The techniques are listed here, and beside them the longer formats: dinner before an early night, the eight-hour overnight, a companion for the leg after this one. We do not print a menu of what an hour holds; that is settled quietly between two adults, in whichever language is easier.
The cards above are a list, not an order of merit. In a hotel room the useful question is not which of these is best; it is how much of the night is left, because some want more of it than others.
An hour is a real booking and not a sample of one. It suits warm oil, or a sensual session, formats that ask nothing of the room beyond a bed and a towel. If the alarm is set for five and the clock by the bed already says one, take the hour and take it as oil.
Nuru and soapy both want a little more of everything. Nuru works with warm gel and needs a surface for it. Soapy comes from the tradition of washing as bodywork, so it wants a bathroom worth using, and airport rooms vary enormously there. Neither is a poor idea at two in the morning, but both are better ideas at ten in the evening with ninety minutes on the booking rather than sixty.
Body-to-body and nuru get confused constantly, and the difference is practical. Body-to-body is the broader form; nuru is the version done with gel. Take the gel out and the logistics go with it, which is why body-to-body travels better into a small room with a shower you would rather not depend on.
Tantra is the slow one, breath-led, and an hour cuts it off before it has arrived. Ninety minutes is its floor. It is also the format to think about when the problem is not exhaustion but the opposite: landed, wired, four zones out of step and unable to shut the body down.
Four-hand is two therapists at €360 an hour, which is worth knowing when what you have is one hour and you would rather it were full than long.
The companion formats sit beside the techniques deliberately. Dinner before an early night, an evening as company, the eight-hour overnight, someone for the leg of the trip that comes after this one: these are units for hours you were going to spend awake.
If it is a first booking and nothing above has decided it, ninety minutes of sensual or oil is the one nobody regrets. Long enough to stop watching the clock, short enough to still get some sleep.
One hour EUR 180 through to eight hours at EUR 1,250. Twenty to thirty minutes anywhere in the centre; the Schiphol airport hotels by arrangement.