How much notice do I need here?

An hour is plenty for most of the year. From November to February the hotels around this interchange run close to full and the evening slots become the most contested of the year, so a day ahead is worth it in those months.

Does the traffic around the malls delay things?

Barely. Two rail lines meet at the station and the walkway network connects it to most of the buildings without touching the street, so the last leg is on foot above the road. We quote the same window here at six in the evening as at midnight.

What about in heavy rain?

It makes very little difference, which is unusual for Bangkok. The covered walkways mean a downpour that adds twenty minutes elsewhere in the city adds close to nothing here.

I have been walking round the malls all day. What should I book?

Ninety minutes rather than sixty, and tell us your feet and calves are the problem. The default assumption in most of Bangkok is that a customer wants back and shoulder work, and in this district that is frequently wrong.

Should I book for the afternoon or the evening?

The evening, and probably later than you think. A treatment followed by four more hours on your feet in a shopping centre achieves very little, and shopping and dinner both tend to run over. Nine is a safer booking than seven for most people here.

Will she come through the mall or from the street?

Through the walkways while they are open, which is quicker. Once the shopping centres close, generally around ten, the internal routes close too and she takes the longer way round. It adds a few minutes and it is already in the estimate.

I am a student near Chulalongkorn rather than in a hotel. Same service?

Identical, at the same price and with no minimum. That pocket behaves differently from the hotels though: bookings are more price-conscious, the sixty minute treatment is the usual choice, and office syndrome from long hours at a desk sells better there than anywhere else in this district.

Are the hotels behind the malls harder to reach?

Slightly, and only because the walkway network does not extend to them. The pocket around Soi Kasemsan and the streets behind MBK is reached on foot from National Stadium rather than from the interchange, which adds a few minutes. The lanes are narrow enough that a car will not always get to the door.

Can two of us book at once in a hotel room?

Yes, and it is common here because this is a holiday district and people arrive in pairs. Two therapists work side by side and you are done at the same moment. Tell us what the room has when you book, and book earlier in the day rather than on impulse, particularly in high season.

Massage Siam | Outcall Therapist to Your Hotel, Siam and Ratchathewi

Where the two lines cross and the malls begin. Nobody lives here.

Siam is the centre of the BTS network, the point where the Sukhumvit line and the Silom line cross, and by some distance the busiest interchange in the city. Around that junction sits the largest concentration of retail floor space in Thailand.

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.

Details

Siam Paragon, Siam Center, Siam Discovery and MBK are all within a few minutes of the station, with Siam Square between them and Chulalongkorn University immediately south. On a Saturday afternoon the pedestrian volume here is unlike anywhere else in Bangkok.

What Siam almost entirely lacks is residents. There are very few condominiums, almost no houses and hardly any long-term rental stock. The people here are shopping, studying, working in retail or staying in a hotel, and by two in the morning the district is close to empty.

The hotels are consequently what we serve. Several large properties sit directly on the station or within a short walk, aimed squarely at visitors who want to be able to reach everywhere else in the city without a taxi, which is exactly what this junction offers.

For us it is a straightforward district with excellent access. Two lines, covered walkways, large named buildings, and an arrival window that barely shifts between the middle of the day and the middle of the night.

A district with no residents, and what that means

Most districts in this city are a mix of people who live there and people passing through, and the balance between the two shapes everything about the demand. Siam has almost none of the former.

That produces the purest visitor pattern on our list. Bookings are single treatments rather than repeats, they are made by people who have been here two or three days, and we rarely see the same address twice. There are no standing weekly slots in Siam because there is nobody to hold one for.

It also means the day of the week barely matters. A residential district is busy at the weekend and a business district is busy midweek. Siam is busy whenever the hotels are full, which is most of the time and follows the tourist calendar rather than the working one.

The one genuine seasonal effect is the high season from around November to February, when the hotels here run close to capacity and the evening slots need a little more notice than usual. Outside those months an hour is plenty.

Almost every booking here is a hotel room. There is barely any other kind of building to book from.

Getting to a hotel through a mall

Siam has an elevated walkway network connecting the station to most of the surrounding buildings, and several of the hotels are reached through a shopping centre rather than from the street.

For an arrival this is mostly an advantage. The walkways are covered, they bypass the traffic entirely, and rain makes no difference to the journey. It is one of the reasons our estimate here holds steady through the afternoon downpours that slow the rest of the city.

The complication is that the malls close. Once the shopping centres shut, generally around ten in the evening, the internal routes close with them and the walkway network becomes less useful. A hotel entrance that was two minutes from the station at eight can involve a longer way round at eleven.

It is rarely more than a few extra minutes and it is built into the window we quote. Worth knowing only if you are meeting her in a lobby and wondering why she has come from a different direction than you expected.

What Siam books

Oil massage after a day of shopping

Straight oil massage leads here and the cause is walking. A day spent moving between four shopping centres, on hard floors, in air conditioning, produces a specific and very common complaint in the feet, calves and lower back, and the plain oil treatment is what most people choose for it.

Traditional Thai, requested by visitors

Traditional Thai is second and is requested by name more than in any district except the riverside. Visitors want the Thai treatment in Thailand, and the hotel rooms here are generally large enough for the floor work.

Aromatherapy before an early start

Aromatherapy is the late booking, made by somebody with an early flight or an early tour and a need to sleep in a room they only checked into yesterday.

Couples, and the holiday pattern

Couples bookings are strong because this is a holiday district and people are here in pairs. Two therapists in one room, usually in the evening, and usually booked earlier in the day rather than on impulse.

Booking around a day at the malls

The commonest mistake here is a timing one, and it is the same mistake made in every visitor district: booking too early in the day.

Book for the evening rather than the afternoon. A treatment followed by four more hours on your feet in Siam Paragon achieves very little, and the district is designed to keep you walking.
Allow for the fact that you will be later than you plan. Shopping runs over, dinner runs over, and a therapist waiting in a lobby is time nobody enjoys. Nine is a safer booking than seven for most people here.
Take the ninety if you have been walking since morning. Feet and calves will absorb half an hour on their own before she gets anywhere near your shoulders.
Say if your feet are the problem. It sounds obvious, but the default assumption in most of Bangkok is that a customer wants back and shoulder work, and this is one of the few districts where that is frequently wrong.
Book a day ahead in high season. From November to February the hotels here are full and the evening slots are the most contested of the year.

The student population, and the one exception to the visitor rule

Chulalongkorn University occupies a large campus immediately south of Siam, and it is the one thing that puts a resident population anywhere near this district.

The student accommodation and the staff housing around the campus behave nothing like the hotels. Bookings are price-conscious, weighted toward the sixty minute treatment, and concentrated in the evening and at weekends.

The complaint is also different. Long hours at a desk, in a library or in a laboratory, produce the same neck and upper back problem an office does, and office syndrome sells better in that pocket than the mall-shopping pattern would suggest.

Nearly every booking here comes from one of four kinds of property, and none of them presents any real difficulty.

The large station hotels

The large hotels attached to or beside the station run precise visitor procedures. Identification at reception, a call to the room, and staff who deal with visitors continuously. Straightforward and quick.

Mid-range near Siam Square

Mid-range hotels around Siam Square and the smaller streets are more relaxed and often ask nothing at all beyond a nod at the desk.

Serviced apartments

There are a small number of serviced apartments in this district, mostly at the edges, and they are the easiest buildings here as they are everywhere.

Hotels toward Ratchathewi

Toward Ratchathewi and Phaya Thai the hotels get cheaper and more numerous, and that pocket is covered on its own page. If your hotel is a few stops up the line rather than at the interchange, that is the one to read.

The Jim Thompson end, and the older streets behind the malls

Not all of Siam is shopping centre. Behind the malls are a handful of older streets that most visitors never see, and they hold the small hotels and guesthouses this district would otherwise lack entirely.

Soi Kasemsan

Soi Kasemsan runs off Rama 1 near the Jim Thompson House and is the main pocket of small accommodation here. Guesthouses, low-rise apartments and a few boutique properties, none of them large, and reached on foot from National Stadium rather than from Siam itself.

Behind MBK

The streets behind MBK are older still, with student housing, cheap eating places and a scattering of budget hotels. Easy to reach, though the lanes are narrow enough that a car will not always get to the door.

The canal side

The canal side to the north is the boundary with Pratunam and it changes character abruptly. Anything past the water is better served by that page than this one.

Toward National Stadium

Toward National Stadium the buildings thin out and the district gives way to Pathum Wan proper. Still a short walk from the line, still quick to reach, and considerably quieter than the interchange.

Where Siam ends

Siam is small and hemmed in on all sides by districts that have their own pages, so the boundaries come up almost immediately.

Eastward along the road it becomes Ratchaprasong within a few hundred metres, at the point where the malls change name and the hotel stock gets larger and more expensive.

Westward it runs to MBK and then National Stadium, and beyond that toward the older streets of Pathum Wan and Ratchathewi.

Southward is Chulalongkorn and then Sam Yan, and northward across the canal is Pratunam, which is a completely different proposition of wholesale markets and cheap hotels.

None of these edges affect the price and few of them affect the arrival window by more than a couple of minutes. They affect which page is worth reading, and at this end of town the districts are small enough that it is worth getting right.

Why the window barely moves here

Siam is one of only a handful of districts where we quote the same arrival window at six in the evening as at midnight, and the reason is structural rather than lucky.

Two rail lines meet directly at the district, the walkway network connects the station to most of the buildings without touching the street, and the hotels are large named properties that need no finding. Nothing about reaching an address here depends on the traffic below.

Rain is the other thing that matters less here than almost anywhere. A heavy afternoon downpour adds twenty minutes to most Bangkok journeys and adds close to nothing along a covered walkway.

The one time it does slip is late in the evening once the malls have closed and the internal routes shut with them, which can add a few minutes on the walk in. It is a small effect and we build it into the estimate rather than discovering it at your door.

Everywhere we go in Siam

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 Siam
BTS National Stadium
BTS Ratchadamri
BTS Chit Lom
MRT Sam Yan
Airport Rail Link Phaya Thai
BTS Phaya Thai

Streets and sois

Rama 1 Road
Phaya Thai Road
Henri Dunant Road
Siam Square Soi 1 to 11
Soi Kasemsan 1
Soi Kasemsan 2
Phra Ram 1 Road

Landmarks

Siam Paragon
Siam Center
Siam Discovery
MBK Center
Siam Square
Chulalongkorn University
Jim Thompson House
Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
National Stadium

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

Siam Kempinski Hotel Bangkok
Novotel Bangkok Siam Square
Pathumwan Princess Hotel
Lub d Bangkok Siam
Siam at Siam Design Hotel
Asia Hotel Bangkok
VIE Hotel Bangkok

Condominiums and residences

Kasemsan Residences
Baan Pathumwan
The Reserve Kasemsan 3
Pathumwan Resort
Siam Court Apartment

Who books in Siam

Hotel guests: Almost the entire district. Single treatments, two or three night stays, and rarely the same address twice.
Shoppers: Feet, calves and lower back after a day on hard mall floors. Plain oil massage, booked in the evening.
Couples on holiday: Two therapists in one room, booked earlier in the day rather than on impulse.
Chulalongkorn students and staff: The one resident pocket. Price aware, sixty minute treatments, and office syndrome from long hours at a desk.
High season visitors: November to February, when the hotels run full and the evening slots need a day of notice rather than an hour.
Guesthouse guests on Kasemsan: The small accommodation pocket behind the malls, reached on foot from National Stadium rather than from the interchange.

Questions about Siam

How much notice do I need here?: An hour is plenty for most of the year. From November to February the hotels around this interchange run close to full and the evening slots become the most contested of the year, so a day ahead is worth it in those months.
Does the traffic around the malls delay things?: Barely. Two rail lines meet at the station and the walkway network connects it to most of the buildings without touching the street, so the last leg is on foot above the road. We quote the same window here at six in the evening as at midnight.
What about in heavy rain?: It makes very little difference, which is unusual for Bangkok. The covered walkways mean a downpour that adds twenty minutes elsewhere in the city adds close to nothing here.
I have been walking round the malls all day. What should I book?: Ninety minutes rather than sixty, and tell us your feet and calves are the problem. The default assumption in most of Bangkok is that a customer wants back and shoulder work, and in this district that is frequently wrong.
Should I book for the afternoon or the evening?: The evening, and probably later than you think. A treatment followed by four more hours on your feet in a shopping centre achieves very little, and shopping and dinner both tend to run over. Nine is a safer booking than seven for most people here.
Will she come through the mall or from the street?: Through the walkways while they are open, which is quicker. Once the shopping centres close, generally around ten, the internal routes close too and she takes the longer way round. It adds a few minutes and it is already in the estimate.
I am a student near Chulalongkorn rather than in a hotel. Same service?: Identical, at the same price and with no minimum. That pocket behaves differently from the hotels though: bookings are more price-conscious, the sixty minute treatment is the usual choice, and office syndrome from long hours at a desk sells better there than anywhere else in this district.
Are the hotels behind the malls harder to reach?: Slightly, and only because the walkway network does not extend to them. The pocket around Soi Kasemsan and the streets behind MBK is reached on foot from National Stadium rather than from the interchange, which adds a few minutes. The lanes are narrow enough that a car will not always get to the door.
Can two of us book at once in a hotel room?: Yes, and it is common here because this is a holiday district and people arrive in pairs. Two therapists work side by side and you are done at the same moment. Tell us what the room has when you book, and book earlier in the day rather than on impulse, particularly in high season.

A therapist to your door in Siam

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What Siam books most

Relaxing oil massage

Traditional Thai massage

Aromatherapy massage

Couples massage

Deep tissue massage

Office syndrome massage

A district with no residents, and what that means

Getting to a hotel through a mall

What Siam books

Booking around a day at the malls

The student population, and the one exception to the visitor rule

Therapists who cover Siam

Bella

Nene

Somy

Lisa

The hotels, and what their desks do