Massage Amsterdam formats, read against the day you have just had

Visitors tend to pick a format by how the day went rather than by its name. A day on foot, a day in the saddle and a day standing still in front of paintings leave you tired in different places, and the formats below meet that difference in their own ways. None of them is a treatment and none claims to be one; each is an hour or two lying down in a warm room while somebody else does the work.

After a day of walking

Kilometres of cobbles make themselves felt in the feet and calves first. Erotic oil massage is the straightforward choice: warm oil, long strokes, and time spent on the legs if you mention them in the booking thread. Sensual massage keeps the same oil and slows the tempo right down, which suits a guest who would like to be half asleep by the time she leaves.

After the saddle or the boat

Cycling and a long canal trip are opposite kinds of tired. One is legs that pushed all day; the other is a body that sat still for hours in cool, damp air. After the second, warmth counts for more than anything, and body to body massage brings more of it than oil work alone. Tantra, paced by breathing and roomier at ninety minutes than at sixty, belongs to the evening when the head is still running through the route.

Formats that need more from the room

Nuru and soapy massage both end in the shower, and soapy begins there. A canal-house bathroom the size of a wardrobe will not do; a walk-in shower will. Four hand massage puts two therapists at the bed at once and needs clear space on both sides of it, which a narrow room under the roof may lack. If you are unsure, describe the room in your first message.

Two of you, or the whole night

A couple who walked side by side all day can share one therapist, who works with each of them in turn, or have one each, side by side. Naked massage is the oil session without clothing and is simple to arrange in any heated room. The overnight runs eight hours as one block and belongs to the last night of a trip, when no early tour is waiting.

Massage Amsterdam evenings, chosen by the kind of day

Walked from breakfast to dusk: ninety minutes of oil work, with the legs named in the thread. Cycled all day in the wind: ninety minutes of body to body. Stood in museums for hours: two hours of tantra or sensual work. Carried the luggage up four floors: an hour, then sleep. The rest of the order of things is on the booking page.