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01 Jordaan · Amsterdam
Two therapists, sent to wherever the pair of you are staying in Jordaan.
The Jordaan is where couples rent a flat for a week and start living like locals. For a couples massage, Jordaan flats are wonderfully close to home for us: eleven of our forty-five therapists live in these streets, only a few bridges from the two of you.
02 Staying in Jordaan
Couples who choose the Jordaan have usually chosen it on purpose. They wanted a slower Amsterdam, a street where the bakery recognises them by the third morning and the evening ends at a brown cafe rather than a club. The accommodation matches that mood. There are very few large hotels west of the Prinsengracht, so most visiting pairs sleep in a rented apartment above a gallery, a guesthouse with a handful of rooms, or a canal-house hotel small enough that the owner makes the coffee. Rooms here ask for a little more thought than a modern hotel room does, but they repay it. Low ceilings, one good lamp and a quiet lane outside make a better setting for two people unwinding together than any amount of marble. The two of you do not have to plan anything elaborate. Eat nearby, walk back along the water, and let the session be the last thing in a day that has already moved at walking pace.
Space is the real question in this neighbourhood, and it deserves an honest answer. A Jordaan flat was built for a working family centuries ago, and its rooms are often long and narrow rather than wide. That shape suits two working surfaces placed one after the other down the length of the room, and a pair of therapists will happily rearrange their plan around it. Where the bedroom is tiny, the living room usually becomes the treatment room for the evening, with the bed kept free as somewhere to lie afterwards. Couples staying a week often find that a second booking goes even better than the first, simply because by then they know exactly where in the flat the pair should set up. Staircases here are steep, sometimes close to ladders, and the therapists climb them with everything they need, so neither of you carries a thing. Many buildings have no reception at all, only a street door with a bell or a keypad. Put the house number, the name on the bell and the floor in the booking message, and the pair will come straight up without a phone call on the doorstep.
Because the rooms run small, Jordaan couples split fairly evenly between two formats. The first is a pair of therapists, one for each of you, working in parallel at EUR 360 an hour, which is the version to choose when the flat has a proper front room. The second is a single therapist moving between the two of you at EUR 180 an hour, a quieter arrangement that fits the smallest attic bedroom and simply takes longer. Neither is the lesser choice; they produce different evenings. The slow formats are especially loved here. Tantra and sensual massage suit lamplit, low-ceilinged rooms, and two-hour sessions are common, because guests in this quarter are rarely in a hurry to be anywhere else. Nuru is possible when the shower is on the same floor as the bed, which in the older houses is worth checking before you ask for it. If the two of you cannot decide between the formats, describe the rooms and we will suggest one, because in this neighbourhood the floor plan usually settles the question faster than any preference.
With so much of the roster living in these streets, Jordaan bookings tend to reach you toward the quick end of the twenty to thirty minute window, and confirmation on WhatsApp takes about ten minutes. A pair costs EUR 360 for the hour, EUR 720 for two and EUR 1,080 for three, while a single therapist is EUR 180 an hour and an eight-hour overnight with one therapist is EUR 1,250. You pay at the door, once, in cash, by card or in crypto. After midnight the lanes go almost silent, and two therapists at a street door are the only movement for a block. Bookings are for guests aged twenty-one and over.
03 Within reach
A hotel room, a canal apartment or a rental on any of these streets gets the same flat rate and the same arrival window, whether it is one therapist or two.
Staying just outside the list? Name the street in your message and we will tell you honestly how long it takes.
04 Rates in Jordaan
No travel supplement for the neighbourhood and no premium for a late hour. What is quoted on the thread is what you pay.
05 Close to Jordaan
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Jordaan, any hour
Write it in one line. Confirmation with both names comes back within about ten minutes.