ANELA

ANELA keeps late hours and a tidy card. The website calls it a Japanese-style massage and relaxation salon, and the rate card splits into two tracks: a standard session from ฿2,400 for 40 minutes, and nuru from ฿3,400 for an hour. It suits someone who wants a long session after dark: two-hour courses are on the card and the door stays open until 02:00. It holds a 4.7 Google rating from 157 reviews. Skip it if you're watching the baht; nothing on the session list comes in under ฿2,400, and the cheap list starts lower. The recent reviews are all five stars but say very little, so there's not much to weigh beyond the card and the hours.

The address is 4, 10 Sukhumvit Alley 22 in Khlong Toei, in the Phrom Phong pocket of Sukhumvit. According to its website, ANELA is a Japanese-style massage and relaxation salon with private rooms and a shower. The site is in Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean, and it's restricted to visitors aged 18 and over.

That's most of what's published. There's no word on room types beyond 'private', no mention of a jacuzzi or a VIP floor, and nothing on whether it takes walk-ins. What the card does make clear is the choice in front of you: a standard session or a nuru session, each sold by the clock.

Sessions on the rate card:

• Standard, 40 min: ฿2,400
• Standard, 60 min: ฿2,600
• Standard, 90 min: ฿3,200
• Standard, 120 min: ฿4,000
• Nuru massage, 60 min: ฿3,400
• Nuru massage, 90 min: ฿4,000
• Nuru massage, 120 min: ฿4,800

The gap between the two tracks is ฿800 at the hour mark. Two hours of standard costs the same ฿4,000 as 90 minutes of nuru, which is the sum to do before you choose.

Below the sessions sit the options, none with a length: outfit options at ฿200 (listed twice) and ฿300, a 'Model' option at ฿500, and a line reading 'Massage session' at ฿500. The card doesn't say what that last one covers, so ask before you assume it's a session at all.

Booking is by LINE, according to the listing; the website also gives KakaoTalk, Telegram, WhatsApp and WeChat. Confirm the price and the length before you agree to anything.

BTS Phrom Phong is the closest stop, 570 m away, about nine minutes on foot. BTS Asok and MRT Sukhumvit are both 690 m, roughly eleven minutes.

Hours are the same every day: noon to 02:00. That's two hours past the last Skytrain, so a late session ends with a taxi rather than a train. The late-night list has more shops open after midnight, and the Phrom Phong volume has the neighbours.

ANELA has a 4.7 Google rating from 157 reviews. The eight most recent are all five stars and all short, most of them a line or two. The recurring theme is the staff: several reviewers single out how friendly and good-looking the therapists are, and one calls the staff sweet and caring. Beyond that, there's little detail: no mention of prices, rooms, cleanliness or session length, and no complaints among them. A run of very short five-star reviews tells you less than a mixed handful with specifics, so treat the rating as a rough signal and the rate card as the firmer ground.