While Samui is rightly a top worldwide spa destination, our vote is an underdog choice. Pampering luxury spas rely on appointments, plans, changes of clothes and general faffing about. The local massage service is ready and waiting, whenever needs must. (And Thai massages are rather addictive….)

Past the White House Hotel in Choeng Mon, next to Garland restaurant, sits Sangaroon massage. If its lime green interior doesn’t beckon from halfway down the street, happy staff awaiting your patronage will surely let you know you’ve arrived.

Walk in, lay down and heaven awaits. “Sleep well,” joked the massage lady after we asked for a ‘back, shoulders, neck and head’ massage (300 THB or about US$8.25).

This choice includes all the good bits of a Thai massage and lots of soothing Tiger balm but with far less gymnastics. In between bouts of blissful slumber we had only to think what we wanted for dinner at Garland restaurant next door.

Read our Koh Samui spa guide (click here) for further sybaritic suggestions.

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With love,
  Koh Samui Sunset

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