Or you can try what I am doing now, I am touring my own country. I have spent a few days in a few different cities around Holland, it is loads of fun, and you meet a completely different client base. I have also done the same thing in the UK, and prices do differ from place to place. I usually work in the NI- Belfast, Derry, and also border towns, Letterkenny, Dundalk. And there I ask 180-200 Pounds for an hour, and very few grumble. But then I also will 'double dip' and pop and ad in the Sport-my other persona-and then I charge 150 for and hour.
And in Belfast I usually stay in my favorite little hotel on Victoria Street The M*****son, a rather nice boutique hotel. Great cocktails, yummy food, and delightfully oblivious staff. Plus it is that kind of hotel where the young and terminally hip go for a naughty weekend, so people coming and going really doesn't raise an eyebrow. Plus it is 100m away for the Victoria Square shopping center. Good grief, I sound like a advert for the Belfast tourist board! 

Colette, I can't really add anything to what has been said, I agree, stick to your guns - charge what you know you are worth.
I have had a couple of the 'I've see a lady who was cheaper' 'That's rather expensive' 'They charge less in the parlours' and I had one which really annoyed me 'Get real, we're in a recession babe'.

I confess I did it once, I let myself be talked into lowering my price, the guy was already in my flat and I was short on cash - as soon as I had agreed to it I regretted it. I didn't give as good service as I normally do, not conciously but because I resented him and I felt cheap and nasty for a couple of days after. It wasn't even that big a discount.

I'll never do that again.

I confess I did it once, I let myself be talked into lowering my price, the guy was already in my flat and I was short on cash - as soon as I had agreed to it I regretted it. I didn't give as good service as I normally do, not conciously but because I resented him and I felt cheap and nasty for a couple of days after. It wasn't even that big a discount.

I'll never do that again.

Girl...I tell ya. It took me awhile to realize that 'selling your body' is truly 'selling your body/mind/soul. If I say I want X amount, its X amount. If someone tells you they want to pay X amount, you've pretty much allowed them to determine your value for that moment in time. Makes me want to gag, but lately it hasnt happened like it used to, whew...

When it comes to this business there is still a chasm between what some grunters think we ought to do and charge and our own expectations.  Some guys, including various subspecies of Homo Brutus, as well as assorted Neanderthal subspecies think we ought to have a ?flog them cheap and pile them high? approach to our business.  These are the same charming specimens who suggest we ought to get off our backs or on them by showing a better attitude charge less than ?100 instead of watching daytime TV.  What most of these guys fail to compute that some of us hold enough qualifications to work in many other professions for a decent wage.  However, especially me I am a lazy wench and want to work for as much money for fewer occasions.  I don?t want to rutt away all day and have smoke coming out of my foofoo!  I enjoy what I do but the biggest luxury for me is to have a lot of free time.  I am happy with a few clients a week/month to leave me free to pursue a huge amount of other interests.  And I rather see one client who is ok with my rate than having to work double or 3 times as hard.  Those guys that resent paying my hourly fee are not going to be my clients anyway ? so why worry about their gripes?  Speaking a few languages and having post graduate qualifications I could earn or probably more than them but I prefer to get a decent realistic monthly income rather than burning myself physically and mentally out in a short time.

So cue soft lightning and me flicking back my hair ? its ?coz I am worth it ? innit!?