Hey ... I live in Wales an a guy contacted me last night from London hammersmith to ask if I could travel up for a booking ... The booking is two 1/2 hours so I'm charging him 400 do you think I should ask for a deposit seeing as I will be travelling 2 and half hours by car before I go just in case I get there an he let's me down ? Xx

From cardiff so it takes 2 and half to 3 hours drive ?? Xx

Absolutely! Was just going to post the same thing as Amy. Talk about coals to Newcastle! The squillions of sex workers in London not doing it for him? Does he have reviews?
You'll spend 6 hours driving to and fro to do that gig! Why? I'd insist on the whole amount, plus petrol money, up-front.

Ask for more money, and take a friend with you.

I would be asking myself why a man in a city with thousands of prossies available is trying to get you to travel so far away from home for a relatively short appointment.

Even if he isn't up to no good (and if you decide to go, get a deposit and be rigorous with your security checks), I wouldn't bother when I can earn more money at home in the entire day I'd have to write off to do it. I don't often do outcalls anyway, but the booking time has to amount to the same as or greater than the travel time or I don't go.

Agree with Amy for once.  Why would he be asking a girl to travel all that way when there are thousands of girls of all types closer?

Check out warnings and wasters....this is ringing bells in my head I'm sure there is a guy that scams girls with this.

I should say that I've done plenty of outcalls to London and further over the years without ever having problems, but I was going also on the warnings thread posted by the OP and (rightly or wrongly) took her to be fairly inexperienced and therefore easier to take advantage of. It reads to me as somebody deliberately trying to get her away from her comfort zone and that doesn't normally end well.

One other thing she could do is combine the booking with a mini-tour if she decides to go ahead - book a hotel (so there's somewhere to go if the bloke is an arsehole/has no money/etc etc) and stick an ad up for a couple of days?

Agree with Amy for once.

I wasn't aware we'd disagreed, but then my memory is worse than my goldfishes . As for the warnings and wasters post, it reminds me of one too but I can't remember which? There's a couple it could be, to be honest - we'll just have to wait and see if the OP comes back with any more info .