Yeah, but Arbie...
I do agree with you about the need to not thrust 'what you should be doing' style advice to a new WL - my personal hate is for people who write on a forum, to a WL who's been working less than a week, "Are you going to tour Sydney???" - but I do have to take issue with something you wrote (this is NOT a flame).
That's the commment
The gents could always book a hotel room for themselves . hehe
UNfortunately that's what the problem is. If the cost of the hotel room gets 'privatised' i.e. falls on the mp.net, then the effective cost of the WL shoots up by AT LEAST $54, which is the cost of the cheapest room whenever I've tried booking a room to see a WL in.
Now I haven't actually read LexiBelle's profile - my laptop only allows me to see the pics and reviews on profiles for some reason - so I don't know her prices or what her take on the industry is or anything like that. So this shouldn't be seen as knocking her either - but if she's only going to see clients at their hotel rooms, not even private homes, then I am almost certainly never going to see her.
Because when I HAVE tried booking hotel rooms to see a WL, even beside the extra cost factor, there have been other things happen that piss me off. Like WLs who don't turn up or bother to call to say they're standing you up. Or ones who hear which hotel you're at and get sniffy and "Oh, that's not very high class is it?"
NOT that I'm saying LexiBelle would do such things, but they're memories that really don't make me keen to call a hotel and make a booking... at least when you get stood up on an outcall at home you haven't forked out extra money which becomes a total waste.
So I'm sorry Arbie, but I really disagree with your suggestion.