Was chatting with a friend a couple days ago and she suggested this could be an interesting thread.

I arranged a booking for Tuesday just gone with a guy I've seen once before, but at a different tour location.

I asked "what time will you be setting off?" Thinking this is the time I'll ask him to confirm the booking.

"To get to you for 9am I'll be setting off at 6am. It's my day off so don't worry, we won't be rushed."

 

But my best ever was when I was working Heathrow (which I'm never going back to due to amount of TW.) again it was a guy who'd seen me before a couple of times when i worked gatwick regularly. He calleD me at 10am for a lunchtime booking. He only wanted a quickie. I told him to set off and call me when in the area. He texted 2hs later to say he was on his way but would take him longer than he thought. (It was a Sunday and he hadn't accounted for reduced timetable on buses and trains.)

He eventually arrived after FOUR HOURS of travel. I normally charge £20 extra for full service in quickies but I felt like he deserved it so I threw it in for free 😂

I've had clients travel specifically for 3 or 4 hours to visit me, some regularly drive for 90 minutes each way.

I had a guy travel from a Hebridean island to Manchester for a dinner date. His journey involved a boat, a car and a train and he stayed the night in a hotel in Manchester.

Also be aware some may not be honest about their travel time, or where they travel from.

If they get on a plane or a boat to see you then that's definitely impressive!

Yes of course they may well exaggerate the travel time but the two I mentioned in my OP I do believe. The first guy texted me at 6am to say "on my way", and I was in central London so it would have been a bitch of a journey to make 9am. The second guy kept updating me by text "I'm on the train to London", "I've arrived in St Pancras but there's no tube so I have to get a bus", etc etc. I actually thought he was taking the piss and wasn't going to turn up right until he called me from Heathrow and asked for the hotel postcode so he could get in an Uber!

I had one client who travelled over 400 miles for 1 hour appoitment. Edinburgh - London Heathrow. Crazy person drove for 7.5 hours. It was domination session without sex and he paid me very good money.