The duration ladder prices nuru by length, therapists and guests: one client with one therapist runs from the sixty-minute rung to the eight-hour overnight.
The duration ladder is how the house prices everything it sells, and it turns on three questions: how long the booking lasts, whether one therapist attends or two, and whether she is visiting a single client or a couple. The technique plays no part in it. Nuru costs what soapy costs, four-hand nuru costs what any pairing costs, and neither the hour of the night, the day of the week nor the district of the address alters a single figure.
For one client, a pair of therapists doubles each of the first four rungs, and their overnight is simply eight hours at that doubled rate, with no block reduction. A couple sharing one therapist climbs the same four doubled rungs, but their night is twice the single overnight rather than eight doubled hours. A couple with two therapists doubles the pair's column again, from the first hour to the night. Beyond three hours each column adds its own hourly figure again.
The lowest rung is a complete booking, and plenty of first-time guests choose it. Yet nuru spends part of any session on work that surrounds the massage: warming the room, laying the cover, a shower before and a longer one after, because gel is rinsed away and never wiped. Inside sixty minutes those tasks are felt; at ninety they recede, and at two hours they are hardly noticed. That arithmetic, and no rule, is why the middle rungs are so often chosen for nuru, and the guide to how long a session should run follows it further.
A few rungs also settle whether money goes ahead. Three hours or more, any pairing and the overnight each carry a deposit wherever and whenever they fall. The full table, every column side by side, is printed on each therapist's profile, and the two-therapist format has its own entry under four-hand nuru.