Body to body massage in Amsterdam in a rented apartment: key boxes, sofa beds and someone else's sheets

Short-let flats in the centre range from a single room under the roof to a whole floor of a townhouse. Nearly all of them share three features that matter for the hour: an entrance that is harder to find than a hotel's, furniture chosen by someone else, and nobody downstairs to ask for help. None of these gets in the way once it has been thought about in daylight.

Getting her to the door

An apartment has no lobby to ask at. Write the full address with the floor, the name on the bell if there is one, and whether the street door opens with a code or a buzzer. If the building has a key box or a second locked door inside the first, explain both. Steep stairs are normal here; mention them, though they change nothing about the forty to sixty minutes.

Whose sheets, whose sofa

Oil marks fabric. In your own home that is your concern; in a rented flat it becomes a conversation with the owner. Lay a spare sheet under her towels on the bed or the floor, keep the session off upholstered sofas and rugs that are hard to clean, and wipe the oil off any wooden floor afterwards so nobody skids on it the next morning.

Sofa beds, low beds and a body to body massage in Amsterdam

Short-let flats are often furnished with sofa beds, low platform beds or beds on castors. A sofa bed has a bar or a gap across the middle; a low bed is hard to rise from for a guest with stiff knees; castors wander across the boards. Say in the thread which kind you have. For a tall or heavy guest the living-room floor, padded with the duvet, is usually the better surface, and a flat generally has more of it than a hotel room.

Towels, heating and the house rules

A flat usually comes with a towel or two per guest and nobody to ask for more. She brings towels for the session itself, so keep one of your own aside for the shower afterwards. Heating in rented flats can sit on a timer or a thermostat you have never used, so find the controls in daylight and get the room warm well before she arrives. Walls between flats can be thin and many listings carry rules about noise, so keep the evening quiet. The page on limited mobility covers flats several flights up, and the room check entry lists what to look at before you write.