Sparadise La Brea — Local services in Los Angeles

WORST MASSAGE IVE EVER HAD! I had a massage with Alice- and I actually stopped her half way through the massage because I was getting so frustrated. First, there’s no way she’s licensed. Im a licensed massage Therapist and this woman had absolutely NO idea what she was doing. In fact, all she did was very lightly rub my back up and down never changing position or technique. I asked her several times to put more pressure because it literally felt like someone was just stroking my back. She left the room two times to get a hot towel and spent about 5-10 minutes just rubbing the oil off my back. When I asked her to massage my legs- she awkwardly stretched them and did absolutely ZERO massage on my lower body and legs. I’ve had hundreds of massages and have NEVER told a masseuse to stop. This was A JOKE. When I told the front desk how awful my experience was the man couldn’t care less.. and offered no discount or apology. I also asked to see her license and they wouldn’t show it to me. Besides the awful masseuse, the place just looked dirty and unkept. They also had these weird blankets to lay on with a hole where your face goes… they didn’t even cover the entire bed so your skin would often touch the table and who knows how often they clean them- or if they do at all. Okay, there’s my yelp...

Massage was fine. but afterwards had a 10+ minute conversation where she was trying to get me to change my tip because it was not within the tip guidelines she showed me of $20-$30 for a $67 massage? I’m not from the USA and had no idea you are even supposed to tip for a massage. Which, what? I am paying for a service. Why do I then need to put a huge tip amount for the service? It’s not like I’m paying for food or paying for an uber and then put a service fee on top of that? This person is seeing a lot of this $67 for one hours work. But then started saying she works hard and if it was a good massage she deserved a good tip. Charge more for your massage if you are expecting people to pay more. I am now SO stressed ((after a massage??)). Makes it pretty redundant, doesn’t it.

It was actually terrible service all this considering. I have NEVER heard of someone trying to make you tip more after you’ve tipped.

I tried to understand - people seriously pay nearly a 50% tip? Surely not? And I tried to explain that I had not budgeted for a tip, let alone a huge tip.

Honestly DONT go here.

Retrospectively, I’ve checked other reviews of people saying they were told $20 minimum...

I came in to get a couples massage, 2 people 1 hour each, I told them I had a knee injury so I wanted to lay on the table face up and have them massage me where they could, I assumed it would be for the full hour I booked. After my 30 minute massage that was supposed to be 1 hour, my masseur spent 10 minutes pulling my hair out, when I said something he showed me the clump of hair he had pulled out and said this is your hair. Never came back to finish the massage or tell me it was over. My friend was also getting a massage in the same room so I had to sit there and wait until she was finished to see what had happened. When I asked about the hair pulling he just laughed and expected to still be tipped. Would never come back. Had high hope for this place since it’s down the street from my house and has heated blankets but not the relaxing experience I...