Incall versus outcall

Incall is the older of the two trade words. The client goes to the venue: a studio, a parlour, a private flat kept for appointments. The venue controls the room, the opening hours and the entrance. The client supplies himself and the fare to get there.

This house has no venue of that kind. No studio in the centre. No apartment reserved for visits. No reception desk. Ask for an address to come to and the reply will offer a visit to yours instead.

Why incall was left out

A premises ties a business to one street. It also ties the client's evening to a journey, frequently late and through a city he barely knows, and then to a second journey home. Outcall deletes both legs. It deletes the waiting room as well, the place where one client walks past another.

The therapists gain something too. A fixed address becomes familiar to anyone who wants to find it. A roster that moves between hotels, flats and boats across the city offers no single doorway to watch.

Comparing figures between sites

Listings in other cities often show two numbers, a lower incall rate and a higher outcall rate. The gap is the cost of the journey. This site shows one number because it sells one format. The rates table on each therapist profile already includes her travel to any central address at any hour of the night.

An incall rate quoted elsewhere is therefore a poor yardstick. Set it against what that same venue charges for a visit to your door, then add the taxi you would have paid for yourself.

A frequent confusion

Some people search for incall when they mean a session inside their own room. That meaning belongs to outcall. Anyone who wants a therapist at a hotel, a rented flat or a boat is looking for outcall, and the outcall and salon comparison lays the two models side by side.