Massage near Menlo Park: open every day until 9 PM

About 15 minutes up El Camino Real to 1658, longer if you set off at 5:30 PM and shorter at 8. The full address is 1658 El Camino Real, San Carlos, CA 94070, and the storefront carries the number in the transom window above signage reading Open Daily 10AM-9PM, 650-622-8666.

Street parking out front is free, which matters more at 7:30 PM than it does at noon. Fold the drive into the arithmetic before you pick a slot. Leaving Menlo Park at 7 PM for a 7:30 PM start gives you room; leaving at 7:15 does not.

Booking runs through Square, the phone is (650) 622-8666 and the email is [email protected]. There are no contact forms on this site. The contact page carries the map and the weekly hours, and the services page lists all 8 services with every length and price.

Prenatal Massage is its own line on the menu, at $119 for 60 minutes or $159 for 90 minutes. Those are the only two lengths, so the 45 and 120 minute options elsewhere on the menu do not apply here. It is worked on your side with bolsters rather than face down on a flat table, which is what the photo below shows.

That comes before anything on this page, and it matters most in a high-risk pregnancy. Booking a $119 session does not change the order, and NCCIH states the general rule plainly: people with medical conditions and people who are pregnant may need to modify or avoid some of these practices. MedlinePlus covers the practical half in one line, which is to let a professional massage therapist know you are pregnant.

A 2016 systematic review in Medicine pooled 10 studies covering 1,198 pregnant women. Massage and the other manual therapies came out ahead of usual care and ahead of relaxation on pain intensity, and level with sham treatment. The authors called the evidence limited, and pointed out that only 3 of the 10 studies reported safety data at all.

The Office on Women's Health traces pregnancy backache to the pressure of the baby's head, added weight and loosening joints, and its first 3 suggestions are lying down, resting and applying heat, with a call to your doctor if the pain does not improve. A 60 minute session sits alongside that list rather than in front of it.

Put it in the Square booking note and say it again at the start of the session. Trimester changes positioning, pressure and which areas get worked, so it is not something a therapist should have to infer. If your provider has told you to avoid bodywork for now, that instruction outranks anything written here; call (650) 622-8666 rather than booking online and it takes a minute to settle.

Five things in this order if you are leaving Menlo Park at 6:30 PM and want to be on the table by 7:30. Two of them are about the clock, and three are about being understood before you are lying down.

The Signature Massage is the general booking, in four lengths: 45 minutes at $89, 60 at $109, 90 at $149 and 120 at $189. Square describes it as including hot stones, hot towels, hot compress and cupping, and the Grand Opening Special currently adds complimentary hot stone, hot compress and cupping to select massage services.

There is no Deep Tissue line to book. Deep tissue is a pressure you ask for once you are on the table, so you book the Signature Massage at the length the evening has room for and say what you want. The only place the phrase appears in the Square catalog is inside Massage + Lymphatic Facial, whose description reads a 60-minute Deep Tissue or Swedish Massage followed by a Lymphatic Facial.

If two of you are driving up, Couples Massage and Four Hands Massage are both $189 for 60 minutes, $279 for 90 and $369 for 120. The first puts two people on two tables in one private room; the second puts two therapists on one person. A 90 minute couples booking still needs a 7:30 PM start.