I don't think it's just money, I think how and where you work can affect the booking lengths you do the most of - I work office hours and early evenings in a town centre and have a reduced rate for bookings that start before 4pm to encourage punters to book when it suits me better; most of the people who come to see me are at work and so can't easily disappear for more than an hour or so.

There isn't really anywhere in the town centre they can't get to me from in under ten minutes, so I do a lot of 45 minute bookings and half hours over the 11-2ish lunch period, one hour ones before and after that and any longer ones tend to be in the evenings or on Saturdays, which I don't do very often (plus my two hour rate is double my one hour one as I don't particularly want to encourage them). The people I know who work evenings seem to get more 1 hour+ bookings but fewer of them in a day so it all tends to about even out.

If punters go on about how they 'can't afford' to book for longer I don't take much notice, to be honest. If they can afford to book prostitutes at all they're not exactly on their uppers, and if they're booking when they can't really afford it that's none of my business and not my problem.

Quote from: amy on 21 October 2015, 01:39:55 pm

The people I know who work evenings seem to get more 1 hour+ bookings but fewer of them in a day so it all tends to about even out.

That's my experience, too - short 30 minute meetings during the day, longer appointments in hotels after 8 pm.

My half hours have always been more popular than the hours the exception seems to be with older retired type clients who tend to like to take their time. I work 10am-3pm so mostly covering lunchtimes and as Amy said many lunchtime visitors can only stay half hour max.

my last tour  2  weeks   i did  just  3 half  hour   all  the rest was  hour  and longer  booking  btw  i work    8am  till 9pm    .... i start   thinking i will stop do  half  hour bookings  ..  most of  the  guys  what ask me  for  half  hours   is  guys  what  want   everything  include

I don't work away much now and only really go to London now and then, but I remember last time I was there I did five days and only two half hours the whole time. All the rest were an hour or more bar a couple of 45 minute ones, even the lunchtimes.

Maybe it's to do with only being there for a short time?

Quote from: barbaragoldilocks on 21 October 2015, 05:28:30 pm

my last tour  2  weeks   i did  just  3 half  hour   all  the rest was  hour  and longer  booking  btw  i work    8am  till 9pm    .... i start   thinking i will stop do  half  hour bookings  ..  most of  the  guys  what ask me  for  half  hours   is  guys  what  want   everything  include

I don't work away much now and only really go to London now and then, but I remember last time I was there I did five days and only two half hours the whole time. All the rest were an hour or more bar a couple of 45 minute ones, even the lunchtimes.

Maybe it's to do with only being there for a short time?

London is the only place I offer 30min bookings and I only had one on my last trip. I get plenty of hour bookings during the day at home and if I get an evening booking it's usually 2 hours or more.

I don't think it's just money, I think how and where you work can affect the booking lengths you do the most of - I work office hours and early evenings in a town centre and have a reduced rate for bookings that start before 4pm to encourage punters to book when it suits me better; most of the people who come to see me are at work and so can't easily disappear for more than an hour or so.

There isn't really anywhere in the town centre they can't get to me from in under ten minutes, so I do a lot of 45 minute bookings and half hours over the 11-2ish lunch period, one hour ones before and after that and any longer ones tend to be in the evenings or on Saturdays, which I don't do very often (plus my two hour rate is double my one hour one as I don't particularly want to encourage them). The people I know who work evenings seem to get more 1 hour+ bookings but fewer of them in a day so it all tends to about even out.

If punters go on about how they 'can't afford' to book for longer I don't take much notice, to be honest. If they can afford to book prostitutes at all they're not exactly on their uppers, and if they're booking when they can't really afford it that's none of my business and not my problem.

My experience is quite different, I found requests for shorter bookings and longer bookings to be equally spread throughout the day and week. I have had clients who like to come for 2 or 3 hour bookings during the day, either who aren't working, or who specifically take a day off work. For them they have other commitments in the evening, or it's easier to get away from work, or they use public transport, and lots of other reasons.

I also notice that many last minute weekend or evening requests can be for a 'quickie' and I suspect that's more to do with their state of inebriation or horniness on waking.

Thanks for the replies - all interesting! But what I was actually wondering wasn't so much if/why clients chose shorter bookings, but whether anyone else thought the rate of longer bookings had dropped in favour of shorter ones. i.e. are clients booking 30m instead of longer possibly for financial reasons? I'm on the fence as to whether there is actually a trend in this direction, but I did have a vague suspicion this was happening.

No, me neither. The people who book half hour/45 mins/hours still do and the hour plus people likewise, but I don't encourage longer booking anyway and they tend to be regulars.

I'm not in a particularly affluent area so I suppose many people are less affected by financial swings when they didn't have megabucks to start with .