Sazanka Spa & Sauna

Sweat, scrub, massage, then kimchi stew. Sazanka Spa & Sauna runs a Korean bathhouse routine off Rama IV Road, and its 878 Google reviews are among the most in this guide.

The rate card is short and cheap: three courses from ฿1,080 to ฿1,380, combining a sauna, a Korean scrub and a lotion or oil massage. Reviewers say a meal is included. It suits a traveller who wants a deep clean and a good massage at a fair price, five minutes from the MRT. It's a sauna and scrub spa, not one of the happy ending shops this guide mostly covers. Watch for add-ons: one reviewer reports extra charges once inside.

The listing places Sazanka at 616/12-15 Soi Khlong Phai Sing To, off Rama IV Road, Khlong Toei. Its website calls it 'sazanka bangkok no.1 spa sauna' and comes in English, Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Thai.

Google reviewers describe a set routine: time in the wet sauna to sweat, a Korean-style body scrub, then a massage. Several mention a Korean manager or owner. A meal at the end comes up again and again, and kimchi stew is named more than once. Reviewers often call the facilities clean.

Prices come from the spa's own published rate card:

• B course: sauna + Korean scrub 60 min: ฿1,080
• C course: Korean scrub + lotion or oil massage 70 min: ฿1,180
• D course: sauna + C course + cucumber mask pack 100 min: ฿1,380

The D course adds the sauna and a cucumber mask to the C course for ฿200 more and 30 extra minutes, which is why reviewers single it out as the deal. One reviewer says the counter offered an upgrade for an extra ฿300, and that further charges were suggested in the treatment room; their advice is to stick to the D course. Decide what you want before you go in.

Booking is through LINE, according to the listing; one Korean reviewer recommends KakaoTalk.

MRT Queen Sirikit National Convention Center is about 330 metres away, a five-minute walk. MRT Khlong Toei and BTS Phrom Phong are both about 16 minutes on foot.

The door is open every day from 11:00 to midnight. A 100-minute D course started after ten finishes as the trains stop. Sazanka is listed in the Phrom Phong district, and the Bangkok guide covers the rest of the city.

Sazanka suits the traveller with tired legs after a day of sightseeing, and anyone who misses a Korean bathhouse. For under ฿1,400, the D course covers almost two hours. Readers looking for the happy ending shops this guide is built around will want the Phrom Phong volume instead.

Sazanka Spa & Sauna holds a 4.6 Google rating from 878 reviews, and the recent ones are mostly five stars.

Value leads. Google reviewers often say the price is a great deal, especially with a meal included, and several call it the best value in Thailand. The scrub is the second theme: first-timers describe it as refreshing, and several remark on how much dead skin comes off. The massage gets strong notices too, and the food, Korean dishes such as kimchi stew, is praised by name. The facilities are often described as clean and the staff as friendly.

The complaint to note comes from one reviewer, who says that after an upgrade at the counter, more charges were suggested in the treatment room. Stick to the course you chose.