The therapists behind Schiphol Airport Massage

The grid above is the full roster for this site, not a selection for tonight. How many of the twenty-three are free at a given hour depends on the hour, and on a layover the hour is the one thing you cannot move.

Ask about the window first

A traveller between flights has a fixed start and a fixed end, and both are set by an airline. So the question that settles a booking in one go is not which woman, but which window: the hour you will be in the room, the hour you must leave it, and the length that fits between. Name a therapist as well if one has caught your eye, and say whether you are fixed on her. A request that leaves room for a second name is answered in one exchange; a request tied to one woman at one hour may need two.

Languages on the roster

English appears on all twenty-three profiles, which matters when you have been awake long enough that a second language feels like work. French is next, on five profiles, then Russian on four and Spanish on three. Ukrainian and Portuguese appear twice each, and Czech, German, Dutch, Romanian, Latvian, Italian and Greek once. Six of the women speak three languages.

Where the journey starts

Nobody on the roster works from premises. Each journey begins at home, and home for these twenty-three is spread across four districts: eight in the Jordaan, six in De Pijp, five in the centre and four in Oud-Zuid. For a hotel room in central Amsterdam that puts the arrival at forty to sixty minutes from a confirmed booking. An airport hotel is further out and is handled by arrangement, with her journey time agreed with you before anything is fixed.

What each profile carries

Her age, which on this roster runs from twenty-one to thirty, her languages, the district she sets out from, the techniques on her file and photographs of her, published with her agreement. The rates table is printed on every profile because it does not change from one woman to another: it runs from sixty minutes through ninety, two hours and three to the eight hour overnight, with a single guest in the first column and the couple and two therapist columns alongside.

She decides which bookings she accepts and may turn any of them down. She decides what a session includes, tells you where her limits sit before it starts, and may end it at any point. Every guest who books is twenty-one or over, as is every woman here.

Booking one of them

Put her name on the first line of the booking message, then the hotel, the hour and the length, and the departure you are working back from. If she is not free at that hour the reply says so and says who is, which on a layover is more use than an open wait.