Try to connect as directly as you can to who you want to actually pay. Then you will have greater payment reliability and if the payment does not need to route at all, there will be no routing fees.

Would you mind sharing your node ID?

https://amboss.space/node/03fdf44cf817dcf7fde2c075ccbc399f705bb2ff34ad45867cebd9088420727281

Me, let’s go!