What level of restaurant and hotel do you go with providers?

[jonasfoleson]

Basic 2 or 3 star. if it's an outcall, then that's sufficient. don't see fancy room service, a spa, etc. for that.

[Wings246]

I'd say if I were a provider and if there's a choice, I'd rather pick a basic, acceptably clean hotel room + basic/cheap restaurant and then have the difference in costs translate into extra tips/bonus in my pocket.  At least this is how I feel from a client's perspective.

[Becket]

Just think of it as a first date. Where would you usually go? More importantly, where would you go where you feel completely comfortable. A fancy place might make you behave differently than your friendly chain sponsored bar and grill. Don't go to a very noisy place though, where you can't hear one another speak. It's most important that YOU are comfortable and can be just who you are. Be yourself!

[Rod Hagen]

On overnights something a bit upscale is great.  Makes it more of a night.  Dinner out, breakfast in.

In 1999 I overnighted with a very nice (we still email sometimes) man and we ate out at Morton's (not Morton's steakhouse, but Morton's the celebrity hangout of the time in WeHo)

Two things happened that night, 1. he corrected me when I, in his estimate (now I am pretty sure it goes both ways) emphasized wrongly the first E in Endive salad.  I said Ondive, he said it's pronounced "ENDive".  I though that was hilarious.

2. Late the next morning I was driving to OC for my engineering job and got a call from my partner on my new and first cell phone (as "Just an Engineer" I couldn't afford one in the late '90s, but escorting put me over the top financially) saying he saw me out at Morton's the night before and am I dating someone else?  And, so, that is how it came to be that I told him about my new escorting gig.

Ah, Mortons.  So glad I was able to experience so many great nights there.

https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/the-original-mortons-sw-corner-of-melrose-robertson/

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/business/25every.html

 

Edited June 17 by Rod Hagen

[jackcali]

23 hours ago, Rod Hagen said:

1. he corrected me when I, in his estimate (now I am pretty sure it goes both ways) emphasized wrongly the first E in Endive salad.  I said Ondive, he said it's pronounced "ENDive".  I though that was hilarious.

 

Ah, memories.  I once almost got into a fistfight about how to pronounce 'endive'.  A group of us twenty-somethings went out to dinner after several hours of pub-crawling.  I was surprised that there was an endive salad on the menu of the pedestrian restaurant we had chosen (this was the 80s), and I said it the way you did (EN-dive).  I was sneeringly corrected (with ON-deev) by someone in the group I absolutely hated.  My response was "not in English, you pretentious so-and-so".  He stood up from the table, I stood up from the table, but cooler heads calmed us down.  To be honest, it probably wasn't the pronunciation that triggered the stand-off, it was the "so-and-so" part of my response, which was much more inflammatory than I produce here.  

Edited June 18 by jackcali

[Rod Hagen]

3 minutes ago, jackcali said:

 I said it the way you did (EN-dive).  

You're right.  I had it backward.   I said En-dive and he said On-deev.  It amused me greatly to be corrected by my "date".