★★★★★
"The best massage I've ever had. Ken gave me a head spa and the most professional foot massage. I highly recommend them."
Japanese Head Spa · Salt Lake City
Driving up from Sandy for a head spa. About ten miles straight up State Street, roughly 22 minutes, open until 10pm daily.
★ 4.8 from 249 Google reviews$85 for 60 minutesDaily 10am to 10pm
We are not in Sandy. We are about ten miles north of it, and the honest version of this page starts there, because the drive is the only real objection worth answering.
The route is unusually simple. State Street runs continuously from Sandy through Midvale, Murray and South Salt Lake and ends up at our door at 1136 South. You can make the entire trip on it without ever touching a freeway ramp, which matters if you would rather not merge onto I-15 after dark or in a storm. If the roads are clear, I-15 north to a downtown-adjacent exit and a short hop east is faster. Either way it lands around 22 minutes outside of rush hour.
Twenty-two minutes each way turns a sixty-minute appointment into a block of roughly two hours. That is the real cost, and it is worth naming before you book rather than after. Two things make it pay better. The first is going late: we close at 10pm, so a 7:30 or 8pm start puts you on an empty northbound State Street on the way up and an empty southbound one on the way home. The second is stacking the visit. If you are already driving, booking a massage or foot reflexology back to back turns one trip into a real evening instead of a commute for an hour of scalp work.
The question we hear most from the south end of the valley is whether it is genuinely different from the scalp massage bundled into a salon appointment closer to home. It is, and the difference is not subtle. That version is a few minutes at a shampoo bowl with your hair as the subject. This is a full hour on a table with the muscles as the subject, and your hair does not get washed or styled at all.
The other south-valley question is about the canyons. People coming off a day at Alta, Snowbird or Little Cottonwood in general often want something after, and a head spa is an easy thing to schedule for that evening because it asks nothing of you physically. You lie face up, fully draped, and a licensed therapist does the rest. If your legs are wrecked, foot reflexology next to it is the obvious pairing.
Pricing does not change based on where you drive in from. Sixty minutes is $85. Add-ons are the same as they are for anyone else: hot stones or cupping at $20, a thirty-minute infrared sauna or CBD at $30.
Elite Spa Utah runs 4.8 stars across 249 Google reviews and staffs every session with a therapist licensed by the State of Utah. If you are going to spend forty-five minutes in the car for an appointment, those are reasonable things to check first.
Call the number at the top of the page to see what is available tonight.
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