15B/22 Spa is a massage parlor for men in the middle of Ho Chi Minh City. Some people refer to the place as Tokyo Spa in English. There is another place nearby officially called Tokyo Spa. It could be rather confusing if it wasn’t for 15B/22 Spa naming itself after its street address.
Fittingly 15B/22 Spa is located at 15b/22 Le Thanh Ton Street in Saigon’s District 1. Le Thanh Ton is a main road in the city. This massage parlor is located in a small alley called “Hem 15B Le Thanh Ton” that leads off of Le Thanh Ton near the corner with Chu Manh Trinh.
The small alley where 15B/22 Spa is located is also home to several other massage parlors. In fact massage parlors are scattered all over this part of town that is frequented by a lot of Japanese people.
15B/22 Spa
Customers access 15B/22 Spa by entering Hem 15B Le Thanh Ton from Le Thanh Ton Street and turning left. 15B/22 sits at the end of the alley.
While 15B/22 Spa is not the easiest place to find in the city by any means it does have a large sign in front of the shop that has the shop’s name and address. The sign says the shop opens at 10:00 am but doesn’t list a closing time. Business cards for the shop available inside say the shop opens at 10:00 am but confusingly also say the shop is open 24 hours.
Women at 15B/22
The women on staff at 15B/22 Spa are all Vietnamese. There are usually six or seven women working at any given time. Most of the gals are in their twenties and relatively attractive. None are overweight or otherwise bad looking. They tend to hang around in the front of the shop while they wait for customers. Usually they wear the same kinds of dresses you might expect to see in one of Ho Chi Minh City’s hostess bars.
Once customers enter 15B/22 Spa they are offered a massage in English, Japanese or Vietnamese depending on their appearance. The women carry a menu that lists a massage for $30 USD or 600,000 Vietnamese Dong. At the moment 600,000 Dong is equal to about $26 US dollars so the Vietnamese price is less expensive.
Rooms and sessions
After customers pay and select a lady on staff they are led up a lengthy flight of stairs to one of many private rooms in the building. The rooms are large and spacious with high ceilings. They contain little more than a shelf, a massage table and more often than not a few mosquitoes.
The rooms are a little worn but that is to be expected since the building is probably older than most of the people reading this. That said the place is relatively clean kept. There are much worse massage parlors around.
As mentioned the rooms are private. They have doors with large glass windows but most of the glass is frosted. Someone could potentially look inside but first they would have to go through the arduous task of climbing the stairs that lead to the rooms.
Once customers enter the room they are told to strop down and lay on the massage table. Towels are provided to cover them up. The women at 15B/22 Spa typically deliver mediocre body rubs at best but most of the customers are looking for more than a massage so that doesn’t seem to matter.
Rates and services
The service providers at 15B/22 Spa usually offer extras to customers not long after they start their rub downs. There are no set rates. The service providers negotiate on their own. Typically they ask for 1,000,000 Dong ($45 USD) for hand service, 2,000,000 Dong ($90 USD) for oral and 3,000,000 ($135 USD) for full service.
The women are generally skilled at their work and some even seem to enjoy it. They are prepared for activities though they don’t always keep their supplies with them in the room. This may be meant for their own safety.
I can’t be sure but I would guess that the management at 15B/22 Spa would claim they have nothing to do with any extra services in a pinch. They would probably say they didn’t even know they are offered. I have no special information that would make me think otherwise.
Each room has a shower but the women don’t seem too insistent on customers using them. It’s not like a Bangkok oily massage parlor where every session starts and finishes with a shower. The showers at 15B/22 Spa are there for customers to use at their own discretion.
15B/22 Spa is one of many Ho Chi Minh City massage parlors where extras are offered on a regular basis. I have read reports that there isn’t much of a scene in Vietnam but the existence of many places including some right in the middle of Saigon prove otherwise. Two stars. 
15B/22 Spa. 15B/22 Le Thanh Ton, Quan 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Click here for a map. Open every day from 10:00 AM until 12:00 AM.
3 million for full service?! They have a magic pussy?
Not as far as I know. But then again my magic detector is in the shop. Cheers!
Nowadays many girls are trying to charge foreigners twice the local rates and more.I never pay more than 200-300k for a hj. Last week I had a cheap foot massage for 5 usd at Bui Vien she tried to get 60USD for a hanky. .Of course I declined.Watch out the solicitating ladies with photos. Do not put valuables in the locker.Take them with you at all times.
Normally even foreigners can get the regular price at local oriented shops in Vietnam if they know what the going rate is and refuse to pay more. Just knowing the real price and giving it seems to work without any crying or haggling. But some shops are oriented totally to foreigners and may even refuse locals. Those places almost always charge more. Cheers.
I just came back from Hanoi and surprisingly
there are not as many massage spa with a happy ending as in Saigon. And the massage girls I have seen are not as attractive as those in Saigon in my opinion. However in Danang the girls are prettier at spas and generally more expensive than in Saigon. Cheers.
Hanoi is much more conservative than Ho Chi Minh City and especially the beach towns. That’s long been the case and its one of the many sources of tension between the capital and the southern financial hub. I’m sure you’re aware that Hanoi still has a curfew in place! Of course every city in Vietnam seems to have some kind of sex industry though. They can’t stop it. I would be tempted to say no one can stop it anywhere if I hadn’t seen the sex industry in Kunming totally disappear. Cheers.
Hanoi might be conservative, but the girls not overly so. I used WhatsApp and within hours of landing had five contacts. One was someone offering girls to my room (1 million for massage, extras negotiated with the provider), and three just local girls who never went past the “hello” stage. The fifth, however, was a gem: a 25 yo tour guide, lives with her parents and she didn’t hesitate to meet me for coffee, then dinner, then a “civilian shake” back in my hotel. It was hurried, she was not professionally skilled, and possibly the worst bj in my life but the coitus was good and I walked her out with just 500k dong and a number swap. Don’t underestimate the power of cellphone apps!
Thanks for the report. Cheers.
I use WeChat not WhatsApp, sorry.
Plus, Ho Chi Minh is even riper for the pickings than Hanoi.
Cheers!
Cheers.
As a frequent traveler to Saigon, I’ve never come across any girl attractive enough where FS was offered that made me say, “I’ve gots to have that.” Even being driven around by motor bike uncles, I was never impressed by those that offered. Now the girls at Dai Nam for example are smoking but sadly, do not offer. Do yourselves a favor and make the short trip next door to Phnom Penh and visit the fish bowls for quality FS.
Thanks for the comment. Cheers.
In my over 10 visits to Saigon I met only one easily a 9 or above in a barber shop but she was a total rookie and didn’t know how to give massage let alone a happy ending.I ended up giving her massage and 5 usd tip for touching her body a bit. I usually go to hotels for massage and a hanky and in my opinion. Saigon is the best deal in the world for the service. I change girls immediately if not pretty for my standard. You are allowed to change once and if you do second time the management seems to get upset so I just leave and find another hotel.
First: I found 15B/22, it really is tucked back in there off the Main Street but it opens at 09:00 and I was in the area much earlier on my way down to the river for a morning run.
Second: in the interest of exploration and field reporting, and because I really needed a good massage, I checked out a few shops on my street, Thi Sach, very close to 15B. The higher end shops were fully booked so I floated down the street to one I had seen at night with some pretty young things sitting outside: 6A (as always, named for the address).
The leg massage/body/hot stone is done in a reclining chair, one of many lined up in a darkened room. Another patron was a few chairs away from me and we were separated only by a thin, gauzy curtain. I was asked to put in cotton shorts and a shirt and since I went expecting just a decent massage I wasn’t too disappointed.
My provider, Hoa, was mid 30s, cute, nothing outstanding about her except a pretty smile and basic English. 6 or 7 out of 10. But as I laid back on the chair she blew air up my shorts and giggled, and I thought: this could go well. In the end, she was very accommodating in rubbing my junk, talking about how long it had been since she had a man, and how good she thought it would be with me, but she also pointed to the glass door right in front of us and explained that the boss lady would often peek in to make sure no funny business. Even after the other patron left and she could have easily finished off my raging hardon with one deft hand motion she politely refused, all the while blowing in my ears, tickling my chest and asking me if her breasts (covered) were too small. She gave me her mobile so perhaps she’d visit me in my hotel, but there are cuter girls on WeChat for that.
So I guess it’s conformed that in general the massage shops are more conservative, even if the desire of providers to go the extra mile h dear better circumstances is universal!
That’s an interesting story to be sure. There are massage parlors of all sorts in Vietnam ranging from the upscale and “legitimate” to the underground full service joints. Cheers.
Final scouting report: the choicest find on We hat was a girl who immediately told me she was a sex worker who had naked pics to share, including a great backside pussy shot? Why didn’t I “bite”? She quoted only 700k VND per hour ($35 US) and it seemed too good for the low price and the overt sex shots might be a trap.
On the other hand, massage shops in Ben Thanh market area are much more accommodating. I found a girl on WC who invited me to hers, 400k to the house, 1 million to her for two hours/two shots, about $70 total including a decent massage.
Come to think of it, and just now doing the math, perhaps number one was on the up and up after all?
Conclusion: I will be returning to Saigon very soon!
Thanks for the updated report. At a lot of smaller massage parlors with full service foreigners typically pay between 1 and 1.5 million Dong. Cheers!