Is an hour enough for body to body?

Yes. Oil needs no setting up and leaves nothing to wash away, so a single hour holds a whole session. It is less ideal in a room that starts cold, where a share of the hour goes to warming up.

Can the hour be stretched once she is there?

Sometimes, if her evening is free after yours, but it is safer to settle the length when the hour is agreed. Bookings of three hours or more send half the fee ahead in any case.

Does the eight hour block mean eight hours of massage?

No. It is a fixed block for one guest with work, rest and sleep inside it, placed where you want it in the night. In winter it often begins around nine and ends in the early morning dark.

How Long to Book Body to Body in Amsterdam, by Season

How long to book body to body in Amsterdam, season by season

Length is the choice guests weigh least carefully and second-guess afterwards. In Amsterdam it is tied closely to the season, because the weather decides how much of the opening stretch goes to warmth, and the daylight decides how long the evening feels. This is a practical guide to choosing a body to body length by the month you happen to be in.

The body to body lengths on offer

An hour, ninety minutes, two hours and three hours are the steps on the duration ladder, and past three hours each added hour is charged at the single rate. The eight hour block is a separate fixed sum for one guest, placed wherever in the night you like. Every figure sits on the therapist's own profile, and none of them shifts with the month or the weather.

December to February: lean longer

In the dark months a room that started cold needs part of the session to come up to temperature, and a body that has been out in raw wind takes a while to stop bracing. Ninety minutes is the sensible starting point, because the opening stretch goes to warmth and the remainder is the session proper. With darkness before five and little to do outdoors, two or three hours stand in for an evening that was going to be spent inside anyway, and the eight hour block belongs to these months more than to any others.

March to May: plan around the light

Spring evenings stretch out quickly, and many visitors want to be out while it is still light. An hour booked after dinner is a complete session and leaves the bright hours free. Ninety minutes still suits the cold spells April likes to throw in. The city is busier now, so long bookings on spring weekends are worth arranging early.

June to August: shorter, or later

On warm nights a long session in a room without air conditioning can turn into a test of patience. An hour or ninety minutes booked at ten rather than seven is generally the comfortable choice, with lighter oil and a window opened beforehand. If the room is properly cool, two hours are fine. In a real heatwave soapy may suit better than oil.

September to November: the turn

September often feels like a second summer, and an hour or ninety minutes after dinner fits it nicely. By late October the evenings are dark and wet again, and winter thinking returns: ninety minutes as the default, two hours when the weather has wiped out everything else.

A rule of thumb

If the room is cold, add half an hour to whatever you first had in mind. If the room is hot, book later rather than longer. If the evening has nothing else in it, choose the length that fills it instead of the one that interrupts it.