Booking an Amsterdam couples massage around a working agenda
Everything here is arranged in writing. Five facts in the opening message are enough to get a complete answer back, and nothing is held until that answer has been agreed in the thread by whichever of you is doing the writing.
An evening for two runs in four moves. One of you writes. Back comes a name, a figure and a window for her arrival. Half the fee goes ahead wherever a deposit is due. Then she travels, which is forty to sixty minutes to anywhere in central Amsterdam.
The five facts an Amsterdam couples massage booking runs on
The date. Working weeks move, so give the date you are reasonably sure of rather than the one you hope for. One change of date is free if it is asked for more than twenty-four hours ahead and the new date falls within a fortnight, which covers most agenda changes that actually happen.
The hour. In Amsterdam time. If the working half of the trip finishes at an hour nobody can predict, give a start and say how much either side of it you can absorb, and the reply will work inside that.
Where. The building or the street, plus the room number once you have it. If the two of you are staying somewhere that asks visitors to be met downstairs, put that in the message rather than discovering it together at nine.
How long. Sixty minutes, ninety minutes, two hours, three, or the whole block of eight. Ninety is what most couples take on a weekday evening.
One therapist or two. This is the fact that changes everything else, including the figure and how much notice the evening needs, so it belongs in the opening message rather than in the fourth.
What the answer contains
The reply names a therapist, gives the figure for the arrangement you asked for and gives an arrival window rather than a single minute. Forty to sixty minutes is the honest figure for the centre. Plan against the far end of it and neither of you will be caught halfway through a shower.
One word confirms all three. Nothing is asked of you first: no form, no account and no card details typed into a page.
The deposit, as a share of the fee
Half the fee confirms every booking made more than twenty-four hours ahead, every eight hour block, every booking with two therapists, every room at Schiphol or an airport hotel, every peak date, every session of three hours or more, and the first booking anyone makes with the house. Only a same-day hour or two at a city address, asked for by someone the house has looked after before, is settled in full on arrival.
Therefore the first evening, ninety minutes for two on one therapist, sends half its fee ahead, as do two hours with a therapist each and a couple's night-long block: the proportion stays fixed while the length and the staffing underneath it change. It travels by card, Revolut, Wise or cryptocurrency, using details that appear only inside the confirmed thread.
A deposit is not returned as a matter of routine. What is kept is the share of the fee already earned when your message lands: nothing at all more than twenty-four hours ahead, half of the deposit inside the last day while she has not yet left, and the whole of it once she is on her way. If somebody else takes the hour you released, it comes back in full. If you can show the loss was smaller than the share kept, only the smaller figure stays.
Booking early in a week that has not settled
Couples on a working trip tend to write on the Monday about the Thursday, which is the right way round. Two therapists, a three hour evening or an address out at Schiphol all want notice, and Schiphol is arranged separately with the length of the journey agreed before anything is fixed.
One habit protects more of these evenings than any other. Whoever is writing should keep the thread on one phone, not two. A booking half-agreed on one handset and half on the other is how a couple ends up with two different hours in their heads. The questions page covers most of the rest, and the roster is where a name comes from.
Half of the figure that matches your arrangement holds the evening before she travels, a first booking included, and how much warning you give decides what stays behind if you call it off; a returning client's same day hour or two at a city address is settled at the door. Booking terms.