Aura Nuru Massage

Every room on Aura's reported price list is a jacuzzi room, and every one of its 22 Google reviews gives five stars. Those are the two facts that set it apart in a district crowded with nuru houses.

A thaiolddriver field report puts the entry point at ฿2,500 for 40 minutes and ฿3,800 for 90, with two-therapist and couples sessions above that. It suits someone who wants nuru eight minutes from the Asok junction, without a VIP surcharge for the tub. Skip it if you want a big lineup: two reviewers found only three therapists on when they walked in. Booking on LINE first is the sensible move.

The listing places Aura at 392/21 Sukhumvit Road, Khlong Toei, in the Asok district. Google files it as an erotic massage shop, and it calls itself a nuru house. There's no website, so most of what's known about the rooms comes from the reported price list and the reviews.

The price list describes every session as taking place in a jacuzzi room. Reviewers describe a fresh, clean place and friendly counter staff, and one says the hour ran its full length with nothing cut short. The lineup is small: two reviewers who walked in during the afternoon found three therapists on duty. One reviewer says their therapist spoke good Japanese.

Aura doesn't publish its prices. The figures below come from a thaiolddriver field report, not from the shop:

• Nuru massage (jacuzzi room): full service 40 min: ฿2,500
• Nuru massage (jacuzzi room): full service 90 min: ฿3,800
• Two therapists Nuru massage (jacuzzi room): full service 60 min: ฿5,500
• Two therapists Nuru massage (jacuzzi room): full service 90 min: ฿6,500
• Couple massage (jacuzzi room): full service 40 min: ฿5,500
• Couple massage (jacuzzi room): full service 90 min: ฿7,500
• Extras: outfit option (no duration listed): ฿200
• Extras: outfit option (no duration listed): ฿500
• Massage session (no duration listed): ฿500

There's no 60-minute solo nuru line on the report. One Google reviewer says the nuru course was ฿3,000 an hour, which sits sensibly between the 40- and 90-minute prices; ask the shop to confirm it. The ฿500 massage session has no length attached, so ask what it covers before treating it as a cheap way in.

Booking runs through LINE, and the listing shows a phone number too. Shops with two-therapist sessions are collected in the four-hands list, and those selling sessions for two in the couples volume.

BTS Asok and MRT Sukhumvit are both 470 metres away, about an eight-minute walk each. BTS Phrom Phong is around 13 minutes on foot.

Aura opens at 11:00 and closes at midnight, every day. The trains stop about then too, so a 90-minute booking that starts after 22:00 will end in a taxi. The Asok volume lists the shops nearby, including a few that stay open later.

Aura suits a visitor who wants nuru close to the junction, a jacuzzi without paying extra for it, and a shop with an unbroken run of good reviews. It also suits two people arriving together, given the couples lines.

It suits a tight budget less well: ฿2,500 buys 40 minutes. For lower starting prices, the cheap list is the place to compare.

Aura has a 5.0 Google rating from 22 reviews, and every review shown here is five stars.

Reviewers often name their therapist, and the same few names recur, which fits a small team. Several describe the therapists as friendly and unhurried, and say they look like their photos or better. Several mention the place being clean and fresh, and the counter staff being friendly. One reviewer notes the full hour was honoured with no time cut, and another found the price reasonable for the location.

The nearest thing to a criticism is the size of the lineup: two reviewers who walked in found only three therapists working. Book ahead if you have someone in mind.