Body to body massage in Amsterdam with limited mobility

Nothing here is treatment, and that matters

Before anything practical, one boundary. A massage arranged through this site is not medical care, nobody on the roster is treating a condition, and no claim is made or implied that an hour will improve a joint, a nerve, a back or a recovery. Where something is sore, the session avoids it. Where a movement hurts, the session does not use that movement. There is no more to the rule than those two lines. If a body part is under active medical care, the sensible order is to ask whoever is providing that care first, and then arrange the hour around whatever they say. A guest who wants an hour for its own sake, with a body that happens to move the way it moves, is on entirely ordinary ground.

The building comes before the bed

Amsterdam's older housing stock has staircases that are famously steep and narrow, and plenty of canal-house rooms sit two or three flights up with no lift at all. Hotels near the ring and the newer stock towards the south are generally straightforward, with lifts, level corridors and wide doorways. Apartments are the variable. So the first question in the thread is not about the massage: it is which floor, whether there is a lift, and how many steps stand between the street door and the room. That information changes nothing about the hour and quite a lot about the arrival, and it is far better in writing than discovered by someone standing at the bottom of a stairwell.

Getting on and off the surface

This is the practical centre of it. A high hotel bed can be easier to get onto than a low one and harder to get off. A floor arrangement is stable and generous but requires lowering and raising, which suits some bodies and rules others out completely. A firm mattress supports a hip better than a soft one and a soft one is kinder to a shoulder. None of that can be guessed, and all of it is obvious to the person living in the body. Write which of those you find easy and which you find hard, and the surface gets chosen accordingly rather than being defaulted to whatever the room came with.

Positions, and the ones you simply will not use

Most full contact work is done face down for the first stretch, which is the position that causes the fewest problems for hips and knees. Where lying flat on the front is uncomfortable, a pillow under the hips or under the chest changes it substantially, and a side-lying arrangement with a pillow between the knees works for a great many people who cannot manage either flat position. Face up with the knees supported is another. The useful thing to write is not a diagnosis but a list: I cannot lie flat on my front, I cannot turn quickly, I need help to change position, my left side is fine and my right is not. The hour is then built out of the positions that are available rather than reaching for one that is not.

A stick, a frame or a chair by the door

Say it in the thread and then think no more about it. A walking stick leaning against a chair is a piece of information about where things need to be within reach, not a subject anybody is going to make conversation about. If you use a chair to get to the bathroom, the route to the bathroom needs to stay clear, which is a thirty second job before she arrives. If a transfer usually takes you a couple of minutes, the couple of minutes is built into the hour rather than rushed. The pace of the whole visit adjusts to the pace of the body in it, and that is not a special arrangement, it is just how the time is used.

Which formats work, and the honest exclusions

Oiled full contact work and sensual work adapt furthest, because both can be done on any stable surface in whatever positions are available. Tantra suits a slow body well and asks for ninety minutes at its shortest, which is time a guest with a difficult transfer will appreciate. The gel format is possible but is harder to leave, since it ends with a shower rather than a towel, and a guest who finds standing in a cubicle difficult should treat that as a real obstacle rather than a detail. Soapy work is decided entirely by the bathroom and is the format most likely to be genuinely unsuitable. Where something cannot work in your room, you are told before the hour is agreed rather than after she arrives.

The exact lines to send

Building, floor, lift or stairs, and how many. The bed height, roughly, and how firm. Which positions you can hold and which you cannot. Whether you need time or help to move between them. Whether the bathroom is reachable and what it is like. Anything that is currently sore. Six short lines, none of them requiring a medical word, and between them they settle more of the arrangement than the choice of format does. Everything runs through one written address, which is also the reason this kind of list survives intact instead of being half remembered by someone in a corridor.

Arrival, timing and the airport

Forty to sixty minutes anywhere in central Amsterdam, counted from the moment the hour is agreed rather than from your first message. Stairs and floors do not change that window; they only change how the last minute of it goes. A room at Schiphol or an airport hotel sits outside the window entirely and is arranged on its own terms, with the journey time agreed in writing before anything is fixed. If you need a few extra minutes at the door, write that too, and the arrival is placed so that nobody is standing in a hallway while you get to it.

The figures and the half that confirms

One hour 180 euros, ninety minutes 270, two hours 360, three hours 540, and 180 for each hour after the third. Two therapists for one guest total 360 an hour. A couple with a single therapist is 360, a couple with one each is 720, and eight hours as a block is 1,250 for one guest. Almost every booking is held with half of the relevant figure, settled before she leaves: that covers first bookings, anything arranged more than a day out, three hours or longer, two therapists, the overnight, peak dates and the airport. A returning guest asking for an hour or two the same day inside the city pays the whole thing on arrival. Cancel more than a day ahead and the deposit returns entire; cancel inside the final day before she has left and half stays; cancel once she is travelling and it stays in full, unless the hour is re-let, in which case it is returned whole, or unless the actual loss was smaller than the amount kept. With no deposit in place, nothing is owed until she sets out, and after that only the share her journey represents. Nothing is ever claimed as damages, and one move of date inside a fortnight is free where it is asked for more than a day ahead.