Outcall massage at Rama 9
Rama 9 is the business district Bangkok built this century, and almost every building in it is newer than the people working in them expected to be there.
- Arrival
- 30 to 50 minutes
- Hours
- 24 hours, every day
- Therapists
- Licensed, named first
- From
- THB 900, pay after
The business district Bangkok built this century, and it is still building it.
Rama 9 is the intersection where Ratchadaphisek crosses Rama 9 Road, with the MRT beneath it and the Airport Rail Link a short distance west at Makkasan. Twenty years ago it was largely low-rise and unremarkable. Today it is the newest central business district in the city.
What Rama 9 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.
Office 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
DetailsThe change came in a rush. Office towers, the Stock Exchange building, a large shopping centre, and a run of condominium developments went up along the corridor in little more than a decade, and construction is still going on around the edges of it.
That gives the district a distinctive quality: almost nothing here is old. The buildings are new, the management systems are new, the lifts are card-controlled and the lobbies were designed with visitors in mind. For an outcall service it is one of the more straightforward places in the city to work.
The population is corporate and largely Thai, with a substantial share of younger professionals in the condominium towers along the MRT line who work either here or in the older business districts to the south.
The one thing to be honest about is the road. Rama 9 and Ratchadaphisek both carry expressway traffic, and in the evening peak this is one of the slower junctions in Bangkok.
A district with no old buildings
Most of this site is taken up with explaining how to describe an address. Rama 9 needs very little of it, and the reason is that the whole district was built at once and built recently.
There are no unnamed lanes here, no faded plate numbers, no shophouses with shuttered street doors and no buildings that share a name with three others nearby. Every address is a large, individually named, professionally managed tower with a proper reception desk.
The procedure is uniform as a result. She registers at the desk, leaves identification, and somebody either sends the lift or comes down, because almost every residential building here runs card-controlled lift access. It takes two or three minutes and it is the same every time.
Tower, floor, unit. That is the entire booking as far as the address goes. The only useful addition is which side of the junction you sit on, because the district straddles a large intersection and the walk across it takes longer than the map suggests.
Card lifts, staffed desks, named towers. Rama 9 is the easiest set of addresses we deal with.
The expressway, and why the evening is slow
The counterpart to easy buildings is a difficult road, and Rama 9 has one of the harder junctions in the city to get through between five and seven on a weekday.
Two major arterial roads cross here and both of them feed expressway ramps, so the junction carries not only local traffic but a large volume of vehicles joining and leaving the elevated network. There is no useful way around it at ground level.
The MRT underneath is unaffected, which is what saves the estimate. A therapist arriving by train is not in that queue, and the last leg from the station to a tower is a short walk. That is why we quote thirty to fifty rather than something considerably worse.
Where it does bite is the buildings away from the station. A condominium several hundred metres down one of the sois is reached on the road, and in the peak that stretch alone can take fifteen minutes. If you are not within a short walk of an MRT exit, book earlier or book later.
What Rama 9 books
Office syndrome, the clear leader
Office syndrome takes the largest share here and its lead is among the biggest on our list. This is a district of office towers and the apartments that serve them, the population sits at a desk for a living, and the complaint is uniform: neck, upper trapezius, and everything between the shoulder blades.
Deep tissue later in the evening
Deep tissue is second and takes over later in the evening, generally from people whose problem is long-standing enough that they want more pressure than the targeted hour applies.
Aromatherapy, and the Friday shift
Aromatherapy peaks on Friday and at the weekend, when the purpose of the treatment changes from fixing something to enjoying it, and nobody has to be up at seven.
Traditional Thai in the residential towers
Traditional Thai comes from the residential towers rather than the offices, and holds a solid share because the population here is largely Thai. Room size is rarely a problem in the newer apartments.
Living above the office, again
The building stock splits into four, and which one you are in tells us what sort of booking this is likely to be.
The mixed-use towers
Several towers here combine offices below with apartments above, which produces the shortest commute in the city and a resident who may not have been outside for two days. That population books office syndrome more than any other group we serve.
The residential blocks
The purely residential towers along the MRT are the largest group, housing younger professionals who work here or commute south. Conventional evening bookings and a strong weekend.
Business hotels
There are a small number of business hotels serving the office traffic, and they behave exactly as business hotels do everywhere: formal, predictable, and no difficulty at all.
Serviced apartments
Serviced apartments take corporate stays of a month or more and are the source of most of our standing weekly bookings in this district.
Booking around a corporate week
This district runs on an ordinary working week and the advice reflects that, with one local adjustment for the traffic.
Book later than you would elsewhere. Because the junction is at its worst between five and seven, a nine o clock booking arrives more reliably than a seven o clock one and you will not be waiting.
Put the request in during the day rather than at the moment you want it. Seven to ten on a weekday is the contested window here as it is in every business district.
Ask for office syndrome by name if the problem is your neck. It is the complaint this district produces almost exclusively, and an hour spread over the whole body is an hour largely wasted on it.
Use the weekend if you live here. Saturday and Sunday are noticeably quieter than midweek evenings and a short-notice booking is usually straightforward.
Set up a standing slot if the complaint is chronic. For a desk problem, weekly beats occasional by a wide margin, and it also guarantees the same therapist.
Therapists who cover Rama 9
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 construction question
Parts of this district are still being built, and that has one practical consequence worth mentioning because it catches people out.
Addresses here go stale faster than anywhere else in Bangkok. Roads get rerouted around sites, entrances move, and a building completed last year may not yet be where the mapping applications think it is. A pin dropped from a cached map can be a block out.
The fix is the same one that works everywhere in this district: send the tower name in full and the nearest MRT station. The towers are large and unmistakable once she is on the right stretch of road, and the station is the fixed point that has not moved.
If your building is genuinely new, mention what it is next to. A guard on the corner will know the site even when the maps have not caught up with it yet.
The nightlife side, and what it adds
A short distance from this junction sits one of the larger concentrations of late night venues in Bangkok, and it puts a second population into the district at hours the office towers do not.
The effect on our work is a late booking pattern that a pure business district would not have. Between one and three in the morning at the weekend there is a real stream of bookings here, largely from the condominium towers rather than from hotels.
It also means the roads around the junction stay busy later on Friday and Saturday than they do midweek, though nothing like the evening peak.
The treatment mix at those hours is what you would expect: aromatherapy and oil massage rather than anything corrective, and the purpose is sleep rather than repair.
Makkasan, and the airport connection
The Airport Rail Link stops at Makkasan a short distance west of this junction, which puts Suvarnabhumi about twenty five minutes away and makes this district a practical base for anyone flying frequently.
That produces a small but distinct arrival and departure pattern here, similar to the one at Phaya Thai but on a much smaller scale, and it is worth the same advice. Book from the train rather than the terminal, and allow an hour from when you expect to be in the room rather than from when you land.
The station itself is a considerable walk from most of the Rama 9 towers despite looking close on a map, and the connection between Makkasan and the MRT involves a longer transfer than most people expect. If you are staying near it rather than near the junction, say so.
For a departure, the night before beats the morning of, exactly as it does everywhere. A treatment two hours before a train to the airport is an hour spent watching the clock.
Where Rama 9 ends
The district is defined by one junction and the towers around it, so the edges arrive within a kilometre in every direction.
North to the cultural centre
Northward along Ratchadaphisek it becomes the Thailand Cultural Centre area and then Ratchada proper, which has its own page and a very similar weekday pattern.
West to Makkasan
Westward along Rama 9 it heads toward Makkasan, the Airport Rail Link and eventually Phetchaburi, an area of older buildings and considerably more traffic.
East to Ramkhamhaeng
Eastward it runs out toward Ramkhamhaeng and the university district, which is further, cheaper and covered on the same terms with a longer arrival window.
South to Phetchaburi
Southward the sois run toward Phetchaburi Road and the Klong Tan area, a mixture of housing and light commercial that is easier to reach than the numbers suggest.
Price, and the hour of the night
There is a single published rate for every district we serve. A treatment at two in the morning in a Rama 9 tower is priced identically to the same treatment at two in the afternoon in a studio out at On Nut.
There is no night rate, no weekend rate and no minimum booking. Given how many of the bookings here land after midnight at the weekend, the absence of an unsocial hours surcharge is the thing worth stating plainly.
Nothing is taken at the point of booking and there is no deposit. The therapist is paid when she has finished, in cash, by card or by PromptPay.
The figure quoted in your confirmation message is the figure she will ask for. If those two ever differ, the confirmation is the one that stands, which is the entire reason we quote in writing before anybody travels.
Everywhere we go in Rama 9
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 Phra Ram 9
- MRT Thailand Cultural Centre
- Airport Rail Link Makkasan
- MRT Phetchaburi
- MRT Huai Khwang
- Airport Rail Link Ramkhamhaeng
Streets and sois
- Rama 9 Road
- Ratchadaphisek Road
- Asoke Din Daeng Road
- Soi Rama 9 Soi 9
- Phetchaburi Road
- Rama 9 Soi 17
- Din Daeng Road
Landmarks
- Central Rama 9
- The Stock Exchange of Thailand
- G Tower
- AIA Capital Center
- Fortune Town
- The Nine Rama 9
- Makkasan station
- Unilever House
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
- Grand Mercure Bangkok Fortune
- Swissotel Bangkok Ratchada
- Eastin Hotel Makkasan
- Amanta Hotel Ratchada
- Bangkok Cha Da Hotel
Condominiums and residences
- Belle Grand Rama 9
- Life Asoke Rama 9
- Ideo Mobi Rama 9
- Lumpini Place Rama 9
- The Base Central Ratchada
- Chapter One Eco Ratchada
Who books in Rama 9
- Office tower workers
- The dominant group, and the highest office syndrome share of any district outside Chong Nonsi.
- Mixed-use residents
- Living above the office they work in, sometimes for days at a time, with the neck to show for it.
- Condominium professionals
- The towers along the MRT. Younger, largely Thai, and the weekend booking population.
- Corporate serviced tenants
- Month-long stays and longer, and the source of most standing weekly slots here.
- Weekend late bookers
- One to three in the morning on Friday and Saturday, from the residential towers rather than from hotels.
Questions about Rama 9
- What do you need to find my building?
- The tower name, the floor and the unit, plus which side of the junction you are on. This district was built recently and all at once, so every address is a large named tower with a proper desk. There are no unnamed lanes or ambiguous buildings here.
- How bad is the traffic at the junction?
- Genuinely bad between five and seven, because two arterial roads cross here and both feed expressway ramps. The MRT underneath is unaffected, which is what keeps our estimate reasonable. If you are not within a short walk of a station exit, book earlier or later.
- My building is brand new. Will she find it?
- Send the tower name in full plus the nearest MRT station rather than relying on a pin. Parts of this district are still under construction, roads get rerouted, and a building finished last year may not be where cached maps think it is. Mentioning what it is next to also helps.
- The lift needs a card. What happens?
- Somebody sends it down or comes to meet her, and it takes about a minute. Almost every residential building here runs card-controlled access, so it is the norm rather than an obstacle. Keep your phone to hand around the arrival window and it is a non-event.
- Which treatment for a desk complaint?
- Office syndrome, which concentrates the whole hour on the neck, shoulders and upper back. This district produces that complaint more than almost any other in Bangkok, and a general massage spread over the whole body is largely a wasted hour for it.
- Can I book at two in the morning at the weekend?
- Yes, and there is a real stream of bookings here at that hour on Friday and Saturday because of the late venues nearby. They come mostly from the condominium towers. The treatment people take at that time is aromatherapy or oil rather than anything corrective.
- Is there a night or weekend surcharge?
- No. One price list covers every district, every day and every hour. Given how much of our work here lands after midnight at the weekend, the absence of an unsocial hours rate is worth stating plainly rather than leaving you to wonder.
- Is the weekend quieter here?
- Yes, in the same way Ratchada and Silom are. The offices are shut and what remains is the residential population, so a Saturday afternoon booking is usually straightforward while a Wednesday at eight is one of the contested slots.
Near Rama 9
Ratchada
Office towers, the courts and the cultural centre. Busy Monday to Friday, quiet on Sunday.
Huai Khwang
The night market district. Genuinely awake at four in the morning, unlike anywhere else.
Din Daeng
The flats, the expressway junction, and the densest housing in Bangkok.
Lat Phrao
One road with sois numbered past 130, and the number is the only part of the address that helps.