★★★★★
"The best massage I've ever had. Ken gave me a head spa and the most professional foot massage. I highly recommend them."
Foot Reflexology · Salt Lake City
Driving up from Sandy for foot reflexology. Around 22 minutes to 1136 S State Street, sixty minutes for $85, open every day until 10pm.
★ 4.8 from 249 Google reviews$85 for 60 minutesDaily 10am to 10pm
Anyone searching from the south end of the valley is really asking one question, so it goes first. From most Sandy addresses this is about a 22-minute drive outside of rush hour. Everything below is about whether those minutes buy something worth having.
Two ways up. Surface streets the whole way is the calm option and needs no freeway merge at all, which matters on a night when the roads are slick or you simply do not feel like negotiating with I-15. The freeway is quicker when the pavement is dry: north, then off at one of the exits just below downtown and east a few blocks to State. Either choice lands within a couple of minutes of the other.
Counting the return leg, an hour of treatment becomes closer to a two-hour evening. Better to say that plainly than to leave it for you to discover. Two things tilt the trade in your favour. The first is going late, since we do not close until 10pm and the northbound run at eight is a different road than the northbound run at five. The second is not making the trip for a single service. A Japanese head spa or a full body massage immediately afterward converts a drive into an actual night out, and the head spa is the same sixty minutes at the same $85.
Why people from down there make the drive is usually their work. The retail corridor, the hospital shifts, the warehouses out west, the trades, the teaching. All of it is standing work, and standing work does not repair itself over a weekend. An hour of somebody working through the arch, under the heel, across the ball of the foot and onward into the calf is about the most direct response available to that kind of tiredness.
The other advantage from a distance is the return trip. This service asks nothing physical of you. You are reclined, dressed, with only your feet and lower legs bare, and nothing gets stretched, cracked or pushed. You will drive home loose rather than wrung out, which is not true of every hour on a spa menu.
What the $85 buys is the same regardless of your postcode. Sixty minutes, private room, one Utah-licensed therapist, no shorter or longer version on offer. Cupping and hot stones sit at $20 each, CBD and a half hour in the infrared sauna at $30 each, all attached at the time of booking rather than chosen when you walk in, so raise them on the call.
If you are about to spend the better part of an hour in a car, two facts are worth checking beforehand. The business carries 249 Google reviews at an average of 4.8, and every therapist on the floor holds a current Utah license. Both are verifiable without taking our word for it.
Parking is in the building's own lot, which removes the last thing that would make a trip up from the south end annoying. Walk-ins are accepted, though gambling 22 minutes on a therapist happening to be free is worse than spending two minutes on the phone.
Call and ask what tonight looks like.
Google reviews
★★★★★
"The best massage I've ever had. Ken gave me a head spa and the most professional foot massage. I highly recommend them."
★★★★★
"A beautiful new spa with lots of modalities to choose from. My therapist knew exactly which muscles to massage and stretch, very professional. Pick this place, you will not be disappointed."
★★★★★
"Spotless, and all the staff were very nice. We set an appointment for a couples massage and they had a nice two-bed room ready when we arrived. Highly recommend."
Elite Spa Utah · 1136 S State Street · Daily 10am to 10pm