Guide · Amsterdam · 2026-10-15
Massages in Amsterdam over several months: working through the techniques one by one
A visitor with one evening picks one format and hopes it suits. A guest here for three or six months can try several, in an order that makes sense, and find out which are worth returning to. Massages in Amsterdam come in ten formats on this site, and a season is long enough to meet most of them without hurrying.
Start with the formats that ask least
The first few bookings are about learning how a visit runs: the message, the bell, the set-up, the way a therapist states her limits at the start. Formats that need nothing but a warm bed keep the attention on that. Sensual massage and erotic oil massage are the usual first choices, and many guests stay with one of them for several weeks before trying anything else.
Massages in Amsterdam that need more time
Once the visits feel familiar, a format with more stages becomes worth trying. Tantra opens slowly and is usually given ninety minutes or more; it suits a guest who is comfortable with a quieter, more deliberate session. Body to body is closer work with more oil, and usually a shower before and after. Both reward a booking made on an evening with nothing after it.
Formats that depend on the bathroom
Nuru and soapy massage use gel or foam and water, and both depend on a bathroom and a floor you are happy to see wet. They are better saved for a flat whose shower you know and whose floor can take it, often in the second or third month, once the flat has become familiar enough that a wet floor is no cause for worry.
Four hands, once
Two therapists at once is a different evening again, and any booking with two therapists carries half the fee ahead. The hourly rate for two is shown in every profile. A long stay is a good moment to try it once, on an evening planned in advance, and decide whether it is something you would book again. The four hands page sets out how it runs.
Keeping notes as you go
After a few months it is easy to forget which evening was which. A line in your own notes after each booking, recording the format, the length and the therapist, makes the next request quicker to write and shows which combinations were worth repeating. By the end of a season those notes tend to point at one or two favourites, which is the whole point of the exercise.
Couples formats when someone visits
If a partner comes to stay for a week, the couples formats open up: one therapist sharing her time between two guests, or a therapist each. The couples page sets out both. It is a different kind of evening from any solo booking, and on a long stay it tends to land in the week someone visits.