Lead time, from a week to a month ahead

Lead time is the gap between the day a booking is made and the evening it is for. For a traveller planning from home, it is usually somewhere between a week and a month, and it has two effects: one on the diary and one on the deposit. It has no effect on the figure.

Lead time and the diary

A diary is wide open far ahead. Four weeks before an ordinary Saturday, the great majority of evenings on the roster are still free; four days before, fewer are. The practical rule follows: the more particular the evening, the earlier to write. A particular woman on a Saturday, an overnight that needs a whole evening free, two therapists whose diaries must both be open, a peak date: each of these benefits from a month. An ordinary evening with a flexible choice of woman is comfortably arranged a week ahead.

Lead time and the deposit

Any booking made more than twenty-four hours before it starts carries half ahead. That covers every booking made from home, whatever else is true of it. A longer lead time does not raise the deposit, and a shorter one does not remove it until the booking is a same-day hour or two from a returning guest at a city address.

What can wait

A long lead time does not mean everything has to be decided at once. The date and hour have to be fixed, and so does the deposit. The room number waits until arrival day, and a change of length or of start time on the same evening can be asked for later, subject to her diary. A change of date is covered by the one-move rule.

What it does not change

The figure is the one on her profile whenever the booking is made. There is no early-booking discount and no last-minute premium. The page on booking a week or a month ahead pairs lead times with kinds of trip.