The words a daylight booking in Amsterdam uses

• Outcall

  Outcall means the therapist does the travelling, arriving at the room you already hold rather than sending you to an address across a city you barely know.

• Arrival Window

  The arrival window is the forty to sixty minutes between a booking being agreed in the thread and a therapist knocking on a door in central Amsterdam.

• Deposit

  A deposit here is the front half of the fee itself, paid before she leaves rather than held aside, and it applies to seven kinds of booking in daylight.

• Balance on Arrival

  The balance is the second half of the fee, settled when she reaches the room rather than at the end, so the money is done with before the hour begins.

• Cancellation and Refunds

  What stays with the house when you cancel is set by the warning you give, not by the reason: three steps run from full return to nothing returned at all.

• False Bookings

  A false booking is one made under a borrowed name or number, or sent as a prank; an honest afternoon that went unanswered is an ordinary cancellation.

• Overnight

  An overnight is a block of eight hours at a single figure, and on this site it is as often used across a long afternoon and evening as across a night.

• Twenty-One or Over

  Everyone in the room has to be twenty-one or over, which is why a photo document can be asked for at the door on a bright afternoon just as at any hour.

• Daylight Hour

  A daylight hour is any booking that runs while it is still light, from a late morning through to dusk, and it costs exactly what the same hour costs at night.

• Duration Ladder

  Five lengths are bookable, from a single hour to a block of eight, and the one that suits an afternoon is usually a step longer than people first think.

• Do Not Disturb

  A do-not-disturb sign is the one practical thing worth settling before a daytime booking, because a hotel floor by day is full of people holding keys.

• Housekeeping Round

  Most rooms are cleaned between mid morning and mid afternoon, which is the one piece of hotel timing worth knowing before you place a daytime booking.

• Booking Thread

  Everything is arranged in writing in one thread, which is where the figure, the hour and the arrival window are agreed and where they can be read back later.

• Peak Date

  A handful of dates fill the city and the roster at once, and on those days half the figure travels first even on a booking that would not otherwise ask.

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