An overnight escort in London is the longest single booking on the ladder: one companion, ten hours, £1,800. A typical one starts with an evening drink around nine and closes after breakfast. The hours run from her knock, and the two of you decide what fills them: supper downstairs or just a drink, a film, a long conversation, sleep.
It is also the calmest encounter on the board. Nobody has anywhere to be, talk can take the long way round, and morning arrives without an alarm unless you set one. As with every booking, her journey within Zones 1 and 2 costs nothing extra.
20:10, she arrives at your hotel in Knightsbridge and you take two stools at the bar. 21:00, supper, in the restaurant or sent up. 23:30, the street outside goes quiet, and so does the evening. The hours after midnight are simply unhurried company. 06:15, the breakfast trolley knocks: coffee, eggs, the window. She leaves as the ten hours close, taking the lift like any other guest.
An overnight clears her whole evening and the morning that follows, so notice widens the choice. A request the day before gives Henrietta the whole rota to work with. On the day itself, write before 20:00 where you can. Later requests sometimes work, and the desk tells you honestly whether anyone can give you the full ten hours. Mention anything that shapes the night when you write: a dinner reservation already made, a flight in the morning, a preference for a quiet evening in.
A long night rewards a room with space in it. The park rooms at the Mandarin Oriental look straight over Hyde Park. The Goring in Belgravia keeps a private garden, and the rooms facing it are silent by midnight. The suites of the Shangri-La inside The Shard wake you with the whole of London below. A serviced flat or a private house works just as well, with the street address in place of the room number. Which Mayfair houses keep a quiet night porter and a late kitchen is set down in the grand tier notes.
The morning belongs to the booking, not to the checkout desk. Breakfast in the room, a walk to a café if the hotel's own is crowded, the papers spread across the table. If you have a seven o'clock meeting or an early train, say so when you book and the ten hours are set to finish in good time. If checkout is at noon, a later start lands the hours where you want them. If the morning ends at a train, the Paddington arrival belt notes grade the rooms nearest the platforms.
Danielle, from South Kensington, has a slow, steady calm that suits the small hours, and would rather talk about an old film than go anywhere. Patricia, from Belgravia, travels with watercolours and has been known to leave a small painting of the view on the desk at dawn. Vanessa, from Paddington, is restful company on the first night back on the ground after a long haul. Lucy, from Pimlico, is usually up before the city for a run along the Thames, so an early breakfast suits her perfectly. Patricia, Vanessa and Lucy all appear under slim and slender.
A few courtesies make ten hours easy for both of you. Keep the corridor quiet on the way back from the bar. If you are tired and want to sleep early, do; the booking is her company, not an itinerary to complete. Say what time the curtains should open. Quieter streets for a long night, away from the West End noise, fill the Kensington and SW7 notes. The £1,800 is settled with her directly as the night begins, and it covers time and companionship only.
Sometimes the first night makes the case for a second. Ask Henrietta before the ten hours finish, and if her diary is clear the next evening is confirmed in the same thread at its own figure. Anything longer, a whole weekend or several nights in a row, is planned as one of the long stays and quoted in writing. The booking page shows how it all starts.
Straight answers from the night desk. Anything missing goes to Henrietta in one message.
No. Ten hours is £1,800 on a Tuesday and on a Saturday alike. Stays of two nights or more are priced on request as one figure.
No. Plenty start at nine or ten with a nightcap after you have eaten. Give the desk a start time and the ten hours are counted from her knock.
Yes, it is a common plan. Give both addresses when you book and she meets you at the first.
Yes, at either airport. Her taxi fare out and back is quoted with the £1,800 before you confirm, and a day of notice helps.
Ten hours after she arrives, so a start at eight ends at six and a start at ten ends at eight. If you want breakfast together at a particular time, choose the start to suit it.
Describe the plan for overnights in a line or two, and the desk comes back with names, a figure and a time.
