishing at midnight, producing bookings at both ends.
- Adult children booking for parents
- One of the highest rates of this anywhere we work, and almost always the gentle end of the menu rather than the stretching.
Questions about Din Daeng
- My building has a number instead of a name. What do I send?
- The estate, the block number, the floor, the unit and which road she should come in from. The block number is the whole address here. Most of these buildings genuinely do not have names, and the estate name alone covers a great many blocks over a large area.
- There is no lift in my block. Is that a problem?
- Not at all, and it is normal in this district. Four, five and six storey walk-ups are the standard here. Just tell us the floor when you book, because she is carrying oil and fresh linen and it is a courtesy worth two words.
- My flat is small. Which treatments actually fit?
- Seven of the eight, since they are worked on your bed and need only enough room to stand along one side of it. Traditional Thai is the exception because the floor stretch wants two metres by one of clear space. Describe the room and we will tell you honestly which to take.
- Can several of us book at once in the same flat?
- Yes, and this district does more of that than any other. Tell us how many people and roughly what each wants, and we will send enough therapists rather than have one person work through the family all evening. Book a bit earlier than you would for one.
- I want to book for my grandmother. What should you know?
- Her age, how mobile she is, and any medical conditions, particularly blood pressure, diabetes, osteoporosis, joint replacements or a recent fall. For most people in their seventies we would recommend a gentle oil massage rather than the Thai stretching, whatever the rest of the household is having.
- Is it cheaper here because the area is cheaper?
- No, and it is not more expensive for a difficult address either. One published treatment price applies across the whole city with no surcharge for a fifth floor walk-up at eleven at night and no discount for the neighbourhood. Nothing is required up front and no deposit is held at any point.
- Does the expressway make it quicker or slower?
- Both, depending on the hour. For a therapist coming by car from the east it is genuinely useful and can beat a rail journey. The surface roads around the interchange are congested for much of the day, and there is no MRT station inside the district itself, so the last leg is always on the road.
- When are you busiest here?
- Late morning and late night, which is unusual. The fresh markets finish around breakfast and the evening food streets finish around midnight, so both of those produce bookings. The conventional six to eight evening slot is less dominant here than in most residential districts.
Near Din Daeng
Huai Khwang
The night market district. Genuinely awake at four in the morning, unlike anywhere else.
Victory Monument
A roundabout with four hospitals and several thousand students around it. This district is never quiet.
Ratchada
Office towers, the courts and the cultural centre. Busy Monday to Friday, quiet on Sunday.
Rama 9
The newest business district in Bangkok. Everything here was built this century.
Phaya Thai
The Airport Rail Link terminus. Arrivals, departures, and a considerable number of hospital beds.