Good morning ladies!

I know this topic has been covered numerous times in numerous formats, but I'd like some advice on potentially increasing my rates.

I offer an extensive range of services and am becoming quite well known for BDSM / fetish sessions that also cross into the "sex" realms. I own a magnitude of toys, equipment, outfits and I always keep them updated. In my opinion, I offer a great service. I am always attentive to what my client expects which shows in my repeat client base.

The issue I have is that I work from hotels and apartments, which seem to have jumped up in price significantly over the last year. On occasion, I could get a room for 70 - 110 a night. Now, it is minimum of 140 a night and the more premium hotels or rooms, which I used to use all the time, are now 180+. Obviously there has been a change in the economy, noone can deny that. Personally, I'd like to increase my half hour rate by 10 and my hour by 20, which would bring my rate to 10 above the average price of girls in my area (and these girls only offer a GFE service. It might well be the best in the world but still not as extensive as my service offerings).

I currently offer strap on as extra 20 (because let's face it, the extra amount of condoms used alone is worth that), watersports as extra 20 and duos as extra 50. I also offer one hour of each working day as reduced rate of 130, which I don't really want to do but I can never seem to get that hour filled due to the time.

My fear is that clients don't fully understand that costs have rocketed. A few clients have already mentioned that I have higher rates than what I had 2 years ago (?!).
 
So, can I justifiably increase my rates without changing my services? Or should I drop the "extras" and roll them all into one flat rate? OR am I just being a greedy bitch because I can see the change in net profit from before the economy earthquake?

Any advice, always appreciated!

Probably justifying them to myself! I feel terrible hiking my prices up when I see how much rates in general have increased across the board from a few years ago. Many clients I would see weekly can now only afford every second or third week. I don't want to seem like I am taking the piss, but my overheads are killing me.

Hi VG,

I am a touring escort so I understand what you mean regarding costs only too well.

What I find works for me is a flat rate for my GFE and then I add ?20 for rimming. This is the only extra I do.

I am 60/80/140. I get next to no 60s. I get a lot of 80s and I get 140s. If guys want my rimming then they have no problem paying it.

I will not stick my tongue up some guy's arse for less than 100.

If they want to see you, they will pay your rates. I knock 20 off my hourly rate when I work from home as I don't have the overheads.

I've played around with my rates a lot. I consider my rates just right for my age bracket and the areas I tour in.

I know the difficulty with trying to charge the right amount to generate business and make a decent profit. Good luck with whatever you decide.

Can you keep the prices the same for regs so you don't lose them
increasing your rates is up to you and perfectly ok but you might lose work so it won't be worth while

Where are you touring to pay ?140 a night
Unless it's London I never pay more than about ?80 and even then I can generally get a  a decent hotel in London for ?100 a night
I've got three nights in Oct for ?100 a night and it's a lovely modern hotel in London

Also have you tried different nights in hotels
Wednesday is always the most expensive
Ie two nights Thur Fri in London I can get for ?170 -?220 but if I add a Wednesday it shoots up to ?350 -?400

4 nights in areas in the west Midlands  ?255 this a hotel with a pool & free parking
Add a Wednesdays and it's close to ?400 so ?150 for 1 night and ?65 for the others
I've found this to be pretty much the case In most areas

If this happens routinely is it possible to travel to somewhere else half an hour or so away, somewhere that doesn?t hike hotel prices up.

I?m not saying touring, more a practical remedy for your problem, so you?d have a back up city/town to work from, that you could advertise and might still work with existing clients.

That?s what I?d consider doing anyway.

If the hotels are going up in price then course you need to increase a bit otherwise you cant work from them punters will always moan with any increase because some think we should be charging much less then what we do charge so your always get arseholes giving you a hard timevover it because they think none of us pay tax and were all on benefits. Do what you need to do.

It depends which day of the week it is, but mainly fully booked every day I work. Most of these bookings are in advance. I know: the rule of supply and demand, it just doesn't seem applicable though.

There have been some threads on "increasing prices".

If you feel resentful that what you are offering deserves a local going price, given the specialised services, I would say, up the price.  I had a similar set of responses when I upped my price, "oh it will upset your customers" " a bad move, given the economy" etc etc and generally, negative comments.  I upped my price regardless and I noticed there are some mature ladies, who charge a lot more than I do... Clearly, they are doing fine, as there's no sign of lowering their price.   If you are too busy, definitely, I will go up.   I have looked at ladies prices, they aren't cheap.   There are ladies who charge low but charge extras.  So just do what you feel right.