Outcall massage at Ploenchit
Ploenchit is the embassy quarter, and Wireless Road running off it holds a set of addresses more formal than anywhere else in Bangkok.
- Arrival
- 20 to 35 minutes
- Hours
- 24 hours, every day
- Therapists
- Licensed, named first
- From
- THB 900, pay after
The embassy quarter, where the addresses are as formal as the buildings.
Ploenchit is the stretch of road between Chidlom and the expressway, and the district around it is defined by Wireless Road, which runs north from it and carries a remarkable concentration of diplomatic missions.
What Ploenchit 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
DetailsThe name comes from the first radio transmitter in Thailand, which stood on this road. Today it holds embassies, ambassadorial residences, a handful of very expensive condominiums, several five-star hotels and the kind of walled compounds that occupy an entire block and give nothing away from the street.
On Ploenchit Road itself the character is commercial rather than diplomatic. Central Embassy and the office towers around it, along with a run of newer residential buildings squeezed between them, and the skywalk that connects most of it to the station.
The residential population is small, wealthy and international. Diplomatic staff, senior corporate postings, and a number of Thai families who have owned property here for generations. Very little turns over.
For us it is a formal district that is easy to work in. The addresses are large named buildings, the security is thorough and predictable, and the arrival window is among the more reliable in central Bangkok.
Diplomatic addresses, and what to tell us in advance
Wireless Road holds more embassies than any other street in Thailand, and a number of the residential buildings on and around it house diplomatic staff. That produces the tightest access arrangements we deal with anywhere in the city.
For most of these buildings the procedure is simply a thorough version of the usual one: identification at the desk, a visitor register, a call to the unit and a card-controlled lift. It takes a few minutes and it is entirely routine.
A small number go further and require a visitor name to be submitted in advance, sometimes hours before. We cannot know which those are, because it depends on the compound and on current arrangements rather than on anything published. If your building works that way, tell us when you book and give us the name in time to pass it on.
The one thing we would ask is that you check rather than assume. A therapist turning up at a gate that requires prior notification is a wasted journey for her and a cancelled treatment for you, and a single question to your building management prevents it entirely.
Some addresses here need a name left at the gate before she arrives. Ask your building, not us.
The hotels, and the suite pattern
Ploenchit holds a small number of hotels and most of them are at the top of the market, which shapes what gets booked here.
The five-star towers
The luxury properties on and around Wireless Road run precise, courteous visitor procedures and are entirely used to guests receiving people at any hour. Identification, a call, sometimes an escort to the lift.
Serviced residences
Serviced residences are common because of the diplomatic and corporate population, and they take stays of three months to three years. Easy buildings, and the source of most repeat bookings in this district.
Business hotels
There are a few more ordinary business hotels toward the Chidlom end, and they are quicker and less ceremonious without being any different in substance.
Central Embassy side
The Central Embassy side of the road is commercial rather than residential, with offices above the retail. We do not work in offices, so a booking there has to be at a residence or a hotel.
What Ploenchit books
Aromatherapy in the suites
Aromatherapy leads here as it does in every district where the rooms are large and the customers are not treating an injury. Late bookings, usually before a working day, and chosen for sleep rather than for repair.
Deep tissue and the corporate evening
Deep tissue arrives on weekday evenings from the office towers on Ploenchit Road and behaves identically to Silom and Sathorn. Neck, upper back, and a customer who has been at a desk since eight.
Traditional Thai, unrestricted by room size
Traditional Thai does better here than in most central districts and the reason is space. Suites and diplomatic-standard apartments both have floor area, so the two metres by one that the stretching needs is never the constraint it is in a standard hotel room.
Couples and four hands
Couples and four hands are strong, helped by the same thing. Two therapists working simultaneously need room, and the accommodation here provides it without anybody moving furniture.
The skywalk, and how she reaches you
An elevated walkway runs along Ploenchit Road connecting the station to Central Embassy and several of the surrounding buildings, and it continues west toward Chidlom and Siam.
Where a building is connected, the arrival is quick and unaffected by weather or traffic, and she will come in through an upper-level entrance rather than from the street. That is worth knowing if you plan to meet her in a ground floor lobby.
Wireless Road itself is not on the walkway network. Addresses up there are reached on foot from the station or by road, and while the distances are not large the walk is exposed and the road is busy. In heavy rain that stretch is slower than the Ploenchit frontage.
The far end of Wireless Road toward Sarasin and the park is the longest walk in the district and the one place here where the estimate stretches past thirty-five minutes.
Booking on a diplomatic posting
Postings here run from one to four years and the people on them tend to want a service arrangement rather than a series of transactions. A few practical points.
Set up a standing slot early. It secures both the time and the therapist, and over a multi-year posting it removes the weekly negotiation entirely.
Get the building requirements confirmed once, in writing if your management will provide it, and send them to us. Compounds with prior-notification rules are the only genuine obstacle in this district and they are trivially solved with warning.
Ask about languages if it matters to your household. This is the most international district in Bangkok and it is a reasonable question. We will answer honestly about who is available rather than promising broadly.
Book for visiting family the same way you book for yourself. We need a contact number for whoever is actually in the room, and for older visitors it is worth telling us their age and anything medical so the right treatment gets recommended.
Allow an hour of warning for a weekday evening slot. The corporate half of this district is bidding for the same seven to ten window as Silom and Sathorn, and that is the one time of the week when notice genuinely changes the answer.
Therapists who cover Ploenchit
Every one of them trained in Thailand and holds a Ministry of Public Health licence. You get told who is coming before they knock.
The walled compounds, and finding a gate
A distinctive feature of this district is that several blocks are occupied by a single walled compound with one entrance and a very long perimeter. From the pavement they present a wall and a gate and nothing else.
For an arrival that means the gate is the address, and the gate may not be on the road you would expect. Some compounds here have their entrance on a side soi rather than on the main road they are named after.
So if you are inside one, tell us which gate and which road it is on. It is the one piece of information that a mapping application will not reliably supply, and it is the difference between a straightforward arrival and a walk round a very long wall.
Once she has been once it is not an issue again. As with every district, the first visit is the only one that needs the detail.
Where Ploenchit ends
Ploenchit is compressed between the retail districts to the west and Sukhumvit to the east, and the transitions are quick.
West to Chidlom
Westward it becomes Chidlom around Soi Somkid, where the department store and Langsuan begin.
North up Wireless
Northward, Wireless Road runs up toward Phetchaburi and the character stays diplomatic most of the way before turning commercial at the top.
East to Nana
Eastward, past the expressway, Ploenchit Road becomes Sukhumvit Road and the numbering starts at Soi 1. That is the Nana page rather than this one and the change is abrupt.
South to the park
Southward, Wireless Road reaches Sarasin and the northern edge of Lumphini Park, which is the quietest corner of the district and the furthest from the station.
Nai Lert Park, and the quiet pocket behind the road
Behind the commercial frontage on Ploenchit Road is a pocket of streets most people never see, and it holds a surprising amount of the residential accommodation in this district.
Soi Ruam Rudi
Soi Ruam Rudi runs south off Ploenchit and is a proper neighbourhood: apartment blocks, small restaurants, a church, and a mix of long-term foreign and Thai residents. It is quieter than the road it leaves by a considerable margin.
Soi Nai Lert
Soi Nai Lert and the lanes around it are older and greener, with houses behind walls and a handful of low-rise blocks. The buildings here are among the least visible from the road in the whole district.
The park itself
The Nai Lert Park grounds occupy a substantial site and shape the street pattern around them, which is why several of these lanes do not connect the way a map suggests they might.
Getting in
For any of these addresses the useful detail is the soi plus the building, and whether the entrance is on the soi itself or set back. Ruam Rudi in particular has buildings that front onto small internal lanes rather than the main soi.
Prices in the most expensive square kilometre in Thailand
The land here is the most valuable in the country and the hotel suites are priced accordingly, so the assumption that we price to match is a reasonable one to make. We do not.
One price list covers every district in Bangkok. Sixty minutes of aromatherapy costs the same in a Wireless Road suite as it does in a studio at Bearing, and there is no premium for the hour, the building or the postcode.
The comparison worth making is with the hotel spas here, which are excellent and which charge several times our rate, with a service charge and VAT added on top when a treatment is sent to a room. That is a different purchase rather than an inflated version of the same one, and if you want the facilities it is the right one.
Nothing is taken when you book, at any hour and at any address. The therapist is paid at the end in cash, by card or by PromptPay, and the figure is whatever the confirmation message said.
Everywhere we go in Ploenchit
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 Ploen Chit
- BTS Chit Lom
- BTS Nana
- MRT Lumphini
- BTS Ratchadamri
- Airport Rail Link Makkasan
Streets and sois
- Ploenchit Road
- Wireless Road (Witthayu)
- Sarasin Road
- Soi Ruam Rudi
- Soi Somkid
- Soi Tonson
- Soi Nai Lert
- Chit Lom Road
Landmarks
- Central Embassy
- Park Ventures
- Nai Lert Park
- Lumphini Park
- British Embassy site
- Athenee Tower
- All Seasons Place
- Erawan Shrine
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
- The Athenee Hotel
- Grande Centre Point Ploenchit
- The Okura Prestige Bangkok
- Hotel Indigo Bangkok Wireless Road
- Conrad Bangkok
- Novotel Bangkok Ploenchit Sukhumvit
- Park Hyatt Bangkok
Condominiums and residences
- Noble Ploenchit
- Life One Wireless
- Athenee Residence
- All Seasons Place Residences
- The Residences at Sindhorn Kempinski
- Ruamrudee Garden House
- Baan Nai Lert
Who books in Ploenchit
- Diplomatic households
- Wireless Road and the compounds off it. Standing bookings, long postings, and occasionally a name required at the gate in advance.
- Senior corporate postings
- Serviced residences on three month to three year contracts, and the source of most repeat work here.
- Five-star suite guests
- Late aromatherapy before a working day, and the rooms are large enough for anything on the menu.
- Office workers
- The Ploenchit Road towers. Weekday evenings competing for the same slots as Silom and Sathorn.
- Visiting family
- Booked by the resident. Worth telling us ages and anything medical so the right treatment is recommended.
Questions about Ploenchit
- My building needs a visitor name in advance. Can you do that?
- Yes, provided you tell us when you book and give us enough time to pass it on. A few compounds and diplomatic buildings here require prior notification, sometimes hours ahead. We have no way of knowing which, so please check with your management rather than assuming it will be fine at the gate.
- The entrance is not on the road the building is named after. What do I send?
- The gate and the road the gate is actually on. Several compounds here occupy a whole block with a single entrance on a side soi, and that is precisely the detail a mapping application will not supply. It saves a long walk around a very long wall.
- Will she come in via the skywalk?
- Where your building is connected, yes, and it is quicker and unaffected by rain. That means she may arrive at an upper level entrance rather than the ground floor lobby. Wireless Road itself is not on the walkway, so those addresses are reached on foot or by road.
- Is there room in a suite here for two therapists?
- Almost certainly. The suites and the diplomatic-standard apartments in this district both have floor area well above the Bangkok average, so four hands and couples bookings work without anything being rearranged. It is one of the better districts for it.
- Can I arrange a regular slot for the length of my posting?
- Yes, and it is the sensible arrangement here. A day, an hour and a named therapist held as a standing booking removes the weekly negotiation entirely and is the most reliable way to keep the same person over two or three years.
- Do your therapists speak anything beyond Thai and English?
- Some do, and in the most international district in Bangkok it is a fair question. We will tell you honestly who is available at the hour you want rather than promising broadly. English is what every booking is conducted in and it covers everything the treatment requires.
- How does the price compare with the hotel spa?
- Ours is a fraction of it. The spas here are genuinely excellent and are priced at several times our rate, with a service charge and VAT usually added when a treatment is sent to your room. They are selling the facilities and the setting; we are selling a licensed therapist in your own room.
- I am on Soi Ruam Rudi rather than the main road. Do you cover it?
- Yes, and it is quieter and easier than the road it leaves. The thing worth adding is whether your entrance is on the soi itself or on one of the small internal lanes behind it, because several buildings there front onto those rather than onto Ruam Rudi proper.
- How far up Wireless Road do you go?
- The whole length, up to Phetchaburi at the top and down to Sarasin and the park at the bottom. The park end is the longest walk in the district and the one place here where the estimate can stretch past thirty-five minutes, particularly in heavy rain.
Near Ploenchit
Chidlom
A department store on one side, and the quietest expensive street in Bangkok on the other.
Ratchaprasong
The intersection. More hotel rooms within four hundred metres than anywhere in Thailand.
Nana
The oldest hotel stock on the road, short sois, and the hospital that keeps people here for weeks at a time.
Sala Daeng
The interchange at the top of Silom, and the Japanese business quarter behind it.
Siam
The retail interchange. Enormous footfall, almost nobody actually lives here.