Nuru Massage on Valentine's Day: Gift, Couple or Solo
Nuru massage on Valentine's Day in Amsterdam: the gel as a gift for a partner, for two, or for yourself on a solo trip, with the rates and the deposit.
The fourteenth of February falls in the coldest, darkest part of the Amsterdam year, when the canals are grey, the evenings start before six and restaurant tables for two are booked out weeks in advance. Visitors in the city for a romantic weekend and travellers alone on business both find the date inescapable. A nuru massage on Valentine's Day is an increasingly common request, and it comes in three quite different forms: a gift from one partner to the other, a shared session for a couple, and a solo booking for someone who would rather not spend the evening watching other people's dinners.
As a gift for a partner
The most frequent Valentine's request is from one partner booking a session for the other. The house handles this simply. The person booking arranges everything in the WhatsApp thread, including the deposit, and the partner receives the session in the hotel room or apartment. It helps to tell us whether the partner knows what is coming, what they are like with new experiences, and whether they would prefer a quiet or a more talkative therapist. A partner who has never had nuru is usually happiest with ninety minutes and a calm, patient woman from the roster.
The recipient, whoever pays, must be comfortable with the booking and twenty-one or older. A therapist who arrives to find a guest surprised and unwilling will leave, and the booking counts as a cancellation.
Nuru massage on Valentine's Day for two
Couples can share the evening in two ways. With a therapist each, working side by side in the same room, both partners receive the gel at once; this needs two beds or one very large bed with space on both sides, and it is priced on the couple, two-therapist row. With one therapist who attends each partner in turn, the room can be smaller and the price follows the couple row. The practical details of both are set out on the nuru for couples page.
For yourself
Plenty of Valentine's bookings are from guests alone in the city, often on a business trip that happens to cross the date. For them the evening is simply a good night for a long session, when the hotel bar is full of couples and the room is the more appealing place to be. Nothing about the booking is different from any other night.
Planning the evening
Valentine's night in Amsterdam tends to follow a pattern: dinner from seven, back to the room by ten. That makes the late evening the most requested window for sessions, and early evening, before dinner, much easier to secure. For a gift, a session before dinner also means the partner arrives at the restaurant relaxed rather than sleepy.
- set the room heating high as soon as the booking is confirmed; February rooms cool fast;
- leave flowers, candles and food away from the bed, which needs to be clear for the sheet;
- eat lightly if the session comes after dinner, and allow an hour;
- keep the champagne for afterwards.
Candles are pleasant, but keep them well away from the path between bed and shower, since gel on the floor and a naked flame are a poor combination.
Rates for the fourteenth
There is no Valentine's surcharge: someone booking the gel for themselves, with one therapist, is quoted €180 for the hour, €270 for ninety minutes and €360 for two. A couple with one therapist, on the couple row, pays €360 for an hour and €720 for two. A couple with a therapist each, on the couple, two-therapist row, pays €720 for an hour and €1,440 for two. Every row is printed in each therapist profile.
A booking made more than twenty-four hours ahead, a first booking with the house and any booking with two therapists are all confirmed with half of the fee in advance, by card, Revolut, Wise or crypto. For a couple's two-hour side-by-side evening that means €720 ahead and €720 on arrival, paid as cash, card or crypto. Deposits are not refunded on cancellation, which is worth remembering if the gift is meant as a surprise; the date can be moved once, more than twenty-four hours before, to another evening within two weeks.
Booking
Book at least a week ahead for the evening hours. Write nuru, Valentine's, whether it is for one person or two, the address, the time and the length, and name the therapists you like. A reply with names comes in about ten minutes, and the therapist arrives forty to sixty minutes after the deposit clears. Every guest, gift recipient or not, must be twenty-one or older.