An evening ends with the journey to your door, and the five companions on this list count that journey as one more part of the night. Toned describes a build kept by habit rather than for show, and each of the five keeps it her own way. None of them is in any hurry to call a cab while the pavements are dry and the street lamps are lit.
Below is the route each one prefers. Mention it to the desk and the booking can be planned around it, start to finish.
Angelika plays tennis in Hyde Park at seven most mornings, which may be why the stroll from a Soho jazz cellar back across Regent Street into Mayfair feels like nothing to her. She opens at the Rivoli Bar and lets the music decide how late it runs. Book two hours, £500, or four with dinner, £900, and nothing needs to hurry.
Sonya still takes a ballet barre class twice a week and moves with a dancer's lightness. Her route runs from Floris on Jermyn Street to an early dinner in St James's and, on a warm night, across Green Park to your hotel. Ten o'clock is her limit, which guests with an early flight or meeting tend to appreciate.
Laura rides at the stables on Bathurst Mews and skis every winter, but her way home is a slow cab from Bocca di Lupo past Marble Arch, windows open if the weather allows. She lives in Paddington and is also the quickest of the five to a Heathrow hotel, where the three hour minimum of £700 includes her travel.
Nora is sometimes heading for the flower market at Nine Elms at four in the morning, and she starts her evenings at the champagne bar under the St Pancras roof. The ride back west to a Paddington hotel cuts through the park when the night is warm. She is a cheerful first evening for a guest who landed late, and two hours at £500 covers it.
Tina, 158 cm and quick on her feet, walks you from the Lobby Bar at One Aldwych to dinner near the Piazza and home by way of Bow Street and the glow of the Royal Opera House. She works evenings and often confirms a Strand or Aldwych hotel the same night.
All five will happily walk further than most guests expect. If rain is forecast, she will say so and a cab takes over the last leg; if the night is fine, allow a few extra minutes for the long way round. Two hours at £500 leaves room for a short stroll between bar and hotel, and four hours with dinner allow a proper one.
If you arrive with the evening already sketched, tell the desk where it starts and where it should end, and the length of the booking follows from the distance. For a guest coming in by air, the arrivals board booking times a companion to your flight. On other boards, Sonya and Tina stand with the petite companions, Angelika with the statuesque, and Nora among the blondes.
Choose from this list by name, or write two lines about the evening, and the desk offers whoever is on shift.
