Ruenmai Massage School

About the school

Ruenmai is the most credible training option in Pattaya, a city with an enormous massage industry and almost no serious schools. Its distinguishing feature is regulatory: the school states that its courses are certified by the Department of Education under the Ministry of Education and by the Ministry of Public Health, that its instructors are registered with the Ministry of Education, and that graduates receive both a bilingual Thai-English certificate and a service provider registration certificate from the Department of Social Security - the last of these being the document that actually matters if you intend to work legally in the Thai massage trade. Courses are taught in English and Thai in small groups, with lifetime free practice sessions afterward, and certificates are issued in a form accepted for consular document authentication, which is what you need if you plan to use the qualification abroad. It suits people who want employable, properly documented credentials rather than a lineage experience, and residents of the eastern seaboard.