Body to body massage in Amsterdam before an early departure

Body to body is full contact oil work, and its practical distinction on a short trip is that it uses no gel and therefore costs the bathroom nothing. Everything happens on the bed over her towels, the oil is the same light one used for the other oil formats, and at the end of it there is no stage that has to be got through before the evening can finish. For a visitor with a bag half packed and little wish to organise anything around the hour, that is the practical argument for it over the other full contact formats. It reads as warm and continuous rather than technical, and it needs neither a particular room nor a particular amount of slack in the timetable.

Where it comes from

Full contact oil work has existed wherever massage has been given without a table, which is to say almost everywhere before treatment rooms standardised the trade. The modern outcall version is essentially the floor traditions moved onto a bed and stripped of apparatus. Its recent history is a practical one: as visiting work grew, formats that needed nothing from the building outlasted formats that did, and this one needs a bed, oil and towels.

The technique

The hands set the pressure in the opening minutes and then hand over to larger surfaces. Forearms take the long lines of the back, the torso covers where warmth rather than depth is wanted, and the weight is placed through the hips rather than the shoulders so that it lands evenly. Oil is replenished rather than reapplied wholesale, which keeps the glide consistent. Because there is no gel, some friction remains, so the movement is slower than nuru and closer to a stroke than to a slide.

What to expect

She lays out towels and warms oil, which takes a couple of minutes rather than ten. The opening is conventional: hands, along the back, long passes to settle the body and set the pressure. The transition into full contact is gradual and she leads it, so nothing arrives before you have noticed it. From there the work uses her forearms, her weight and the length of her body, held continuous, with hands returning at intervals. What her visit includes is hers to decide and she says so at the start. At the end she tidies her own towels, and because there is no rinse in this format the evening closes exactly where the booking closes, which is the point of choosing it.

Who it suits

The guest on the second night of a two-night break, especially with a morning departure. Visitors in smaller central rooms where the bathroom is not a place anyone wants to spend fifteen minutes. Anyone who wants the full contact idea without the preparation that surrounds it. It also suits a first booking with the house better than the gel formats do, because there is nothing about it that depends on the room being right.

Benefits

Warmth across the whole surface without anything to clear up. Guests who have tried both this and the gel formats on separate trips tend to describe this one as the version they would book again on a short stay, because none of the value is spent on logistics at either end.

Length

Sixty minutes at 180 euros is a genuine booking here in a way it is not for the gel formats, since almost nothing is spent on setting up. Ninety at 270 is the comfortable choice. Two hours at 360 suits an evening with a free morning behind it, and three at 540 a long weekend.

In the room you hold

Body to body massage in Amsterdam, outcall to your own room in the central districts, sixty minutes to three hours, chosen often for the final evening of a trip.

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