Guests booking for the first time often picture the knock before anything else, and the picture usually comes with a question about clothes. Will she look as though she is arriving for a massage? Will the night porter notice? What happens to the outfit once the door closes? The lookbook answer is reassuringly plain. A woman arriving for body to body in Amsterdam dresses like somebody visiting a friend at a good hotel, and the details of that look are chosen as carefully as the oil.
The arrival look
Think of an off-duty wardrobe with a little polish: a well-cut coat, dark trousers or jeans, a fine knit or a simple top, perhaps a scarf when the wind comes in off the IJ. Nothing that announces a profession, nothing that glitters under lobby lighting. The women on our roster each have their own style, of course, and their daylight portraits give you a sense of it, but the arrival look across the whole wall shares one quality. It is designed to be forgotten by everyone except you.
The reason is practical rather than prudish. A woman crossing a lobby at eleven at night in understated clothes looks like any other guest coming back from dinner. The same woman in something conspicuous becomes a story for the front desk, and your discretion depends on her being no story at all. Our page on body to body at your hotel explains how the rest of the arrival stays equally quiet.
Shoes, and why they matter in this city
Amsterdam is hard on footwear. Cobbles, tram rails, wet bridges and steep canal-house staircases punish anything impractical, and a woman who has just climbed three narrow flights to an attic room is grateful for sensible soles. Expect flat boots, low heels or clean trainers rather than stilettos. In most Dutch homes shoes come off at the door anyway, and she will ask you where to leave them.
The look follows the weather rather than the occasion. Winter brings long wool coats and boots that shrug off rain; summer brings linen, light jackets and sandals that still cope with cobbles. In every season the palette stays muted, which suits a city of brick, water and grey skies.
The bag
Every woman carries a roomy tote or a soft holdall. Inside are her linens, towels, oil kept warm in its sleeve and the small things a session needs. From the outside it resembles a weekend bag or a gym bag, which is exactly the idea. Nothing in it clinks, rattles or needs explaining, and it goes straight into a corner of the room rather than onto your bed. A stylish woman with a large leather tote waiting for a lift is about the least remarkable sight in any hotel.
Body to body Amsterdam once the door is closed
Inside the room, the coat goes on a hanger or over a chair, and the arrival look gradually gives way to the session. Body to body is full-length contact with warm oil, so the clothes she came in are folded away well out of reach of the oil, and she changes in the bathroom or wherever you show her. There is no costume and no ceremony, just a calm transition while she lays her linens over the bed and dims the room. For a clearer idea of what follows, our account of the practice step by step sets out the room in order.
Can you ask for a particular look?
Guests sometimes ask whether they can request something specific, a dress rather than jeans, say, or lingerie for the session itself. You can mention a preference in the thread, politely and in plain words, and we will pass it on. The choice, however, always rests with her. Some women enjoy dressing up for a longer booking; others keep to their own style whatever the request. What we never do is send anyone through a lobby in something that undoes the discretion described above, so any request applies to the room, never to the corridor.
What you might wear
The same principle holds on your side of the door. You do not need to dress up, and you certainly should not open the door undressed, a mistake that is easy to make when nerves run high and an awkward one if a neighbour steps into the corridor at the same moment. A hotel robe or comfortable clothes are ideal. Shower while she sets up, and let the robe do the rest. At home rather than in a hotel the same applies: ordinary clothes at the door, a robe or a towel once the room is ready.
Two women, or a whole night
A pair from the four-hand pairing pool arrives together, each in her own understated version of the same idea, and to anyone passing they look like two friends heading upstairs after a drink. For an overnight she may bring a small change of clothes for the morning, so the woman who leaves at breakfast time looks as composed as the one who arrived. Those details are hers to manage; all you need to provide is a free hanger.
Whatever she wears through the lobby, the rate is €180 an hour, paid as she arrives by cash, card or crypto, and whoever opens that door has to be 21 or older.