Ten techniques, sorted by what a short trip can carry

Read this against your itinerary rather than your appetite. On a fortnight in the city every format is equally sensible. On a Friday to Sunday, some of them fit the room you happen to have and the hours you happen to have left, and some of them are asking for a trip with more slack in it.

What an amsterdam erotic massage asks of a weekend room

Oil work asks for close to nothing: a bed, a warm room, and the towels she carries in with her. That is why erotic oil massage and sensual work are the two bookings that survive a room nobody has seen before, which on a two night trip describes every room you will be in. Nothing is laid out, nothing is rinsed, and nothing has to be explained to a building you are leaving on Sunday.

Gel and foam want more from the room than that. Nuru needs a surface it can be used on and a shower afterwards you would be willing to stand in. Soapy begins at the bath and depends entirely on what the bath turns out to be, which in a room booked from a photograph is a gamble already placed. Neither is a poor choice on a short break. Both do better on the first evening than the last, and better at ninety minutes than at sixty, so that the rinse is not a race against your own timetable.

The first evening measured against the second

A guest who arrives at four in the afternoon and books for nine has one advantage nobody else on a short trip has: the day is already behind him and tomorrow is still shapeless. A guest who leaves the booking until the second evening gets a body that has walked fifteen kilometres and a mind already drafting the journey home. Neither is wrong, and the choice is covered at length on the two night weekend page. What the menu contributes is this: tired bodies take slow formats better than they take busy ones.

Density, when only one evening is free

Some trips have room in them and some have a single window. Where that window is two hours wide and cannot be widened, four hand massage puts two therapists on one guest, at 360 euros for the hour. The hour does not stretch; it fills. At the far end of the same idea sits the eight hour block at 1,250 euros, which suits the visitor whose second night has nothing behind it and whose flight is not until the afternoon.

Deciding quickly, on the tram, without a long deliberation

Most people read a page like this while in transit and would like a short answer. Here is one.

You arrived today and the day was long. Ninety minutes of slow sensual or oil work. Slow, warm, nothing to put back, and sleep afterwards arrives on its own.

You are on the second night and leaving in the morning. One hour or ninety minutes of body to body massage, which uses no gel and therefore costs the bathroom nothing.

You have a three night weekend around a holiday Monday. Two hours, or tantra at ninety minutes, and place it on the middle night rather than the first.

The trip is one night and the window is narrow. An hour, or an hour with two therapists.

If none of that settles it, ninety minutes of sensual work is the booking that fits any shape of trip. The questions page covers what is left, and the booking page says what to write first.