Guide · Amsterdam · 2026-10-15
Body to body in Zuidas on a hot Amsterdam evening, between the glass towers
Zuidas, the business district in the south of Amsterdam, looks nothing like the canal ring: glass towers, wide streets and modern hotels built for business travellers. On a hot summer evening it has a climate of its own, with heat bouncing off the glass outside and air conditioning running hard inside. A body to body booking there is arranged as anywhere central, with the room in mind.
Zuidas on a summer evening
By day Zuidas is busy with office workers. By seven on a summer evening the streets empty, the terraces near the station fill for a while, and then the district goes quiet. For a visitor in town on business, that quiet can feel a long way from the rest of the city.
The heat behaves differently here as well. Wide paved squares and glass façades store the warmth of the day, and the walk from dinner back to the hotel can feel hotter at nine than it did at noon.
The hotel room in Zuidas
Most rooms here are in modern hotels and serviced apartments with sealed windows and central cooling. In a heatwave that is an advantage: the room stays cool while the canal houses swelter. The risk runs the other way. A room cooled hard all day can be chilly for someone lying still, so turn the panel up a few degrees when the hour is confirmed and check where the vent points. The page on the over-cooled hotel room covers it in full.
Body to body in a cool room on a hot night
In a well cooled room, body to body works on a summer night just as it does in winter: the oil warmed, the contact warm, the room comfortable rather than hot. For a guest who came in hot and tired from a day of meetings, that contrast is welcome. If the room runs warm instead, ask for lighter oil and book later in the evening.
Arrival and arrangement
Zuidas sits inside the area the usual window covers: forty to sixty minutes from the confirmed hour. Many of the hotels have key-card lifts or ask visitors to be met in the lobby, so put the hotel, the floor and the room number in the thread, and say where you will meet her. Several therapists set out from Oud-Zuid, just to the north, though the window given is the same as for anywhere else.
On a business trip the thread is all that is needed: no form, no account, no explanation of why you are in Amsterdam. The body to body page describes the format, and the heatwave page the hot weeks in older buildings.
If your week is a long one, there is no need to settle the evening on the first day. A message on the afternoon of the night you want, once the day's meetings have shown their shape, works as well here as it does in the centre.