Outcall massage at On Nut
On Nut is the stop where Bangkok becomes affordable, and the density of new condominiums around the station means we are here more often than the distance would suggest.
- Arrival
- 35 to 55 minutes
- Hours
- 24 hours, every day
- Therapists
- Licensed, named first
- From
- THB 900, pay after
The stop where the rent finally drops, and thousands of units stacked around it.
On Nut is Sukhumvit Soi 77, and for most of the last twenty years it has been the answer to the question of where somebody moves when the districts nearer town stop being affordable. The station sits over the main road, and around it in every direction is the densest cluster of new-build condominium towers anywhere on the eastern half of the line.
What On Nut 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.
Relaxing 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.
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.
DetailsTraditional 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.
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.
DetailsCouples massage
Two therapists, same room, at the same time, both of you finishing together. Tell us what the room has and we will arrange the second place to lie.
DetailsThe scale of that building programme is what makes this district different. These are not the eight-storey blocks of Thong Lo or the individual towers of Asok. They are estates: three or four towers under one name, sharing a lobby complex, a pool deck and a car park, with several hundred units apiece and a management office that runs the whole site. A single development here can hold more people than an entire sub-soi further west.
Around them is ordinary working Bangkok. A large fresh market, a night market that runs most evenings, several supermarkets, and the run of shophouses and street food that any Thai neighbourhood of this size has. On Nut Road itself runs south from the station toward Rama 4 and Phatthanakan, and it is lined for a considerable distance with more housing.
The people who book us here are almost entirely residents rather than visitors. Younger Thai professionals, first-apartment expatriates, couples who wanted two bedrooms rather than one, and a large population of people who work in the central business districts and travel in and out every day.
It is far enough out that our arrival window is honest rather than optimistic, and close enough to the line that it stays workable. Thirty-five to fifty-five minutes is the range, and it improves considerably once the evening traffic has gone.
Estate condominiums, and why the tower letter matters
The single most useful thing you can tell us in this district is which tower you are in, and it is the thing most people leave out. A development here is frequently several buildings sharing one entrance road and one address, distinguished by a letter or a number, and the walk between the furthest two can be several minutes across a podium deck.
That matters more than it sounds. A therapist who arrives at the wrong tower does not simply walk next door. She has to go back down to the shared lobby, get past a second set of lift access controls, and start again, and in a large estate that is a genuine ten minutes with nobody at fault.
So the format that works is development name, tower letter, floor and unit. Ideo Mobi tower B, eighteenth floor, unit whatever. With that she goes to the right lift bank first time. Without it she is asking a security guard who may or may not know which tower a given unit number sits in.
The second thing worth mentioning is lift access. Most of the larger estates here run keycard-controlled lifts that will not stop at a residential floor without a resident card. This is completely normal and it is not an obstacle, but somebody has to either come down or send the lift, so keep your phone to hand for the ten minutes around the arrival window.
Four towers, one name, one lobby complex and eight hundred units. The building name alone is not an address here.
The commute, and what it does to demand
On Nut is a dormitory district in the proper sense. A very large share of the people living here work somewhere between Asok and Sathorn, and they spend somewhere between forty minutes and an hour and a quarter getting to that job in the morning and the same coming back.
That produces a demand curve unlike anything in the central districts. Almost nothing happens here before six in the evening on a weekday, because the district is empty. From half past seven, when the trains have delivered everybody home, it becomes one of our busier areas, and it stays busy until around midnight.
It also produces a specific complaint. An hour standing on a packed BTS carriage, twice a day, five days a week, does a recognisable thing to a person's upper back and shoulders, and a good share of the deep tissue and office syndrome work we do here is treating the journey rather than the job.
Weekends invert it completely. Saturday and Sunday afternoons are busy from about one o clock, the treatments booked are longer, and the flats are full rather than empty. If you want a weekend afternoon slot with a particular therapist in this district, ask on the Thursday.
What On Nut books
Oil massage, and the price question
Plain oil massage takes the largest single share here, and this is a value-conscious district where the sixty minute treatment comfortably outsells the ninety. People book the straightforward thing, they book it often, and they are not generally experimenting with the menu.
Deep tissue for the commute
Deep tissue is a close second and it is almost entirely a weekday evening pattern. The complaint is consistent enough that therapists working this district know what they are going to find before they arrive: upper trapezius, the base of the neck, and everything between the shoulder blades.
Traditional Thai, and the two-bedroom advantage
Traditional Thai performs better here than in the compact central districts for a simple reason. People moved out this far to get more space, and a two-bedroom flat in On Nut has floor room that a studio in Asok does not. The stretching needs about two metres by one, and out here that is rarely a problem.
Couples, more than you would expect
Couples bookings are stronger than the district's profile suggests, because so much of the housing stock is two-bedroom units occupied by two people. Weekend evenings mostly, two therapists at once, and the living rooms are big enough to do it without moving furniture.
Getting here, and the difference ten at night makes
The arrival window here moves more with the clock than in any district closer in, and it is worth knowing which version of it you are booking into.
Weekday evening
Between six and eight on a weekday, expect the top of the range and occasionally past it. This is the worst window, because the therapist is travelling out along the same road as everybody else going home, and Sukhumvit east of Ekkamai is solid.
Late night
After ten it changes completely. The road empties, the journey out is quick, and the same booking can land at the short end of the estimate. If you have any flexibility about the hour, a late booking in On Nut is materially faster than an early evening one.
Weekend daytime
Weekend daytime sits in the middle. The road is easier than a weekday evening but the district is busy with its own traffic around the markets and the malls, particularly on Sunday afternoon.
The rain
Heavy rain adds twenty minutes to anything out here and sometimes more. This end of Sukhumvit floods at several points and the surface roads off it drain slowly. If it is already coming down, book earlier than you want her.
Therapists who cover On Nut
Every one of them trained in Thailand and holds a Ministry of Public Health licence. You get told who is coming before they knock.
Booking for a building nobody has heard of
There is a lot of new construction in this district and not all of it is well known, which occasionally worries people who assume we will not be able to find a small development off a side lane. We will, and here is the reliable way to make sure of it.
Give the development name first, exactly as it appears on the building. Do not translate it or shorten it, since the shortened version is frequently the name of something else nearby.
Add the soi. Most of the housing here sits off On Nut Road or off one of the numbered sois running north and south from Sukhumvit 77, and the soi narrows it down immediately even when the name does not.
Add the tower letter if there is more than one, and the floor. In a large estate this is the difference between a straightforward arrival and a ten minute detour.
Send a pin as well if you have one. Out here it earns its keep, whereas in the central districts a building name alone is usually enough.
If the development is genuinely new, mention what was there before or what it is next to. A guard at the corner will know the site even if the name has not reached the maps yet.
Prices, and why nothing changes this far out
We are asked this more in On Nut than anywhere except Phra Khanong, and the answer deserves to be exact. The treatment price does not change by district: sixty minutes of oil massage is a thousand baht here exactly as it is at Nana. On Nut does sit outside the seven kilometre free radius, so a transportation support fee applies on top, and the figure quoted in the confirmation message is the figure the therapist asks for at the end.
The reason for holding that line is straightforward. The moment a price depends on the postcode it also depends on how far out somebody guesses you are, and every booking turns into a negotiation. One number across the whole city is simpler for you and simpler for us.
What we do not pretend is that the journey is the same. It is not, and the arrival window says so. Being honest about the wait and flat about the price is a better arrangement than the reverse.
Nothing is taken when you book, there is no deposit, and payment happens at the end in cash, by card or by PromptPay. That is identical everywhere we work and it does not change because you are at the far end of the line.
Where On Nut ends
Westward the district gives way around Soi 71, where Phra Khanong begins and the buildings get a little older and a little more expensive. There is no real boundary on the ground and several developments sit ambiguously between the two.
Eastward it runs to about Soi 93, after which the next cluster is Udom Suk. That stretch in between is thinner than either end, mostly low shophouses and smaller apartment blocks, and it is covered on the same terms with an arrival time closer to the Udom Suk figure.
Southward, On Nut Road carries on a long way toward Phatthanakan and Rama 4, and there is a great deal of housing down there. We cover it, though the further south you go the more the journey becomes a road trip rather than a train ride, and the estimate lengthens accordingly.
Northward the sois off Sukhumvit reach toward Phra Khanong canal and the Ramkhamhaeng side. That area is more residential Thai housing than condominium and the addresses are the ones most worth describing carefully when you book.
Everywhere we go in On Nut
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
- BTS On Nut
- BTS Phra Khanong
- BTS Bang Chak
- BTS Punnawithi
- BTS Udom Suk
Streets and sois
- Sukhumvit Soi 77 (On Nut)
- On Nut Road
- Soi On Nut 1 to 90
- Soi Sukhumvit 79
- Soi Sukhumvit 81
- Soi Sukhumvit 85
- Soi Sukhumvit 93
- Phatthanakan Road
Landmarks
- Century Movie Plaza
- Big C On Nut
- Habito Mall
- Tesco Lotus On Nut
- On Nut Night Market
- Wat Mahabut
- Sikarin Hospital
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
- Sacha Hotel Uno
- Best Western Plus Sukhumvit
- Ramada Plaza by Wyndham Bangkok Sukhumvit 48
Condominiums and residences
- Ideo Mobi Sukhumvit 81
- Whizdom Connect Sukhumvit
- The Base Sukhumvit 77
- Ideo Sukhumvit 93
- Life Sukhumvit 48
- Regent Home Sukhumvit 81
- Elio Del Ray
Who books in On Nut
- Long-distance commuters
- Working in Asok or Sathorn, home after half past seven, and booking deep tissue for the journey rather than the job.
- First-apartment expatriates
- The estate condominiums around the station. Sixty minute treatments and price aware.
- Young Thai professionals
- The largest single group here, and the reason traditional Thai holds its share this far out.
- Two-bedroom couples
- Weekend evenings, two therapists at once, and living rooms big enough not to move anything.
- Weekend families
- Saturday and Sunday afternoons from about one o clock, when the flats are full rather than empty and the longer treatments sell.
- Night bookers
- After ten, when the road out here clears and the arrival window beats its own estimate.
Questions about On Nut
- My condominium has four towers. What do you need?
- The development name, the tower letter, the floor and the unit. That combination gets her to the right lift bank first time. With the development name alone she arrives at a shared lobby and has to work out which of four buildings you are in, which is a genuine ten minutes in a large estate.
- The lift needs a resident card. Is that a problem?
- No, it is normal in most of the newer estates here. Somebody has to come down or send the lift up, so keep your phone to hand around the arrival window. Tell us once and we will note it against the address so it never needs explaining again.
- How long will it actually take to reach me?
- Thirty-five to fifty-five minutes as a rule. Between six and eight on a weekday expect the top of that, because the therapist is travelling out along the same road as everyone else going home. After ten at night it drops noticeably and can beat the bottom of the range.
- Do you charge extra for coming this far?
- The massage costs the same in every district. What being further out changes is the wait, which we quote honestly, and the transportation support fee, which is banded by distance and included in the total before you confirm.
- My building is new and not on the maps yet. Can you find it?
- Usually, and there is a trick to it. Give the development name exactly as written on the building, the soi it sits off, and what it is next to or what was there before. A guard on the corner will know the site even when the mapping applications have not caught up.
- Is there enough space for traditional Thai in a condo here?
- Yes, and there is nothing to check about your flat first. We work the stretching on your bed like everything else on the menu, so a compact studio at the top of a tower out here takes it as readily as a two-bedroom unit does, and nothing has to be moved before she starts. What does vary out here is the arrival window rather than the room, so give us the building name and we will tell you honestly how long she needs.
- Can two of us book at the same time?
- Yes, and it is more common here than the district profile suggests, largely because so much of the housing is two-bedroom units. Two therapists arrive together and work at the same time, and a second bedroom makes the arrangement effortless. Give us a little more notice at the weekend, since two people travelling this far out takes more arranging than one.
Near On Nut
Phra Khanong
Where the rents fall off a cliff. A canal, a real market, and younger residents.
Udom Suk
Suburban Thai Bangkok. Wide roads, family houses, and almost no visitors at all.
Punnawithi
Built around True Digital Park. The one outer district with a real daytime working population of its own.
Ekkamai
The same long soi shape as Thong Lo, cheaper rents, a younger crowd, and a bus terminal sitting at the mouth of it.
Bearing
The provincial boundary. Big houses, low rents, and the longest run we make.