July 2005, Haadyai
It seems almost every street in the town center of Haadyai has at least one foot massage shop. The masseuses (some are young but many are in their thirties) in most of these shops also do ordinary massage and oil massage. The shops have glass front and the massage chairs are arranged in rows inside. You can see them from outside where some masseuses also sit. Then there are massage parlours which offer ancient massage and many hotels have one.
There is a health center at Lee Garden Plaza Hotel building called Health Massage where there are more and more younger masseuses. You can also book them to the Hotel for massage. I think you can also book them when they are off but that depends on individual masseuse.
If you stroll along the streets and if you are male, alone or with other males, pimps will approach you to ask you if you want women. One midnight while having supper at the food street outside the hotel; a woman came, asked if I needed a woman and showed me an album with photos of some girls. Occasionally, women from china might come and ask you if you want a massage.
The bigger massage palours are New Chaophya Bath and Massage, Chaophya 4 and Pink Lady.
New Chaophya was closed when I went there one afternoon on a weekday. Perhaps it has closed down. I did not go to Chaophya 4. I only went to Pink Lady.
In Pink Lady there was a separate ancient massage section where the women wear standard uniform. The women in the big fish tank do the body massage or ‘tora’ – these include fellatio and sex. There were not many women that day and they were only so-so in terms of looks and body – way below those in Macau.
I chose a pleasant woman who was smiling at me. The room was spacious with a TV set and a fridge stocked with drinks. The course includes bath and massage in the bath-tub, body massage with lotion on the inflated rubber mattress, sex and massage on the bed. (Of course you can have sex anytime during the course.) All this while, a pornographic film was showing on the video channel. Her service was just passable, again far from that at Macau.
