Extended bookings, one companion for a longer window
An extended booking is anything longer than a night: a full day, a day and a night, a long weekend, or the length of a stay. It is the format for a guest in the city for a week of meetings who wants the same company each evening, a guest with three free days and no wish to spend them alone, and a guest who has met a companion once and would like the second evening to have no ending at all. It is quoted as one window with a fixed start and a fixed end.
Extended bookings are arranged in advance and quoted as one figure for the whole window, confirmed in the chat before it opens. A day or a weekend is not the €180 opening hour multiplied, and the rates page explains why.
Companions suited to extended bookings
Chosen for this format from what each profile says about her, not at random. Open any line for her photo set and her details, then give the desk her name.
What counts as extended
Roughly, anything the overnight page does not cover. A day from breakfast to midnight. Two nights and the day between. Every evening of a five day stay, with the days free. A whole weekend, in the city or out of it. The desk treats each as one booking with one figure, and the shape of it, when she is with you and when she is not, is written down at the outset so that neither of you is guessing. Guests staying at the airport between flights count too, and so does a companion who joins you for the second half of a week rather than all of it.
The rhythm of a long booking
A long booking has slow parts, and that is the point. Breakfast, a walk through the Vondelpark, a museum in Oud-Zuid, an afternoon apart if you have work, dinner, an evening nobody needs to plan because tomorrow exists. Companions who suit this format are the ones who are easy over a long span, calm rather than performing, curious about the city, and comfortable with silence. It is the same quality that makes them good travel company, and the travel companion page overlaps with this one for trips that leave the city.
Where the long ones happen
In the city, mostly in the quieter districts: Oud-Zuid, the Jordaan, the waterfront in Noord. At the airport, for a guest with a long layover or a stay at a Schiphol hotel between two flights, where a day and a night with a companion is a better use of the time than the terminal. And outside Amsterdam, in Utrecht, Den Haag or Rotterdam, where a companion who joins you for the length of a conference is a version of this format the desk arranges often.
Notice, figures and the conversation
Ask as early as you can, a week for a weekend and more for a stay, because a companion who gives you several days is rearranging hers to do it. The desk works through the shape with you, proposes names who genuinely want a booking of that length, and comes back with one figure. That figure is confirmed in writing and does not move. Changes on the way, an extra evening, a morning off, are handled by message and quoted before they happen, exactly as on every other page. The booking page describes the first message; here it is simply longer.
- The dates, and the hours within them she is with you
- Where you are staying, and whether the booking travels
- What the days contain, so the desk suggests the right name
Who is suited to a long window
Margo is calm, refined and content in a garden or a gallery, and better company on the third day than the first. Vanessa is relaxed, curious and collects languages, which makes a long stay easy. Nancy is sunny and easygoing and thinks a road trip is a good use of a Sunday. Sonya is thoughtful, warm and steady over any span. Laura is energetic enough for a full day and warm enough for the evening after it. The aged 30 and over and slim lists hold several of these names.
Questions about extended bookings
What is the difference between an overnight and an extended booking?
An overnight is one evening through to the morning. An extended booking is longer: a full day, a weekend, or every evening of a stay, quoted as one window with a fixed start and a fixed end.
How far ahead should I book?
A week for a weekend and longer for a stay. The desk matches you with a companion who wants a booking of that length, which takes more than an afternoon.
Can the booking include time apart?
Yes, and most do. Say which hours she is with you and which she is not, and the figure reflects that. Changes along the way are quoted by message before they happen.
How is a longer window priced?
As one figure for the whole window, quoted when you describe it and fixed in writing before it begins. A longer window is priced as a whole rather than by the hour.
Other formats on the board
Extended bookings, settled in one message.
Send the hotel, the hour and the format. The desk replies with who is free and what it costs, before anything is agreed.