Paying for a hotel massage in Amsterdam happens in one or two parts, depending on the booking. Most bookings are split into a deposit, sent in advance, and a balance, paid in your room. A small group of bookings are paid entirely in the room. This guide explains each part, lists the accepted methods and walks through real examples, so the numbers in your confirmation make sense before you see them.
The two parts of a payment
The deposit is half the fee. It is sent after the office has accepted your booking and before the therapist sets out. Its purpose is simple: it confirms the reservation, and it secures time that the therapist has closed to other guests.
The balance is the other half. It falls due when she arrives, usually in the first minutes, so that money is not on anyone's mind for the rest of the session.
When a booking has no deposit, the whole fee is the balance and is paid in the room in the same way.
Which bookings carry a deposit
A deposit of half the fee applies to:
- a guest's first booking with the house, whatever the length or hour;
- any booking made more than 24 hours before the session;
- any session of three hours or more;
- every overnight;
- every booking with two therapists;
- bookings to hotels by Schiphol airport;
- peak dates, including King's Day, ADE, Pride, Christmas, New Year and the large conference weeks.
Only one kind of booking is paid entirely on arrival: a same-day massage session of one or two hours, from a guest the house has looked after before.
Paying for a hotel massage deposit: the accepted methods
A deposit can be paid by card, through Revolut, through Wise or in crypto. The office sends the exact amount and the details inside the confirmed thread. Payment usually takes two or three minutes.
Three methods are not accepted for a deposit. Bank transfers take too long and are not used. PayPal is not accepted. Cash cannot be a deposit, because the deposit has to be in place before the therapist leaves for your hotel, and cash only arrives with her. Gift cards, vouchers and payment apps outside the four listed methods are never requested; a message asking for them did not come from the house.
Paying the balance in the room
The balance is settled in the room, in one of three ways.
- Cash. Euros are simplest. Other major currencies, such as US dollars, pounds sterling or Swiss francs, are accepted too, with the exact amount confirmed to you in writing before she sets out.
- Card. A card works for the balance, arranged in the thread beforehand.
- Crypto. Mention it in the thread when booking, so the details are ready.
Have the balance ready before she knocks, in a wallet or pocket rather than on a table or the bed. Settling it takes a moment at the start of the visit, and that is the end of the money for the evening.
What is never added
There is no travel fee inside the centre, no night supplement, no weekend premium and no charge for short notice. The figure in the confirmation is the figure you pay.
The figures, row by row
Two things decide the fee: whether one or two therapists come, and whether the booking is for a single guest or a couple.
- Single guest, one therapist: the base row, one figure per length from the hour to three hours, and a fixed block for the overnight.
- Couple, one therapist: every figure in the base row doubled, from the first hour to the night.
- Single guest, two therapists: double the base row by the hour, with an overnight block priced separately.
- Couple, two therapists: twice the row above it, by the hour and for the night.
Each hour beyond three is charged at the same hourly rate as the row. The four rows, written out in full, are printed on every therapist profile.
Worked examples
A first booking tonight. A guest who has never booked before asks for ninety minutes with one therapist, now. The fee is the ninety-minute figure from the base row. After confirmation, half of it is sent by card. When she arrives, the guest pays the other half in cash.
A returning guest, same day. The same guest, on a later trip, books two hours for that evening. The fee is the two-hour figure, and all of it is paid in the room, because this is a same-day session of two hours from a guest the house knows.
Three hours, returning guest. The same returning guest books three hours instead. The fee is the three-hour figure, and because the session is three hours, half is sent in advance and half paid in the room.
A couple, two therapists, advance booking. A couple books two hours with a therapist each, three days ahead. The fee comes from the couple, two-therapist row, four times what a single guest would pay for the same two hours. The deposit, one half, is sent in crypto, and the matching half is paid on arrival.
An overnight. A single guest books an overnight with one therapist. The fee is the overnight block; half of it is sent in advance by Wise and the other half is paid in the room.
Cancellations, moves and early endings
What happens to a deposit on cancellation depends on notice. More than 24 hours before the booked time, it all comes back; inside the last 24 hours, half of it is kept as fee already earned; once she has set out, all of it is. If the hour is booked by someone else, the deposit comes back in full. A booking that had no deposit costs nothing to cancel before she sets out, and afterwards the house asks only for the part of the fee her journey represents. If the house cannot deliver the session, you choose between a new date and your money back.
One move is allowed per booking, asked for more than 24 hours before the booked time, to a date within fourteen days; the deposit carries over once. A second move, or a move inside the final 24 hours, counts as a cancellation.
If a guest decides to end a session early, the fee is not reduced. The full terms are on the cancellation policy page.
Mistakes guests make with money
A handful of small errors cause most of the confusion we see, and all of them are easy to avoid.
- Paying before confirmation. Nothing should be sent before the office accepts the booking. A guest who pays a request that arrived first, from anywhere, has paid someone else.
- Forgetting the balance. Guests who paid a deposit sometimes assume the booking is settled. The confirmation always states the balance separately, and it is due when she arrives.
- Relying on a cash machine at midnight. Some machines in the centre charge high fees or run out late at night. If you plan to pay in cash, withdraw it during the day.
- Using an unfamiliar crypto wallet in a hurry. If you are not used to sending crypto, choose a card for the deposit instead. A mistyped address cannot be reversed.
- Booking the wrong row. A couple who book as a single guest, or a guest who asks for a second therapist in the room after arrival, change the fee. Say who will be present in the first message.
Paying for a hotel massage as a couple
When two people share a booking, one of them usually handles both parts of the payment, and that is simplest for everyone. There is no need to split the deposit across two cards or to hand the balance over in two envelopes. The figure is the couple row for the length chosen, and the person who wrote the first message receives the confirmation and sends the deposit.
What is written down
The confirmation thread is the record of what was agreed: the length, the total, the deposit and the balance. Guests who want to keep it can simply leave the thread on their phone. Guests who prefer to keep nothing can archive or delete it after the stay. Nothing about the booking is sent anywhere else, and the house's copy of the conversation is deleted twelve months after its last message.
Tips
Tips are not part of the fee and are never expected. Guests who want to leave something extra do so in cash. The guide to tipping in Amsterdam explains local habits.
Choosing a method
Card is the simplest way to send a deposit and is the one most guests use. Revolut, Wise and crypto are there for guests who would rather use one of those, and any of the four can be named in the thread when the hour is agreed. The discretion guide covers the other small details of a private booking.