Massage for Notting Hill, without the Notting Hill prices

Notting Hill has beautiful places to be massaged and a beautiful price list to go with them. Guests come east from Westbourne Grove, Ledbury Road and the streets around Portobello for something plainer: one masseuse in one room, the same technique, the same warm oil and fresh linen, and a full hour for the price of fifty minutes further west.

The journey is short. From Notting Hill Gate it is one stop on the Central line to Queensway, or one on the Circle to Bayswater, and eight minutes on foot from either; the 27 and 23 buses run along Westbourne Grove, the 70 and 94 along Bayswater Road, and on foot from Westbourne Grove it is a pleasant twenty minutes through the quieter streets. Evening slots after six are the most popular from this side, so a day’s notice helps.

Full body and Swedish are the sessions Notting Hill guests book most — the monthly reset, the weekend recovery — with deep tissue for the ones who have been carrying a laptop between coffee shops for a year, and the slow sensual full body session for an evening that belongs to them.

Getting here from Notting Hill

From Notting Hill Gate, one stop east on the Central line to Queensway or on the Circle line to Bayswater, then eight minutes on foot to Leinster Gardens. By bus, the 27 or 23 along Westbourne Grove to Queensway, or the 70 and 94 along Bayswater Road to Leinster Terrace. On foot from Westbourne Grove, about twenty minutes.