Outcall massage on Sathupradit
Sathupradit runs north to south between Sathorn and the river, and it is the road most people pass through rather than the one they stop on.
- Arrival
- 35 to 60 minutes
- Hours
- 24 hours, every day
- Therapists
- Licensed, named first
- From
- THB 900, pay after
The road between Sathorn and the river, and almost nobody stops on it.
Sathupradit Road runs south from the Sathorn area down toward Rama 3 and the river, connecting the business district to the riverside curve, and along it sits a strip of Bangkok that most people only ever drive through.
What Sathupradit 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.
Traditional 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.
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.
DetailsCoconut oil massage
Cold-pressed coconut oil rather than the standard blend. Lighter on the skin, absorbs rather than sitting on top, and it is what most Thai therapists use on themselves.
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.
DetailsIt is a mixed district in the fullest sense. Office buildings and small industrial units at the northern end, schools and colleges in the middle, older residential blocks and Thai housing throughout, and a scattering of newer condominium towers built where land came free.
Chan Road runs roughly parallel and does much the same job, and the two together carry most of the traffic between Sathorn and the southern riverside. Neither has a rail station, which is the constraint they share with Rama 3.
The population is settled, largely Thai and long-standing. Families who have been here for decades, small business owners, school staff, and a growing number of people who work in Sathorn and wanted somewhere close without paying Sathorn rents.
For us it is a district of regulars in buildings that need describing, on a road that is quicker from one end than the other.
Which end you are on, and why it matters
Sathupradit runs a considerable distance and the difference between its two ends is the largest single factor in the arrival window here.
At the northern end, near the Sathorn junction, you are within reach of Chong Nonsi and Saint Louis stations, and a therapist can take the train most of the way and cover the rest quickly. That end sits at the short end of our estimate.
At the southern end, down toward Rama 3 and the river, there is no station within useful distance and the whole journey is on the road. That end runs at the top of the range and sometimes past it in the evening.
The soi number is what tells us which. Sathupradit has numbered sois running off it and giving us the number places you along the road immediately, in the same way it does on Sukhumvit or Lat Phrao.
The north end is fifteen minutes from a station. The south end is not near anything.
The schools, and the two hours to avoid
There are a considerable number of schools and colleges along this road, and they produce a traffic pattern that catches people out because it has nothing to do with the normal rush hour.
The morning run
The morning run is roughly seven to eight, and it is worse on the smaller sois than on the main road because parents queue on them.
The afternoon run
The afternoon run is roughly two thirty to four, which is a time of day when most of Bangkok is moving freely and this road is not.
Which roads
The main road handles it reasonably. The sois around the school gates are where it genuinely blocks, and if your building is on one of those it is worth mentioning when you book.
Working around it
Outside those two windows the district is one of the more predictable in this part of the city, and mid-morning or late evening is straightforward.
What Sathupradit books
Traditional Thai, the settled default
Traditional Thai leads and the population explains it. This is a settled Thai district where households have been in place for decades, and the stretching is the understood default rather than one option among several.
Deep tissue from the offices and the driving
Deep tissue arrives from two directions here: the office and light industrial buildings at the northern end, and the drivers who use this road to commute into Sathorn. The second group brings a lower back complaint rather than a neck one.
Oil massage at the value end
Straight oil massage takes a good share as the cheaper option in a district that is genuinely price aware, and the sixty minute treatment outsells the ninety.
Bookings for older family members
A high proportion of bookings are made by an adult child for a parent in the same house, which is characteristic of the long-settled districts, and for those we recommend the gentle oil massage rather than the stretching.
Older buildings, and what to tell us
The residential stock along this road spans about fifty years, and the older end of it needs more description than a modern tower does.
Give the Sathupradit or Chan Road soi number first. It places you along the road and tells us which end of the estimate applies.
Add the building name and a landmark. Several of the older blocks here share generic names and a school, temple or market nearby does more work than the name alone.
Say whether there is a lift. Four and five storey walk-ups are common in the older housing and she is carrying oil and linen up them.
Mention the gate if you are in a house. A good deal of the residential stock here is houses behind walls, and somebody needs to open it.
Send a pin for a first visit. The sois off this road are not well signposted and several of them look alike.
The Sathorn commute, and why people live here
A growing share of the population here works in Sathorn or Silom, and the reason they chose this road rather than one of the outer districts is worth understanding because it shapes the bookings.
The trade is proximity against amenity. Sathupradit is genuinely close to the business district, ten or fifteen minutes by car outside the peak, at rents well below what the same flat would cost two kilometres north. What it lacks is a station, street life and much in the way of shops.
For that population the commute is short but it is driven, which produces the lower back and hip pattern rather than the standing-on-a-train complaint. The evening peak is correspondingly earlier than in the outer districts, from about half past six.
It also means a good share of these customers could easily book near their office instead and choose not to, because a treatment at home at eight beats one near the office at six. That is worth knowing if you are weighing the same decision.
Therapists who cover Sathupradit
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 light industrial side
The northern end of this road and the streets off it hold a mixture of small workshops, warehouses, printing works and light manufacturing, which is unusual this close to the centre of Bangkok.
That population books differently from the office one. Physical work produces hands, forearms, shoulders and lower back complaints, the pressure asked for is heavier, and the hours are earlier at both ends of the day.
Deep tissue is what suits it, and telling the therapist that the cause is repetitive manual work rather than a desk genuinely changes which muscles she spends the hour on.
Those bookings also cluster around shift ends rather than around six in the evening, which is why this district has a wider spread of booking times than its size suggests.
How this differs from Rama 3 next door
These two districts sit against each other and are frequently confused, so it is worth setting out the difference plainly.
The geography
Rama 3 is the riverside road following the bend of the Chao Phraya. Sathupradit runs north to south inland from it, connecting Sathorn to that riverside road.
The buildings
Rama 3 is large new condominium towers and shopping centres facing the water. Sathupradit is older, more mixed, with offices, schools, workshops and houses.
The journey
Sathupradit is marginally quicker to reach from the centre, because its northern end is close to the Sathorn stations while Rama 3 has nothing at all.
Which page
The test is simple. If your building faces the river, use the Rama 3 page. If it does not, this one probably describes it better.
Booking at home rather than near the office
A distinctive thing about this district is that many of the people here work fifteen minutes away in Sathorn, which means they have a genuine choice about where to have a treatment. It is worth setting out the case for home.
A treatment near the office happens at six, in a room you are about to leave, before a commute. A treatment at home happens at eight, in your own bed, and finishes with you already where you want to be. For most complaints the second is worth considerably more than the first.
The exception is if the problem is acute and you want it dealt with before you drive. In that case near the office wins, and we would say so rather than pretending otherwise.
The other advantage of home is length. Nobody books ninety minutes near the office because it eats the evening, whereas at home it does not, and for a lower back complaint the extra half hour is where most of the useful work happens.
Where Sathupradit ends
Northward it reaches the Sathorn area and the Chan Road junction, and from there the Sathorn and Surasak pages take over.
Southward it meets Rama 3 at the river curve, and everything facing the water from that point is covered on that page.
Eastward the sois run toward Nang Linchi and the Yannawa area, older residential streets that we cover on the same terms.
Westward it reaches Charoen Krung and the riverside strip toward Saphan Taksin, which connects into the Charoen Krung and Riverside pages.
The road itself is what defines this district, so the soi number remains the most useful thing you can tell us about where you are on it.
Price and notice
One published treatment list covers this district as it covers every other, and there is no minimum booking. The massage at the far southern end costs exactly what one at the Sathorn junction costs, with the transport contribution shown separately according to distance.
Notice is the thing worth spending here rather than money. With an hour we can route a therapist already working in the Sathorn direction, which for the northern end of this road is a short hop and for the southern end saves the most time.
The two windows genuinely worth avoiding are the school runs, roughly seven to eight in the morning and two thirty to four in the afternoon, which block the smaller sois in a way the normal rush hour does not.
Nothing is required at the point of booking and no deposit is held. Payment happens at the end in cash, by card or by PromptPay, matching the figure in your confirmation.
Everywhere we go in Sathupradit
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 Saint Louis
- BTS Surasak
- MRT Lumphini
- BTS Saphan Taksin
- MRT Khlong Toei
Streets and sois
- Sathupradit Road
- Chan Road
- Nang Linchi Road
- Rama 3 Road
- Soi Sathupradit 19
- Soi Sathupradit 31
- Yannawa Road
- Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra Road
Landmarks
- Central Rama 3
- Wat Chong Nonsi
- Sathupradit Market
- Bangkok Christian College
- Saint Louis Hospital
- Chan Road junction
- Yannawa
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
- Bandara Suites Silom
- Montien Riverside Hotel
- Ibis Bangkok Sathorn
- Chatrium Hotel Riverside
- Eastin Grand Hotel Sathorn
Condominiums and residences
- Rhythm Sathorn Narathiwas
- Supalai Elite Sathorn Suanplu
- Lumpini Place Narathiwas
- The Pano Rama 3
- U Delight Residence Riverfront
- Star View Rama 3
Who books in Sathupradit
- Sathorn commuters
- Fifteen minutes by car to the business district at well below Sathorn rents. Driven commute, lower back complaint.
- Long-settled households
- Families in place for decades in the older housing. Traditional Thai, asked for by name.
- Workshop and light industrial staff
- The northern end. Hands, forearms and lower back from repetitive manual work, at shift-end hours.
- School staff and families
- A considerable number of schools along this road, and the traffic pattern that comes with them.
- Bookings for parents
- Characteristic of the long-settled districts, and almost always the gentle oil massage rather than the floor stretching.
- Home rather than office bookers
- Fifteen minutes from Sathorn and choosing eight at home over six near the desk, which for most complaints is the better hour.
Questions about Sathupradit
- Which end of Sathupradit am I on, and does it matter?
- It matters more than anything else here. The northern end near the Sathorn junction is within reach of Chong Nonsi and Saint Louis, so a therapist takes the train most of the way. The southern end has no station in useful distance and the whole journey is on the road.
- Are there times of day to avoid?
- Two, and neither is the normal rush hour. The school runs at roughly seven to eight in the morning and two thirty to four in the afternoon block the smaller sois around the school gates. Outside those windows this is a fairly predictable district.
- How is this different from Rama 3?
- Rama 3 is the riverside road following the bend of the river, full of large new towers facing the water. Sathupradit runs inland, north to south, connecting Sathorn to it, and is older and more mixed. If your building faces the river you want the Rama 3 page.
- My building is an older block. What should I send?
- The soi number first, then the building name and a landmark such as a school, temple or market. Several of the older blocks here share generic names, and the landmark does more work than the name. Say whether there is a lift, since four and five storey walk-ups are common.
- I drive to Sathorn every day. Which treatment?
- Deep tissue, and say that you drive. Even a short driven commute puts the complaint in the lower back, hips and right leg rather than the neck, which is what the train commuters bring. Told the cause, she spends the hour on quite different muscles.
- I do manual work at one of the workshops. Anything different?
- Ask for deep tissue and mention that the cause is repetitive handling rather than a desk. Hands, forearms, shoulders and lower back is the pattern, the pressure wanted is usually heavier, and the useful booking is at the end of a shift rather than at six in the evening.
- Is it cheaper out here than in Sathorn?
- The rents are, but our treatment price is not: one published list covers the whole city and there is no minimum. What is genuinely worth spending here is notice rather than money, since an hour lets us route somebody already working in the Sathorn direction.
- Should I book near my office in Sathorn instead?
- For most complaints, home wins. A treatment near the office happens at six in a room you are about to leave, before a drive. At home it happens at eight and finishes with you already where you want to be. The exception is an acute problem you want dealt with before driving.
- There is a gate at my house. Who opens it?
- Somebody needs to open it, and there is often no working bell. Keep your phone with you around the arrival window. A good deal of the residential stock along these sois is houses rather than blocks, so it comes up more here than in a tower district.
Near Sathupradit
Rama 3
The river curve. Big malls, big condominiums, and not a single station.
Sathorn
Embassies, corporate towers and the densest run of five-star rooms in Bangkok.
Surasak
The quiet western end of the business district, where the towers thin out and the old shophouses begin.
Silom
The old financial district. Packed on a Tuesday, deserted on a Sunday.
Khlong Toei
The port and the market on one side, brand new Rama 4 towers on the other.