Journal · 13 notes · Amsterdam
Short notes from the rooms themselves
Briefer than the guides and closer to the floor. Each note takes one thing that happens around a booking and says plainly how it tends to go.
the notes
- The Bed Is Shorter Than You: A Small Amsterdam FactA surprising share of the rooms in this city are fitted with beds that end somewhere around the ankles of anybody tall, and nobody mentions it. By the time it comes up, both coats are usually off.2026-03-28
- What a Body Note Looks Like When It Is Written WellTwo threads can carry the same information about a guest's frame and produce completely different hours, and the difference is usually length. The short ones work considerably better.2026-04-09
- The Twenty Minutes Before the Knock, Spent BadlyThe arrival window runs forty to sixty minutes, and the first half of it is usefully busy with jobs that genuinely need doing before she knocks. The last twenty minutes are the problem.2026-04-22
- Why the Floor Keeps Winning Over the MattressGuests hear the suggestion of working on the floor as a polite way of saying their bed is inadequate, when it is closer to the opposite of that.2026-05-05
- A Room at Twenty-Three Degrees, and Why It MattersNobody talks much about room temperature before a booking, and for a guest uneasy about being uncovered it quietly decides how the first half hour goes. It is also the cheapest thing in the room to put right.2026-05-18
- The Second Booking Is Not Like the First OneAlmost everything people describe as a fact about this kind of hour turns out, on inspection, to be a fact about their own first one. The two are not the same thing.2026-06-01
- Three Flights, a Turn, and the Arrival WindowGuests staying up four flights of a canal house tend to apologise for the stairs and assume they have added half an hour to the arrival time. Neither of those is true.2026-06-17
- On Not Turning Every Light Off in the RoomTotal darkness is the instinctive move for a guest who is worried about being seen, and it reliably makes the hour worse rather than easier. Three practical reasons explain why.2026-07-01
- The Sentence People Rewrite Eleven Times OverMore bookings are lost to the drafting of a first message than to price, timing or nerve at the door, and the cause is a small category error. It concerns what the message is for.2026-07-15
- Naming Her, and What the Reply Can and Cannot SayA first message that names one person gets a straight answer about that person, and nothing at all about anybody else on the roster. Knowing that in advance saves some confusion.2026-07-29
- An Hour Is Shorter Than You Think It IsThe one hour booking is the default choice for a nervous first-timer, and it is the thing they say afterwards they would change. The reason is arithmetic rather than appetite.2026-08-12
- What Housekeeping Thinks About Extra TowelsNothing, is the short answer, and the amount of anxiety guests spend on this particular request is out of all proportion to the response it actually gets.2026-08-26
- Booking in September, When the City Fills Up AgainPrices here do not move for a date, a weekday or a weekend, but hours do run out, and a guest who deliberates for a fortnight is the one who notices it first.2026-09-08
the message
Written enquiries, in English, at any hour of the clock
Say which door she is coming to
Give the building or the district, the hour you want her there and how long for. Anything about your own body that changes how the room should be set goes in the same message, and it is read as a practical note rather than as an apology.
Book on WhatsApp Book on Telegram Draft it on the booking page
Longer questions go to contact@bodytobodymassageinamsterdam.com, which is read more slowly than a booking thread.