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General Category => Questions and Answers => Topic started by: BB on 10 February 2015, 02:27:24 pm
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I have done overnight here with a client from abroad which was perfect. He is asking me if I would be interested to travel to far east for 5 days with him, staying in 5 star hotel.
It is very tempting, but would like to get some advice. I know I get on with him well and during the day he will be working. I am not sure how to go with arrangement with plane ticket, what would fair amount of pay to request.
I know everyone is different, but a break would be great and pro and cons would be good to hear from you.
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If you do a search for 'abroad', you will find several threads on this.
But you've done the first thing - you've already met him! You also know you can stand an extended booking with him, and that he should leave you alone for several hours a day.
As far as cost is concerned, it is as ever up to you. It is going to be at least seven days with no other income for you. What's that worth for you? If someone handed you several thousand pounds, would you book five days there? If not, you may not feel that the location matters in terms of what you charge.
Ideally, you get enough money upfront to book a ticket yourself. (Otherwise, there is an issue of how do you protect your identity etc.)
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Thanks Ian, I did have a look around here at previous treads.
Still not sure how to go about booking the plane ticket.
I would prefer to get the money and buy it myself.
Question is how to book it so we are traveling together.
He will be going business class and I guess his PA will book it for him.(he is based abroad).
Not sure how to coordinate with that. I do not want to disclose my ID ect. if he says that he will arrange it.
I do not want to end up on the plane on my own for 13 hours, while he is in completely different part of it.
Also I have a problem with my pre paid card, it has been blocked with money being stuck on it. To unblock it was asked to provide my ID which I am not willing to do.
So getting deposit in advance is another logistic, not sure how to go about.
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Thread: trips abroad with client (by snakelady)
I just tried the search box.
Good luck
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Thanks, I did read it yesterday. My situation is a bit different as we both are in different countries and he wants to pay for tickets through his business account.
We would fly from uk together when he is in transfer, not sure if he would stay overnight here yet or just meet at the airport.
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If it was me, I would feel more comfortable giving him my passport details (if that was the only option) if he scanned his in and emailed it to me so I could print it out and give it to a buddy or someone for my safety. I have thought aboutdoing this if I ever got an outcall overnight booking, I'd give all details to my sister. It's just an idea if you can't get around them buying your ticket for you.xox
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Thanks for the advice. I was thinking of asking him to email me his scanned copy of his passport, so will mention this . As for my ID, will have to think how to go about it. Do not want to give all my details (passport info), I know additional information will have to be supplied, hope I could email it to the ticket issuer.
I hope it will work out somehow.
Any more advice from you who have done it would be great, thanks. :)
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can't you ask him for the money to book your own ticket?
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I've booked flights online before and they sent me a link after to go and upload my passport info, it never shows in the account and you can't access it after to see it.
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I'd be booking the flight myself, once I'd been forwarded the email with his confirmation on it (which will have all the flight details too).
If he's not clearing immigration in the UK and just catching a connecting flight, you won't see him until you get to the departure lounge anyway as he'll be in transit. If he is, then you can check in together and sort out your seating then, although there's a tiny chance the desk might say your name aloud or make your boarding pass visible (I don't remember ever being addressed by name when checking in for a flight, business class or otherwise but I daresay it can happen).
Personally I'd rather spend a 13 hour flight quietly by myself, but you can still sit together provided you agree to both check in online and choose the seats you want (if you can be on the phone or Skype whilst you do this at the same time it should be pretty straightforward). I would want the cost of the flight as a deposit anyway, since I'd be writing off a weeks' work - there are various ways to do this and you can always get another prepaid card :).
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I have done overnight here with a client from abroad which was perfect. He is asking me if I would be interested to travel to far east for 5 days with him, staying in 5 star hotel.
It is very tempting, but would like to get some advice. I know I get on with him well and during the day he will be working. I am not sure how to go with arrangement with plane ticket, what would fair amount of pay to request.
I know everyone is different, but a break would be great and pro and cons would be good to hear from you.
I would be too scared to go abroad with a stranger even if I had met him, particularly the Far East incase I got sold for a camel.
Or worse, have you seen the film Taken with Liam Neeson? :-X
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Gonna break the mould here and tell you my experience with abroad travel.
I have been on countless overnights with people I haven't met previously, and I spent 5 days in Portugal with someone who I had never met last month. Why? Because whatever anyone on this site says, no one will know your instincts better than you.
The way I do it, is to get the guy to book my flights under my name (9 out of 10 clients I see don't call me anything other than my real name now). When he emails you the flight details it will have the address his credit card is registered to on it. This is what I check out and if all looks well I have no issues.
I forward all details to my mum and keep in touch with her while I'm away. She know if my social media goes quiet to call me.
I know that almost everyone here will disagree with me on this, but since making up my own 'rules' I haven't had one single issue with clients bothering me.
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It's good that it worked out for you FT, but a friend of mine was locked up in a villa bedroom which was quite remote. She had never met the guy before the booking and thought she knew better than anyone else. She never did a foreign trip again
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I don't think anybody will disagree with you doing exactly what's right for you and what you're comfortable with FT :). That's precisely what we're advising others to do here pretty much the whole time.
I'm extremely private and not comfortable passing on my legal name (even my first name) to clients so I don't, irrespective of how long I've known them - I get calls occasionally from punters who used to see another lady who worked in my town and refer to her by her legal first name rather than her work name, so she obviously wasn't bothered. I don't tell anybody I don't know my name, not even the people in Costa who write it on the paper cup when I buy a flat white.
You're happy doing it this way which is great, so you do. The OP doesn't want to, so we're trying to suggest ways she can take the booking and earn her money without having to compromise herself :).
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Sorry forgot to add what I was going to about names that was really the important thing :FF hate Sundays.
Going abroad with a client who doesn't know your full name would be a bit risky I'd imagine. What of you are injured or hurt and this guy doesn't know who you are? What if you go through passport control together and get questioned about names etc. How do other's get around things like this?
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FT has a point. I only travel with regulars whom I trust and all of them know my name. I prefer to fly together and the stewardesses would address us by name so it's near impossible to keep my real name a secret.
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Well I've been flying twenty plus times a year for a good few years, and I don't recall ever having either check in staff or cabin crew address me by name - this includes Premium and business class and to/from locations all over the world. Maybe it's because I'm too cheap to fly First ;D.
As far as emergencies go, my security buddy would be expecting me to check in regularly and would soon be in touch if they didn't hear from me. Plus on the occasions I did travel away with a punter (I no longer do longer bookings) they had a contact number for home to ring if anything happened, which was one of my work phones that Mr Amy would hang on to. If anything truly appalling happened I would expect the punter (or more likely the police) to go through my stuff and find my passport/emergency details - I think priorities change a bit in situations like that :).
I've never been anywhere that expects people to go through immigration/passport control in pairs, either. That doesn't mean they don't, but it's not a requirement for whole travel parties to pop up at the kiosk together and in my experience when they do it normally just means the staff look even more pissed off than usual ;D.
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I really appreciate everyones input. On my site nothing has been finalised yet, if decide on going it will be first week in march, so still have time to think things trough. I just want to find out as much as possible in advance.
I spent one night with him and lots of emails, but a whole week could be a challenge even if he is on business all day. I know his full name and the company he works for too.
I will update on progress and if there will be any more questions from my side.
Thanks Girls xx
p.s. Amy- I think there are new rules with a prepaid card, all need to be registered online, the one I have making a lot of hassle for nothing, it is not like I want to have credit, it is the opposite. It is Prime Card, not sure if there are others which are less hassle, so will need to see if there is a tread here too.
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I've never been anywhere that expects people to go through immigration/passport control in pairs, either. That doesn't mean they don't, but it's not a requirement for whole travel parties to pop up at the kiosk together and in my experience when they do it normally just means the staff look even more pissed off than usual ;D.
I've definitely been stopped while going through immigration as a couple but maybe that's because we were travelling as a family?
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Nowadays people are asked to have THEIR passport open at the relevant page when going through gates ~ with parents of course taking their young children's but older children holding their own.
If it was say a party of six, there is nothing wrong with four going to one section and two going to another, or 5 and 1.
It's been that way for many years now while I've been travelling.