Oil work, nuru, body-to-body, four hands — and beside them the longer formats, where the evening is the booking rather than the hour. We do not publish a menu of everything a room can hold; say what you have in mind when you write, and we will answer plainly.
A hotel room is a particular kind of venue: borrowed, fixed, and already yours. What it can hold depends less on the name of the session than on the floor plan, so the useful question is which one fits the room you are standing in.
Everything the hour needs. Oils, fresh linens laid over your bed rather than instead of it, her own towels, and a waterproof sheet for the formats that call for one. Nothing is taken from the bathroom shelf, nothing is left for housekeeping to puzzle over, and the room is put back the way it was found. What the room has to supply is small: warmth, a lamp in place of the ceiling light, and enough floor to walk round the bed. Most rooms in this city already do.
Nuru and body-to-body read like the same thing written twice. Body-to-body is the wider idea — contact rather than hands alone — and it works on warm oil, on your own bed, in any room at all. Nuru is one way of doing it, with a thick near-frictionless gel and a sheet laid down to catch it; it wants a shower afterwards and a bathroom you do not mind using properly. Soapy asks more of the plumbing still, and is happiest where there is a tub or a real shower rather than a cubicle. Tantra differs from the oil work not in what is done but in pace: it is the format that suffers most inside a single hour and settles into ninety minutes or two. Four hands is the one session where the room itself decides — two therapists need to stand on both sides of you, which a small canal-house double will not allow and a suite will.
Ninety minutes of oil work. It asks least of the room, least of your bathroom, and runs long enough that neither of you spends it aware of the clock. Everything else on the grid above becomes easier to choose once you have had one. Beyond the techniques sit the longer formats — the evening out and back, the overnight that ends with a morning instead of a departure — where what you are choosing is not a method at all but how much of the night the booking covers.
Tonight
Name the room, the hour and how long you would like her there. The reply comes back in about ten minutes with who is free.