I went back to work when the hotels reopened, saw some regs and it was ok and that still is.  However, I’ve seen a massive increase in timewasters on the phone & email.  Also, the amount of no shows is getting ridiculous, I do get them sometimes but nothing like this .  It’s so frustrating as i only work one or two days a week. They do not get a second chance.

In my experience punters are not bothered about Covid, I have to remind them to wash hands & shower!!

On the plus side the hotels are getting busier as gyms are open, people are meeting etc.  When I first went back the hotels were very very quiet....cringe They have not been taking client details.

SO! Coronavirus is still affecting bookings for me, and here's how.

Throughout the lockdown I had a massive upturn in enquiries and booking requests (not AW booking requests as they'd suspended those, I mean general messages and emails requesting a booking).

The lockdown ended but I was still isolating as much as I could, including not seeing close family, but still had emails from guys as "the pandemic's over" and "you won't die" and "I can show you my negative result" etc. I batted them all away, with nice/friendly replies such as "save me to your hotlist", "hope to see you very soon", "contact me in a month" etc. I promised them all that as soon as I was ready to return, I would announce it on my profile.

Which I eventually did.

That was almost 2 weeks ago. And I have gone from numerous requests per day, pre-announcement, to literally ONE. In total. ONE (seemingly) *GENUINE* request in almost 2 weeks. Which I couldn't accommodate because he wanted a date I can't do.

Apart from that it's been almost dead, apart from: man who wanted hardsports (NOT OFFERED), man who wanted "smelly farts" (NOT OFFERED), man who called me "princess" (WTF is this, Eastenders?!) and also wanted hardsports (IGNORED), man who messaged "hi"(IGNORED), man who messaged "hi how you doing" (IGNORED), man who told me his wife's away and he likes women who are the same age as him and he wanted hours of fun sex at his hotel (NOPE, NONE OF THIS (apart from the age) OFFERED), and a man who said "I guess I should accept you just don't want to meet me" (which I pointed out we're in a FUCKING PANDEMIC!!!!).

I know it's August, school hols, quiet time, etc. It's just this year is definitely loony tunes time.


Interestingly, almost all (I'd guess at 90%?) of the messages I received through AW during the lockdown came from accounts that are now DELETED/no longer active.

Apart from that it's been almost dead, apart from: man who wanted hardsports (NOT OFFERED), man who wanted "smelly farts" (NOT OFFERED), man who called me "princess" (WTF is this, Eastenders?!) and also wanted hardsports (IGNORED),

I think I got the hardsports guys, one contacted me more than once and I was polite and said that I couldn't do that, then he contacted me AGAIN asking the same thing, so I figured 'time to make it VERY clear on the profile'  even then I got this pathetic, pleading request last week from someone else entirely.  Oh it is so gross, I just blocked immediately, I don't even have the patience to tell them to fuck off.

I went back to work when the hotels reopened, saw some regs and it was ok and that still is.  However, I’ve seen a massive increase in timewasters on the phone & email.  Also, the amount of no shows is getting ridiculous, I do get them sometimes but nothing like this .  It’s so frustrating as i only work one or two days a week. They do not get a second chance.

In my experience punters are not bothered about Covid, I have to remind them to wash hands & shower!!

On the plus side the hotels are getting busier as gyms are open, people are meeting etc.  When I first went back the hotels were very very quiet....cringe They have not been taking client details.

Since I put "no timewasters" on my profile I haven't had many time wasters. I'm amazed it worked. Do you do this? It's worth a shot.

Thought about doing this but I haven’t put “no timewasters” as I thought this might encourage more of them 

Although, this last week or so hasn’t been as bad, a few calls from TW & NS saved in my phone, obv IGNORED

Yes I took it down after just a few hours.  It is the same geezers asking for details plus photos as before.  Only 1 in 12 or so materialises.  I search their name before I reply and lo and behold I wrote to them previously.

I may put it up for one day each week.  See how it goes.  Only starting back Friday anyway.

So a general question for all: what’s your prediction / insight / plan for our business for rest of the year?

Dire. Then again all depends on your location, your niche and target group some ladies will do better than others. -In general- I believe things will improve mid september and by December most people will be back to the office which is a good thing (men will have freedom of movement etc..). Flights and tourism will slowly resume and hotels will start operating in a "new normal". However... the "virus paranoia" will live with us for the next two years, that will make punters think twice (specially the older ones). Then there's a recession coming our way once the furlough scheme finishes and that will also affect the industry. It make take another year or two to get back to pre-lockdown levels. I hope I'm wrong.