Glossary

The words a warm room booking actually uses

Short definitions for the terms that come up between a message sent in the rain and a door closing again three hours later, written the way the house applies them rather than the way a dictionary would.

  • Outcall

    Outcall means the therapist makes the journey to the room you are already in, so nobody has to send you back out into whatever the evening is doing.

  • Arrival Window

    The arrival window is the forty to sixty minutes between an hour being confirmed in writing and a knock at your door anywhere in central Amsterdam.

  • Full Contact

    Full contact describes oil work carried by a therapist's whole body rather than by her hands alone, which is the shape a body to body hour takes.

  • Warm Room

    A warm room is the single piece of preparation this house asks of a guest between October and April, and old Amsterdam buildings make it a real task.

  • Oil and Towels

    Oil and towels are what a body to body hour actually consumes, and the weather outside changes how much of each an evening wants.

  • Deposit

    A deposit here is the first half of the fee itself, settled before she leaves, and seven kinds of booking carry one while a single kind does not.

  • Balance at the Door

    The balance is the second half of the fee, handed over at the start of the visit rather than at the end, and it is settled in the room itself.

  • Cancellation and Refunds

    Cancelling costs whatever share of the fee had already been earned when your message landed, and the notice in that message is the only thing that decides it.

  • False Bookings

    A false booking is one placed under a name or a number that is not the guest's own, or sent as a joke, and a missed appointment on its own is not one.

  • Twenty-One or Over

    Everyone who books and everyone else who will be in the room has to be twenty-one or over, and that is confirmed in writing and again at the door.

  • Overnight

    An overnight is a single priced block of eight hours for one guest with one therapist, with a written start and a written finish agreed beforehand.

  • Duration Ladder

    The duration ladder is the set of lengths a booking can take here, from a single hour up to the eight hour block, with the rate for each fixed in advance.

  • Peak Date

    A peak date is one of the handful of dates the house names when asked, and the only thing it changes is that half the fee goes ahead beforehand.

  • Booking Thread

    The booking thread is the one written conversation where an hour is agreed, the figure named and the address given, and nothing of weight sits outside it.

  • Schiphol by Arrangement

    Schiphol and the hotels around it sit outside the city arrival window, and each journey there is agreed separately before any hour is held.

Booking terms · Therapists and rates

21 +

An hour is held for guests who are twenty one or over, and a therapist may ask at the door.