Most bookings follow the pattern: a hotel room, an hour or two, a knock. Some don't. Notes on the exceptions.
The standard booking covers most of our nights: a hotel room or apartment, a confirmed time, a therapist at the door twenty-odd minutes later. But a service that runs around the clock in a city like this one collects exceptions, and after enough years the exceptions develop patterns of their own. These are the ones we handle most often.
Houseboats and moored boats. Amsterdam sleeps on water more than any city in Europe, and yes — we come to boats. The requirements are a private cabin and a working bathroom; the complication is access. Gangways, dock codes, the right mooring along a dark quay at 1am: send a pin location rather than an address, and mention it is a boat in the first message so we can plan the approach. Done this way, the booking runs like any other, with better acoustics.
Key-card lifts. A growing number of hotels — especially the towers near Centraal — lock their lifts to guests' cards. The fix is simple and we use it weekly: you meet the therapist at the lift bank and ride up together. Thirty seconds in a lift with a stranger, the same as every other ride in that building. Tell us the hotel has card-locked lifts and we will arrange the timing precisely.
Very small rooms. Canal-house attics and single rooms in boutique properties can be genuinely tight. For a single therapist this is almost never a problem — the work adapts to the bed. For couples bookings and four-hand sessions, space matters, and we would rather ask about your room before pairing two therapists than have them discover the floor plan on arrival. If your booking involves two practitioners, expect us to ask what the room is like.
More than one session in a day. Possible and occasionally booked — a morning hour and a late-night two hours, sometimes with different therapists. We coordinate the dispatches; you only ever message the same number.
Limited mobility. Most of the menu accommodates mobility constraints; the therapist works around the limitation rather than through it. Tell us the specifics at booking and we recommend the format and pair the right practitioner.
Health conditions. We are not medical massage and hold no therapeutic licence. For general considerations — recent surgery, chronic conditions — we discuss it honestly at booking. Sometimes the format works with adjustments; sometimes the honest answer is that it doesn't, and we will give you that answer rather than the convenient one.
Groups beyond two. Not offered. Couples is the largest configuration we support, full stop.
The common thread in every edge case: tell us the unusual part in the first message. Nothing on this list has ever been a problem when we knew about it twenty minutes early.