Incall, outcall, and why the price is different
Two rates against one listing confuse people more than any other field here. They are not a discount and a full price; they are two different arrangements.
Incall means her address
She has somewhere to receive you, and the cost of that place is already inside the rate. It is the cheaper of the two almost everywhere, and in Hong Kong the difference is mostly rent.
Outcall means yours
Travel across a city where crossing the harbour at the wrong hour costs forty minutes, plus an address she has not seen. That is what the gap pays for. On this site the outcall rate is shown alongside the headline price rather than hidden behind it.
Why the gap moves by district, not by advertiser
An outcall rate in Central and Western usually sits closer to the incall rate than one in the New Territories, because the advertiser is estimating the same thing every time: how far, across what, at what hour. A wide gap on an entry based in the New Territories is not a higher markup — it is the same estimate applied to a longer route. Reading the two figures side by side tells you more about the geography of the booking than about the person.
What the duration changes
Incall and outcall each carry their own rate for each length of booking — a half hour, an hour, two hours, and so on — and the gap between the two rarely stays constant as the length increases. A short outcall carries most of the travel cost on its own; a long one spreads it further. Neither figure is a discount off the other, which is the underlying confusion this note exists to clear up.
These two fields, and the rest of what a listing states, are collected in the glossary of terms used on this register. What a district itself does and does not promise about travel time is covered there too.
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