Massage Amsterdam after a day on the canals by boat

What a day on the water does

A canal cruise lasts an hour or so, but many visitors do more: a rented electric boat for an afternoon, a picnic on board, a slow loop through the canal ring and out onto the wider water of the IJ. The wind off open water is colder than anything on the streets, and even in summer the damp rises by late afternoon. You sit in one position for hours, holding a tiller or a glass. Back on land, you feel chilled and stiff, and the first thing you want is a hot shower.

Massage Amsterdam boaters book: warmth first

Warmth decides the format after a day on the water. Body to body massage is the one visitors often ask for, with warm oil and full contact in a heated room; ninety minutes is the usual length. Erotic oil massage works too, and so does a slow sensual session. Nuru, with its warmed gel, suits a room with a proper walk-in shower. Whatever you book, the therapist decides what it includes and states her limits first.

Warming the room before she comes

Turn the heating up as soon as you get back, earlier if you can set it from the lobby. Take a long hot shower and put on dry clothes. Close the window; hotel rooms by the water get damp in the evening. A lamp instead of the ceiling light, a glass of water by the bed, and wet jackets hung in the bathroom. She carries towels and oil, and will ask for the room to be warmer still if it needs it.

Timing the booking from the jetty

Rental boats go back at a fixed hour, which makes the booking easy to plan. Write from the jetty or the walk back, and ask for an hour that leaves time for the shower. A boat returned at five and a booking for seven is a common pattern. From your confirmation to her knock is forty to sixty minutes anywhere in central Amsterdam, and she sets out from the centre, the Jordaan, Oud-Zuid or De Pijp, all close to the water.

A boat for two, a booking for two

Couples often rent a boat together, and a couple can book together afterwards. Couples massage with one therapist shared runs in turns at double the single hour; with a therapist each it runs side by side at double that again, and needs a room with space on both sides of the bed. Both of you must have agreed and both must be twenty-one or over. Spell out which of the two you mean when you first write.

What to say about the day

A line is enough: four hours on the water, cold hands, stiff shoulders. She reads it before she travels. The session is hers to lead, within limits she explains at the start. Nothing on this site claims a massage does anything to the body beyond what you feel while you lie there; after a cold afternoon, warmth and a slow hour are what is offered, and that is all.

An evening that warms up again

The appeal of a boat day is being outside for hours, and the cost is the chill it leaves behind. Visitors who plan the evening well treat the massage Amsterdam offers after a day on the water as the warm half of the day: the cold part on the canals in the afternoon, the warm part in the room at night. Book ninety minutes rather than an hour, ask for the room to be heated before she arrives, and keep the window shut. If the day was bright and dry, an oil session is plenty; if it rained, body to body earns its reputation.

Where the rates sit, and the deposit

Rates for one guest with one therapist, from an hour on land after the boat to the overnight, are printed on each therapist's profile with all taxes included. A first booking with the house carries half in advance, as does anything booked more than twenty-four hours ahead, every booking with two therapists, every session of three hours or more, every airport hotel and every peak date. A returning guest booking one or two hours later the same day, at a city address, pays on arrival.

If the weather changes the plan

Rain can cut a boat day short or push it to tomorrow. With more than twenty-four hours of notice the deposit is repaid whole, and one free move to a date within fourteen days is allowed. Inside the final day, with her not yet on her way, half is kept. Once she is travelling, it is kept, unless the hour goes to another guest. A booking without a deposit costs nothing before she sets out.

Choosing who comes

Twenty-three therapists keep hours with the house, all twenty-one or over. Her profile on the roster lists her age, the languages she speaks, where she sets out from and her photographs. Name one on the first line of your message, or give the hour and length and let the reply say who is free. She decides which bookings she accepts and may end a visit at any point.