Mhogan0903
11/11/2016 11:51 EST
I have recently moved to Cotacachi from the USA and am a professional massage and somatic therapist. I am interested in providing my services. What are the going rates for massage therapy and where are the best places to market services? Thank you!
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Kimac
11/11/2016 14:42 EST
Tourist resort towns like Vilcabamba can offer quality bodywork for $25/hour. That would be the rack rate for non-local clients, given by a local who generally knows what they're doing, with all the oils, music and whatnot.
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cccmedia
11/12/2016 03:41 EST
IMO, massage central in Ecuador is in the heart of Gringolandia in Quito.
Within about two blocks of Wilson and Amazons, half a dozen ‘peluquerías’ offer massage, usually in a back-room ‘cuartito.’ The hair salon is in the front.
Prices have been $20 for an hour of massage for many years in these venues, although may be inching up lately.
In Centro Histórico of Quito where I live, I am aware of only one ‘peluquería’ offering a ‘masaje en el cuartito’ -- it recently opened on Benalcazar, several blocks from the presidential palace. Rate is $25/hour.
In Gringolandia, where I have visited the ‘cuartitos’ many times, no Gringo masseuses are evident. Male practitioners are extremely rare. Many Dominicans have worked at the Dominicana ‘peluquerías’ in this sector.
cccmedia in Quito
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cccmedia
11/12/2016 03:43 EST
Correcting the spelling of the intersection near so many massage parlors in Mariscal sector / Gringolandia, Quito...
Wilson and Amazonas
I blame spellcheck and insufficient proof-reading for the error.
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cccmedia
11/12/2016 03:46 EST
For almost three years, my favorite and regular massage therapist is the owner of Dodied salon on Wilson between Amazonas and Juan León Mera.
Ask for ‘Gatubelita.’
cccmedia in Quito
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dumluk
11/12/2016 23:35 EST
So $10 massages are now obsolete in Ecuador too? $25 is now a standard price for a clinical massage in most places in Ecuador? You can get a $25 massage in Maui, Hawaii..........at one of the several excellent acadamies there,...why so much in an otherwise very low paid economic scale?
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OceanHideaway
11/14/2016 00:52 EST
Montanita and Vilcabamba and Banos as well as the Mindo area, all are areas where body wellness is acknowledged. Yes $25 is the basic rate for a knowledgeable therapist in an appropriate setting.
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Grasshopper
11/14/2016 08:41 EST
25 is cheap. I don't know of anywhere around the Charlotte area for under 50.. I don't go but do buy gift certificates for a couple people sometimes. I'm surprised Hawaii would be less.. (and maybe a bit doubtful).
In Cuenca, Cameron Kayce does deep tissue rubs in the Gringo Gulch area. I moved her table a couple of times, but I've never asked her what she charges.. it would be easy enough to find out though and a decent gauge as to the going rate there.
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dumluk
11/14/2016 09:09 EST
Hopp, the goin rate in Maui is about $50 too, but I was referring to the massage academy prices where you get an excellent massage (usually) from a student in their finishing phase of study....They have to complete a certain amount of hours of actual massage work to be certified. And an instructor is standing by in case they encounter especially difficult problems.........there are more massage therapists in Maui, than fleas on a street becuz of these great schools, so there is a lot of competition......But in light of the wage scale in Ecuador which is less even than here in Panama and especially Costa Rica, it surprises me that a massage would cost that much......
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Grasshopper
11/14/2016 09:38 EST
Hey Luk..
Yeah, that makes sense. It's the same here with beauty school students.. folks can get their hair cut cheaply by the students.
I think I would rather risk a student rubbing me wrong than chopping at my hair ..lol
Hopp
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OceanHideaway
11/14/2016 20:42 EST
Cheap half hour of mud or aloe is available for $5 at Banos San Vicente on the coast.
But we are discussing a trained therapist, not a student and not an untrained individual.
Yes it is possible to have something cheap anywhere in the world. ANd you get what you pay for.
On the otherhand a wise person understands the concept of value for your dollar.
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Grasshopper
11/15/2016 01:31 EST
No, no... no, Mud is good! ...and I want a soothing mud bath badly. ..not gonna GET one, but I would damn sure pay 5 bucks to soak for a half hour. (I'm sore from doing work that should not have made me sore.. in other words, I'm apparently out of shape.
I have never soaked in a a mud bath... not intentionally anyway. I did, however, dislocate my knee climbing down a hillside to a fishing spot... fell the rest of the way down.
Luckily, the river bank right below me consisted of a light gray clay mud that was very soft. I stuck about halfway in it when I landed (on my side)
My friend and my dad rushed down the hill to "save" me - but my knee was really a painful mess and they tell me I said, "No - just let me lay in this cool, cool mud a couple of minutes.'" (which I did)
It didn't help my knee, but it did feel really good.
And that was just half of me sunk down into it. All the way in may have been bliss!
yeah, I'd give 5 bucks to soak in mud :)
Hopp
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dumluk
11/15/2016 09:50 EST
@O.H. Well, it appears to be just one more indication of how its already too late for Ecuador.....The greed virus has been unleashed and running amok........Everybody now wants to get rich overnite........Amazing really, how fast a place can change........What about construction costs now? Have they gone equally crazy? What does it cost you for an albanil (mason) or a carpenter or an electricista with all the essential tools for a days work?
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