In Reply to: Inexpensive (but good!) spas in Ubud? posted by jacquelinepassey on Wednesday, 6. September 2006 at 21:40 Bali Time:
I get massages in Australia frequently, and I'm pretty well aquainted with what is a good massage. I have done weights for years and know what works and what needs to be done. Last year we went to Zen after everyone raving about it and personally, neither of us gals enjoyed it. Can give you the rundown on why if you like. Found another one close by on Monkey Forrest Road called Jelatik. Found them very friendly, even the security guy (we first went late at night)was friendly and helpful. My massuese was excellent, it was very private and the girls didn't talk through the massage (we were both in the same room). The prices were better than at Zen's too. Normal massage was 70,000 rps. I got an aromatherapy massage which was 80,000 rps. Just wanted to check out the service with something little and was wonderfully surprised. We didn't get back to them again as we had planned due to being trapped in our villa due to the road being too muddy and the cars couldn't go in or out...but that's another story.
If you would like the full run down, I'd be happy to go into more detail.
kind regards,
Gabrielle