Extended.More hours,less clock.

Anything that goes past a standard evening. A long afternoon exploring the city, then dinner. Twelve hours in town with a break to rest. Two or three days together while you are here. It overlaps with the overnight, but it is built around daylight as much as dark.

Here is one version. Late morning coffee near the Amstel. A museum on Museumplein in the afternoon. Lunch on a terrace. A few hours apart so you both rest and change. Then an evening that starts with a drink at sunset and ends wherever it ends.

Another version stays mostly indoors: a suite, films, room service, and a long walk in Vondelpark to break it up. Neither is better. Tell the desk which one you are after.

A weekend booking has a natural shape. Friday is the arrival night: dinner, a short walk, a sensible finish. Saturday is the big day: a market in the morning, a museum, a long lunch, rest, then the full night out. Sunday slows right down: late breakfast, a walk along the water, a goodbye that nobody is rushing.

Build it like that and nobody burns out by Saturday afternoon. Tell the desk which parts matter most, and where you want time on your own. The booking page covers the steps.

The best long bookings include breaks. Nobody is at their best after twelve straight hours of anything. Build in time apart: she heads out for a walk while you take a call, and you meet again for dinner.

Give the desk the full plan: start, finish and the pieces in between. A long booking is its own quote. On request, confirmed on WhatsApp, breaks and all, ideally the day before. Rates for a single hour start from €180 per hour, for reference.

Three separate evenings with three separate goodbyes feel like three first dates. One extended booking feels like time with someone. The conversation carries over, the jokes carry over, and by Saturday morning she knows how you take your coffee.

It also takes the admin away. One plan, one quote, one thread with the desk instead of a fresh message every evening.

Long bookings need a bag. Tell her in advance what the days hold, so she brings the right clothes: walking shoes for a canal day, something smart for a restaurant, a jacket for a windy boat trip.

Over several days, agree which evenings are shared and which are yours alone, and where she can change between plans. None of it is complicated. It just needs saying out loud before Friday, not on Saturday afternoon.

Oud-Zuid is made for a full day: museums, the park and good hotels, all on foot. Amsterdam Oost suits something slower, with parks, old docks and neighbourhood cafés. From either one, the rest of the city is a short tram ride away.

Days out of town work too. A long booking can include a day in Utrecht or on the coast, planned the same way, with travel agreed up front.

Long bookings need easy company. Angelika is confident and playful, into contemporary art, tennis and jazz bars, so a day with her covers a lot of ground. Nora is spirited and warm, loves champagne and flower markets, with fashion design always on her mind. Tiffany is graceful and detail-oriented, a street photographer who notices everything. Lucy runs along the Amstel and loves espresso culture, the perfect guide to a slow city morning.

Angelika and Nora both sit in the athletic group, handy for a day that covers a lot of pavement.