Syoujin 匠人 - Westgate Branch — Local services in Jurong East

I really wanted to like this place. Paid $68 for the 60min full body massage and while the massage was good, the hard selling was not. Almost 45mins was spent trying to hard sell when I was just trying to relax.

A bit sus when I was trying to book already. Asked if I could use CapitaLand vouchers, they said cannot, machine spoil (not a discount btw, just using vouchers to offset the price). Then I said ok then nevermind I don’t want to book - suddenly say check with supervisor, supervisor say can… okayyyyyy.

$68 massage was asked to top up some oil for $168 (still within the 60min btw), then say $128. Masseuse gave a “test” of one small area of the massage oil for me to “see the effect”, when I said no effect she said my body condition so bad, cannot dispel dunno what -.- Eventually said special price $88 for the massage oil halfway through the massage, which I still said no.

This fear mongering (about the condition of your body, really are they licensed to give medical advice now?) and hard selling really turned me off and while I was initially looking for a good, peaceful massage place which I honestly wouldn’t mind buying a package with, the entire hard sell experience seriously turned me off.

TL;DR massage quality quite good, hard selling damn...

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The therapists are very skillful -- seems to hit the right acupuncture points with firm pressue. The overall facial felt good. But be warned of upselling during the session, the facial therapist invited another of her colleague to "check out the womb area" and asked if I wanted to do a treatment too (trial price $199). I was curious so I did.

I took up the 90min Bojin facial trial but received a Guasha one instead, it was nice, don't get me wrong. It just wasn't what I signed up for.

Also the packages are ridiculously priced : starting from $10K. It seems that they are linked to Joyre, which had a bad record of pushy sales with CASE. Syoujin doesnt seem that pushy though (with the initial sales at least) which is one of the saving grace. I'm not sure how things will pan out further down the road based on some...