I kind of stumbled upon this place on our way to lunch with a friend. I've heard good things about the massages at this place so we both decided to give this place a try since we just did a 10k run. The price advertised I think around $45~ for an hour outside but I think it's closer to $70~ including tax if you're writing under your insurance. They also don't take card so we had to get cash from TD, which is across the street.
Honestly, this place is a hit or miss. My friend said she had an "okay/so so" experience. While I had literally the worst massage of my life.
I never had a massage where they massaged one leg and not the other! What is this!? I came out the massage feeling off balance... I was better off not having the massage in the first place. The massage therapist tried to make a conversation with me but her English skills are very poor so we couldn't carry any conversation. I didn't mind since I only wanted to relax and not talk anyways. She can only understand mandarin (not even Cantonese).
She asked where I wanted to focus my massage more and I told her to massage my legs because I just did a run... gesturing with the motion. She ignored or perhaps misunderstood that request and did mostly shoulders upper body and this weird head massage which ate up 15mins. However, the shoulder and arm massage was pretty good but I really just want her to focus on my legs. I had to call attention to my legs in two separate times (even by pointing in case she doesn't understand) before she actually worked on it. Even then she only worked the back of my one leg and flipped me over and worked on the same leg on the front side and hardly did anything on the other leg before time was up.
Then when we went up to pay, massage therapist and the receptionist had the audacity to request for a tip. I have never seen a place where the massage therapist stands there and watches you tip them. I feel bad or perhaps the pressure so I tipped $5 but seriously I don't like negative reinforcement because they did such a poor job. I guess this place is cheap but you really get what you pay for. I don't think the massage therapist who was working on me was very experienced. I hate to give 1-star reviews but this place really left me worse off after. The bare minimum is at least give each side around the same amount of time and to be able to understand instructions.