The deposit, and the seven bookings that carry it
A deposit here is half the fee itself rather than money held aside, named in writing once the hour is agreed and settled before the therapist sets out.
The word usually suggests something parked somewhere and handed back later. This one is simpler than that. It is the first half of the fee, calculated on the figure printed in the profile of the therapist you chose, named in the booking thread once an hour has been agreed, and paid before she leaves.
Which bookings carry it
Seven do, and each of them ties up an hour well before that hour arrives:
- any booking made more than twenty-four hours ahead of its start;
- every overnight;
- every booking for two therapists, at any length;
- every Schiphol or airport hotel booking, whatever its length;
- every peak date, which the peak date entry lists;
- every session of three hours or more;
- the first booking a client makes with the house.
One booking is paid entirely on arrival: a returning client asking for one or two hours later the same day at an address inside the city. Move that request to another date, stretch it past three hours, add a second therapist or make it a first booking, and half goes ahead again.
Halves, after midnight
A single hour confirms with half the single hour. Ninety minutes confirms with half of the ninety minute line, three hours with half of the three hour line, and a night with half of the block sum. The hour on the clock changes none of these halves, because there is no night rate to apply to the whole they are cut from.
How it travels
Card first, with Revolut, Wise or cryptocurrency for anyone who prefers them. Bank transfer, PayPal and cash are not used for a deposit, cash least of all, since notes only change hands once she is already in the room. The amount and the destination appear in the booking thread after the hour is agreed and nowhere else. What is kept if the booking falls over is set out on the booking terms page, and it is never the whole sum by default.
Related terms
Write the address,
name the hour.
Two lines settle it: where the room is, and what time you want someone at the door. The answer comes back with a name, an arrival window and the whole figure, whatever the clock says.