Luxury Sydney brothel, The Golden Apple, is offering cab drivers $20 cash for every client they drop off

EXCLUSIVE: A LUXURY Sydney brothel is paying taxi drivers a $20 tip fee if they deliver customers to their door.

A LUXURY Sydney brothel is paying taxi drivers a $20 tip fee if they deliver customers to their door.

The Golden Apple in Potts Point has taken out a half page advert in the taxi drivers' magazine Ozcabbie promising the fee.

The ad says: "Dear Mr Taxi Driver, we offer $20 cash for every client you bring us. Just give us a ring on approach or call in on arrival."

NSW Upper House MP and morals campaigner Fred Nile said: "It is not the job of the taxi drivers to be soliciting for brothels."

He condemned the ad as a blatant publicity stunt.

"It gives the taxi driver an incentive to promote the brothel and to be encouraging young men to visit it," Reverend Nile said.

"This is simply using the taxi industry to promote prostitution and is dragging the drivers into their web of influence. It is immoral and unhealthy," said Rev Nile, who stood against the legalisation of the brothel industry.

But Mark Gray, owner of The Golden Apple, was unrepentant and said since placing the ad the business had been booming.

"Offering commissions is quite common with anyone like cabbies, or hotel concierges, who are in constant touch with potential new clients," he said.

"They can often whisper something into their ear which may enable their clients to visit us.

"A cabbie is often asked for his recommendation so we can't see anything wrong with rewarding him for giving us the business," he said.

Chris Seage, NSW sex industry consultant, said there was nothing illegal about the practice.

"I'm not sure why people are getting their knickers in a knot. After all in NSW a brothel is a legal business," he said.

"This stuff pales into insignificance when compared to the Reserve Bank foreign kickbacks scandal. There is nothing to see here."