OH yeah, I wholeheartedly agree about meeting someone before hand.....that's a given.
As for sleeping etc, don't worry ariel, you'd be wiped out from all the non-stop sex we'd be having so you'd have NO problem sleeping Bwuahahahah (another dr evil impression lol).
As for hourly rate, this has been discussed before on terb and the argument was that the hourly rate is the hourly rate whether you sleep, make popcorn, have sex, pick your nose, whatever....(which is why I disagreed with it lol cuz I didn't pay her to watch me pick my nose....tho there MIGHT be a fetish out there somewhere for that YUCK)
Same goes for travel. I mean I'd LOVE to take one of my favs away for a week but hell, $4500.00 - $5000.00??? that's retarded...and yeah, I know there's the saying that they have to be "on" the whole time but seriously, I have yet to see an sp that is the same way everytime with me. Hell, how her week or night went depends on how she is with me.....
I think it boils down to what the client expects out of your time together. I personally don't just see sp's for sex, I like the female companionship and that's what an overnighter or vacation would be mostly about....I've only ever once taken a gf on a vacation, all the other times I was single at the time and it's REALLY boring to see something fantastic and turn to your right to share it with someone and you're talkin' to air (and you do get some funny looks too lol).....