Guide · Schiphol · 2026-10-14
Nuru or body to body massage at Schiphol: choosing on a weeknight
Nuru and body to body are close relatives. Both use the therapist's body weight rather than her hands alone, both are slow and continuous. The real difference, for a visitor in an airport hotel, is gel against oil, and what each asks of the room and of the morning.
Guests who have tried one of these two formats often ask about the other, and the question usually arrives on a weeknight in a hotel near the offices at Schiphol-Oost or Schiphol-Rijk. Choosing between nuru and body to body massage at Schiphol is less about which is more enjoyable, since both have devoted regulars, and more about the shower in your bathroom and the time your alarm is set for.
What they share
In both formats the pressure comes from weight rather than from fingers. She moves along the length of the back and legs with her forearms and then her body, in long gliding passes, slowly and without breaks. Both carry more contact than a sensual massage and both reward a session long enough to settle into. What the session includes is hers to decide, set out at the start in her own words, in either format.
Where they differ
Nuru uses a warm gel made from seaweed that removes all friction, and a waterproof sheet she spreads over the bed. The gel feels unlike anything else, which is why people who like nuru tend to like it a great deal. It also needs washing off properly in a shower afterwards, which takes time and a bathroom that can cope.
Body to body uses oil instead. The movement is similar and the contact almost as close, but there is no sheet, no gel and no rinse at the end. You can be asleep soon after the door closes behind her.
How the room decides
Business hotels near the airport vary most in their bathrooms. A walk-in shower with a strong head makes nuru easy. A bath with a hand-held shower, or a cubicle the size of a phone box, makes it awkward. If you have stayed in the same hotel before you will already know which kind you have. If you have not, describe the bathroom in your message and the reply will say honestly whether nuru suits it.
How the morning decides
If the first meeting is at eight, body to body is the kinder choice: nothing to rinse, nothing to clear away, straight to sleep. Nuru belongs to the night before a slower morning, which for most weekly visitors means the last evening before the flight home. Both formats are priced from the same table on the profiles, and at the airport both carry a deposit of half.