Honeymoon couples massage in Amsterdam, planned across the whole stay

Three questions turn up in almost every honeymoon thread, and they are rarely the ones couples expect to be asking. The first is whether both of you can be worked on at the same time, which you can, with a therapist each. The second is whether the room is large enough, which it usually is, and which we can answer properly once you describe the floor instead of quoting square metres. The third question is the one nobody types: whether it will feel strange. It does not, or not for long. A honeymoon couples massage in Amsterdam is a quiet hour beside somebody you have just married, and most pairs stop registering that anyone else is in the room inside the first ten minutes. Anything else you are wondering about can go straight on the thread, because somebody reads it at every hour.

Honeymoons here tend to run four or five nights, and the couples who get the most from this book twice rather than once. Session one goes early in the stay and is usually practical: sore shoulders, a wedding that swallowed a year of planning, a flight, and the particular tiredness of having been looked at by two hundred people. Session two goes near the end, once the two of you are rested and the evening can be about pleasure rather than repair. Two separate hours also let you try two different things, something straightforward the first time and something slower the second. Asking for both in one message is simplest, and the second date can stay open until you see how the week is shaping up. Because no money is taken to reserve anything, an unfixed second evening costs you nothing at all.

Newly married couples often arrive halfway through a change of surname, with a passport in one name, a reservation in another and a ring that has not stopped feeling new. None of that matters here. What we need is an address, a floor, a bell name or room number, and an hour, and the name you give is simply the one used at the door. If the room is booked under a name that is not yours, tell us which one to say should anybody ask. Messages stay inside the single thread you wrote from, no lists are joined and nothing arrives afterwards. Couples who would rather the evening never appear on a shared photo roll sometimes ask that the therapists are not photographed, which is the standing arrangement in any case.

Honeymoon rooms are picked for the romantic reasons: water under the window, a bath in the corner, a bed you could lose a weekend inside. All of that is lovely and none of it helps two therapists work. Floor is what helps, a clear rectangle beside or at the foot of the bed with no suitcases in it. The grand old houses in Oud-Zuid and the newer rooms south of the centre are generous that way. Top floor rooms in a seventeenth century canal house sometimes are not, and a four poster with posts is the single most awkward piece of furniture we meet. Describe the layout in a line or two when you write and you will get an honest answer about whether a pair fits, or whether one therapist working in turn is the wiser booking.

The default for a honeymoon is a pair, one therapist for each of you, both working at once so the hour finishes for the two of you together. That is the version most newlyweds have in mind and the one we send unless told otherwise. The alternative worth knowing is four hands, where both therapists work on a single person for the hour while the other sits nearby with a drink and takes their turn later. It is an extraordinary thing to be given and a surprisingly moving thing to watch somebody you love be given. Couples with two hours occasionally buy one of each. A third route, quieter and cheaper, is a single therapist across two hours who works on one of you and then the other, which fits a small room better than any arrangement involving four people.

Two therapists are EUR 360 an hour, so an evening for the pair of you is EUR 360 for one hour, EUR 720 for two and EUR 1,080 for three. A single therapist is EUR 180 an hour whichever of you she works on. If the honeymoon holds one night you want to stretch right out, one therapist can stay for eight hours at EUR 1,250. Those numbers are the entirety of it. Nothing is added for a late hour, a weekend, a public holiday or the fact of a honeymoon, and no travel charge applies inside the centre. You pay once, with both of them already in the room, in cash in any major currency, by card or in crypto. Work the evening into the budget before you fly and it will be the same figure when you land.

Two days in a honeymoon book differently from the rest. The day you land is usually lost to the flight, and a session in the middle of that afternoon, once you have both washed and changed, serves the two of you better than an evening one you might sleep straight through. Departure day is the opposite problem: an early flight means an early night, so a short booking at eight suits it far better than a long one at eleven. If either end of the trip is spent at a hotel out by Schiphol rather than in town, mention it in your first message. Those addresses are arranged case by case and want a little more notice than the centre, where forty to sixty minutes from confirmation to the door is the usual run.

Long haul honeymooners rarely adjust at the same speed. One of you is awake at four in the morning while the other cannot be moved before ten, and by the third evening this has quietly become a running argument. A session at an odd hour can settle it, because we really do work around the clock and a five in the morning booking is handled exactly like a nine at night one. If one of you is fading, say so in the thread rather than pushing on. An hour each is plenty on a tired night, and the long, slow two hour version keeps perfectly well for later in the week. Falling asleep partway through is not rude, and the therapists take it as the compliment it is.