What to Prepare Before a Therapist Arrives

Short answer: almost nothing, and less than you are probably planning. The most common thing people do before a first home visit is clean the flat, which is not on the list at all. Here is what actually matters, in the order it matters.

1. Building access — the only thing that can spoil the visit

Everything else on this page is a convenience. This one is the difference between a session starting on time and a therapist standing in a lobby.

Most Bangkok condominium buildings do one of four things: register the visitor at the desk, require you to come down, require a resident lift card, or want the name in advance. Find out which yours does — the desk will tell you in a sentence — and write it in the access field on the booking form. It applies to every visit you ever have, so it is worth asking once.

Add a map link if you can. Bangkok addresses are soi-based and a building name plus a pin removes all ambiguity. What a condominium visit involves has more.

2. Space — about two metres by two

For a table treatment, roughly two metres by two of clear floor. In practice that is a living-room rug with the coffee table pushed to one side. For traditional Thai massage, which is on a mat, roughly two by one.

If that genuinely does not exist in your flat, you do not need it: head, neck and shoulder massage is done in a chair, and foot massage in an armchair or on a sofa. Say something on the form and we will tell you which treatments fit the room.

3. Somewhere to change, for an oil treatment

A bedroom or bathroom. That is the whole requirement. You undress to your comfort and are covered throughout apart from the area being worked on.

4. Do not eat a large meal beforehand

Within the hour before, particularly for Thai massage, which includes compression through the abdomen. A light meal at least an hour earlier is the guidance on the treatment page.

5. Turn the air conditioning down, not off

You cool down lying still for an hour, so the room should not be cold. But a vent blowing directly onto you is genuinely uncomfortable, so redirect it rather than switching it off.

6. Write down anything about your health

In the booking notes, before the day. It is easier to read than to explain, and it decides what the therapist should and should not do. Specifically:

• A diagnosed neck, cervical-spine or nerve condition; recent whiplash; dizziness on turning your head
• Numbness or tingling in your hands or feet
• Pregnancy, recent surgery, a fracture, osteoporosis, a slipped disc, or a history of deep-vein thrombosis
• Blood-thinning medication
• Skin conditions, open wounds, or allergies to oils or fragrances
• A coconut or nut allergy, if you have booked coconut oil massage
• Varicose veins, a recent foot or ankle injury, or diabetes affecting the feet, for foot massage

Each treatment page lists what to mention for that treatment. None of it necessarily rules a session out — it changes which treatment is appropriate and how it is done.

What you do not need to do

• Provide a table, linen, oil or towels. The therapist brings all of it.
• Tidy or clean. Nobody is inspecting the flat. Clear the floor space and stop there.
• Have cash ready at the door. The published price is the price; there is nothing to negotiate.
• Provide music, candles or anything atmospheric. Have it if you like it.
• Be showered. A courtesy if convenient, not a requirement.

One genuine nicety

Leave yourself twenty minutes afterwards with nothing in them. Not because we ask, but because it is the most valuable part and it is the part a journey home would take away — which is most of the argument for having the treatment at your address in the first place. See massage at home versus going to a spa.

A pet that will investigate is best behind a closed door, for everyone's sake.

Then it is a five-minute set-up

The therapist arrives with the table or mat, fresh linen and the oil, sets up in about five minutes, and asks what you want worked on and how firm you want it. What happens on an outcall massage visit covers the rest of the hour.

Send a request, or see prices for all twelve treatments on the services page and the home page.