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01 Museumkwartier · Amsterdam
Two therapists, sent to wherever the pair of you are staying in Museumkwartier.
The museum quarter has the biggest rooms in Amsterdam and the quietest streets in the south. For the two of you that means floor space, thick walls and a pair of therapists arriving from a few streets away.
02 Staying in Museumkwartier
If the two of you are staying in the museum quarter you have solved, without meaning to, the one problem a couples booking can run into. Rooms here are large. The streets behind the great lawn were laid out in the late nineteenth century for people with money and furniture, and the houses went up wide, tall and deep. Most have since been divided into flats or turned over to hotels, but the proportions survived: ceilings above three metres, windows the height of a door, hallways you could park a bicycle in sideways. A couples massage in Museumkwartier therefore rarely involves any discussion about whether two therapists will fit. The quarter itself is a strange mixture. By day it is one of the busiest squares in the country, with queues along three sides of it and a constant crossing of visitors, students and people carrying instruments. By eight in the evening the lawn is nearly empty, the galleries have shut, and the side streets are so quiet that you can hear a tram two blocks away. That flip from crowded to still is the reason couples who stay here book late rather than early.
Two sorts of address dominate. The first is the converted house, reached by a wide staircase with a handrail worth having, sometimes with a small lift added in the last twenty years, opening into rooms with plaster ceilings and a fireplace nobody lights. Floors are parquet and usually rugged, which suits a session perfectly. The second is the hotel room, and the ones in this quarter are larger than anything you will find inside the canal ring, frequently with a sitting area, which is exactly the clear rectangle two therapists want. The walls in both are thick, being solid brick rather than the timber and plaster of the old centre, so sound is the least of your worries. Curtains are heavy and long. Light the room with lamps rather than the overhead fitting, because the ceilings are so high here that a central light leaves the corners dark and the middle of the room glaring. The one genuine nuisance is parking, which matters only insofar as it can add a few minutes at the end of the trip.
Eleven of the forty five therapists give Oud-Zuid as their home district, and the museum quarter sits inside it, so the pair coming to you may be walking distance away. That makes late bookings easy here and short notice ones easier than in most of the city. The standard is two therapists at once, one for each of you, at EUR 360 an hour, and the size of these rooms means both surfaces go down side by side without anything being moved into a corridor. Couples who have spent the day on hard museum floors ask for something firmer than they expected, and there is no need to settle that in advance; say it to the therapist at the start. The quarter is also where the longer bookings happen, since two hours at EUR 720 in a room this comfortable is an easy decision to make. Tantra and sensual massage suit the hush after the galleries close. Four hand massage on one of you is the same EUR 360 an hour.
Tell us the street and number, the floor or room number, and the hour, and say whether you would like a therapist each. The reply arrives in roughly ten minutes with two names and the total, and from there a central address like this one is twenty to thirty minutes away, often less given where the pair set out from. If you are in a hotel, send the room number once they are on the way instead of leaving a message downstairs. Settling up happens inside the room, in cash in any major currency, by card or in crypto, with no deposit before and nothing after. A single therapist is EUR 180 an hour, a pair is EUR 360, ninety minutes for a pair EUR 540, and an eight hour overnight with one therapist EUR 1,250. Outcall only, at every hour, for adults 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 Museumkwartier
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 Museumkwartier
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