Daisy Dream

Daisy Dream is the full production: a lineup, a bar, deluxe rooms with rainfall showers and VIP suites with jacuzzis, all priced on a card that runs from ฿2,000 to ฿7,500. It suits someone who wants choice on arrival and a room with some size to it, and couples, who get two lines of their own. It holds a 4.5 Google rating from 261 reviews. Skip it if you like to book a time and a name in advance: according to its website it takes walk-ins only, with no reservations. The two one-star reviews among the recent ones are both about service, one over a refused refund. For the neighbourhood's other doors, see the Phrom Phong volume.

The address is 12/8 Sukhumvit 33 Alley in Khlong Tan Nuea, Watthana. Its website describes it as Bangkok's first combined nuru and soapy parlour, open since 2019, and says that 15 to 30 masseuses are on hand depending on the day and the hour.

The arrangement is the old-school one, and the website spells it out: you walk in, and choose a therapist on site with the mamasan. Deluxe rooms have rainfall showers, VIP suites have a jacuzzi, and the fourth floor holds an interconnecting double VIP suite of over 60 square metres. There's also a bar, the Fairy Lounge, serving liquor and beer.

The listing says English, Japanese and French are spoken.

The rate card, by room:

Deluxe

• Full Service Massage - Deluxe, 40 min: ฿2,000
• Full Service Massage - Deluxe, 60 min: ฿2,500
• Nuru Full Service Massage - Deluxe, 60 min: ฿3,000
• Full Service Massage - Deluxe, 90 min: ฿3,500

VIP Jacuzzi

• Full Service Massage - VIP Jacuzzi, 60 min: ฿3,500
• Full Service Massage - VIP Jacuzzi, 90 min: ฿4,500
• Nuru Full Service Massage - VIP Jacuzzi, 90 min: ฿5,000
• Full Service Massage - VIP Jacuzzi (two therapists), 60 min: ฿5,500
• Couple Sensual Massage - VIP Jacuzzi, 60 min: ฿5,500
• Couple Sensual Massage - VIP Jacuzzi (two therapists), 60 min: ฿6,000
• Full Service Massage - VIP Jacuzzi (two therapists), 90 min: ฿7,500

The cheapest line is ฿2,000 for 40 minutes in a deluxe room. Moving the same hour from deluxe to the VIP jacuzzi room costs ฿1,000 more, and nuru adds ฿500 on top of the plain session in the deluxe room.

The listing gives LINE as a contact, but the website is clear that there are no reservations. Turn up, choose, and confirm the price and the length before you agree to anything.

BTS Phrom Phong is 450 m away, about seven minutes on foot; the website puts it at five minutes from exit 5. MRT Sukhumvit is 850 m and BTS Asok 880 m, both around 14 minutes.

It opens at 11:00 and closes at 02:00, every day. The last train leaves well before the last session, so plan on a taxi home. Other doors open past midnight are on the late-night list.

Couples, for a start: the card has a Couple Sensual Massage in the VIP jacuzzi room, with one therapist or two, and the couples list has the alternatives. The two-therapist lines put it among the four hands shops, and the jacuzzi suites among the VIP room picks.

It suits less well someone who wants a quiet, booked-ahead hour with a known name. Here there are no reservations, and the choice is made at the door.

Daisy Dream holds a 4.5 Google rating from 261 reviews. Nearly every recent review is five stars and names a therapist, with a different name almost every time; Apple and Barbie are among the few mentioned twice. Several reviewers say the place is clean, and several praise the atmosphere. One review praises the mamasan as welcoming and helpful.

The complaints are blunt. One one-star reviewer says they asked to stop five minutes in and were refused half their money back. Another one-star review simply calls the customer service poor. A four-star reviewer notes it was the fifth shop they walked into on a soi full of them, and found a good reception. Read the stream of short, name-checking five-star reviews with some care: they say little beyond the name.