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King Spa - Bottom Line: Skip It. In the process of updating my BKK massage review guide, which brought me back to King Spa, which is by the Bang Chak BTS station on the Sukhumwit line. Last year I had good experiences and good reports, and I've pretty much been a booster, although I recall one forum member reporting inconsistent experiences. My guy from last year is gone, so I booked someone different. Lest anyone think I only give positive reviews - this was not a particularly good experience. King Spa is a bit of a walk from the BTS station, but there's no traffic so it's quite pleasant. The house is fine. Massage room large, big mat on floor, shower in room. I was on time, but had to wait a bit for the masseur - typical BKK time. Not a big deal. If you don't book ahead based on pics you select from the guys in a room with a glass wall by the entrance. When I'm in "reviewing" mode I tend to be go-with-the flow, let's see how it goes when the masseur is calling the shots. In the first instance I think it's fair to judge a shop on their terms. I also usually start with 90 minute massages - just to see if the shop will fill the whole 90 minutes or do you often get cut short. Masseur wore sarong/pants throughout. The massage was ok, if a bit gentle, but I got the feeling pretty quickly that the guy wasn't a particularly well-trained or good massage (or maybe didn't care). Just basics. (BTW- lack of training or poor massage skills aren't the end of the world for me - enthusiasm will, for me, make up for a lot.) Not too far into the massage (20 mins?) he gave up on my back and legs and had me flip over. So the inner me starts wondering if we'll even get to a full hour, much less 90 minutes, or maybe he was more "let's get the massage over with and move on the the fun stuff" guy. A little attention to the legs then quickly starts massaging my junk. All well and good. I am happy. Then he switches to oral - very skilled. I am very happy. After a few minutes of that he lay down next to me and starts a very slow tantalizing hand job. I'm ok. This could be really great. This goes on for about 5 minutes and I am thinking to myself, "Very interesting, sort of tantric experience. I like." Then he falls asleep. Seriously. I decide I'm a cool guy; this is oddly intimate; I'll go with the flow. So I relax with him in my arms. I feel kind of proud of myself, because not everyone would put up with this. And I think to myself the prelims were really good, and surely it would all end happily, so ok. And isn't it great he's so comfortable he can just sleep. That's pretty much it for the next forty minutes. I slowly massage his back. All is right in the world He stirs. A little cuddle. And then he says "Up. Times up." Seriously. He tells me I can shower and goes off. I do shower. There's no tea or water or anything. I make my way to the door and pay and say I don't know where the boy went and give the manager the tip. Rather than complain at the time, which gets messy and language difficulties can easily make things worse, out in the soi I pop a quick note on Line saying that the experience was bad, the boy did nothing but sleep for 40 minutes, and no happy ending. Read, but no reply. For me that's the real problem. Everyone is entitled to bad day, and maybe a bad masseur (although this guy has been working there for a long time) - they're quick to respond to booking requests but can't be bothered to reply to complaints even with a simple "sorry you had a bad time, next time better" means a management problem as well as a masseur problem. Truth is had they responded to my note I probably would not have written this, but I would have stopped mentioning them as a place to go. So the good news is I get a pretty good story out of it, even if I do feel a but taken advantage of. The better news is that there are already so many other massage shops in town that I really like that I can cross King Spa off the list without worry, and direct my energy and budget to more satisfying places.