18 terms a guest meets between the first message and the door, defined the way this house uses them.
Outcall is a visit that runs in one direction only: she brings the gel, the waterproof cover and her towels to your address, and you go nowhere at all.
The overnight is eight hours in the company of one therapist, EUR 1,250 in all, the single length on the price list at which nuru need never watch the clock.
Read as a duration ladder, the house prices depend on time alone: one therapist costs EUR 180 for sixty minutes and EUR 1,250 overnight, a pair EUR 360 hourly.
Balance on arrival names the sum still due once she has come in, paid at the outset in euro or foreign banknotes, by card, or in crypto.
A deposit is precisely half the ladder price, stated in the WhatsApp thread as the office accepts, cleared electronically before she leaves home, and forfeited if you cancel.
Cancelling forfeits the deposit however early the message comes; only an official halt to operations or grave illness can turn it into credit, nor is any part of a shortened session repaid.
A false booking is one its sender never meant to honour, placed under an invented identity, through someone else's number or as a joke; the house records and reports it.
Forty to sixty minutes is the arrival window: what a therapist needs to reach any central Amsterdam address, one span for every district and every hour.
A WhatsApp booking is a request and its confirmation held together in one written thread, answered by the office in about ten minutes and keeping every agreed figure.
The age gate is the confirmation standing before this site opens, and it marks a line held everywhere in the house: clients and therapists alike are twenty-one or older.
Nuru is a Japanese massage technique defined by its medium, a warmed seaweed gel so slick that friction nearly vanishes; the name itself is Japanese for slippery.
Nuru gel is a clear, unscented, water-based gel thickened with seaweed extract, warmed before use, rinsed away with water, and unlike massage oil in every practical respect.
Kawasaki is the Japanese city between Tokyo and Yokohama whose bathhouses nuru names as its birthplace; on a massage menu, the word is a claim of lineage.
Soapy is the bathhouse technique carried in lather and warm water in place of gel, spent largely in the shower, softer in pressure than nuru, and priced on the same ladder.
Glide names movement across skin made nearly frictionless by gel, and in nuru it is the quality a careful session holds constant from its first minute to its last.
The sheet is the waterproof cover a therapist spreads over the bed before any gel is opened, so that the mattress and the room's own linen come through the evening untouched.
Four-hand nuru is a booking of two therapists for one client, EUR 360 for each hour, always secured with half in advance, and never offered across a night.
Temperature, in nuru, means the warmth of gel, skin and room together, the one condition the technique cannot do without and the one a guest can prepare in advance.