Why do you ask which road I am on rather than the building?

Because the circle only turns one way and six roads feed into it. Two buildings two hundred metres apart on different spokes can be ten minutes apart by road, since getting between them means going the whole way round. The road name decides the route more than the building does.

Does the roundabout traffic delay the arrival?

Less than you would expect. An elevated walkway rings the circle and connects the station to most of the spokes, so a therapist arriving by train crosses above the traffic rather than sitting in it. The estimate holds up better here than the junction suggests.

I work twelve hour hospital shifts. When should I book?

After the shift, never before, and leave half an hour after you finish. A massage loosens the muscles you are about to stand on for twelve hours, and coming straight off a ward with your feet still swollen is not the best moment for deep work.

I stand all day rather than sitting. Does that change the treatment?

Considerably, so say so. The default assumption in Bangkok is a desk complaint, meaning neck and shoulders. Standing all day puts it in the calves, feet and lower back instead, and a therapist told the cause works entirely different muscles.

My apartment block has a generic name. How do I make sure she finds it?

Send the road off the circle, then the soi, then a landmark, and the building name last. A great many blocks here share names with others nearby and several have changed name without changing the sign, so the name alone is the least reliable part of the address.

Is there a minimum booking or a student rate?

No minimum and no deposit, but no student rate either. One published treatment list covers the whole city. The sixty minute treatment is a complete service rather than a cut-down one, and booking it regularly does more for a chronic complaint than an occasional ninety.

Can I book at four in the morning here?

Yes, and it is genuinely routine in this district. Between the hospital shifts and the night food stalls, a real share of this population is finishing work in the small hours. Very few areas of Bangkok produce that pattern and this is one of them.

Do you cover the streets around the hospitals themselves?

Yes, including the staff housing and the guesthouses that patients and families use. Those bookings often need a little more detail than usual, particularly if the person being treated is recovering from something, so tell us what is going on and we will recommend accordingly.

Can two of us book at the same time in a shared flat?

Yes. Two therapists arrive together and work in separate rooms, or the same one if you prefer. In a building where somebody has to come down and let her in, it also means that only has to happen once.

Massage Victory Monument | Outcall Therapist, Rangnam and Ratchawithi

A roundabout with four hospitals around it. This district never fully closes.

Victory Monument is a large traffic circle where six roads meet, with the BTS running over the top of it and the monument itself on an island in the middle. It is one of the busiest interchanges in Bangkok and for decades it was the point where the whole country arrived in the city by road.

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.

Details

Around the circle is a dense, unglamorous and genuinely useful part of Bangkok. Cheap apartment blocks, street food that runs most of the night, small shops, and the highest concentration of medical facilities anywhere in the city outside the private hospital cluster on Sukhumvit.

Rajavithi, Ramathibodi and Phramongkutklao are all within a short distance, along with the associated nursing colleges, medical schools and staff housing. Add several universities nearby and this district holds an enormous student and healthcare population.

The accommodation reflects all of that. Very little of it is hotel stock. Most is older apartment blocks, student housing, staff accommodation and small guesthouses, at prices that would be unthinkable three stations south.

For us it is a district with an unusually flat clock. Shift workers, students, hospital staff and night market traders between them keep it awake around the clock, and the bookings arrive at every hour rather than clustering in the evening.

The roundabout, and why it is the hardest part of the address

The traffic circle is the defining obstacle in this district and it is worth understanding before you book. Six major roads feed into it, the circulation is one-way, and there are limited points at which a vehicle can cross or turn back.

That means a building on Ratchawithi and a building on Rangnam can be a couple of hundred metres apart and a genuine ten minutes apart by road, because getting from one to the other involves going the whole way round.

So the single most useful thing you can tell us is which road off the circle you are on, before the building name and before the house number. Rangnam, Ratchawithi, Phahonyothin, Phaya Thai, Ratchaprarop or Din Daeng. That one word decides the route.

The pedestrian situation is better. An elevated walkway rings the circle and connects the BTS to most of the spokes, so a therapist arriving by train walks over the traffic rather than through it, which is why our estimate here holds up better than the roundabout would suggest.

Six roads meet here and the circle only turns one way. Which spoke you are on is the whole address.

The hospitals, and the shift pattern

Several large public hospitals sit within a short radius and the population they generate is the single biggest influence on how this district books.

Medical staff

Medical staff are our most consistent customers here. Nurses and junior doctors coming off twelve hour shifts at hours nobody else works, with a complaint pattern of lower back, feet and shoulders that comes from standing rather than sitting.

Patients and families

Patients and their families stay in the guesthouses and cheap hotels around the circle, sometimes for weeks. Those bookings need the medical detail spelled out and frequently need the gentle end of the menu.

Nursing students

Nursing and medical students in the colleges nearby are a large group booking on tight budgets, almost always the sixty minute treatment, almost always in the evening.

The hours

Between them these groups produce bookings at four in the morning, at eleven in the morning and at eleven at night in roughly equal measure, which almost no other district does.

What Victory Monument books

Deep tissue, and the standing complaint

Deep tissue leads here and the cause is standing rather than sitting. Twelve hours on a hospital ward, or eight behind a market stall, produces lower back, calves and feet complaints rather than the neck and shoulder pattern an office generates. Told the cause, a therapist works entirely different muscles.

Traditional Thai, the local default

Traditional Thai is a very close second and it is the default choice among the largely Thai population here. It is asked for by name, and the stretching suits a body that has been upright all day.

Oil massage on a budget

Straight oil massage takes a large share because it is the second cheapest thing on the list and this is a price-conscious district. The sixty minute treatment outsells the ninety by a wider margin than almost anywhere.

Office syndrome, from the students

Office syndrome comes almost entirely from students rather than office workers. Long hours over books and laptops in small rooms produce exactly the same complaint a desk job does.

Older apartment blocks, and getting inside

Most of the residential stock here is apartment buildings from the 1980s and 1990s rather than modern condominiums, and they work differently from the towers further south.

There is usually a guard rather than a reception desk, and frequently a small office by the entrance rather than a lobby. A visitor is asked who they are visiting and that is generally the whole procedure. Nobody registers anything and nobody calls up.

Lifts exist in the taller blocks and do not in the shorter ones. Five and six storey walk-ups are common here, so the floor is worth mentioning.

The building names are the weak point. A great many of these blocks have generic names shared with others nearby, and several have changed name without changing the sign. The soi plus the building plus a landmark is far more reliable than the name alone.

Where the building has a number rather than a name, send the number and the road it is on. That combination is more useful here than in almost any other district on our list.

Rangnam, and the pocket that stays open

Soi Rangnam runs east off the circle toward Phaya Thai and it is the liveliest street in the district, with restaurants, small hotels and a long-standing Middle Eastern and South Asian community.

It is also the pocket that stays open latest. Food is available at two in the morning, the small hotels are used to people coming and going, and a booking there at an hour that would be unusual elsewhere is entirely ordinary.

The soi is narrow, permanently parked up and busy with delivery bikes, so a vehicle does not move quickly along it. She will generally walk the last stretch from the main road, which is quicker than waiting in the queue.

A large share of this district works hours that do not match the rest of the city, and the advice for booking around them is genuinely different.

Book for after the shift, never before. A massage loosens muscles you are about to spend twelve hours standing on, which is the wrong preparation for a ward round.
Leave half an hour after you finish. Coming straight off a shift with your feet still swollen is not the best moment for deep work, and a shower first makes it a considerably better hour.
Ask for deep tissue and say that you stand all day. The default assumption in Bangkok is a desk complaint, and told otherwise she will work the calves, feet and lower back rather than the neck.
Set up a standing booking on your day off if you work a rota. It is far easier than trying to find a slot each week around a shift pattern that changes.
Do not book at the end of a run of nights unless you actually want to sleep afterwards. Most people do, which is fine, but it is worth knowing that is what will happen.

The student population, and what it needs to know

Several universities and colleges sit around this district and the student population is one of the larger groups we treat here.

The budget

There is no minimum spend and no deposit, so the sixty minute treatment is a complete transaction rather than a poor-value option. The person who arrives and the work she does are identical; only the clock is shorter.

The complaint

The complaint is almost always office syndrome even though no office is involved. Long hours over books and laptops in a small room produces exactly the neck and upper back pattern a desk job does, and the targeted treatment does more than a general one.

The buildings

Student accommodation here is mostly older blocks with a guard and no lift. Mention the floor and have your phone with you.

Booking together

Booking with a flatmate at the same time works well. Two therapists arrive together and work in separate rooms, and it makes the arrival simpler in a building where somebody has to come down.

Where the district stops

Southward the road runs down to Phaya Thai and the Airport Rail Link, which is a short distance and covered on its own page.

Northward Phahonyothin heads up through Sanam Pao toward Ari, and the character turns low-rise and residential quite quickly.

Eastward Ratchaprarop runs down toward Pratunam and the garment markets, and Din Daeng heads out toward the expressway and the large housing estates on that side.

Westward Ratchawithi runs toward the Dusit and Samsen side of the city, past more hospitals and into an older governmental part of Bangkok that is considerably harder to reach from the BTS.

Each of those spokes has a different character within a few hundred metres of the circle, which is why naming the road matters more here than the district does.

Price in a price-conscious district

This is one of the cheaper central districts to live in and we get asked about discounts here more than most places, so it is worth answering plainly.

There is one published price list for the whole city and it does not change with the district, the building or the hour. That means no surcharge for coming to a difficult address at four in the morning, and no reduction for a cheaper neighbourhood either.

There is no minimum booking and nothing is taken up front. The sixty minute treatment at nine hundred baht is the entry point and it is a complete service rather than a stripped-down one. Victory Monument also sits inside the seven kilometre radius, so no transport contribution is added on top of that figure, which is not true of every district we cover and is worth knowing if you are counting carefully.

Payment happens at the end, in cash, by card or by PromptPay, and the figure is whatever the confirmation message said. If you are on a student budget, the useful thing to know is that booking sixty minutes regularly does more for a chronic complaint than booking ninety occasionally.

Everywhere we go in Victory Monument

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 Victory Monument
BTS Phaya Thai
BTS Sanam Pao
Airport Rail Link Phaya Thai
BTS Ratchathewi
Victory Monument bus interchange

Streets and sois

Ratchawithi Road
Phahonyothin Road
Phaya Thai Road
Ratchaprarop Road
Din Daeng Road
Soi Rang Nam
Soi Ratchawithi 3
Soi Phahonyothin 2

Landmarks

Victory Monument
Rajavithi Hospital
Ramathibodi Hospital
Phramongkutklao Hospital
King Power Rangnam
Century The Movie Plaza
Victory Point
Suan Pakkad Palace

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

Pullman Bangkok King Power
Century Park Hotel
Bangkok City Hotel
Golden Tulip Sovereign Hotel
Prince Palace Hotel

Condominiums and residences

Ideo Q Victory
The Line Phahonyothin Park
Lumpini Ville Phahon Suthisarn
Chateau In Town Rangnam
Baan Klang Krung
Onyx Phaholyothin

Who books in Victory Monument

Hospital staff: Nurses and junior doctors off twelve hour shifts. Lower back, feet and calves rather than a desk complaint.
Students: Several universities and nursing colleges nearby. Sixty minute treatments, tight budgets, and office syndrome from long hours over books.
Patients and families: Staying in the guesthouses around the circle, sometimes for weeks. Detailed bookings and the gentle end of the menu.
Market and night traders: The food stalls run most of the night, and the bookings that follow arrive at four in the morning.
Rangnam residents: The liveliest spoke off the circle, open the latest of the six, and where a two in the morning booking is entirely unremarkable.

Questions about Victory Monument

Why do you ask which road I am on rather than the building?: Because the circle only turns one way and six roads feed into it. Two buildings two hundred metres apart on different spokes can be ten minutes apart by road, since getting between them means going the whole way round. The road name decides the route more than the building does.
Does the roundabout traffic delay the arrival?: Less than you would expect. An elevated walkway rings the circle and connects the station to most of the spokes, so a therapist arriving by train crosses above the traffic rather than sitting in it. The estimate holds up better here than the junction suggests.
I work twelve hour hospital shifts. When should I book?: After the shift, never before, and leave half an hour after you finish. A massage loosens the muscles you are about to stand on for twelve hours, and coming straight off a ward with your feet still swollen is not the best moment for deep work.
I stand all day rather than sitting. Does that change the treatment?: Considerably, so say so. The default assumption in Bangkok is a desk complaint, meaning neck and shoulders. Standing all day puts it in the calves, feet and lower back instead, and a therapist told the cause works entirely different muscles.
My apartment block has a generic name. How do I make sure she finds it?: Send the road off the circle, then the soi, then a landmark, and the building name last. A great many blocks here share names with others nearby and several have changed name without changing the sign, so the name alone is the least reliable part of the address.
Is there a minimum booking or a student rate?: No minimum and no deposit, but no student rate either. One published treatment list covers the whole city. The sixty minute treatment is a complete service rather than a cut-down one, and booking it regularly does more for a chronic complaint than an occasional ninety.
Can I book at four in the morning here?: Yes, and it is genuinely routine in this district. Between the hospital shifts and the night food stalls, a real share of this population is finishing work in the small hours. Very few areas of Bangkok produce that pattern and this is one of them.
Do you cover the streets around the hospitals themselves?: Yes, including the staff housing and the guesthouses that patients and families use. Those bookings often need a little more detail than usual, particularly if the person being treated is recovering from something, so tell us what is going on and we will recommend accordingly.
Can two of us book at the same time in a shared flat?: Yes. Two therapists arrive together and work in separate rooms, or the same one if you prefer. In a building where somebody has to come down and let her in, it also means that only has to happen once.

A therapist to your door in Victory Monument

Message us with the building name and a time. Nothing is taken up front, and you pay the therapist when she has finished.

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What Victory Monument books most

Deep tissue massage

Traditional Thai massage

Relaxing oil massage

Office syndrome massage

Coconut oil massage

Aromatherapy massage