Paying for body to body massage in Amsterdam happens in two parts on most bookings. Half of the fee is sent ahead to confirm the booking, and the other half is paid when the therapist arrives. On one kind of booking only, the whole fee is paid at the door. This guide sets out which booking is which, what each payment route involves, what happens to the money if plans change, and how to recognise a payment request that did not come from the house.
The figures themselves are simple. The house charges by length and by the number of therapists and clients, and nothing is added for the time of night, the day of the week or the district. Every rate is printed on each therapist profile.
The fee you are paying
With one therapist and one client, the fee is her hourly figure times the length: ninety minutes is one and a half hours' worth, two hours is two, three hours is three, and hours beyond three are added one at a time at that same figure. The eight-hour overnight is the exception, a fixed block that comes in below eight separate hours.
With two therapists for one client, every length costs double, and the pair's overnight is their hourly figure kept running for eight hours. A couple sharing one therapist pays twice the single-client figure, overnight included. A couple with two therapists pays twice the couple figure again, and overnight that couple hour runs for all eight. Taxes are inside every figure, so nothing is added to the amount the thread confirms.
The confirmation message on WhatsApp or Telegram repeats the exact figure for your booking, so you never have to work it out yourself.
When half goes ahead
A deposit of half the fee confirms every booking in these situations: the first booking from a client new to the house, at any length; any booking made more than twenty-four hours before its start; every overnight; every booking with two therapists; every session of three hours or more; every booking at a Schiphol or airport hotel; and every booking on a peak date, such as King's Day, Pride, ADE, Christmas, New Year or a large conference week.
That covers most bookings from visitors, since most visitors are writing for the first time. The one booking with no deposit is a same-day session of one or two hours for a client the house has already looked after. After a first booking has gone as arranged, the same client's next same-day hour or two is paid in full at the door.
How the deposit is sent
Deposits travel by four routes: card, Revolut, Wise or crypto. Bank transfer and PayPal are not accepted, and neither is cash, which belongs to the second part of the payment rather than the first. Visitors with a card from home usually use the card route; visitors who already use Revolut or Wise find those quicker. Crypto suits people who prefer it, and the exact amount is confirmed in writing before it is paid.
The payment details are given once, on the same WhatsApp or Telegram thread, after the booking has been accepted. The therapist does not set out until the deposit has cleared. The confirmation states the amount in writing.
Paying for body to body massage at the door
The balance, or the whole fee on a no-deposit booking, is paid once the therapist is inside the room and before the session starts. Three methods are accepted. Cash in any major currency, at the amount written into the thread before she sets out, so euros are not essential if you have just arrived with pounds, dollars or Swiss francs. Or a card, used in the room.
Paying at the start is deliberate. It means the money is settled before anyone lies down, and nothing practical interrupts the session or its ending.
A few details help. If paying cash in a currency other than euros, have a little more than the converted sum, since exact change in a foreign currency is rarely possible. If paying by card, check before the evening that your bank allows payments abroad at night, because some banks block unfamiliar transactions after dark. If paying by crypto, have the wallet open and funded before she arrives.
What is never added
No night supplement, weekend supplement or travel fee is charged anywhere in central Amsterdam. A booking at three in the morning costs what the same booking costs at eight in the evening. The figure is agreed in the thread and settled in the room when the session starts. Extra time on the night, if the therapist's next booking allows it, is added at the hourly figure of your row and paid at the moment it is agreed.
Oil, gel, lather and fresh towels travel with the therapist and are covered by the fee, so there is nothing to buy from her and nothing to reimburse afterwards.
If you cancel
Cancelling never costs a visitor damages. What the house keeps is the part of the fee already earned when the message arrives: nothing with more than twenty-four hours of notice, half the deposit inside the last twenty-four hours while she has not left, and the whole deposit once she is travelling. If another client takes the hour, the deposit comes back in full, and a visitor who shows the house lost less pays only that smaller sum.
If a booking taken without a deposit is cancelled before she sets out, there is nothing to settle; cancelled after, the house asks only for the part of the fee her journey represents. A session you end early stays payable in full, because the hour was held for you and what is left of it cannot go to anyone else.
If the house itself cannot perform a booking, the choice is yours: a new date, or your money back, and a deposit left for a later date is held for as long as you need.
If you need to move the booking
One move is allowed per booking. Ask on the thread more than twenty-four hours before the booked start and pick a new date within fourteen days; the deposit carries over to that date once. A second move, or a first move requested inside the last twenty-four hours, is measured on the notice scale as a cancellation sent at that moment. The complete terms, including why the fourteen-day withdrawal right does not arise for a booking tied to one date and hour, are on the cancellation policy page.
Keeping the figures straight on the night
Visitors who book more than once during a stay sometimes lose track of which payment belonged to which booking. The simplest habit is to keep the confirmation messages in the thread rather than deleting them. Each one states the length, the fee, the deposit already sent and the balance still due, so a glance before the knock tells you exactly what to have ready.
If you booked ninety minutes and decide at the door that you would rather have two hours, say so before paying. The balance is then recalculated on the spot: the deposit already sent stays as it is, and the new, larger balance is paid in the room. A change the other way, from a longer booking to a shorter one, does not reduce a deposit already sent, because that half was fixed by the booking as it was accepted.
Couples and friends paying for one booking together should decide beforehand who pays the balance, so the balance is settled once rather than assembled from two wallets at the door.
Recognising a false payment request
Because the house is contacted by message, it is worth knowing how its payment requests look, so that a copy is easy to spot. A deposit is requested only after a booking has been accepted, only on the thread where you wrote, and only for half of the fee stated in the confirmation. No deposit is ever requested before a booking is accepted, and no second deposit is ever requested to "release" a therapist. Payment details never arrive from a different number or account, and at the door nothing beyond the balance written in the confirmation is ever requested. If anything looks different from that, do not pay; write to the thread you originally used and ask.
False bookings
The same rules protect the therapists. A booking made under a name that is not the client's, from a number or profile belonging to someone else, or as a prank, and a no-show following one of those, goes into a short internal note that is kept for twelve months and stays inside the house; where it may be a criminal offence, the house may report it to the police. An ordinary missed appointment is only a cancellation. For honest visitors this changes nothing, but it is part of why a first booking is confirmed with a deposit.
A worked example
A visitor arrives on Thursday and writes at nine in the evening for ninety minutes at half past ten, oiled, one therapist, at a hotel near the canals. It is a first booking, so the confirmation states the ninety-minute fee and asks for half of it ahead. The deposit goes by card on the thread. The therapist knocks at half past ten, and the other half is paid at the door in pound notes, at the sterling amount written into the thread beforehand. On Saturday, the same visitor books the same length for the same evening: as a client the house now knows, booking for the same day, the whole ninety-minute fee is paid at the door. The booking page shows the order of messages for both.