Punting Deserts - tumbleweed towns

[HappyandLucky]

When hunting in my normal territory in West London and home counties I usually get 50+ WG's displaying working today. I visited Polegate this weekend and the only WG's available or showing contact numbers were 25+ miles away in either Brighton or Gatwick. I appreciate it was a Bank Hols, but was surprised even in the South East it was a desert. if I needed to travel an hour for a punt I would either retire or have to move. If you live in a punting desert how long do you think it's worth traveling for?

[anonyorks]

I do live in a tumbleweed town. Only one WG who isn't my type at all. I travel 30 minutes by car to Leeds for all my punts. Have not considered going further as it's a two hour round trip including a hour meet.

[baldick]

Try living in mid wales.1hour drive to nearest wg .

[charger70]

This is the difference between those who live in civilization, and those in the sticks! Have to travel an hour for any service where I live, so WG's are no different. Although strangely, I do have several close by, but it is Easter holiday, and their kids are home!

[badsin]

Try the East Midlands!! Two reasonable sized cities, and Derby.
Derby is sparse, apart from the eastern Europeans- whom I believe target the taxi drivers! Nottingham, pretty sparse on the indie front, two agencies (one of which is just appalling).
Leicester seems to have more, but as Nottingham, mainly Romanians and eastern Europeans!

Travelling wise: Sheffield is around 45 minutes, just over an hour to sandys in Manchester, and around the hour mark to drive to Milton keynes.

Currently anything decent is an hour each way on the car!

[ForrestGump]

When hunting in my normal territory in West London and home counties I usually get 50+ WG's displaying working today. I visited Polegate this weekend and the only WG's available or showing contact numbers were 25+ miles away in either Brighton or Gatwick. I appreciate it was a Bank Hols, but was surprised even in the South East it was a desert. if I needed to travel an hour for a punt I would either retire or have to move. If you live in a punting desert how long do you think it's worth traveling for?

H&L I think the combo of Bank Hols and school hols has a big impact on the number of available punters. So a lot of the girls use the opportunity to have a break. The girls based at or near the busiest travel hubs and cities seem to be the ones most likely to remain 'open for business' during these lean times.

[RedKettle]

Try the East Midlands!! Two reasonable sized cities, and Derby.
Derby is sparse, apart from the eastern Europeans- whom I believe target the taxi drivers! Nottingham, pretty sparse on the indie front, two agencies (one of which is just appalling).
Leicester seems to have more, but as Nottingham, mainly Romanians and eastern Europeans!

Travelling wise: Sheffield is around 45 minutes, just over an hour to sandys in Manchester, and around the hour mark to drive to Milton keynes.

Currently anything decent is an hour each way on the car!

There have been a few negative threads about East Midlands recently and whilst it does not compare to London, Birmingham etc I have a HL that is more than enough for quite some time - at least with my spare time and cash constraints.  That said I do infill with a few regulars who I see quiet alot, so maybe different story if you want to punt with a different girl each time.  However Sheffield I find a complete punting waste land and have rarely found anything worth the time to see let alone the cash.  I have even paid a Nottingham regular to visit me in Sheffield!

As to the original question I used to be prepared to travel a couple of hours for a good punt, but these days I just cannot be arsed and do not bother if much more than half an hour.  Punting now needs to fit around where I am in the country.

[cueball]

It seems pretty good up here, there are lasses for hire in most towns from Preston to Leeds, tons in Manchester (and all of greater Manchester) ofcourse.

I'm doing my best at seeing them all but bloody hell, it's a struggle

[Blackpool Rock]

Depends how you define a tumbleweed town, I mean if you live in the middle of nowhere then you wouldn't expect talent dripping from every lamppost but some places with a decent catchment area don't seem to fulfil their potential.

I've moaned about it before but again i'd nominate Blackpool as being shit for punting, just checked and a population of 142K plus god knows how many tourists / stag do's and not 1 decent parlour and decent AW girls are like hens teeth plus the few in my HL don't appear to hardly ever work FFS!

I'm doing a 100 mile round trip for most punts to Manchester, had a parlour booking for Sunday then she didn't work that day so tried a Preston parlour and the 1 girl I wanted to see there also decided not to turn in 

[Jay-Jay]

Have to agree BR, search "Available Today" in the North West on A/W and there are usually 3 to 5 pages dependent on mid week or week-end. Two thirds of those will be obvious EE B+S merchants and most of the rest old hands who have bad reps. Quantity yes,quality I don't think so.

Jay

[webpunter]

The Isle of Wight ain't looking too good.  Just did a search on the PO30 postcode & 13 listings.  Imagine punting on an island where bumping into people you know when going punting must be an occupational hazard.  And then there's the fact that they're probably related / in-bred 

[johnnyboy61]

The problem with the Romanian invasion is that it has rather skewed the statistics in places where they have flooded the market.  In a thread on "London Envy" I did a little comparison between Harrow and Sheffield - Sheffield came out rather better (x3): (sorry I can't be bothered to do it again with today's figures)

Just done a AW search based on Harrow in NW London - near me and quite a centre outside Central London for WGs.  Have used the search engine to rank by Escort Ratings.  Out of 144 profiles only 10 seem to have 10 or more legitimate positives (not including positives for Sales, Webcamming etc.); 110 have zero ratings! That's only 7% with 10 or more positives.  A search based on the apparent punting wasteland of Sheffield brings up 254 profiles, 53 of which have more than 10 legitimate positive Escort Ratings which is 21%, three times the rate.  I know that AW FB is very unreliable but zero feedbacks are much more likely to be scams, B&S, or girls here for a short time not offering the advertised services (Sergei can't even be bothered to make up at least one positive rating for his girls in Harrow) but perhaps this thread proves it is just human nature to regard that "the grass is greener on the other side"....?

[webpunter]

Peterborough & East Anglia - the quote 'water water everywhere & not a drop to drink' springs to mind.  Unless you like BB'ers & scammers

[Blackpool Rock]

Peterborough & East Anglia - the quote 'water water everywhere & not a drop to drink' springs to mind.  Unless you like BB'ers & scammers

What about Little Honey Jessica in Peterborough, been in my HL for a while and looks good but i'm not in that area often?

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[webpunter]

What about Little Honey Jessica in Peterborough, been in my HL for a while and looks good but i'm not in that area often?
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There's always the exception to the rule.  And 378 ratings.  I just checked her reviews & she's not even on tour.  Knock me over with a feather.  The good news is that you don't actually live there

[Blackpool Rock]

There's always the exception to the rule.  And 378 ratings.  I just checked her reviews & she's not even on tour.  Knock me over with a feather.  The good news is that you don't actually live there

Thanks for reminding me mate! Tried to see her once when I was going to be in the area on business a few days later but she was taking a week off, just my luck 

[Tafffie]

Shetland. Its an overnight ferry or a flight to  get a WG. Even then, Aberdeen isn't exactly an oasis. Better than a kick to the nadgers, but not by much.

[webpunter]

Shetland. Its an overnight ferry or a flight to  get a WG. Even then, Aberdeen isn't exactly an oasis. Better than a kick to the nadgers, but not by much.

You should try an outcall.  "Where the fuck are you ? / you must be fucking joking !"   Try searching up 'spankbang' which might help 

[HappyandLucky]

H&L I think the combo of Bank Hols and school hols has a big impact on the number of available punters. So a lot of the girls use the opportunity to have a break. The girls based at or near the busiest travel hubs and cities seem to be the ones most likely to remain 'open for business' during these lean times.

Could be right on that FG but I had hoped EE girls were always on the clock or had Sergei to keep them touting.

 Thanks to others for your replies, interesting to know travel distances etc required as an eye opener. As a London punter I had never experienced a punting desert before, but now appreciate i'm luckier than many due to my location 

[Marmalade]

Errrrm.... why are you living in an overgrown underdeveloped lost-all-hope loser of a tumbleweed town?? Do you like the countryside?

[HappyandLucky]

Errrrm.... why are you living in an overgrown underdeveloped lost-all-hope loser of a tumbleweed town?? Do you like the countryside?

M, who was your question directed to?

[Marmalade]

M, who was your question directed to?

Anyone like the anonymous yorkshire pudding who publicly confessed his geographical... disability

[Zeusthedoc]

Often find myself in Essex for work.

Fucking nightmare after a few meetings, you're in the sticks with no feckin Internet.

I could check beforehand but fuck that for a laugh. usually fuck all in the area anyways....

[madeinwales56]

You should try Norwich. Unless you have a penchant for EE girls passing through in Sergei's ancient BMW or prossies who never seem to be available or complete swamp donkey it's a fucking nightmare.

[Denhamhoop]

High Wycombe and surrounding areas have a quick look and you will see what i mean.Where i live i generally have to travel about half hour in towards London or look at touring girls round Heathrow so getting a regular is not the easiest.

[anyfucker]

I'm in London and sometimes have to extend my search as far as four miles when using some other parameters (e.g. age) to bring up 100 WGs.
Life's hard 

[johnnyboy61]

I'm in London and sometimes have to extend my search as far as four miles when using some other parameters (e.g. age) to bring up 100 WGs.
Life's hard 

Yes but finding one who delivers on her likes list is not easy. Too many fraudulent pimped Romanians and not enough honest independents around the London scene.

[Zeusthedoc]

Yes but finding one who delivers on her likes list is not easy. Too many fraudulent pimped Romanians and not enough honest independents around the London scene.

Exactly - and if you live in say: North London and wish to punt with an EE in somewhere as far away as East London all of 15miles. Scratch that, if you live in a borough in North London and wish to punt 10 miles away, and you wanna drive....give yourself 30/40 mins travel time!

[plow.]

I think the WG's choose to base themselves in the cities as that is where they get most business. So if you are not in a city, chances are it will be a tumbleweed town.

[Zeusthedoc]

yeah, but even then - I think there tend to be spot within cities that are more / less likely to attract WG to use sites for punting purposes. It's nice when the punt has happened on a route that I can drive past at will - without making it look like i'm driving a weird route to anywhere.

[mf_1101]

I got to say geographically I am quite fortunate for this hobby, got Coventry, Milton Keynes, Northampton all half an hour away, and Leicester up the M1 in 45 mins. I have not even tried Banbury + Rugby similar sort of travel times.

[willmo1]

You should try Norwich. Unless you have a penchant for EE girls passing through in Sergei's ancient BMW or prossies who never seem to be available or complete swamp donkey it's a fucking nightmare.

Tell me about it. 

5 years of happy punting and I end up here. Thank fuck london is in reach.

[Ben4454]

For me its about a 20 minute drive. For a decent working girl probably about 40 min drive.

[freddiej]

I got to say geographically I am quite fortunate for this hobby, got Coventry, Milton Keynes, Northampton all half an hour away, and Leicester up the M1 in 45 mins. I have not even tried Banbury + Rugby similar sort of travel times.

I'm not that dissimilar, just add in Birmingham. Unfortunately I'm also under pressure to move to a punting desert. Life as I know it will be over.

What's a bloke to do?

[anonyorks]

I think the WG's choose to base themselves in the cities as that is where they get most business. So if you are not in a city, chances are it will be a tumbleweed town.

Which is bizarre as the town where I live there are massive conferences every week yet there are only 2 WG's with positive feedback. Can only thing guys on trips book agency outcalls to their hotels. But at the same thing it is a good thing, I'd hate to turn up and see someone I know or be seen going somewhere I'm not normally going.

[backofthenet]

Shetland. Its an overnight ferry or a flight to  get a WG. Even then, Aberdeen isn't exactly an oasis.

wow. must make it particularly galling when you get there and they cancel. Have you ever had an outcall?

ATTENTION ALL HOOKERS - move to the Shetland Isles for complete market domination!!

[Marmalade]

wow. must make it particularly galling when you get there and they cancel. Have you ever had an outcall?

ATTENTION ALL HOOKERS - move to the Shetland Isles for complete market domination!!

But apparently one did and found her phone a tad dusty . . .
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probably quicker swimming to Bergen 
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[Aspen]

Shetland. Its an overnight ferry or a flight to  get a WG. Even then, Aberdeen isn't exactly an oasis. Better than a kick to the nadgers, but not by much.

Know the feeling. I've spent a fair bit of time in Norway and Sweden recently and there's nothing at all in the smaller places, plus the added hazards. Their so-called model, is actually quite effective.

[Marmalade]

Know the feeling. I've spent a fair bit of time in Norway and Sweden recently and there's nothing at all in the smaller places, plus the added hazards. Their so-called model, is actually quite effective.

There's nothing in the smaller places in most countries. Most studies I've seen suggest their model is nasty dangerous and ineffective though naturally the abolitionists say External Link/Members Only. Some of these ho's look worth a feel up their fannies... External Link/Members Only though it wouldn't be my first choice.

[Aspen]

There's nothing in the smaller places in most countries. Most studies I've seen suggest their model is nasty dangerous and ineffective though naturally the abolitionists say External Link/Members Only. Some of these ho's look worth a feel up their fannies... External Link/Members Only though it wouldn't be my first choice.

The Scandinavian websites like that are full of cons, just like they are here. They look good in the pics, but most are nothing like. I wouldn't touch them with yours. You are at an immediate disadvantage language-wise. It used to be that small ads were the way to go, but they have evaporated.

Agreed about small places in most countries. Even worse now though.

[Aspen]

The External Link/Members Only link is interesting. Trust the Romanian to like the customers being scared.

My experience of Finland is that it's different there. For a start there are very few locals, but many from Estonia that pretend to be Finnish though they try at first to deny it to foreigners. Those that are not are Russian or other EE. It's futile looking there, but for different reasons. I don't think the authorities and police anywhere give a stuff about the welfare of the women, they just try to get the crime figures looking better. Prostitutes and their clients are all just scum to them.

[Taggart]

As another poster said, the East Midlands has become a rubbish area.

Every search on AW brings up the clutch of Romanian no-hopers and rip-off skanks working in Leicester, Derby, Nottingham and Lincoln - and I willl never book a Romanian.  Looking at smaller places, Mansfield, Hinckley, Sleaford, Grantham and Newark, seems to be another collection of miscellaneous EE prossies or women with static feedback suggesting to me they are not working.

The whole area - and it's a big area - needs more girls of the ilk of Holly Golightly, Little Honey Jessica, Amber Ryder and Diamond in the Ruff (Vicki).

We are well into the year, and I've had just three punts, one in London, one girl touring Nottingham and one based in Nottingham. And I cant be arsed to travel, as sometime trying to mix business with pleasure is fraught with problems, and in several cases, I'd have had to cancel, and risk being labelled a timewaster.

Doesn't bode well, for punts in the next 3 months, as the quality on AW is on a massive slide.

[Marmalade]

Every search on AW brings up the clutch of Romanian no-hopers and rip-off skanks working in Leicester, Derby, Nottingham and Lincoln - and I willl never book a Romanian.
Doesn't bode well, for punts in the next 3 months, as the quality on AW is on a massive slide.

To be fair to AW, I think they know it's a problem. While they may have some conflict of interest -- they are a business after all -- it looks like they have tried bringing in quite a few measures without appearing to apply a racist card. Admittedly these have had only varying degrees of success even with special verifying procedures for "certain European countries", and displaying a skank's origin in many cases above the "Member since" details. Many well-organised rip-off skanks find ways round this as we know.

The latest effort is in the search options. Under "interviews" you can select "non-EU" which helps a bit, though it means a separate search for instance to include Latinos. Some prossies declare their nationality, which can also be entered as a search term, though in the greatest part of the UK you would have to search once for "English" and again for "Scottish."
 

A trick is to save your search settings from the link at the top of the search results, then whip through several of your "saved searches" from the menu bar.

Good luck! 

[nervyfooker]

What about Little Honey Jessica in Peterborough...

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Although in many ways i am spoilt for choice i've found nothing like
this in central london(English, slim,good service, vfm)

[plow.]

Cities, right? Just gotta live within 30 mins of a city or two and you're golden.

[AgedCases]

I live in Middlesbrough and it seems I have to travel for almost 2 hours by public transport to Newcastle for a decent punt (which I haven't done yet).

What puts me off is the fact that I don't know my way around Newcastle, so I'm going to look suspicious and that I'd hate to do all that travelling just to get a cancellation text when I arrive.

[cueball]

I'd hate to do all that travelling just to get a cancellation text when I arrive.

We've all had that bud, it's part of the game we play. Coming on here and gleaning good info cuts that down though.

[HappyandLucky]

I live in Middlesbrough and it seems I have to travel for almost 2 hours by public transport to Newcastle for a decent punt (which I haven't done yet).

What puts me off is the fact that I don't know my way around Newcastle, so I'm going to look suspicious and that I'd hate to do all that travelling just to get a cancellation text when I arrive.

With that travel be wise to have a plan B & C 

[ForrestGump]

I live in Middlesbrough and it seems I have to travel for almost 2 hours by public transport to Newcastle for a decent punt (which I haven't done yet).

What puts me off is the fact that I don't know my way around Newcastle, so I'm going to look suspicious and that I'd hate to do all that travelling just to get a cancellation text when I arrive.

In addition to cueball's advice you'd do well to go armed with contact details of a few other girls for plans b, c, d in case plan a falls through, especially if you're investing good time and money in getting to your chosen punt venue. Alternatively have some other non-punting activity as a backup if you don't relish the idea of trying to arrange a plan b,c,d punt on the hoof.

[charger70]

I can't  recommend a  back up punt, as these also tend to be second rate, and then you end up regretting that choice.

I have been blown out on a couple of punts, and tried deploying the back up plan, but only once out of three times has it worked out OK.

I sympathise with all the planning etc, that has gone into the punt, but then it doesn't workout, its a real  bummer, but  thats the risk of  punting, funny,, it can be just like civvie  street!