A dump with friendly staff
My first visit to a male spa in Delhi. I took the Delhi metro to Kailash Colony station. Then asked a rickshaw tuk tuk to take me to 19, Sant Nagar. He said he broadly knew where that was and asked for 30 rupiah. A 10 mins bumpy ride later we reached a cluster of residential buildings.
This spa is actually called KKFitness and there's a board outside the building. The entrance is on the side. If you go down the steps, there's a (small) gym. If you go up the steps and open the door on the right, that's the spa. As you enter, there is a guy sitting at a desk. He hands you the price list (approx 1300 rupiah) and then asks you to go inside.
Inside is a complete smelly dump. Two staff were hanging around. Some incense smoke and smell was all over the place. The place looked dingy and smelt damp. Then one other guy appeared and asked me to look right, where there were some tiny lockers stuck on the wall. It isn't a locker room, everything is in the common area. The guy then put a towel on the bench and stood there with a clothes hanger and I assumed it meant I should "change" into the towel. I took off my clothes (except for the underw) and hung them. Put my wallet etc in the locker which looked like it could fall open any minute and was not secure.
I asked this guy "who will do the massage - you ?' And he sounded very happy and said yes yes. I wasn't sure if I should have asked for others or what... He then led me to another side of the room (all quite dark) and there was a room with a filthy massage bed on which he spread a disposable cloth. Then he bolted the door from inside. I told him I wanted a strong massage and he shook his head. He asked me to lay down on that dirty bed and said it was ok if I wanted to take off my underw. He then quickly took off all his clothes and wrapped a very dirty cloth around his waist. By then I lay on the bed.
I asked him how long the massage would be. He said 45 mins. Then he poured some oil on my legs and massaged them hard - that was good. I asked him his name and where he came from etc. He gave some mumbled answer for his name (which wasn't real anyway, I am sure) and gave some description of his background. Seems like these people are from very under privileged backgrounds and have no other employment so they become masseurs. I felt bad for him.
He obviously had no idea of how to do a massage but was very sincere and used all his strength on my legs as I had asked for a strong massage. Exactly, 10 minutes into the massage, without massaging my back or arms, he started whispering into my ears and licking my toes. It was so pathetic and hilarious that I started laughing. He was puzzled and asked what was wrong. I asked him to continue the massage which he continued for about 20 mins more. It wasn't a massage actually, he just ran his hands over my body a few times, pressed my bottom several times, put his fingers into the inner thighs once or twice and then asked me to turn over and then ran his hands over me a few times. Then he jumped on the bed and the whole thing ended very quickly.
There were no tissues to wipe anything and he asked me to use the disposable sheet. He then said he will show me to the sauna and the steam room to which I said no. I asked for the shower area - it turned out to be two showers together behind a curtain. I showered and came out. Two other staff were hanging around looking at their cell phones and my masseur was wearing the same dirty cloth and looking at his phone.
I got dressed and came to the main desk. Paid 1300 rupiah and then 500 rupiah to that poor masseur as a tip. He just bowed his head and withdrew. I could not tell if he was happy or not.
Overall, the place is a dump, in poor condition, unhygienic and below south East Asian standards (like Thailand, Hong Kong etc)
But, the staff is pleasant, eager to please, inexperienced but poor and simple. They made no fuss and no demands for any extras, no harassment, just tried to give a good time to the best of their ability. I give them full marks for being nice people.
But the great thing about this experience