Massage at Schiphol-Oost, after a week in the offices by the runway

The east side of the airport, as visitors see it

Passengers rarely go to Schiphol-Oost. The people who do are there for work: aviation engineers, consultants on long projects, auditors, trainers and specialists who fly in for a few days and fly out again. Their week has a recognisable shape. An early start, long hours in an office or a hangar, a working meal or no meal at all, and an evening in a room that was chosen for its distance from the office rather than for anything else. By the third visit the novelty has gone entirely and what remains is a routine. That routine is what this site is organised around, because a person who knows exactly how their Wednesday evening will go is also a person who can plan an hour of it well in advance.

How a visit to Schiphol-Oost is arranged

Addresses out by the airport are arranged rather than quoted with a fixed arrival window. Send the address and the hour you would like, and the reply agrees the journey time with you before anything is fixed, since the drive depends on the time of day and on where the therapist sets out from. The therapists who work with the house live in central Amsterdam, in the centre, De Pijp, the Jordaan and Oud-Zuid, so the journey is from town to the airport rather than across it. Once the time is agreed and half of the fee has gone ahead, the booking is confirmed. In central Amsterdam, by contrast, arrival is simply forty to sixty minutes from confirmation.

Massage at Schiphol-Oost on an ordinary weeknight

The typical booking from someone working at Schiphol-Oost is ninety minutes of sensual or oil massage on a Tuesday or Wednesday evening, starting between eight and ten. It is chosen for a practical reason: after a day at a desk or on a hangar floor, the shoulders and back need attention, and ninety minutes leaves enough time for both real massage and the slower second half that makes the evening worth it. Nothing needs preparing in the room beyond warmth and a bed. Guests who book this way often go straight to sleep afterwards, which is the point, since the alarm will go off at the same unkind time the next morning as it did this one. Sensual massage is the format these bookings usually use.

The rates, unchanged by the address

Schiphol-Oost costs what central Amsterdam costs. One hour with one guest is 180 euros, ninety minutes 270, two hours 360 and three hours 540. The eight hour block is 1,250. A second therapist, or a partner joining you, reads off the same table: 360 an hour for two therapists and one guest or for a couple sharing one therapist, 720 for a couple with a therapist each. Nothing is added for the journey, the hour or the day, and every figure includes all taxes. What is different at Schiphol is only the deposit: half of the fee goes ahead on every booking there, by card, Revolut, Wise or cryptocurrency, and the remaining half is paid on arrival when she arrives.

Weeks that repeat

Many visitors to Schiphol-Oost are there on a fixed rhythm, the same days every week or every other week for the length of a project. That rhythm makes booking straightforward, but it does not turn into a standing arrangement. Each visit is agreed separately, and the therapist decides each one herself. What regulars do instead is write at the start of the week, once the schedule is certain, with the evening they want and the name they are hoping for. The thread from last time holds everything else. A booking made more than twenty-four hours ahead carries a deposit in any case, and a booking at Schiphol always does, so writing early costs nothing extra and settles the evening before the week gets busy.

What the room usually needs

Rooms used by people working at Schiphol-Oost tend to be functional: a double bed, a desk, sealed windows, air conditioning set too cold. For oil formats that is all fine once the thermostat has been turned up. For nuru or soapy the bathroom matters more, and a regular who has stayed in the same building several times already knows whether the shower is good enough. If you are unsure, describe it in the message. If the hotel asks visitors to be met in the lobby, say so, and she will follow the building's rule. Nothing else about the room needs arranging, and no hotel staff need to be told anything.

Keeping it separate from work

People who travel for work tend to be careful about what crosses into the working day, and rightly so. Nothing about a booking requires any link to your employer or your project. The house does not ask where you work, what brought you to Schiphol or how long you are staying. Messages are about the address, the hour, the length and the therapist, and nothing else. Payment details for the deposit are given in the thread once the hour is agreed, and the remaining half is paid on arrival. Nobody writing for the house will ask for your passport number, your company's name or a photograph of any document; a message that does is not from this site.

Before your next week out there

Look through the therapists if you do not yet have a name, decide on a length, and write once your week is fixed. Give the hour in Amsterdam time and the address at Schiphol-Oost or wherever you are staying. If your project also brings you into central Amsterdam on some evenings, the same thread covers both, with the forty to sixty minute arrival window applying in town. Every guest and every therapist is twenty-one or over, and the therapist names her limits in her own words when she arrives. The booking page covers the rest.