So I'll start by saying that I bought a Groupon for this location for a relaxation massage…read more
When I called on a Wednesday, they offered me an appointment on that Saturday, gave me multiple times with a specific massage therapist. I kind of found it a little bit odd that I was able to have so many choices so close to the date, given that usually my regular massage therapist is booked out weeks in advance.
I thought I should try this place because it was closer and, well, I was getting a really good financial deal. So I'd called.
when I went to the location in Woburn, it was set up really really odd. The front desk is in a large open area and had a gentleman sitting at the desk who seemed very uninterested in working that day lol. Very serene, but all the lights were blue? It was a little weird and offputting for me, but it did have that calming feeling I guess.
My therapist was Hallie (sp?)
A male, and I knew that ahead of time, and I was OK with that.
He led me to a room in another part of the building. Next-door, and it looked like it was originally a bunch of small offices, and my room had windows? Covered with Window treatment so you couldn't see in from walking through the hallway. That set up was really weird to me.
The room was nice. Nothing special, it was on the warmer side, but when I have a massage, I like to have the room warm. He did offer to turn the heat down for me, but I explained how I usually like it very warm.
He then went on to explain to me how he does massages. He said he didn't like deep tissue, which, of course is not what I requested, but when he did "Swedish massage and a combination of pressure point massage".
I'd never had that, so I thought I would give it a try, even though that's really not what I had signed up for.
How was it? It was... Boring? I'm not really sure how else to put it.
Is Hallie very adept at what he does? Absolutely. But for somebody who is expecting a Swedish massage where you have sweeping strokes of hands and kneeding your muscles for the entire time you're there, this was not it.
I didn't say anything at all because I kept thinking well, he's going to eventually start doing the kneeding of Swedish part of the massage , but he never really did it.
He would run his hands over my back or the "affected" area.
Find a spot and put hard pressure on it. He explained to me that what that would do would bring blood flow to the area and help with the knot.
While I appreciate that, it really wasn't what I wanted for massage. I wanted to relax this massage just felt very... Disjointed.
Now I will say again that I didn't say anything to him because I kept expecting that the massage was going to go from this pressure point massage, to a regular Swedish massage because he had mentioned he used the combination of the two. And it didn't.
He was very, very nice, and he's very knowledgeable about what he's doing, but the massage was just not really what I had wanted.
I probably should've said something while I was there, but I didn't want to make him feel badly that he didn't give me what I needed. Again, I kept expecting during the time that he was going to be changing to the different type of massage. I guess, in retrospect, I should've asked for how he did this combination. But I didn't.
I'm not sure I would go back if I had paid full price.
If I was somebody who liked that type of massage? Absolutely because it was very thorough.