Massage Me: Budget Edition

Top three cheap (and still awesome) massages

Tuesday, 6 Nov 2012

All knotted up with nowhere to go?

Look – we love a first-rate massage as much as the other frazzled ladies in line, but those luxury prices? Honey, it’s an expensive world out there!

Thankfully we have our arsenal of cheap finds that – surprise! – deliver a good punch knead.

Citra

A one woman show who will make a convert out of regular $300 per massage goers. Citra flies in from Jakarta for one month at a time (one month on, one month off) and charges just $50 for 1½ hours worth of massage at your home. She works in one of Jakarta’s top spas when she is not here in Singapore and she’s such a good find – and so nice with it – that she deserves to be shared and supported. Call 8107 1997 to book an appointment.

Traditional Javanese Massage Hut

If you want to get out of the house and go to a spa without paying through the nose, then the best value in terms of quality of massage versus price is the Traditional Javanese Massage Hut. It’s clean and quiet with pretty competent therapists, which you’d think/hope would be a prerequisite for massage places but you’d be surprised. We’re most familiar with the branch on River Valley Road but these guys are conveniently located in most other areas.

Thong Thai, Johor

If time is on your side, head over the the border to JB – they do amazing Thai massage at the slightly extraordinary sounding Thong Thai in Holiday Plaza. It costs about half of what you’d spend for the same thing in Singapore: an hour is about SGD$35. It’s also clean as a whistle there and the cotton PJs they make you change in to are laundered and lovely.

Thong Thai, F8-F9, level 3 of the Holiday Plaza Shopping Centre, Jalan Dato Sulaiman, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, p. +60 7 332 3599

These tips were brought to you by Changmoh, the girl behind the Singapore life and style blog www.changmoh.com – the daily musings of an English girl in Singapore who thinks she’s local.

Image: Traditional Javanese Massage Hut