Nuru massage Vondelpark, in villa rooms and garden flats beside the park

The streets bordering the park were laid out for well-off families who wanted a view of the new public garden, and their villas and tall townhouses now hold small hotels, guesthouses and apartments of every size. Many of the hotels keep a house's irregular floor plan, so no two rooms match: a high front room with a bay window, a narrow back room over the garden, a top-floor room beneath a skylight. Bathrooms were added where space allowed, sometimes in a former dressing room with a clawfoot tub and a handheld shower, sometimes as a slim shower room whose door barely clears the basin. Skylit top rooms warm quickly on a sunny afternoon and lose that warmth just as quickly after dark. Along the busier western edge the apartments are more modern, with a combined bath and shower. Below many of them, flats sit half a storey under street level, with a garden at the back and French doors opening onto it.

Getting in, and getting the room right

The lower-ground rooms deserve a word about warmth. Sitting partly below the pavement keeps them cool even in summer, and the tiled or stone floors in some of them hold that coolness, so turn the heating on early and put a rug or towels down wherever you will walk barefoot. French doors onto a garden are pretty and rarely airtight; close the curtains across them. In the villa rooms, a clawfoot bath with a handheld shower is a good place for a gel rinse, provided the curtain or screen around it is drawn to keep water off the old wooden floor, and she will ask you to sit in the tub rather than stand, which is both steadier and warmer. Several villa hotels have rooms in a converted coach house or garden annexe, reached by a path across the lawn; give her the route, since the main door may not be the right one. Mornings and afternoons are popular around the park, and daylight through tall windows is pleasant, though a room overlooking a busy path benefits from a lowered blind.

Nuru massage in Vondelpark, technique by technique

Nuru massage near the Vondelpark is well matched to a quiet afternoon booking in a villa room, ninety minutes long, with the trees outside and the bath warming while the gel does. A clawfoot bath is a charming setting for soapy massage, though the narrow ones leave little room to work, so a larger tub or a proper shower serves it better. Apartments on the Overtoom side often have a walk-in shower from a recent renovation, which makes them the most straightforward addresses near the park for gel. Four-hand sessions fit the high front rooms and the more spacious apartments, not the narrow back rooms. Body-to-body in oil works well in the lower-ground flats on a cold evening, needing less heat than gel, and sensual massage is often booked here on a Sunday, after a walk in the park, by guests who have decided the day will involve nothing more strenuous.

Reply, crossing and settling up

A WhatsApp message brings back the therapist's name and arrival time within about ten minutes. For addresses in the centre the journey takes twenty to thirty minutes, and your confirmation states the precise time for your street by the park. The price of an hour is €180. Two therapists cost €360 an hour, and a full eight-hour night costs €1,250. She is paid on arrival: card, crypto, or cash in a major currency of your choosing. The streets beside the park are quiet at night, so a lit house number is easy to find. There is nowhere to visit us, since we work only at your address, and we book guests of twenty-one and up.