Why is the first booking treated differently from later ones?

Because there is nothing behind it yet. A returning guest has a history of opening the door, and that history is what lets a same-day hour at a city address run with nothing sent in advance. A first booking has no such history in either direction, so half of the figure goes ahead and the commitment runs both ways from the start. After that first evening, the same-day case opens up for you like anybody else.

Is the half I send refundable if I change my mind the next morning?

If the booking is more than twenty-four hours away when you write, yes, entirely. The scale is about notice rather than about mood, so the reason does not come into it. Inside the final day, half of what you sent stays as fee already earned. Once she has set out, it stays, unless another guest takes the hour you released, in which case the whole of it comes back to you.

What counts as a peak date exactly?

King's Day, Pride, the Amsterdam Dance Event, the run between Christmas and the new year, and weeks when a large conference takes most of the rooms in the city. The house names them plainly if you ask before booking. The only thing a peak date changes is that half goes ahead even on a booking that would otherwise carry nothing; the figures themselves do not move for the date.

Can I pay everything at the door and skip the advance half?

Only on the one booking that carries nothing in advance, which is a returning guest asking for one or two hours at a city address later the same day. On every other kind, half goes ahead and the arrangement is not made without it. That is not a judgement about any individual; it is the same rule for everybody, which is what makes it possible to state it in public on a page like this one.

If she cannot come, am I offered somebody else?

No, and that is deliberate. You are told as soon as the house knows, and then the choice is yours: name another woman from the roster yourself, or take the money back in full. Nobody is put forward on your behalf, because a booking made that way is a booking nobody actually chose. The roster is there to be read at whatever hour the message reaches you.

What happens to my details after the booking?

Ordinary bookings leave the usual administrative trace and nothing more, and the privacy page sets out what is held and for how long. A note of the kind described above is written only in the narrow circumstances listed, kept for twelve months, and read by nobody outside the house. There is no list shared with anyone, no ratings of guests, and nothing published anywhere about who booked what.

Happy Ending Massage Amsterdam: The Booking Rules

Rules are easier to follow when you can see what they are for. The formal version of everything below sits on the deposit and cancellation page and in the terms, which is where it belongs, written the way such things have to be written. This page takes the same material and explains it in the order a guest meets it, with the reason behind each rule sitting next to the rule.

The shape of the arrangement

A booking buys a block of time and the fact of her being at your door within it. That is what the figure is for. It is not a subscription, it is not a deposit against behaviour, and it does not buy any undertaking about what the session contains, because that decision belongs to the woman who knocks and she makes it herself.

Understanding that one sentence makes everything else obvious. If time is the thing being bought, then the rules about money are all rules about time: who committed to it, when it was given up, and whether it could be used by anybody else afterwards.

When half of the figure goes ahead

Most bookings here are confirmed by sending half of the agreed figure before she leaves. The word deposit gives people the wrong picture, so it is worth saying clearly: nothing is parked in a holding account to be returned if everyone behaves. The half that goes ahead is the first half of the fee itself. The second half is handed over when she arrives.

Seven kinds of booking carry it. Anything fixed more than twenty-four hours before it starts. The eight hour block, whenever it opens. Any booking with two therapists in it. A room at Schiphol or one of the airport hotels. A peak date, meaning King's Day, Pride, the Amsterdam Dance Event, the days between Christmas and the new year, or a week when a large conference fills the city. Three hours or longer. And the first booking anybody makes here, at any hour and any length.

The logic of the list is consistent once you see it. Each entry is either a large piece of time, a piece of time that is hard to refill, a journey arranged specially, or a booking with no history behind it. In every case the commitment is bigger on one side than on the other unless something goes ahead to balance it.

The one booking that carries nothing

A guest the house has already looked after, at an address inside the city, asking for one or two hours later on the same day, sends nothing in advance and pays the whole figure when she arrives. That is the only case.

Change anything about it and the half comes back into play. A different date brings it back. A second therapist brings it back. Three hours brings it back. An airport hotel brings it back. A peak date brings it back. And obviously a first booking is not a returning guest's booking, so it carries the half however small and however late it is.

How the money actually moves

Card first for the half that goes ahead, with Revolut, Wise or cryptocurrency for anybody who prefers one of them. PayPal is not used and neither are bank transfers. Cash cannot cover that half for a reason of sequence rather than principle: it is settled while she is still where she started, and cash only moves once she is in the room.

The sum and where to send it appear in the confirmed thread and nowhere else on this site. Every figure written anywhere here is in euro. The second half is handed over at the door, in cash normally, and in another major currency if you say so while the hour is being agreed, with the exact amount in that currency confirmed to you in writing before she leaves.

Changing the day

One move is free. Two conditions: ask more than twenty-four hours before the booked time, and land on a day inside the following fortnight. Meet both and whatever was sent travels across untouched, with nothing further to settle until she arrives.

A second move, or a first one asked for inside the final day, is read on the notice scale exactly as a cancellation written at that same minute would be, and whatever the scale leaves alone carries on to the new day. That is not a penalty dressed up as arithmetic. It is the same principle running underneath: an hour released at short notice is an hour that has probably gone, whatever the message calls itself.

Calling it off, step by step

No cancellation here leaves a guest owing damages to anybody, and that is worth stating first because people assume otherwise. What may stay behind is the share of the fee already earned at the moment the message lands, and the notice in the message is the only thing that decides the size of it.

More than twenty-four hours ahead: nothing is kept, everything sent comes back.
Inside the final day, with her still where she started: half of what was sent stays, half is returned.
Once she has left for your address: what was sent stays.

Two things soften the last line and both of them are automatic rather than discretionary. If somebody else takes the hour you released, the money comes back in full, because no time was lost after all. And if you can show that the real loss was smaller than the sum kept, only the smaller sum is kept.

Where nothing was sent ahead, the scale has nothing to work on. A returning guest's same-day hour called off before she leaves costs nothing at all. Called off while she is already travelling, it costs the share of the fee her journey stands for, and the house asks for nothing past it.

Worked cases, because abstractions are useless here

Three hours, confirmed with half the fee. Called off two days ahead, all of that half comes back. Called off six hours ahead with her still at home, a quarter of the whole fee stays and the other quarter returns. Called off while she is crossing the city, the half that was sent stays, unless the hour is taken by somebody else.

Ninety minutes, a first booking, confirmed with half. Moved once, three days ahead, to a day the following week: that half travels across and nothing else happens. Moved a second time, twelve hours before the new start: the second move is measured as a cancellation sent at that hour would be, so half of what was sent stays behind and the rest goes on with the booking.

The eight hour block is confirmed the same way, with half of its own line, whether one therapist attends or two. Those are the largest sums anyone books here and they behave exactly like the smallest ones.

Things genuinely outside anyone's control

Transport across the city halted, a serious disruption somewhere in it, an official instruction that makes a journey impossible. In those situations nothing is forfeited and nothing is disputed. What was sent becomes credit, held for a date you can name whenever you are ready.

A head cold, a change of heart, a meeting that overran, an airline moving a flight and a decision at midnight that sleep sounds better are all on your side of that line. Each of them is read as a move or a cancellation under the scale above. The line is not drawn to be harsh; it is drawn so that nobody has to argue about where it is at one in the morning.

When the house cannot go ahead

Then the decision about the money is yours rather than anybody else's. Ask for it back in full and it comes back in full. Leave it standing as credit and it stands for as long as you need before you pick a new day. Where the particular woman you asked for turns out not to be able to come, you are told as soon as the house knows, and you may name another from the roster yourself or take the money back. Nobody is put forward in her place.

False bookings, defined narrowly on purpose

The phrase covers four things and nothing else. A booking under a name that is not the sender's. A booking from a number or profile belonging to somebody else. A booking written as a prank. And a door nobody answered where one of those three was also true.

Missing an appointment on its own is none of those. A guest who booked honestly and then did not open the door has made an ordinary cancellation and it is read on the scale like any other. That distinction is drawn here, in advance, rather than left to somebody's judgement afterwards, which is the point of writing it down.

Where a booking does answer one of the four tests, or where a visit ended because a limit was pushed at, a short note goes into an internal record: the date, what happened, and the name and number the booking came under. It is kept for twelve months, nobody outside the house reads it, and it settles one question only, which is whether a later booking under that name is taken. Objecting to a note, or asking for it to be corrected or deleted, is covered on the privacy page.

Ending early, and the one rule with no give in it

A session ended early by either side stays payable at the booked figure. The time was held, the journey was made, and what is left of it cannot be handed to anybody else at that point in the evening. If you know beforehand that an hour is what you want rather than two, say so while the hour is still being agreed and the booking simply becomes an hour.

Your therapist decides what a session includes and says where her limits sit before it starts. What she says at that point governs the rest of the visit. Where her safety or her comfort is not respected, or where a limit she named is pushed at, the visit ends at that moment and she leaves, with the fee for the reserved time still due and nothing whatever added to it. That rule is written in advance for one reason: so that it cannot come as a surprise to anybody afterwards.

Happy ending massage Amsterdam booking rules: deposit, changes and false bookings