Couples massage in Amsterdam, arranged for the afternoon
Couples massage is two people in one room and either one therapist between them or a therapist each, and those are genuinely different afternoons rather than two prices for the same thing. With one therapist the hour is sequential and shared: one of you is worked on while the other is in the room, then it swaps, and the conversation between the two halves is part of what the booking produces. With two, it happens at once, side by side, and there is almost no talking. Sharing one therapist, a couple pays two solo hours for every hour; with a therapist each, the multiple becomes four. A free afternoon on a trip taken together is when this is usually booked, because the evening on such trips tends to already have a restaurant in it.
Where it comes from
Side by side treatment for two is a spa invention rather than an old tradition, and a fairly recent one: it spread through resort and hotel spas from the nineteen nineties onward, sold as a room with two tables in it. The idea travelled because it answered something real, which is that couples on holiday keep booking separate treatments and then spending the next hour apart. Taking it out of the spa and into a room you already have removes the corridor, the robe and the herbal tea at the end.
The technique
With two therapists the work is kept loosely synchronised rather than identical, which stops the room becoming a performance. With one, the change over is planned: she finishes cleanly, gives the first guest somewhere warm to be, and begins again rather than continuing. Pressure is set separately for each of you, since two bodies almost never want the same thing, and she asks each of you rather than assuming from the first. Oil, towels and warmth are handled as they are in any oil session, with a second set of towels laid out before anything starts.
What to expect
Arrival is ordinary and slightly more social than a single booking, because two guests and one or two therapists have to agree the shape of the next two hours in about four minutes. The room is set: curtains, heating up, phones face down. With one therapist she works one of you while the other reads, dozes or watches, whichever was agreed, and then changes over cleanly at the halfway mark. With two, work begins at the same moment on both beds or on the bed and a second surface, and stays roughly synchronised. Each therapist sets her own limits and says what they are at the start. What happens between the two of you is your business and is neither directed nor commented on.
Who it suits
Two people on a trip with a free afternoon and an evening already committed. Couples who have done this before and want it without the resort around it. First timers as a pair, provided they have agreed beforehand which of the two arrangements they want, because the booking thread is a poor place to discover you had different afternoons in mind. Both people in the room are twenty-one or over, and both have to have agreed to the booking.
Benefits
It gives a couple an hour that neither of them had to organise around the other, which on a shared trip is rarer than it should be. The version with one therapist has a quieter benefit: watching someone you know be looked after well changes the second half of the hour, when it is your turn. The version with two removes any waiting at all and suits an afternoon with something fixed at the end of it.
At your address
Couples massage for two guests in a hotel room or apartment in central Amsterdam, booked in the daylight hours, with a single therapist moving between you or one for each of you, outcall only.
Length
With one therapist, ninety minutes is the sensible floor, because an hour split in two is two short halves. Two hours is the comfortable version. With a therapist each, a single hour is complete in itself, and ninety minutes is unhurried.
Related techniques
- Technique
- Couples Massage
- Family
- massage
- Lengths
- 60 min 90 min 2 hours 3 hours
- Given
- Outcall only
- Arrival, central Amsterdam
- 40 to 60 min
- Guests
- Twenty-one or over
Asked before a first booking
Questions
Which of the two arrangements should we book?
If the afternoon is long and the point is a shared experience, one therapist and ninety minutes or two hours. If the afternoon is short or you both want the same thing at the same moment, a therapist each for an hour. Say which in the first message, along with the fact that there are two of you, because the second version needs two diaries to agree.
Does the booking need both of us to agree?
Yes, explicitly. A booking that one person in the room has not agreed to is not taken, and the question is asked plainly in the thread rather than assumed. Both guests are twenty-one or over and a photo document may be asked for at the door from each of you.
Will one room be big enough for two therapists?
Often, but not always. Two working surfaces are needed, which usually means the bed and something else, and both need to be reachable from at least one side. A junior suite is comfortable, a standard double with two suitcases open on the floor is not. Move the cases before she arrives rather than during.
Can one of us book it as a surprise?
No. Both people in the room have to know and to have agreed before it is arranged, and that rule does not bend for a birthday or an anniversary. What can be arranged is the timing and the format as a surprise, once the fact of the booking itself has been agreed between you.
On the roster for this technique
Who gives it
BanksJordaan, age 24
BeatriceOud-Zuid, age 26
BetsyAmsterdam Centrum, age 23
BlairDe Pijp, age 27
BritannyOud-Zuid, age 28
CassandraOud-Zuid, age 26
CharlotteOud-Zuid, age 27
CricketAmsterdam Centrum, age 22
DaisyJordaan, age 21
GraceOud-Zuid, age 24
IvyJordaan, age 23
KarinaAmsterdam Centrum, age 25
Writing in
Give the hour and the address
One message holds the day you want her, the length of the booking and the building you are standing in. A name and an arrival window come back on the same thread, and nothing else is asked of you until she knocks.
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Questions that take longer than a booking go to [email protected], which is read at a slower pace than the booking thread.