Kim's Massage & Spa 9 Yaowarat Road, Phuket Old Town.

If you've spent the day walking Phuket Old Town's shophouse streets, this is the sort of place your legs are asking for. It sits on Yaowarat Road, right in the historic centre, which means you can wander out afterwards into the Sino-Portuguese blocks, the independent shops and the local eateries rather than being deposited back into a resort corridor. Traditional Thai massage is the mainstay, and the appeal is straightforward: it's a working massage shop in a real neighbourhood, not a hotel wellness suite with piped music and a price to match.

My advice is to go later in the day. They're open until 22:00 every day, so a treatment after dinner works nicely, and the walk back through the quiet Old Town streets is half the pleasure. Weekends draw crowds to this part of town, especially around the Sunday Walking Street market, so a weekday slot or an earlier hour will feel calmer.