Who Books Anonymously, and Why
Wanting privacy is not the same as having something to hide. A lot of the men who write to us are travelling for work, some are married, and others simply keep their personal life to themselves as a matter of habit. Whatever the reason, it is a fair wish and we handle every request on that basis.
In practice, staying anonymous comes down to three choices you control: which app you write on, how much you tell us, and what stays on your own phone and laptop afterwards. Get those right and nothing ties the evening back to you.
An Encrypted Chat Instead of Texts or Email
WhatsApp encrypts each message from one end to the other, so only you and the person you are writing to can read it. Neither WhatsApp nor your phone company nor anybody else in between sees the content. Ordinary text messages, by contrast, pass through your carrier and appear on phone bills, while most email travels without that protection.
You can reach the booking desk on WhatsApp, and a reply normally arrives in minutes. Once the visit is arranged you are free to wipe the conversation from your handset, and the encryption means no readable copy sits on a server somewhere.
The Four Details a Booking Needs
A confirmed booking rests on four pieces of information: where you are (the hotel and room number, or a street address), when you would like her to arrive, which companion you have chosen or what you like, and for how long. Nothing beyond that is asked. No name and no passport.
A message such as room 412 at your hotel on the Damrak is a perfectly good location. Some guests give a first name because it makes the chat friendlier, and others give none at all; either way is fine with us.
Tidying Your Phone Afterwards
Once the evening is over, you may want to remove the WhatsApp thread. If you looked at the agency or the gallery in a browser, clearing the history takes a few seconds. One detail people overlook: when chat backups to Google Drive or iCloud are switched on, a deleted conversation can sometimes be restored from the backup, so turn that setting off in WhatsApp before you write to us.
On the hotel side, the key card and the final bill record a room number and nothing about who came to see you. Hotels in Amsterdam keep no log of the visitors their guests receive, so no record is created there either.