Hi,

You don't have to alter your rates if you don't want to; you are right in that your time is your time regardless of the activities. However, it is commom and almost expected that a lower rate is charged for social only time.

I don't do social outcall anymore but I do still get social incall and I charge 2/3s of my standard rate. I reduce my rate because firstly, it is normally less effort, and secondly, because bookings generally last longer than an hour. It depends if you want social time to be a main aspect of your services offered. Like with most businesses and products: pricing determines sales levels.

I don't know where your area is in relation to London but if it is not worth the travel, I wouldn't bother going. I think it is the norm to charge travelling expenses in London too though.

It all depends on you.

I used to offer a much reduced rate for dinner dates and social bookings, whether in private or alone. My time for Escort bookings then became limited and I found that the social only meetings where taking up time in which I could have seen clients at full rate which just didn't make sense, so I upped my dinner date and also removed the social only rate.

I also found that there could be a lot of ambiguity around social only meets, with some clients then wanting to go back for private time, which sounds great but getting back to my incall place from where ever we were started to really add onto the time, which I wasn't charging for - or I'd have arranged something else on the basis of the social only being 1 hour or whatever, and then have the client look really disappointed. Others expected me to hold my day indefinitely based on their one hour social booking which I was charging at less than 50% of my usual rate.

Thank you Naked chef, Mirror and the happy hooker!

Just as I suspected, everything boils down to time.

I have one guy who comes to see me almost every week for social time. He never tells me how long he wants to stay so planning atound him is near impossible. So now I just offer him time in the evening, say from 7.30pm, and don't book anyhing after him

I think that's a great idea Naked chef, a fixed time slot.

I don't think your a cow the happy hooker because based on all your experiences I cant see how reducing our hourly rates for a dinner/social date would make good business sense. Espeacially when you factor in the time and the travel expense of each date.And as Mirror mentioned

there could be a lot of ambiguity around social only meets, with some clients then wanting to go back for private time, which sounds great but getting back to my incall place from where ever we were started to really add onto the time, which I wasn't charging for

I like the idea of dinner dates but to make it work it would  have to be on my  turf and like the naked chef, provide the client with a fixed but flexible time slot that's  available towards the end of the day. I know that value pricing is big in the business world so maybe i could take some inspiration from phone companies such as Vodafone and provide monthly phone ( sex) bundles, some sort of fixed price package that incorporates other services that would compliment a dinner date......who knows.