Have any of you done the 5 day massage course at Wat Pho?

Am thinking of signing up for it during my next trip back, we will need to spend about 1 week in BKK & I get so bored so want to do this course whilst hubby does his business.

Can anyone tell me what the facitilties are like? From their website it is says it is 5 days & 6hrs per day, which is quite intense, so want to know a bit before hand like how many breaks per day, it is air con etc.

Cheers

heres a website for a person that did the course,some of ur qs are answered in the FAQ section and if not you can email and ask!best of luck!

Hi Boo, as far as I remember it is absolutely not air con and there are many potential masseuse types lining up for the course. It's held right in the centre of the temple in a sort of 'caged off' area..... people can see in and you can see out. The teaching is supposed to be second to none in Thailand. An intense course learning about anatomy and physiology etc coupled with practical massage experience. Hard work I'd say as you have to be good to pass.

Give it a shot you'll be great. All the mates in Blighty will be lining up!!!!!!!

Seonai

I always thought Chiang Mai was a better place to study Thai Massage. I've had a massage at Wat Pho with a friend, and we both left swearing we'd never do it again. It's become like the McDonald's of massage - no privacy, and a routine that the massage therapists perform on automatic pilot, while they talk to one another.

Chiang Mai is where most people interested in massage go to study, and, I also had the best massage in that I've had in Thailand there. It was at a massage school that was licensed by the government. The woman who runs the school is an abolute gem, and an excellent masseuse (sp).

Thanks for the feed back, Kat, do u have any contact details or a web address for Chiang Mai?

No, I don't. I only have a description of how I walk there. If you are walking away from the gate on Thae Pae Road, on the left-hand side of the street, you make a left on the small street with the phone booth, and the Italian restaurant a few meters down. You walk straight down this small road, past the temple, cross another intersection, walk down some more, and on the right-hand side you'll see a house that functions as a small school and clinic for Traditional Thai Massage. *It's just opposite the Pagoda Guest House.

There is also a hospital in Chiang Mai that offers a very rigorous and serious course. Post on the Chiang Mai forum, because I'm sure there will be plenty of ideas there.

Good luck.

Edited January 14, 200620 yr by kat

I saw that Wat Po has now a subsiduary campus at Sukh. 39. Dom't know if the teach there, but it has aircon facilities and the lay out looks quite good from the outside.

It is actulally located in a little subsoi of 39. the first one to your left after you entered from Sukhumvit.