Fah Lanna Massage - Night Bazaar — Local services in Chiang Mai Province

Transcendence. This was an extraordinary experience. The place is easy to find with great decoration and beautiful on the outside and the entrance with this little cosy garden and lovely reception room, with sober and simple but so lean and comfortable sofas, and exquisite dark woods like in a minimalist style. Upon entrance the lovely receptionist received us without reservation (you can book online and the site is quite good), at 7pm -last booking was at 7:30pm - with a tasty flower flavoured tea, and we filled a form about what we wanted and how (strong, normal or soft massage), signaling the spots with pain and discomfort in a drawing within the form. Very good English too. It took about 5 minutes to prepare for everything, we (me and my wife) were received by two very experienced and kind therapists (not just massagists as I noticed the day after the massage), who cleaned our feet with water and some oils to make us have baby feet again, and then they brought us to the massage room (they had more than 1) and we were alone, to get dressed with comfy loose cotton clothes they provide. Then the experience is really out of this world, a nice soft music, and they start working, it is like a dance actually... she adjusts to what responses she gets from your body, I didn't say anything, she just felt if they were muscle "knots" she would start soft and then stronger until breaking the knot. We did the balm Thai massage for 1hour, and it was the best massage of my life, and certainly one of the best experiences of my life too until today. When we finished, we filled the form with a short evaluation of the service and we were served a ginger tea with a tasty cookie with sesame seeds. I cannot thank them enough for this hour and this were the best money spent on...

Arrived to this place at 7 pm with hopes of receiving our final Thai massages while in Thailand. The reviews looked promising... But the service was terrible from the beginning.

The lady at the front yelled at us from the beginning to take off our shoes before entering and to keep the sliding door closed. Then she said that they could only do foot massages at that time and that normally you need a reservation. We were okay with that and said yes to the foot massages. The four of us sat down and they began washing our feet. The masseus people didn't even say hello and started throwing our feet around in the water. Then the receptionist asked us to pay right away before the massages even began (kinda trashy). The lady took our money and then ten minutes later stated that they could only do three massages because one person was only supposed to do manicures and pedicures.

We stopped at that point, got our money back and went to the other massage parlor two doors down. They were much friendlier and provided all around better...

Had an awesome massage here by a skilled massage therapist. 1 hour Hot oil massage + 1 hour foot massage for 700B. Very friendly English speaking staff will help you schedule your appointment (definitely make an appointment). They have a loyalty program also: 10 hours = 1 hour free. The downside of this locations is that it's pretty small and cramped. I completely forgot about this during the massage and it didn't matter at all to me (probably since I was in the back massage rooms for the whole time) but its worth knowing in case you fancy only large spacious spas (might want to try their other location in that case). Will definitely be back on my vacation in Chiang Mai.

Update: Came back for a foot massage and Thai massage and I'd advise against a foot massage at this Fah Lanna location. It's too busy up front where the foot massage chairs are to fully enjoy the atmosphere. Once I was in the back everything...