Stag weekend in Amsterdam and a happy ending massage: what the house does, and what it does not

A stag weekend in Amsterdam often includes somebody suggesting a happy ending massage for the groom, or for the whole group. The house takes bookings from members of a group in exactly the way it takes them from anyone else, one guest and one room at a time. What it does not do is anything shaped like a party, and knowing where that line sits saves a group an awkward evening.

One guest, one room, one booking

Each booking is for the person in the room, in a room with nobody else in it for the booked time. A suite with four friends in the lounge next door, a party flat with the group in the kitchen, or a hotel room shared with a brother who promises to wait in the bathroom does not qualify. If two members of the group want a session at the same hour, those are two bookings in two private rooms, each arranged on its own.

The person in the room writes for himself

A booking arranged as a surprise for somebody else is not taken. The groom has to be the one who agreed to his own booking, in writing, as himself. A message written by one friend on behalf of another, or a booking made under one name for a different man in a different room, counts as a false booking, which is the one kind of booking that leaves a note in the house's records.

Twenty-one or over, every one of them

Everyone present has to be twenty-one or over, and she may ask to see photo identification at the door. Groups often include a younger brother or cousin; if any person who would be in the room is under twenty-one, there is no booking, however the rest of the group feels about it.

A clear head is part of the arrangement

Stag weekends tend to involve a lot of drinking, which is the group's business until somebody books a session. At the door she says where her limits sit, and a guest who cannot follow that conversation cannot keep to it either. She may turn away a visit that starts badly, and the reserved time is still owed. The practical advice is simple: book the session for before the night out, not after it.

How a group happy ending massage request should look

It should not look like a group request at all. Each person writes his own message with his own hotel, room number, hour and length, from his own phone. Each first booking sends half of the figure ahead. Anyone who wants to compare notes should read the booking rules first and the page on declined requests second.