The deposit on an afternoon booking
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.
The word makes people think of something held in a drawer and handed back at the end. That is not what happens. Half the figure printed in her profile is the first half of the fee, it is settled before she leaves for your address, and the second half is settled at the door. Nothing is being kept as security against anything.
The seven bookings that ask for it
Half goes first on an afternoon agreed more than twenty-four hours ahead, on a block of eight hours, on any booking with two therapists, on a room at Schiphol or an airport hotel, on a peak date, on anything running three hours or longer, and on a first booking with the house. One case sends nothing ahead: a guest the house already knows, asking for an hour or two later the same day at an address inside the city, who settles the whole figure on arrival. Change the date, add a second therapist or push past three hours and the half comes back in front of the booking.
What it looks like in practice
Take the fee for the length you settled on, cut it down the middle, and that is the deposit, whether the booking is a lunchtime hour or a block that runs on past dusk. The proportion is fixed; neither a longer booking nor an earlier start tilts it. Her profile gives the full fee for every length, and halving it is the only arithmetic anyone needs before the deposit goes.
How it is settled
Card is the usual route, with Revolut, Wise and cryptocurrency available for anyone who prefers them. Neither a bank transfer nor PayPal is accepted for it. Cash cannot serve as the first half, because the first half is settled while she is still at her own address. The exact sum and the details for sending it appear in the thread once the hour is agreed and nowhere else. Where it goes if you cancel is set out under cancellation and refunds.
Related terms
Writing in
Give the hour and the address
One message holds the day you want her, the length of the booking and the building you are standing in. A name and an arrival window come back on the same thread, and nothing else is asked of you until she knocks.
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Questions that take longer than a booking go to [email protected], which is read at a slower pace than the booking thread.