Visut Spa

Visut Spa is a long way from the neon. It sits in a shopping project on Soi Pracha Chuen in Lak Si, and its Google categories are a day spa's: Thai, foot and aromatherapy massage. A booking directory lists a 90-minute Thai massage at ฿450.

It suits someone who lives or stays in the north of the city and wants a cheap, quiet, well-reviewed massage with tea afterwards. Skip it if you came looking for a Sukhumvit happy ending shop. Nothing in its menu or its 189 reviews describes one, and no station is within walking distance. Readers after the nightlife side should open the Top 20.

The address is Urban Square (เออเบิร์นสแควร์), 12 Soi Pracha Chuen, Thung Song Hong, Lak Si. The directory files it under Nonthaburi, but the address is inside Bangkok's Lak Si district, close to the border.

Google reviewers often mention the same things: a clean, quiet shop, a pleasant scent at the door and friendly, polite staff. Several say hot tea is served after the massage, and one names it as bael fruit tea. One reviewer mentions plenty of parking, which matters out here. Another notes a sign asking for quiet, which made it harder to say what they wanted. The shop has a Facebook page but no website.

Visut Spa doesn't publish its own prices. The figures below are as listed on gowabi.com, a booking directory, and may be out of date. A selection:

• Thai Massage (90 min): ฿450
• Foot Massage (90 min): ฿450
• Neck, Shoulder & Back Massage (Office Syndrome) (60 min): ฿500
• Deep Tissue Thai Massage (60 min): ฿500
• Thai Massage (120 min): ฿600
• Aromatherapy Massage (60 min): ฿700
• Hot Aromatherapy Oil Massage (60 min): ฿800
• Body Scrub, 60 min: ฿900
• Spa Scurf Bombs, 60 min: ฿900
• Thai Massage with Herbal Compress (120 min): ฿1,000
• Sports Massage (120 min): ฿1,400
• Hot Oil Massage with Herbal Compress (120 min): ฿1,400
• Spa Scurf Bombs (60 min) + Aromatherapy Massage (60 min) + Head Massage (30 min), 150 min: ฿1,850

The cheapest items are the 90-minute Thai and foot massages at ฿450. One Google reviewer says they paid ฿900 for a massage they expected to cost ฿580, so check the price at the desk against the treatment you've chosen.

No BTS or MRT stop is within easy walking distance, so this is a taxi, a car or a motorbike trip; the parking reviewers mention helps. The shop is open every day from 11:00 to 23:00, according to Google.

No booking channel is published apart from the Facebook page and the directory listing. The rest of the area is on the Nonthaburi district page, and the wider city hub is at Bangkok.

Visut suits locals and long-stay residents in the north of the city who want a straightforward massage at north-Bangkok prices: the office-syndrome menu and the herbal compress options are aimed at sore backs, and several reviewers say it helped with aches and pains.

It doesn't suit a visitor staying on Sukhumvit, for whom the trip alone would cost more than the massage. Those readers are better served by the Sukhumvit list, the Asok volume or the under ฿2,500 list.

Visut Spa holds a 5.0 Google rating from 189 reviews, and the recent ones are almost all five stars. Three themes repeat. Reviewers often mention a clean, quiet shop with a pleasant scent. They praise the staff as friendly and polite and the therapists as skilled, with pressure you can ask to have lighter or stronger. And several mention the hot tea served after the massage.

A few reviewers say the massage eased shoulder pain or general aches, and two say they slept well afterwards. The criticisms are single accounts. One three-star reviewer says they paid ฿900 for a massage they expected to cost ฿580, and found the quiet sign made it hard to explain what they wanted. Another felt an hour-long head massage stayed in one spot for too long.