Eleven ways to book an hour
Massage Sessions Across London
Everything below happens in Central London, by appointment, and most of it travels to you as well. Six of them will also travel to a hotel or a private address. The rates are the whole rates — nothing is added once you are in the room.
01 Tantric massage Nobody unclenches on command. You can walk in off the Northern line absolutely knackered, lie down on a warm table with every intention of relaxing, and your shoulders will still be up round your ears twenty minutes later. That is not you being bad at this. That is just how bodies work, and it is why the length of the session matters more than anything else on this page. 02 Nuru massage The gel goes into the warmer about an hour before you are due, and a session gets through the best part of a litre of it. Most of what is written about nuru in London leans mystical. The truth is bodywork plus logistics — warm gel, warm mat, a lot of laundry — and the logistics are half the craft. 03 Body to body massage “So she massages me with… all of her?” A guest put it exactly that way last spring, sounding half curious and half alarmed, and it remains the shortest honest description we have — her whole body doing work that hands alone cannot, warm oil in between, and rather less mystery to it than the name suggests. 04 Four hands massage Here is the arithmetic most men get wrong before they book this. They expect double pressure — twice the hands, twice the force. The pressure is ordinary. What doubles is the information: two therapists, two tempos, until the part of your brain whose whole job is predicting the next touch throws its hands up and goes quiet. That part of the brain, it turns out, was most of the noise. 05 Lingam massage Every couple of weeks someone asks to book twenty minutes of lingam work on its own — skip the rest, straight to the word on the page. We decline every time, and not out of preciousness. In the tantric tradition this is not a technique you lift out of a session; it is a stage the rest of the session exists to reach. Here it lives inside a full ninety minutes or more, and the placement is the practice. 06 Yoni massage A surprising share of these enquiries open with an apology. Sorry if this is an odd request, sorry if you do not really do this, sorry to bother you. It is not odd, we do, and you are not. This is quietly one of our most booked sessions — mostly women in their thirties and up — and the apologies stop at the door. 07 Couples tantric massage The couples who book this room most are not the ones on a third date. They are the ones married twenty years, who booked it as an anniversary thing, half expecting it to be naff — and who now come back every few months. Two people who like each other, side by side, going quiet at roughly the same time. That is most of what it is. 08 Sensual massage Half the adverts using this phrase in London are being vague on purpose. The word means whatever the person writing the listing needed it to mean that week, and for some of them the vagueness is the product. We would rather you knew the shape of the evening before you get on the Tube — so here is what it means in this studio, in terms you can hold us to. 09 Outcall to hotels and homes Everything fits in one wheeled case that reads as ordinary luggage, and that is by design — the therapist crossing your hotel lobby looks like any other guest arriving off a train. Table, linen, warm oil, the same rules that govern her own room riding along in the case, anywhere in London including the airports. The only thing that does not travel is the shower we cannot bring. 10 Soapy massage Half of this session is plumbing, and we mean that kindly. The bath starts filling well before you ring the bell, and the foam is whisked by hand because the bottled stuff collapses in minutes. Nuru's cousin, if you like — but where nuru is gel on a mat, this is hot water and lather, and the water changes everything it touches. 11 Male massage Straight answer before anything else: the sixteen therapists who work in this studio are women, all of them. A session with a male therapist is something we arrange on request, not somebody waiting on the rota — which makes this the least instant page on the site, and we would rather say so in the first sentence than after you have set an evening aside.
Not sure which one
For a first visit, ninety minutes of the sensual or the tantric session is the sensible choice, and the difference between those two is smaller than the names suggest. We wrote a page comparing them properly: tantric or sensual.
If you already know you want the version nobody can quite describe until they have had it, that is four hands, and it needs a day or two of notice because two diaries have to line up.
Or start from the woman
Some guests pick the session first, some pick who gives it. Both work — her card sets the price either way.
