Absolute Bangkok Massage

Seven lines, and none of them above ฿2,800. Absolute Bangkok Massage keeps its rate card short: body-to-body with oil at three levels, for 30 or 60 minutes, and a single soapy package. The cheapest line is ฿1,500 for half an hour.

It suits someone who wants a modest price near Soi 22, or wants a therapist sent to a hotel: the website offers outcall across the Sukhumvit district. Couples and women are welcome, according to its website. Skip it if you want a long session or a choice of rooms, since nothing on the card runs past an hour. And read the Google record with care. Most of its 30 reviews are years old, and several describe a bar with pool tables rather than a massage shop.

The card is built on Body to Body Massage with Oil, priced at three levels, plus a Sensual Bathing & Soapy Massage. According to its website, the shop serves men, women and couples, and all its therapists are women. Sessions are offered at the shop on Sukhumvit Soi 22, or as outcall within the Sukhumvit district.

The listing gives no languages or payment methods. Couples are named on the website, which brings it into the couples volume's territory, and the services list includes four-hands.

Its rate card lists:

• Body to Body Massage with Oil (happy ending): ฿1,500 for 30 min, ฿2,000 for 60 min
• Body to Body Massage with Oil (with add-on): ฿1,700 for 30 min, ฿2,300 for 60 min
• Body to Body Massage with Oil (Full Service): ฿2,000 for 30 min, ฿2,500 for 60 min
• Sensual Bathing & Soapy Massage (Full Service) 60 min: ฿2,800

The steps are even. Each level adds ฿200 to ฿300, and doubling the time from 30 to 60 minutes adds ฿500 at every level. The website also mentions a promotional card with ฿200 off some packages; ask whether it's running. These figures sit comfortably inside the cheap list's ฿2,500 ceiling for the opening lines.

Book on LINE or WhatsApp. The address is 265, 4 Sukhumvit Alley 22, Khlong Tan, Khlong Toei. BTS Phrom Phong is 470 m away, about eight minutes on foot. MRT Queen Sirikit National Convention Center is 930 m off, around 15 minutes, and BTS Asok about 16.

The door shuts at midnight, about when the trains stop, so the last session of the night lines up neatly with the last train. For outcall, the website limits the service to the Sukhumvit district. The Phrom Phong district page lists the neighbours.

A budget-minded visitor who wants an hour for ฿2,000 to ฿2,800 near Phrom Phong, or a hotel guest on Sukhumvit who prefers the therapist to come to them. It suits less well anyone looking for a 90-minute session, a jacuzzi or a VIP room: none appears on the card. For those, the VIP rooms volume and the Phrom Phong volume offer more.

Absolute Bangkok Massage holds a 4.3 Google rating from 30 reviews, but the record is old. Only one review is from the past year: a four-star note saying it was pretty good.

The reviews from around three years ago describe a bar as much as a massage shop. Several mention pool tables and cold draft beer, a welcoming manager and, in more than one review, no pressure to buy drinks. One mentions sister locations nearby. Older reviews, seven or eight years back, mostly name individual therapists, and two mention outcall to a hotel. With so little that's recent, treat the rating as history and ask on LINE what the shop looks like now.