Outcall massage in Sathorn
Sathorn is two one-way roads with a canal between them, lined with embassies, corporate towers and more five-star hotel rooms than any other district in the city.
- Arrival
- 20 to 40 minutes
- Hours
- 24 hours, every day
- Therapists
- Licensed, named first
- From
- THB 900, pay after
Two one-way roads, a canal between them, and getting the side wrong costs you ten minutes.
Sathorn is not one road. It is two parallel one-way roads with a canal running down the middle, North Sathorn carrying traffic in one direction and South Sathorn the other, and that arrangement is the single most important thing to understand about an address here.
What Sathorn 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
DetailsAlong those two roads sits the highest concentration of diplomatic missions in Bangkok, a run of corporate headquarters, and a set of five-star hotels that between them hold more premium rooms than any other district in the city. It is a wealthy, formal, quiet part of Bangkok and it looks it.
BTS Chong Nonsi crosses the road at the eastern end and Surasak at the western, with Lumphini MRT serving the far eastern corner near the park. Between and behind the two main roads are the sois, of which Suan Plu is much the longest and runs a considerable distance south.
The residential stock is at the expensive end. Large condominiums aimed at diplomatic and corporate tenants, a number of older low-rise blocks with substantial apartments, and serviced residences let by the quarter to people on posting.
For us Sathorn is a straightforward district with one recurring problem, which is the canal. Everything else about working here is easy: the buildings are professionally managed, the lobbies know what they are doing, and the arrival window holds up well.
North or South, and why it matters so much
Sathorn Road is split by a canal into two carriageways, each running one way only. North Sathorn takes traffic in one direction, South Sathorn takes it in the other, and there are only a limited number of points where a vehicle can cross between them.
The consequence is that two buildings facing each other across fifteen metres of water are, for anybody arriving by road, several minutes and a substantial detour apart. A therapist dropped on the wrong side has to walk to a crossing point or the driver has to go around, and neither is quick.
So the single most useful thing in a Sathorn booking message is the word north or the word south. Not the building name, not the soi, not a pin: the side. Everything else can be worked out; the side cannot be guessed reliably because the buildings look much the same from either bank.
This applies less if she is arriving on foot from Chong Nonsi or Surasak, where the station concourse crosses both carriageways. But we cannot always guarantee the route, and one word in your message removes the problem entirely.
The two roads are fifteen metres apart and one-way in opposite directions. Guessing wrong costs ten minutes.
The five-star hotels, and what to expect at the desk
Sathorn has more premium hotel rooms than anywhere else in Bangkok, and the desks that go with them are the most professional we deal with.
The luxury towers
The luxury properties along both carriageways run precise visitor procedures. Identification at reception, a call to the room, occasionally an escort to the lift. It is formal, it is polite, it takes three or four minutes, and nobody will express an opinion about it.
Business hotels
The business hotels toward the Chong Nonsi end are quicker and less ceremonious, and they are used to corporate guests receiving visitors at all hours.
Serviced residences
Serviced residences are common here because of the diplomatic and corporate population on fixed postings. They are the easiest buildings in the district and the desk treats a visitor as entirely routine.
Embassy-area condominiums
Residential condominiums, particularly around the embassies and down Suan Plu, are security-conscious in a way that is unusual even for Bangkok. Expect a register, a phone call to your unit and sometimes a card-controlled lift.
What Sathorn books
Aromatherapy, and the premium room pattern
Aromatherapy is the leading treatment in this district and its share is higher than anywhere except the top of Sukhumvit. The typical booking is a late one in a large hotel room by somebody who wants to sleep well before a working day, and the scented blends are what that calls for.
Deep tissue from the corporate towers
Deep tissue arrives from the office towers on weekday evenings and behaves exactly as it does in Silom next door. Neck, shoulders, upper back, and a customer who has been at a desk since eight in the morning.
Four hands and couples in the suites
Four hands and couples do better here than in most of the city, for the straightforward reason that the rooms are big enough. A suite in a Sathorn five-star has space for two therapists to work without anyone rearranging furniture, which a standard room elsewhere does not.
Traditional Thai, which the rooms here can actually take
Traditional Thai performs noticeably better here than at Asok or Silom, and it is a preference rather than an accident of the buildings. This is a district of long-stay residents and embassy households rather than three-night visitors, and people who live in Thailand book the treatment Thailand is known for.
Suan Plu and the sois behind the main roads
Behind the two carriageways the district changes character quickly, and Soi Suan Plu is the main route into it. It runs south from South Sathorn for a considerable distance and it is nothing like the road it leaves.
Down there the buildings are older, lower and more mixed. Apartment blocks from the 1980s and 1990s, small hotels, houses behind walls, and a genuine local neighbourhood with a market and street food rather than embassy gates. Rents are a fraction of what they are on the main road.
The practical difference is distance. The far end of Suan Plu is a good ten to fifteen minutes beyond the main road, on a soi that narrows as it goes and has no rail station of its own. Give us the soi and roughly how far down and we will quote it honestly.
The other sois behind Sathorn are shorter and easier. Several connect through to Silom and to Narathiwat, and a building between the two main roads can frequently claim either address, in which case use whichever entrance you actually walk out of.
Therapists who cover Sathorn
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 on a diplomatic or corporate posting
A significant share of the residents here are in Bangkok on a fixed posting of one to three years, and that produces a particular relationship with a service like ours. A few things are worth knowing early.
Set up a standing booking rather than rebooking each time. Give us the day, the hour and the therapist and we will hold it. Over a two year posting this is by far the least effort and it guarantees the same person.
Tell us about the building once. Security here is tighter than the Bangkok average, and the specific procedure at your address, whether that is a card lift, an intercom or a guard who wants a name in advance, only needs explaining a single time.
Ask about the language if it matters. Every therapist speaks Thai and working English, and some speak more. If a partner or family member would be more comfortable in Mandarin or Japanese, say so and we will tell you honestly who is available.
Book for guests as easily as for yourself. Visitors staying in the building or in a hotel nearby are straightforward; we need the address and a contact number for the person who will open the door rather than for you.
Give an hour of notice on a weekday evening. This district is busy between seven and ten with the same corporate crowd as Silom, and the notice makes the difference.
The quiet district problem
Sathorn is one of the quietest central districts in Bangkok after dark, which is pleasant to live in and occasionally confusing to arrive at.
The main roads carry traffic but almost no pedestrians in the evening, the embassy stretches are unlit in places, and several residential entrances are set back behind gates with nothing to identify them from the road. It is not a security concern; it is a wayfinding one.
The practical answer is the same as everywhere but it matters more here. Building name in full, the side of the canal, and one physical detail about the entrance if it is not obvious. A guard box, a particular gate, a driveway shared with the building next door.
Late bookings are entirely normal and the district is safe at any hour. What is true is that there is nobody on the street to ask for directions at one in the morning, so the address needs to be right first time rather than approximately right.
Where Sathorn ends
Sathorn borders four quite different areas and the edges are worth knowing, because two of them have their own pages that will describe your building better.
East
Eastward, Sathorn runs to Rama 4 and Lumphini Park. That corner around Lumphini MRT is genuinely ambiguous and could be read as either district.
North
Northward, the sois interleave completely with Silom, and anything between the two main roads sits in both. Use whichever page matches your building type rather than your postcode.
West
Westward the road runs toward Surasak, Charoen Krung and the river. The character shifts to older buildings and riverside hotels, and the Riverside page covers that end.
South
Southward, past Suan Plu, the district reaches toward Rama 3, Sathupradit and Yannawa. That is a longer journey and the arrival window extends past the figure quoted here.
Prices, and what a five-star address does not change
This district asks about price more than most, and almost always in the expectation that the answer will be higher than the price list. It is not.
One price list covers the whole of Bangkok. Sixty minutes of aromatherapy is twelve hundred baht in a Sathorn suite exactly as it is in a studio at On Nut, and the figure quoted in your confirmation is the figure the therapist asks for at the end. There is no premium for the building, the district or the hour.
That is worth stating plainly because the alternative is common in this city. A hotel spa downstairs will charge two or three times our rate for a comparable hour, and a treatment arranged through a concierge usually carries a service charge and VAT on top of that. Booking directly avoids both, and the therapist who arrives is the same standard either way. Several of the people who book us in this district discovered that after paying the spa rate once.
No deposit is taken at the point of booking, at this address or any other. Payment happens once she has finished, in cash, by card or by PromptPay, and that arrangement is identical everywhere we work in the city.
Everywhere we go in Sathorn
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 Chong Nonsi
- BTS Surasak
- MRT Lumphini
- BTS Saint Louis
- BTS Sala Daeng
- MRT Si Lom
- BTS Saphan Taksin
Streets and sois
- North Sathorn Road
- South Sathorn Road
- Soi Suan Plu
- Soi Sathorn 1
- Soi Sathorn 10
- Soi Sathorn 11
- Soi Sathorn 12
- Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra Road
- Surasak Road
- Soi Pipat 2
Landmarks
- Lumphini Park
- Empire Tower
- Sathorn Square
- Saint Louis Hospital
- BNH Hospital
- Blue Elephant
- Suan Plu Market
- Australian Embassy
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 Sukhothai Bangkok
- Banyan Tree Bangkok
- W Bangkok
- COMO Metropolitan Bangkok
- Le Meridien Bangkok
- Pullman Bangkok Hotel G
- Ascott Sathorn Bangkok
- Mode Sathorn Hotel
Condominiums and residences
- The Met Sathorn
- The Sukhothai Residences
- Nara 9 by Eastern Star
- Sathorn Gardens
- The Room Sathorn Pan Road
- Somerset Park Suanplu
- Supalai Elite Sathorn Suanplu
Who books in Sathorn
- Five-star hotel guests
- The densest concentration of premium rooms in the city. Late aromatherapy bookings before a working day.
- Diplomatic and corporate postings
- One to three year placements. Standing weekly bookings and the same therapist throughout.
- Office tower workers
- Weekday evenings from the corporate blocks, and the same neck and shoulder complaint as Silom.
- Suite couples
- Two therapists at once, which the rooms here take without anything being moved.
- Suan Plu residents
- Behind the main roads, older buildings, cheaper rents and a noticeably longer arrival window.
- Embassy staff
- Fixed postings in the security-conscious blocks near the missions, where the building procedure only needs explaining once.
Questions about Sathorn
- Why do you keep asking whether I am on North or South Sathorn?
- Because the two carriageways are one-way in opposite directions with a canal between them, and there are only a few points where a vehicle can cross. Two buildings facing each other across the water are a real detour apart by road. One word in your message removes the problem entirely.
- Will a five-star hotel let a therapist come to my room?
- Yes. The luxury properties here run the most precise visitor procedures we encounter anywhere, which works in your favour because they are consistent. Identification at reception, a call to your room, sometimes an escort to the lift. Three or four minutes and nobody comments.
- Is it more expensive in this district?
- No. One price list covers the entire city and it does not move with the address. Worth knowing here in particular, because a hotel spa downstairs will often charge two or three times our rate for a comparable hour, and a concierge booking usually adds a service charge and VAT on top.
- How far down Suan Plu do you go?
- The whole length of it, and out to Rama 3 beyond. The far end is ten to fifteen minutes past the main road on a soi that narrows as it goes, so tell us roughly how far down you are and we will quote the wait honestly rather than giving you the main road figure.
- Can two of us book at the same time?
- Yes, and this district is better suited to it than most. Two therapists work simultaneously and you finish together, and the suites and two-bedroom apartments here very often have a second bed, which makes the arrangement effortless. Ask the day before if you want it on a Friday or Saturday, since two therapists to one room takes more arranging than one.
- Can I set up a regular weekly booking?
- Yes, and on a fixed posting it is by far the easiest arrangement. Give us the day, the hour and the therapist and we will hold the slot rather than making you ask each week. It is also the most reliable way to keep the same person over a year or two.
- The entrance to my building is hard to see from the road. What helps?
- The building name in full, the side of the canal, and one physical detail such as a guard box or a shared driveway. This district is quiet after dark with few pedestrians about, so there is nobody to ask for directions at one in the morning and the address needs to be right first time.
- Is there enough space for traditional Thai here?
- More often than in most central districts. The premium hotel rooms and the diplomatic-standard apartments both have floor area, so the two metres by one that the stretching needs is rarely a problem. It is one of the few central districts where we do not routinely warn people about it.
Near Sathorn
Silom
The old financial district. Packed on a Tuesday, deserted on a Sunday.
Chong Nonsi
Where Silom and Sathorn cross. Newer towers, and the tallest building in the city above them.
Surasak
The quiet western end of the business district, where the towers thin out and the old shophouses begin.
Khlong Toei
The port and the market on one side, brand new Rama 4 towers on the other.
Riverside
The grand hotels on the Chao Phraya. Almost entirely visitors, and the boat is the road.