The duration ladder, from an hour to a night

Lengths here are rungs rather than a sliding scale, which keeps a conversation at two in the morning down to a single choice. For one guest with one therapist the rungs are one hour, ninety minutes, two hours, three hours, and the eight hour night, which is quoted as a block rather than as eight rungs stacked. Any hour added beyond the third costs what the first hour cost.

The other three ladders

Two therapists with one guest pay double the single hour. One therapist with a couple pays that same double. Two therapists with a couple pay four times the single hour. Each of those carries its own overnight figure, and all of them appear in full in every profile on the roster.

Which rung the night suggests

An hour is a real booking and there are nights when it is exactly right, particularly early in the evening when sleep is still the plan afterwards. Past one in the morning the calculation changes. Something slow and oil-based, like warm oil work, has barely finished warming a back by the time a single hour runs out, and ninety minutes is the more honest floor. Two hours is the rung that late bookings most often want and least often choose.

What the clock does not do to it

Nothing. There is no night rate, no weekend rate and no travel charge anywhere inside the ring, so three in the morning on a Saturday costs what three in the afternoon on a Tuesday costs. The only figure the hour can move is availability, since fewer therapists keep the deepest hours, and that is a question about choice rather than price.

Changing rung

Shortening or lengthening a booking before she sets out is settled in the thread and costs nothing. Once she is in the room the reserved time stays payable in full, whatever happens to it, which is the point the booking terms make about a session ended early.