Outcall massage on Thong Lo
Thong Lo is one street rather than a district, and it runs for two and a half kilometres inland. The only thing we need from you is how far up it you are.
- Arrival
- 25 to 45 minutes
- Hours
- 24 hours, every day
- Therapists
- Licensed, named first
- From
- THB 900, pay after
Two and a half kilometres of one street. The sub-soi is the address.
Thong Lo is Sukhumvit Soi 55, and almost nobody who lives on it calls it by that number. It leaves the main road beside the BTS station and runs north for about two and a half kilometres before it reaches Phetchaburi Road at the top, which makes it one of the longest residential sois in central Bangkok.
What Thong Lo 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.
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.
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.
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.
DetailsOff that spine hang the sub-sois, numbered Thong Lo 1 upward with the odd numbers on one side and the even on the other. They are where most of the buildings actually sit. A condominium described as being on Thong Lo is very rarely on Thong Lo itself; it is a few hundred metres down Thong Lo 10 or Thong Lo 17, behind a wall, at the end of a lane with no pavement.
This is the part of Bangkok with the highest concentration of long-term Japanese residents, and the street reflects it: izakayas, clinics with Japanese signage, supermarkets stocked for Japanese kitchens, and a run of low-rise luxury condominiums built for families rather than for tourists. There is almost no hotel stock in the usual sense.
For us that means two things. The bookings here are overwhelmingly repeat customers rather than one-offs, and the arrival estimate depends far more on how far up the soi you are than on the time of day. Somebody at Thong Lo 4 and somebody at Thong Lo 25 are fifteen minutes apart on a good run, and rather more than that when it rains.
Why the sub-soi is the only part of the address that matters
The BTS stops once, at the very mouth of the soi. There is no second station further up and there is no line running along it, so from the corner of Sukhumvit the entire length of Thong Lo is covered by motorbike taxi, car, or a long walk in the heat.
That single fact drives everything about a booking here. A therapist heading to Thong Lo 5 is at your door in roughly the same time as anywhere else on the central Sukhumvit stretch. One heading to Thong Lo 21, near the top, has a further fifteen to twenty minutes of soi to cover after she has arrived at what most people would call the destination.
So when you message us, the sub-soi number is worth more than the building name. Give us Thong Lo 13 and we can quote you honestly before you commit. Give us the tower name alone and we will look it up, but if it turns out to be at the top end you will get a revised estimate rather than the one you were hoping for.
The rain makes this worse in a way it does not elsewhere. The soi floods in places during the wet season, the motorbike taxis stop running when it is heavy, and the walk in from the main road becomes impossible. If it is coming down hard and you are near the top, add half an hour and book before you actually want her rather than after.
There is one station and it is at the bottom. Everything above Thong Lo 13 is reached on two wheels or on foot.
The buildings, and what a Thong Lo lobby is like
The building stock here is unlike anywhere else on the line, and the type you are in tells us more about how the arrival will go than the address does.
Low-rise luxury
Much of Thong Lo is low-rise: eight storeys, a handful of units per floor, a garden, and a lobby with one person in it who knows every resident by sight. These are the easiest buildings in Bangkok to visit, because the desk is not processing strangers all day and a resident saying she is expecting someone is the end of the matter.
The newer towers
The newer high-rises nearer the main road run a more formal operation with a visitor register, a card-controlled lift and sometimes a call to the unit. Nothing unusual, and it adds about two minutes.
Older walk-ups
There are also older four and five storey walk-ups tucked down the sub-sois, often with no lift and no desk at all. Worth telling us if you are on the fourth floor of one, purely so she is not carrying her oils and linen up four flights unannounced.
What we ask for
Whichever it is, we ask for the building name at the time of booking rather than publishing rules for individual addresses. Those rules belong to the juristic office, they change, and being wrong about them in public would help nobody.
What Thong Lo books
Traditional Thai leads here, which is unusual
Traditional Thai outsells everything else on this soi, and it is the only district on our list where that is true. The reason is who lives here rather than what the flats are like. Thong Lo has a long-settled mix of Thai professionals and residents who have been in the country for years, and both groups tend to book the stretching by name and at length. Ninety minutes and two hours are ordinary on this soi in a way they are not at the hotel end of the road.
Deep tissue and the regular slot
Deep tissue is second and it arrives on a schedule. A large share of our Thong Lo work is the same customer at the same time every week or fortnight, usually early evening, usually the same therapist by request. If that is what you want, say so when you book and we will hold the person rather than the slot.
Couples and four hands at the weekend
Weekends tilt toward couples and four hands. The apartments are big enough for two therapists to work in the same room without anyone shuffling furniture, and the bookings run later on Friday and Saturday than the weekday pattern would suggest.
Booking as a resident rather than a guest
Most people on this soi are booking their tenth massage rather than their first, so the process is shorter than the one described on the rest of the site. It is worth setting out what changes.
Send the sub-soi, the building and the unit once. After that we have it, and a future booking is a time and a treatment rather than an address. Most of our Thong Lo regulars book in a single line.
Ask for the therapist by name if you have one you get on with. Availability is not guaranteed at short notice, but with a day of warning we can almost always hold her, and the second visit is materially better than the first because she already knows where the problem is.
Tell us about the building quirk once and we will remember it. A lift that needs a keycard after ten, a side entrance the guard prefers, a lobby that closes. These are the things that cost ten minutes every single time if nobody writes them down.
Book earlier on Friday than you think you need to. It is the one evening on this soi where the slots go, and the regulars take them first.
Therapists who cover Thong Lo
Every one of them trained in Thailand and holds a Ministry of Public Health licence. You get told who is coming before they knock.
Where Thong Lo ends and Ekkamai begins
The soi has fuzzy edges at both ends and people are frequently unsure which district they are actually in, so here is where we draw the lines.
The top end
At the northern end, Thong Lo meets Phetchaburi Road and the character changes completely. Above that junction you are in the Ekkamai and Phetchaburi hinterland, the buildings are cheaper, and the arrival window lengthens again. We still come, but it is no longer a Thong Lo run.
The far side
Going east, the sub-sois off Thong Lo eventually connect through to the sub-sois off Ekkamai, and a few buildings can honestly claim either address. If yours is one of them, use whichever soi you actually enter from, because that is the one the driver will use.
Which page to read
If you are on Sukhumvit itself near the mouth of the soi, the Sukhumvit page is the better read. Thong Lo proper starts once you have turned off the main road.
Language, and who you will actually be talking to
This comes up on Thong Lo more than anywhere else we work, because a large share of the households here are Japanese and a fair number of them are not confident in English or Thai. It is a reasonable thing to want settled before somebody knocks on your door.
Every therapist on the team speaks Thai and working English. English is the language a booking is actually conducted in and it is enough for everything the treatment requires: where it hurts, how hard, hotter or colder, longer or shorter, stop. None of that needs a wide vocabulary and all of it gets checked at the start rather than assumed.
Some of the team speak more than that. A few have Mandarin, and we have therapists with enough Japanese to handle a booking end to end. We do not pretend that is everybody, so if it matters to you say so when you message and we will tell you honestly who is available rather than sending someone and hoping it works out.
The practical answer for most people is that language turns out not to be the obstacle they expected. The treatment is physical, the therapist checks pressure by asking as she goes, and a booking confirmed in writing beforehand means the details are already agreed before anyone arrives.
The hours this soi actually runs on
Thong Lo has a later evening than its residential character suggests, because the restaurants and bars along it keep going and a good number of residents are eating out until eleven. Our first peak is between seven and nine for people who came straight home, and the second is between eleven and one for the ones who did not.
Mornings are quieter here than at Asok and much quieter than the hotel districts, but they are not empty. Weekday mid-morning bookings from people working at home are a steady trickle, and they are the easiest slots in the day to get at no notice.
Sunday is the busiest single day of the week on this soi, which is the reverse of the business districts. Families are in, nobody is travelling, and the ninety minute and two hour treatments outsell the sixty by a distance that we see nowhere else. If you want a Sunday afternoon slot with a particular therapist, Friday is the time to ask for it.
Everywhere we go in Thong Lo
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 Thong Lo
- BTS Ekkamai
- BTS Phrom Phong
- MRT Phetchaburi
- Airport Rail Link Ramkhamhaeng
Streets and sois
- Sukhumvit Soi 55 (Thong Lo)
- Thong Lo 1 to Thong Lo 25
- Thong Lo 10
- Thong Lo 13
- Thong Lo 17
- Soi Sukhumvit 49
- Soi Sukhumvit 53
- Soi Sukhumvit 57
- Phetchaburi Road
- Soi Thararom
Landmarks
- The Commons
- J Avenue
- Donki Mall Thonglor
- Seenspace
- Rain Hill
- Camillian Hospital
- Sukhumvit Hospital
- Major Cineplex Sukhumvit
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
- Somerset Sukhumvit Thonglor
- Oakwood Residence Thonglor
- Aetas Residence
- Grande Centre Point Sukhumvit 55
- Akyra Thonglor Bangkok
Condominiums and residences
- Residence Thonglor
- Noble Remix
- Noble Solo
- Ideo Morph 38
- Rhythm Sukhumvit 36 38
- The Crest Sukhumvit 34
- Tela Thonglor
Who books in Thong Lo
- Japanese families
- The largest single group on this soi. Weekend afternoons, longer treatments, and the same therapist each time.
- Long-term expat residents
- Weekly or fortnightly regulars in the low-rise buildings, usually early evening on a weekday.
- Serviced apartment guests
- Relocation stays of a month or more near the mouth of the soi.
- Couples at the weekend
- Two therapists in one living room. The apartments here are the right size for it without moving anything.
- People working from home
- Mid-morning weekday slots, almost always neck and shoulder work, almost always at no notice.
- Visiting parents and older guests
- Booked by the resident rather than the guest, and usually a gentle oil massage rather than the stretching.
Questions about Thong Lo
- How far up Thong Lo will you come?
- All the way to Phetchaburi Road at the top, and down every sub-soi off it. The price does not change with distance. What changes is the wait: past Thong Lo 13 add roughly ten minutes to whatever we quote for the lower end.
- Why do you keep asking for the sub-soi?
- Because the BTS stops once, at the bottom, and everything above that is covered on the road. A building on Thong Lo 4 and a building on Thong Lo 21 are the same street and a quarter of an hour apart. With the sub-soi we can give you an honest number before you commit rather than a revised one afterwards.
- Can I request the same therapist every time?
- Yes, and most of our regulars here do. Give us a day of notice and we can almost always hold her. At an hour of notice it depends who is free, and we will tell you honestly rather than send someone and hope.
- Is traditional Thai a good choice in a condo here?
- It is the most booked treatment on this soi precisely because the apartments suit it. The floor stretch wants about two metres by one of clear space, which a Thong Lo living room has without anything being moved. In a small hotel room it often does not work at all.
- What happens if it floods?
- Parts of the soi do flood in a heavy downpour and the motorbike taxis stop running when it is bad. We will still come, but the estimate goes out considerably, especially near the top. Book before the rain rather than during it if you can see it coming.
- My building has a keycard lift. Is that a problem?
- Not if you tell us once. Somebody has to bring her up or send the lift down, and that is a thirty second job if it is expected and a ten minute one if it is not. We keep a note against the address so it only ever has to be explained a single time.
- Is parking a problem for the therapist?
- It is not something you need to solve. She travels by motorbike taxi or on foot from the main road, so there is no car to put anywhere and no need to arrange a visitor bay with your building. That is one of the reasons the top of the soi is reachable at all.
- Can I book a treatment for my parents while they are visiting?
- Often, and it is a common request on this soi. Send us their ages and anything a therapist ought to know about mobility, recent surgery or blood pressure, and we will tell you which treatment suits. Traditional Thai involves stretching and is frequently the wrong choice for an older guest; a gentle oil massage almost never is.
- Do you cover the buildings between Thong Lo and Ekkamai?
- Yes. Several sub-sois connect through and some buildings can legitimately give either address. Use whichever soi you would enter from and we will route to that, since it is the entrance rather than the postcode that decides the journey.
Near Thong Lo
Ekkamai
The same long soi shape as Thong Lo, cheaper rents, a younger crowd, and a bus terminal sitting at the mouth of it.
Phrom Phong
The Emporium end. Japanese families, the deepest daytime demand on the line.
Sukhumvit
The road, not a district. Fifteen kilometres of it, so the soi number decides everything.
Asok
The interchange. Business hotels, short stays, and the fastest arrival window we run anywhere in Bangkok.
Phra Khanong
Where the rents fall off a cliff. A canal, a real market, and younger residents.