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24 · Jordaan
01 massage · Amsterdam
In Amsterdam, to your room.
For one of you, for both of you side by side, or with both therapists on one of you, brought to the room you are staying in at whatever hour you write.
02 The technique
The two of you, two therapists, one room, and two sessions running side by side. Each of you chooses independently, deep classical work for one, something slower for the other, and the pair time themselves against each other so both sessions stop within a minute or two of one another. A therapist each is charged as two sessions rather than one, so it comes to double the hour a couple pays for a single therapist between them, and neither half is reduced for sharing a room. The ladder each woman works to is printed on her own profile.
Any technique on the repertoire can be worked by one therapist moving between you or by a pair; the pair costs exactly twice as much hour for hour, and her own profile carries the whole table, the night included.
The side-by-side room is a young idea. North American destination spas began building suites with two tables in them in the 1990s and selling the pair as a single booking, and the rest of the industry copied it within a decade. What sits underneath it is much older and communal, hammam, banya, sento, places where being washed and worked on was something you did in company rather than alone behind a door.
Two therapists, two surfaces, one agreed running order. Before anything begins the pair fix the turn points between them, face down, the turn, where the long strokes land, so the room keeps a single cadence while the two sessions inside it stay separate. Pressure is set on each of you individually and is rarely the same on both sides of the room. From the halfway mark the pair watch each other's progress rather than the clock, and close together.
The two working surfaces go side by side, far enough apart that neither therapist is moving around the other's elbows, close enough that the two of you can reach across. The pair agree their sequence before anything begins, who starts face down, when the turn comes, where the long strokes land, so the room keeps one rhythm rather than two competing ones. Most couples talk for the first ten minutes and then stop, which is usually when the booking starts doing what it was booked for. When the booked time is up, both therapists stop within the same minute, so neither of you waits on the other.
Two people with one free evening in a short trip, and couples who arrived in Amsterdam at different speeds, one off a long flight, one already out all day and still going.
The two sessions keep one timetable, which is rarer than it sounds and is the whole reason couples book a pair rather than two separate appointments. Two people who arrived at different speeds leave at one.
03 The visit
Three in the morning costs what three in the afternoon costs, and there is no travel fee anywhere inside the ring.
To your hotel room, serviced apartment or private flat, at any hour of the day or night.
Card, crypto, or cash in euro, the balance settled in the room on arrival, with any other major currency at a sum confirmed in the thread first.
Forty to sixty minutes across the centre once the booking is settled. Schiphol airport hotels by arrangement.
Related
If you are choosing between formats, these sit closest to Couples Massage on the repertoire: 4-Hand Massage · Tantra Massage · Overnight.
04 Before you write
If yours is not here, ask it in the thread when you book.
You can, though it takes some of the point out of it. The pair travel together and it is one booking, so the shorter session simply ends first and one of you waits. Most couples who want unequal time take the same length for both and let the two therapists spend it differently, deeper on one side of the room, slower on the other.
Together, at the same door, in uniform, one arrival rather than two. Forty to sixty minutes from confirmation in the centre. Everything the two sessions need travels with them, so nothing has to be asked of the hotel. Schiphol airport hotels are by arrangement, on enquiry.
Yes; there is no back room to disappear into. The pair lay the two surfaces out with the two of you there, which takes a few minutes and is the last of the practical part of the evening. After that nothing else is asked of either of you.
Yes, in two shapes. Both therapists can work on one of you, or each of you can have your own; the second shape counts twice as many people receiving and costs twice the first, hour for hour and across the night alike.
The balance, on arrival: card, crypto or euro cash, or another major currency at a figure written down beforehand. Half the fee confirms a pair, an overnight or a booking made ahead; the balance is paid on arrival, and there is no booking fee.
05 Who works it
24 · Jordaan
26 · Oud-Zuid
23 · Amsterdam Centrum
27 · De Pijp
25 · Jordaan
22 · Amsterdam Centrum
28 · Oud-Zuid
24 · Amsterdam Centrum
29 · De Pijp
26 · Oud-Zuid
23 · Jordaan
25 · Amsterdam Centrum
Amsterdam, 24/7
Say Couples Massage in the first message, with how long you would like. Confirmed in about ten minutes.