Massage Amsterdam after Westerpark, the old gasworks and the brick streets beyond

Westerpark is where many visitors go when they want a day away from the busy canals without leaving the city. The park runs along the edge of the old town, and its western half is taken up by the Westergas, a nineteenth-century gasworks whose halls now hold a cinema, restaurants, studios and, on many weekends, markets and festivals. North of the park the Spaarndammerbuurt has the brick housing blocks of the Amsterdam School, with their rounded corners and odd little towers, and a small museum inside one of them.

Brick, lawns and long walks

The distances here are larger than in the centre. From a hotel on the canals to the park gate is a fair walk, the park itself is long, and a loop round the Spaarndammerbuurt to see the brick blocks adds another hour of streets. Weekend markets in the gasworks mean standing and browsing in crowds, and summer festivals mean an afternoon on your feet on grass. None of it is hard, yet by early evening the walk back towards the Jordaan feels longer than it did in the morning.

The evening back in the Jordaan

Plenty of visitors who spend the day in the park sleep a short walk away, in the Jordaan or on the western canals. The streets there are narrow and the buildings old, so a hotel with a tiny lobby or a flat up a steep stair is common. A note in the thread about the entrance saves time at the door, and the arrival window of forty to sixty minutes from confirmation covers the Jordaan as it does the rest of central Amsterdam.

Writing for a massage in Amsterdam from the park

There are cafés in the gasworks halls and along the park edge, and any of them is a fine place to send the message. Name the street and number of the place you are staying, add the floor and the door, and say when you will be back. A request from the park at five for a session at half past seven leaves time for the walk home and a shower. The reply names who is free, with the figure from her profile, and the booking is fixed only once you accept.

If you rented a flat nearby

Some visitors rent a flat in the streets around the park rather than a hotel room in the centre. A flat needs a little more description than a hotel does: which bell to press, whether the street door is locked in the evening, and how many flights up. The booking thread entry explains what the written conversation is for, and the page on canal-house stairs covers steep staircases, if your building has one.