If you searched “Ai Shang Mei SPA,” start with the house number.
Wenhua 3rd Rd 402, Guishan District, Taoyuan: 愛尚美spa養生會館, 4.6 stars and thirty reviews, phone 03 318 6968, listed as a SPA house. It is on file with this site, one name only, not in Taoyuan District, not in Zhongli.
The editor covers only this shop, plus its road.
Thirty
Numbers first.
Thirty reviews, 4.6 stars. Among the twenty-four massage and SPA shops on file in Guishan, that count sits in the back half. On the same Wenhua 3rd Rd, 沐函美容spa at Lane 81 No. 1, 8F, holds a perfect score and over 540; 寬心園美容SPA館 at No. 379, 4.4 stars and over 160. 慕谷 Villa SPA莊園 龜山 林口店 at Wenhua 2nd Rd 67, 4.9 stars and over 2,350, is Guishan’s top SPA.
Thirty is not bad, it is small. A studio, one or two therapists, one guest at a time. Neither the praise nor the complaints in the reviews can stand for the whole.
Editor’s note: for this kind of shop, a phone call beats reviews. Ask three things: what services today, how long, how much.
The route
Airport MRT A8 Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Station. About five minutes by taxi, twenty on foot, check a map for the exact route.
Driving, Wenhua 1st Rd onto Wenhua 3rd Rd. Street spaces are hard after five; park in a paid lot in the Chang Gung district and walk. Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital is at Fuxing St 5, and the off-work rush from half past six to eight jams the roads here.
Timing
Monday through Thursday, two to five in the afternoon, easiest to book.
Saturday afternoons and all of Sunday, package clients book first. Call three days ahead.
After seven, the Chang Gung off-work rush fills every shop on the road. For an evening session, book a day ahead; the shop’s reply rules.
Going rate
The registry does not record prices. SPA-house going rate: aromatherapy SPA ninety minutes NT$1,500 to 2,500, body courses often sold as packages, single sessions ten to twenty percent pricier. Ai Shang Mei’s actual prices are not verified by this site; posted prices rule.
Plainly put, with a thirty-review shop you will not know what it sells until you call, so call before you decide.
Backups on the same road
Wenhua 3rd Rd, numbers ascending.
Lane 37 No. 13, 欣意泰式按摩, 4.3 stars and sixty reviews, for Thai stretching. Lane 81 No. 1, 8F, 沐函美容spa, a perfect score and over 540, mobile 0953 441 491, an upstairs studio, reservation-only. No. 379, 寬心園美容SPA館, 4.4 stars and over 160, a storefront with better odds on weekend afternoons. No. 402, Ai Shang Mei.
Four shops on one road, all within five minutes by taxi. If one is full, try the next; no need to change districts.
Who should not come
Anyone wanting a foot soak or six people at once: 樂足軒足體養生館(龜山店) at Wenxing Rd 131, 4.7 stars and over 430, foot massage NT$800 to 1,200 an hour. Anyone wanting thirty-year-old-school pressure: 正統按摩中心-30年老店 at Wanshou Rd Sec. 2 No. 1315 with over 360. Guishan’s four needs are matched to shops in Guishan wellness house picks.
An evening around A8 is covered in A8 Chang Gung district at night. Shop types along the Chang Gung and airport MRT line are sorted in Guishan and Linkou massage. The full list is on Guishan massage.