Erotic massages Amsterdam during the winter light festival

Light along the canals, for about seven weeks

The festival lasts roughly seven weeks, with artworks placed along the canals and in the streets of the centre. The route can be walked for free or seen from a boat, and it lights up at dusk, which in December comes before five. Unlike King's Day or the Canal Parade, it has no single day when the whole city turns out. The crowd is spread across dozens of evenings, thicker at weekends and during the holiday weeks, and quiet on a weekday in January.

Evenings, not a single date

Because the festival is spread out, booking around it is less about beating a crowd and more about fitting an hour to a walk. Most visitors do the route between five and eight in the evening, often with food on the way. The hour to ask for is the one after that, with a margin for the walk back to the hotel. A start at half past eight or nine suits most people; a start at seven asks you to cut the route short or hurry it.

Which of its nights are peak dates

The festival itself is not a peak date. Its nights fall under the ordinary deposit rule, except the ones that land in the stretch from Christmas to New Year, which the house treats as peak dates whatever else is happening. So a booking on a Tuesday in mid-January follows the everyday rules, while one on the twenty-eighth of December carries half ahead whoever books. The ordinary rule still asks for half on a first booking, on anything fixed more than twenty-four hours ahead, and on longer or larger bookings.

After the route: the hour to ask for

A walk along the illuminated canals is slow by nature. People stop, take photographs, look back. Two hours on the route becomes three with a drink on the way, and the walk back to the hotel adds more. If you are booking the same evening, write when you are on your way back rather than when you set out, and the arrival window of forty to sixty minutes from confirmation will fit neatly into the time it takes to get in and warm up. If you are booking ahead, set the hour an hour later than you think you need.

By boat or on foot

Boat tours along the route leave at fixed times and last about an hour, which makes them easy to plan around. If you have a boat ticket for seven, a start at half past eight or nine gives you time to disembark, walk back and change. A walking route has no fixed end, which is why guests on foot tend to book with a longer margin or write from the last stop. Either way, the session happens in your room, not on the route; she does not walk it with you or meet you at a bridge.

A warm room to come back to

After two hours outside, the room matters. Turn the heating up before you leave for the walk, so it is warm when she arrives, and leave the bed clear. She comes with towels and oil for the session. A shower when you get in is a good idea on any evening, and on a December evening it is a fast way to feel ready. If the room is in an apartment rather than a hotel, the arrival window is the same and the same things apply.

Erotic massages in Amsterdam in December: the formats

Long evenings suit longer formats. Nuru massage relies on warm gel and a hot shower, and it wants ninety minutes to make sense. Tantra is paced by breath and needs at least that. Sensual and erotic oil massage stay simple and fit an hour. Soapy begins in the bathroom, which is worth checking first, because a hotel bathroom that is fine for a shower may not have the space soapy needs. The overnight, at 1,250 euros for eight hours, turns a festival evening into the whole night.

Booking around the holiday weeks

Around Christmas the light festival and the holiday stretch overlap, and hotels in the centre fill. Write two or three weeks ahead for any evening between Christmas and New Year, and add a few days more if you have a particular woman in mind. If you cancel more than twenty-four hours before the booked time, the whole deposit comes back. Cancel within the final twenty-four hours while she is still at home, and half the deposit stays with the house. Once she is on her way, all of it is kept, unless the hour goes to another guest. For the night itself, the New Year page covers the thirty-first.

What the season does not change

Rates are the same in December as in June: 180 euros for an hour, 270 for ninety minutes, 360 for two hours, 540 for three and 1,250 for the overnight. The arrival window stays forty to sixty minutes from confirmation in the centre, and Schiphol is by arrangement with the travel time agreed first. Everyone in the room is twenty-one or over, and she decides what a session includes. The booking page sets out the four facts a first message needs.