I Spa

What a great combination: effective massage therapy in a private, unhurried environment, but at an exceptionally attractive price!

Other places may offer slightly cheaper rates - provided that you're in the market for an airport express massage. Or you can avail yourself of a self-promoting "professional" and get that quiet, calming, hot-towel setting - for 50 to 75 percent higher cost. At iSpa I get a professional massage with all the frills, but at a very modest cost. The therapy feels great. Directing the money I saved to my therapist's gratuity feels great as well.

After a couple of random drop-in visits with mixed results, I found someone* that was going to make iSpa my go-to place for massage. I am sticking with this staff member*, who I can only describe as an artful master in Chinese massage.

I also appreciate their no-hassle scheduling. Even nicer, is the absence of an expectation that you provide your full personal and medical history as a condition of being "accepted" as a new "patient." Their attention is focused on really matters. You guessed it: that would be the massage. I'm not paying them extra so they can store my personal information and pretend to be something they're not.

* If Pure Prairie League means anything to you, then you're old enough to deserve an hour with this exceptional practitioner.