Gangnam Relax Massage

Gangnam Relax suits someone around Asok who wants an early start or a stop between meetings: the door opens at 09:00, earlier than most on this stretch. A directory, yari-thai.net, lists sessions from ฿1,800 for an hour up to ฿3,800 for 90 minutes. Skip it if you need to know exactly what each price buys, because that listing names every line simply as a massage session. The Google rating is 4.8, but from only 10 reviews, so it is a thin score. Reviewers who did write keep mentioning that it is clean and that the staff are friendly.

The address is 22/8 Soi Sukhumvit 23, on the Asok end of the road. Google lists it as an erotic massage shop, and the business has claimed its own listing. Beyond that, the listing says little: no languages, payment methods, room types or booking channels, and nothing on whether it takes walk-ins.

A couple of Google reviewers called it new when they wrote, two years ago. One mentions a body scrub, but a single review isn't a menu, so ask at the counter what is on offer today.

The shop doesn't publish its own prices. A directory, yari-thai.net, lists 20 lines, each named only as a massage session, and those figures may be out of date:

• 40 minutes: ฿2,300, ฿2,400 (twice) and ฿2,800
• 60 minutes: ฿1,800, ฿2,000 (twice), ฿2,500, ฿2,800, ฿2,900 (twice) and ฿3,300
• 90 minutes: ฿2,100, ฿2,400 (twice), ฿3,000, ฿3,300 (three times) and ฿3,800

The lowest line is ฿1,800 for 60 minutes; the highest ฿3,800 for 90. Some 40-minute lines cost more than some 90-minute ones, which suggests the directory lumped different courses under one name. Ask for the menu at the door, and agree the course, the length and the price before you start. If the budget is fixed, the under ฿2,500 list has more shops with a price on record.

MRT Sukhumvit is about 330 m away, a five-minute walk. BTS Asok is 420 m, about seven minutes, and BTS Nana 14. Few shops on this list are easier to reach on foot.

The door opens at 09:00 and closes at midnight, seven days a week. That lines up neatly with the trains: finish by half past eleven and the Skytrain can still take you home.

Visitors staying around Asok or on the lower sois of Sukhumvit, early risers, and anyone who wants to be back on the train before it stops. Not someone who wants a published menu with names on every line, or a session after midnight; for that, the late-night list picks up where this shop closes. The Asok volume and the Asok district page list the other doors within a few minutes' walk.

Gangnam Relax holds a 4.8 Google rating from 10 reviews, and every review shown is five stars. The themes that repeat are cleanliness (several reviewers call the shop clean, one beautiful and clean) and friendly, cheerful staff. A couple describe the massage itself as relaxing.

There are no complaints among the reviews shown, though the most recent, from ten months ago, calls the setting very ordinary while rating the massage well. Most of the reviews are two years old, from when reviewers described the shop as new, so the picture may have changed. With ten reviews in total, give the rating less weight than you would a score built on hundreds.