Why the Cheapest Option Is Usually a Mistake
It is tempting to sort by price and pick the lowest. In this market more than most, that instinct leads you wrong — a rock-bottom rate is rarely a bargain and often a warning.
Price signals more than cost here
Rates cluster around the market for a reason: they reflect experience, reliability, presentation and the standards behind the booking. A price far below the cluster is not the same thing for less money — it usually signals something is different, and rarely in your favour.
What suspiciously cheap can mean
A bait rate that changes on arrival. Photos that are not the person. A booking with no screening, no discretion and no recourse. In the worst cases, a person who is not there by choice — the exploitation that the lowest-end market is most associated with. A price that seems too good is doing you a warning, not a favour.
The bait-and-switch pattern
A common one: a very low advertised rate secures your interest, then the real terms appear once you are committed — a higher price, added fees, or a different person. The cheap number was never the actual deal.
Why the middle is smart
The middle of a city's market is where reliability lives — companions and agencies with reputations to protect, charging enough to run properly but not premium for its own sake. You get what was advertised, screening on both sides, and recourse if something is wrong. That is what you are actually buying.
When paying more is right
For events, dinners, and bookings where a disappointment is not acceptable, the upper end buys reliability worth the money. Not because expensive is inherently better, but because at the top the odds of the booking going as promised are highest.
The ethical dimension
There is a floor below which low prices correlate with coercion and exploitation. Steering clear of the very bottom is not only self-interest; it is refusing to be the demand that the worst part of this market runs on.
The rule
Shop in the middle, weigh reliability over the last few euros, and treat any price far below the market as a reason to ask questions — not a bargain to grab.
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