Outcall massage at Phrom Phong
Phrom Phong is where the malls, the park and the largest Japanese community in the city meet, and it is the one district on the line that is genuinely busy during the day.
- Arrival
- 20 to 35 minutes to the main sois
- Hours
- 24 hours, every day
- Therapists
- Licensed, named first
- From
- THB 900, pay after
The one stretch of Sukhumvit with as much daytime demand as evening.
Phrom Phong sits between Asok and Thong Lo, and the station is the middle of it. Emporium is on one side, EmQuartier on the other and EmSphere alongside, which puts three shopping centres within a two minute walk of each other and makes this the commercial heart of the residential stretch.
What Phrom Phong 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.
Aromatherapy 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
DetailsFour hands massage
Two therapists working on you at once, in time with each other. Strange for about a minute, then very hard to think about anything at all.
DetailsBehind the malls the district is family territory. Benjasiri Park is here, so are several international schools within reach, and the towers on Soi 24, Soi 26, Soi 31 and Soi 39 hold a very large Japanese and Korean expatriate population alongside the western one. People arrive here with children and stay for years.
Soi 39 deserves separate mention because it is long. It runs north from the main road for well over a kilometre, past clinics and restaurants and a run of quiet residential blocks, and like Thong Lo it has no station of its own beyond the one on Sukhumvit.
The reason this district matters to us more than its size suggests is the clock. Everywhere else on the line is dead between nine and five. Phrom Phong is not, because a meaningful share of the people here are at home during the day, and that makes it the most evenly booked area we cover.
The daytime pattern, and why it is unique here
Across almost the whole of Bangkok our work is an evening and night business. Phrom Phong is the exception, and the difference is not marginal: a substantial share of bookings here land between ten in the morning and four in the afternoon on a weekday.
The reason is who lives here. Accompanying partners in relocated households, parents whose children are at school until mid-afternoon, and a large retired and semi-retired population in the older towers. None of those groups is waiting for six o clock.
That is genuinely useful to know if you are trying to book at short notice. Weekday mornings in this district are the easiest slots to fill anywhere in the city, and a same-hour request at eleven in the morning is very likely to be met. The same request at eight in the evening competes with everybody else on Sukhumvit.
The corollary is that our afternoons here are not the empty stretch they are elsewhere, so if you want a specific therapist in the middle of a weekday it is worth asking the day before rather than assuming nobody else wants that time.
Everywhere else on Sukhumvit wakes up at six in the evening. This district books all day.
Soi 39, and the rest of the district
Phrom Phong is four or five distinct pockets rather than one, and they are not interchangeable.
Soi 24 and 26
Soi 24 and Soi 26 run south off the main road toward Rama 4 and hold a dense run of newer condominiums plus several serviced apartment blocks. Short walk from the station, quick arrival, and the most straightforward buildings in the district.
Soi 31 and 33
Soi 31 and Soi 33 run north and are older, leafier and lower. Houses behind walls, small apartment blocks, clinics. Quieter, marginally slower to reach, and full of long-standing residents.
Soi 39
Soi 39 is the long one. It carries on well past the point most visitors imagine the district ends, and the buildings near the top are a good fifteen minutes beyond the ones near the bottom. Give us the sub-soi or the building rather than just the soi number.
The mall blocks
The blocks immediately around the malls are mostly hotel and serviced apartment stock. Fast to reach, formal lobbies, and the one part of the district where bookings look like the rest of Sukhumvit.
What Phrom Phong books
Aromatherapy, and the daytime slot
Aromatherapy takes the largest share and the pattern here is nothing like the rest of the line. Elsewhere it is a late booking made to help someone sleep. Here it is frequently a mid-morning one made because the flat is empty and the day is free, which is a different customer entirely.
Traditional Thai in the family apartments
Traditional Thai is strong and rising, helped by the same thing that helps it on Thong Lo. This is a district of long-term residents rather than short stays, and people who have lived in Thailand for years tend to want the treatment the country is actually known for, booked at the length it was meant to be given.
Couples, and the four hands weekend
Couples and four hands cluster at the weekend and in the serviced apartments near the malls. The suites around Soi 24 are among the few rooms on Sukhumvit where two therapists and two people fit comfortably without anything being rearranged.
Getting into the buildings here
Phrom Phong has the most formalised building management on the residential stretch, which cuts both ways: procedures are consistent, and there are more of them than in Ekkamai or Phra Khanong.
Expect a visitor register in almost every condominium. The therapist signs in, leaves identification and is called up or escorted. It is routine and it costs two or three minutes.
Expect a call to your unit in the larger towers. Answering it is the whole procedure, so keep the phone to hand for the ten minutes around the arrival window rather than in another room.
Some of the newer buildings run card-controlled lifts that will not travel to a floor without a resident card. Where that is the case somebody has to come down or send the lift, and it is worth telling us once so we can flag it on every future booking.
The serviced apartments near the malls are the exception and behave like hotels. Reception handles it, nothing is needed from you, and she will be at the door in the time we quoted.
Therapists who cover Phrom Phong
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 with children in the flat
This comes up more here than anywhere else we work, simply because of who lives in the district, and it is worth answering directly rather than leaving people to guess.
A treatment can happen perfectly well with a family in the apartment. The therapist works in whichever room you prefer, the door closes, and most people book while children are at school or after they are in bed. If neither is possible it is still fine, and nobody involved will find it unusual.
The practical points are small. Pick the room with a door rather than an open-plan corner, tell us if you would rather she did not use scented oil around a young child, and allow an extra few minutes at the start if the flat is busy. None of this changes the treatment or the price.
Why the malls are a bad landmark to give us
Almost everybody here describes their location in relation to Emporium, EmQuartier or EmSphere, because that is genuinely how the district is navigated on foot. It is the least useful thing you can put in a booking message.
The three centres sit within a couple of minutes of each other around the same station, they share a skywalk, and between them they have something like a dozen entrances at three different levels. Behind Emporium covers several hundred metres in every direction and includes buildings on two different sois.
What works instead is the soi number and the building name, in that order. Those two things resolve to one place, and they are what a driver and a therapist on foot both use. The mall is useful as a final confirmation once she is close, not as the address.
The same applies to the skywalk. It is the fastest way for a person to cross this part of Sukhumvit and it is invisible to every mapping application, which is occasionally why she arrives from a direction you were not expecting.
Longer treatments, and why this district books them
Phrom Phong books the ninety minute and two hour treatments at a higher rate than anywhere else on the line, and the sixty minute session is a minority choice here in a way that would be unthinkable at Asok.
Part of it is who lives here. A resident with a free weekday afternoon is not buying a quick fix between meetings, and a household that has been in Bangkok for six years has usually worked out that an hour is not quite enough once you account for undressing, settling and the first ten minutes of the therapist finding the problem.
Part of it is the rooms. A family apartment has a spare bedroom, a door that closes and no clock in the corner, which changes what a long treatment feels like compared with a hotel room where checkout is in the morning.
If you have only ever booked sixty minutes, the ninety is the upgrade worth trying here rather than a more expensive treatment at the same length. The extra half hour is spent on the same body rather than on a different technique, and it is the change people notice most.
Where the district stops
Westward, Phrom Phong runs to about Soi 20, after which the buildings start to belong to Asok. Eastward it reaches Soi 41 or so, and past that the character turns into Thong Lo. Southward, Soi 24 and Soi 26 run all the way down to Rama 4 and the far ends of those sois are closer to Khlong Toei in feel than to the malls.
Northward is the interesting edge. Soi 39 keeps going for a long way and eventually reaches Phetchaburi Road, and the buildings at the top of it are nearer to the Phetchaburi and Thong Lo hinterland than to the station they nominally belong to. We cover the lot; the estimate is what changes.
None of these lines affects the price. They affect which page tells you something useful, and if you are at the far end of Soi 24 the Khlong Toei page may describe your building type better than this one does.
Everywhere we go in Phrom Phong
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 Phrom Phong
- BTS Thong Lo
- BTS Asok
- MRT Sukhumvit
- MRT Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre
Streets and sois
- Sukhumvit Soi 24
- Soi 26
- Soi 31
- Soi 33
- Soi 35
- Soi 39 (Phrom Mit)
- Soi 41
- Soi 22
- Rama 4 Road
Landmarks
- Emporium
- EmQuartier
- EmSphere
- Benjasiri Park
- Samitivej Sukhumvit Hospital
- Bangkok Hospital
- K Village
- Villa Market Soi 33
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
- Marriott Marquis Queen Park
- Emporium Suites by Chatrium
- Oakwood Suites Bangkok
- Somerset Sukhumvit Thonglor
- Fraser Suites Sukhumvit
- Davis Bangkok
Condominiums and residences
- Park Origin Phrom Phong
- Esse Sukhumvit 36
- The Crest Sukhumvit 34
- Rhythm Sukhumvit 36 38
- Siamese Exclusive 31
- Bright Sukhumvit 24
Who books in Phrom Phong
- Relocated families
- The largest group here. Weekday mornings while children are at school, and longer treatments.
- Japanese and Korean residents
- Long-standing households on Soi 31, 33 and 39. Regular bookings, often the same therapist.
- Serviced apartment guests
- Corporate relocations around Soi 24. The easiest buildings in the district to enter.
- Retired residents
- The older towers. Daytime slots, ninety minutes or more, and the most consistent rebooking rate we see.
- Weekend couples
- Suites near the malls, two therapists at once, and almost always booked a day or two in advance.
- Standing weekly bookings
- A fixed day, a fixed hour and a named therapist, held as an arrangement rather than rebooked each week.
Questions about Phrom Phong
- Can I get a therapist in the middle of a weekday?
- More easily here than anywhere else in Bangkok. This is the one district with real daytime demand, so we staff it accordingly, and a same-hour request at eleven in the morning is usually met. The trade-off is that a specific therapist at a specific weekday time is worth booking a day ahead.
- How far up Soi 39 do you go?
- To the top, where it meets Phetchaburi Road. It is a long soi and the buildings near the far end are around fifteen minutes beyond the ones near the station, so send the sub-soi or the building name rather than only the soi number and we will quote it properly.
- Will my condominium let a therapist in?
- Almost certainly, and the procedure here is more formal than in the neighbouring districts. Expect a visitor register, identification left at the desk, and in the bigger towers a call to your unit. Keep your phone to hand for the ten minutes around the arrival window and the whole thing takes two or three minutes.
- Can I book while my children are at home?
- Yes, and it is common in this district. Choose a room with a door, tell us if you would rather she skipped the scented blends, and allow a couple of extra minutes at the start. It changes nothing about the treatment or what it costs.
- Is there anywhere near the malls for two people at once?
- The serviced apartments and suites around Soi 24 are the best rooms on this part of Sukhumvit for it, because a second bedroom makes the arrangement effortless. Two therapists work at the same time and you finish together. It is worth a day of notice at the weekend.
- I am at the far end of Soi 24, near Rama 4. Same district?
- We cover it identically, but the buildings down there have more in common with Khlong Toei than with the Emporium end, and that page may describe your situation better. The arrival window is a little longer than the figure quoted for the main sois.
- Can I book a regular weekly slot?
- Yes, and a good share of this district does exactly that. Tell us the day, the time and the therapist and we will hold it as a standing arrangement rather than making you rebook each week. It is also the most reliable way to keep the same person, since the slot is reserved before anyone else asks for it.
- Is ninety minutes worth it over sixty?
- In this district it is the most common choice, and for good reason. The first ten minutes of any treatment are spent finding where the problem actually is, so a ninety gives roughly double the useful working time of a sixty rather than fifty percent more. If you are deciding between a longer session and a more expensive treatment, take the length.
- Which entrance should I use at the malls?
- None of them, as far as the booking is concerned. Give us the soi number and the building name instead and she will route to that directly. The three centres share a skywalk and around a dozen entrances on three levels, so any instruction that starts with the mall name adds time rather than saving it.
- Does a daytime booking cost less?
- No. Every treatment is the same price at every hour, and there is no peak or off-peak on this site. What a daytime booking in Phrom Phong buys you is availability rather than a discount.
Near Phrom Phong
Thong Lo
One soi, two and a half kilometres deep. How far up it you live is the whole booking.
Asok
The interchange. Business hotels, short stays, and the fastest arrival window we run anywhere in Bangkok.
Sukhumvit
The road, not a district. Fifteen kilometres of it, so the soi number decides everything.
Khlong Toei
The port and the market on one side, brand new Rama 4 towers on the other.
Ekkamai
The same long soi shape as Thong Lo, cheaper rents, a younger crowd, and a bus terminal sitting at the mouth of it.