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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
Nuru asks more of a room than anything else on this page, and repays it. The gel, seaweed-derived, colourless, warmed to skin temperature, takes friction almost entirely out of the contact, so the massage is given with a whole body rather than a pair of hands. Booked for two it arrives as two of everything: two sheets, two sets of towels, two therapists who make the setup look like nothing at all.
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.
Nuru comes from the soaplands of Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, and takes its name from the Japanese word for slippery. The gel is made from nori seaweed, used there for its texture rather than for any claimed property. The format travelled out of Japan more or less intact, largely because there is so little of it that can be varied.
Nothing can be kneaded through the gel, there is nothing to grip, so the whole technique is coverage and glide. The therapist works with surfaces rather than hands: forearm, back, the length of a leg, laid on and drawn across instead of pushed. Gel is reapplied and re-warmed every few minutes, because it cools faster than skin and a cold reapplication is the one thing that breaks a session. For two, it is warmed in two batches and each of the pair keeps their own within reach.
Everything is laid out before anything starts, waterproof sheet over the bed, gel warmed, towels within reach and a second set held back. The massage itself is quiet and continuous, full contact with almost nothing to grip against, and the near-weightlessness is the part people remember rather than the heat. For two, the practical question is the bathroom, and the pair answer it by staggering the ends of the two sessions by a few minutes so nobody queues. Nothing of any of it stays in the room afterwards.
Two people who want one thing out of the evening that cannot be arranged at home, and anyone whose shoulders have stopped responding to being pressed on.
An even, full-body glide that hand technique cannot reproduce, and an unusually clean break from whatever the day put on you. Two people who take it together spend the rest of the evening noticeably slower.
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 Nuru Massage on the repertoire: Tantra Massage · Sensual Massage.
04 Before you write
If yours is not here, ask it in the thread when you book.
Nori seaweed and water, colourless, and it rinses off with plain water and no soap. It marks neither skin nor fabric, and the waterproof sheet means the bed never meets it at all.
Yes, the shower is the one thing nuru genuinely asks of a room, and nearly every hotel has one. For two of you the pair stagger the ends of the two sessions by a few minutes, so nobody stands about waiting for it.
Yes, with two therapists at double the shared hour and two of everything: two sheets, two warmed batches of gel, two sets of towels with a second set held back. It takes a few more minutes to lay out than a single session, and nothing else about it changes.
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 Nuru Massage in the first message, with how long you would like. Confirmed in about ten minutes.