Honey Bee Massage

A short card, a fixed address and a door that stays open until midnight. Honey Bee sells body-to-body sessions with oil from ฿1,500 for 30 minutes and a 60-minute soapy bath at ฿2,800, the top line on its card. It suits a first-timer who wants the price in writing before setting out, and couples: its website mentions rooms with two tables and a jacuzzi, and several Google reviews come from couples. It holds a 4.6 Google rating from 103 reviews. Skip it if a long nuru session is the point; the longest line on the card is an hour. One older review also calls the room small. Within Phrom Phong there's no shortage of alternatives if that matters to you.

Google lists Honey Bee as a soapy massage shop, and its menu covers nuru and happy ending massage too. The address is 261, 4 Sukhumvit Alley 22 in Khlong Toei; the website puts it on Sukhumvit Soi 22.

The card is built around one session, body-to-body massage with oil, sold at three levels and two lengths, plus a single soapy line: 'Sensual Bathing & Soapy Massage (full service)'. According to its website, every masseuse is female, and staff have health screenings every three months. The same site describes rooms with two massage tables and a jacuzzi for couples, and lists other sessions (yoni, foot fetish, uniforms and toys, a party package) that carry no published price.

The listing says English is spoken. It also takes walk-ins, and it offers outcall, which the website says is mostly within the Sukhumvit area.

The rate card, as published:

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

The cheapest line is the 30-minute session at ฿1,500; doubling the time to an hour adds ฿500. The website notes that its in-shop promo rates apply to body-to-body and soapy sessions only, so expect other sessions, and outcall, to be priced separately. Those prices aren't published.

Booking goes through LINE or WhatsApp, both listed on the shop's website. Confirm the price and the length before you agree to anything.

BTS Phrom Phong is the nearest stop, 480 m away, about eight minutes on foot. From the other side, MRT Queen Sirikit National Convention Center is 930 m, around 15 minutes, and BTS Asok 980 m, about 16.

The door opens at 11:00 and shuts at midnight, seven days a week. The Skytrain winds down around the same time, so a session that starts late ends with a taxi from the mouth of the soi. For shops that keep going after midnight, the late-night list picks up where this one stops.

Couples have a clear case here: the website names couples rooms, and Google reviews from husbands and wives turn up more than once. The services list includes four-hands sessions too, and a few reviewers describe booking two therapists together; the four hands list and the couples list have the competition.

For a first visit on a budget, a 30-minute session at ฿1,500 within ten minutes of the BTS is a straightforward start. If you want more room to compare, the Phrom Phong volume ranks the neighbourhood's shops on one page.

Honey Bee holds a 4.6 Google rating from 103 reviews, and the recent ones are overwhelmingly five-star. The pattern is unusual: most reviews thank a therapist by name, with Janet and Jane coming up again and again, often together for four-hands sessions. Reviewers who name them tend to call the staff kind, professional and calming, and several say they came back to the same person.

Couples are a recurring thread, with several reviews written by men visiting with their wives or partners. A couple of reviewers say staff communicate well in English, and one praises an outcall to a hotel.

Complaints are few and specific. A four-star review says the nuru part was much too short. A three-star review from two years back says the session lasted the full hour but the room was small, with a dated half shower. Two other reviews are simply questions about price. With this many named-therapist raves, weigh the pattern rather than any single review.