How warm should the bedroom be before she arrives?

Warm enough for someone lying still and undressed to feel comfortable for an hour or more, usually a couple of degrees above a normal evening setting. Raise the thermostat as soon as you are confirmed; old brick buildings and underfloor systems are slow to respond.

My flat has a small electric boiler. Can I still book nuru or soapy?

Often, yes. Test the hot tap after confirmation; if it runs lukewarm quickly, say so in the thread. Dispatch can move the start time so the tank reheats, or suggest a bed-based format that needs only a short rinse.

Do I need to change the sheets beforehand?

No. The therapist lays her own sheet over the bed before anything else happens, and it leaves with her afterwards. Your bedding stays out of the session entirely, so there is nothing to change before or after.

My bedroom faces the street and has no curtains. What should I do?

Use a room that faces the back of the building, or hang something over the window before she arrives. Ground-floor and basement flats in Amsterdam often sit at pavement level, and privacy matters more than which room the bed happens to be in.

I have a sleeping loft. Is that a problem?

Not for the booking, only for the location. Lofts reached by ladder rarely leave room to kneel, so the session moves to the main room, where her sheet goes down over a rug or duvet. Mention the loft when you book.

Should the pets stay in the flat?

They can stay, behind a closed door in another room, with water. Mention them in the booking message anyway, since some therapists have allergies and dispatch will match accordingly.

Preparing an Apartment for Outcall Massage

Preparing your apartment for an outcall massage is not the same job as preparing the room. The room, strictly, needs nothing: oils, linen and towels all arrive in the therapist's bag, a point made at length in what your room needs. The apartment is the larger system the room sits inside. It has a street door, a heating system, a hot-water supply, occupants, windows and neighbours, and each of those can quietly undermine an evening that was otherwise planned well.

This guide treats the gap between confirmation and arrival as a countdown. Confirmation lands about ten minutes after your message, and in the centre the knock comes twenty to thirty minutes after that. That leaves roughly half an hour. Every step below fits inside it, most take under two minutes, and none involve shopping, cleaning or moving furniture.

T-30 · The moment the confirmation arrives

Three jobs, done immediately, because each one needs time to take effect.

1. Heat. Turn the thermostat up now, not when the buzzer sounds. Aim for the bedroom to feel warm to someone lying still without clothes, which in practice means a couple of degrees above your usual evening setting. Amsterdam's older buildings lose heat through single-glazed windows and draughty sashes, and radiators fed by a combi boiler take twenty minutes or more to bring a cold bedroom up. Underfloor heating in new-builds is slower still. If a radiator in the bedroom stays cold at the top while warm at the bottom, it has air in it, and there is no time to fix that tonight; choose the warmer room instead.

2. Hot water. If the booking is nuru, body-to-body or soapy, the session ends with a rinse, and a generous one. Many older Amsterdam flats run on a small electric boiler tucked into a kitchen cupboard, sized for one person's morning shower. If you showered in the last hour, it may not have recovered. Check by running the hot tap for a minute. If the water turns lukewarm quickly, tell dispatch; the format or the start time can shift.

3. Occupants. Pets go into another room with water and a closed door. Housemates get a short message saying a visitor is coming and a door will stay closed for the booked period. If anyone else will be in the apartment during the session, it belongs in the thread now, not at the door.

T-25 · The route in

The therapist knows the city. She does not know your building. Think through the last hundred metres from her side and send anything unusual as one message.

The buzzer. Which label is yours, especially if the name on the panel belongs to a previous tenant.
The street door. Does it stick, need a firm push, or open with a delay after the buzz?
The stair. Floor number, and whether a timed light switch sits at the bottom.
The hallway. Parked bicycles, prams or a narrow passage that a person with a bag cannot easily pass.
The lift. Whether it needs a fob, and whether it stops at your floor or one below.
The door. Left or right on the landing, if the doors are unnumbered.

For buildings where the approach is complicated enough to explain in person, a gallery flat with several lift cores or a complex with a courtyard gate, plan to meet her downstairs. The apartment massage page sorts the city's building types and the arrival plan each one needs.

T-20 · The room

This is the part people over-prepare. Resist. Four checks cover it.

Access to the bed. One long side of the bed needs clear floor, enough for a person to stand and kneel. If a laundry rack, a suitcase or a pile of books occupies that strip, move it to another room. Do not move the bed itself.

A landing spot for the bag. The therapist needs somewhere to set down her bag and a bottle of oil within reach of the bed: a chair, a cleared corner of a dresser, a stool. A floor is workable but a surface is better, because oil bottles on floorboards get kicked.

Light. Switch off the ceiling light and switch on one lamp. If the only lamp is a harsh desk lamp, point it at a wall.

Windows. This is a genuinely Dutch issue. Amsterdam has a long habit of uncurtained front windows, and ground-floor and basement flats often face the pavement at eye level. If your bedroom looks onto a street, a courtyard or a neighbour's kitchen, close the curtains or blinds now. If the room has none, choose another room for the session, or hang a sheet of your own over the rail. Rooms that face the back of the block, onto gardens, are usually the better choice anyway, since they are quieter too.

T-15 · The bathroom

Every booking uses the bathroom at least briefly, and the wet formats use it heavily. Check four things.

The shower floor is clear of bottles, razors and anything that can be knocked over or stepped on.
A bath mat or towel sits outside the shower so a wet floor is not a slippery one. Your own bath mat is fine here; it is one of the very few items of yours that gets used.
A hook or a clear shelf is available for her things.
The drain runs freely. Gel and lather need a drain that clears, and a slow one turns a rinse into a shallow pool.

If the bathroom is shared with housemates, make sure it is free at the end of the booking as well as the start.

T-10 · You

A shower beforehand is recommended rather than required, and it doubles as a hot-water test. Then put on something easy to take off: a robe, a loose shirt. Drink a glass of water. Get the payment ready in whatever form was agreed in the thread: notes counted, card and PIN to hand, or a crypto transfer already moving. Check your phone is on sound, because she texts when she is close, and the one failure that genuinely derails an arrival is a client who cannot hear that message.

Kitchen smells deserve a thought in a studio or an open-plan flat. If you cooked in the last hour, open a window for five minutes, then close it again before the room loses the heat you built at T-30.

T-5 · Sound

Turn music down to a level that masks small sounds without carrying through the floor. Put the television off, not on mute. If your building has thin walls or wooden floors, move any conversation you expect to have at the door, a hello and a question about the room, to inside the apartment. The booking page explains how arrival messages work, so you will know exactly when to expect the text and can be at the door before she needs to ring twice.

T-0 · The door

When the text arrives, release the street door and open your apartment door as she reaches your landing, so the knock is quiet or unnecessary. Close the door behind her. Shoes come off inside, if that is your household habit, and the rest of the evening no longer involves logistics.

Apartment types that need an extra step

Preparing an apartment for outcall massage follows the countdown above in most homes. Five layouts add one step each.

Studios. One room means the kitchen, the desk and the bed share air. Clear the desk chair so it can hold the bag, ventilate cooking smells early, and silence any laptop that pings.

Sleeping lofts. Many Amsterdam flats with high ceilings have a mezzanine bed reached by a ladder. There is rarely room to kneel up there. Plan the session in the main room on a rug or a folded duvet where her sheet goes down, and tell dispatch in advance.

Basement flats. Souterrain flats run cool and sometimes damp. Start the heating earlier than T-30 if you can, and mention the downward steps at the street entrance in your route message.

Top-floor attics. The opposite problem. In July an attic under a tiled roof can be the warmest room in the building. Ventilate in the early evening, then close windows before arrival so street noise and the neighbours' ears stay outside.

Shared flats. The session room needs a door that closes and the bathroom needs to be available. Housemates need to know a door will stay closed. They do not need to know why.

After the session

The therapist packs everything she brought, including the used linen and towels, and the bathroom floor is dried before she leaves. You are left with a rumpled bed and nothing to wash. Open a window for a few minutes if the scent of oil lingers, let the pets back out, and turn the thermostat back down if you are going straight to sleep. Most people find the best part of an apartment booking is exactly this: there is no journey home, because you are already there.