The unhurried evening: company that behaves like company
Some guests want an evening arranged down to the minute and some want the opposite, which is an hour that begins without a plan and finds its own shape. This heading is for the second kind. Ninety minutes at £400 is the shortest version that works, two hours at £500 is the usual one, and three hours at £700 is what people book the second time around.
What is being arranged here is warmth and ease rather than an itinerary: a conversation that does not have to be started twice, an arm through yours on the way to the corner, somebody who asks about your week and remembers the answer. Victoria and Chelsea take a good share of these evenings, and the women best suited to them are marked out on their own pages in the register.
What unhurried actually means here
It means nobody is performing. She is not working through a script, you are not being sold a second thing halfway through, and neither of you has to keep the conversation moving by force. Time and company are the whole of what the fee covers, exactly as on every other page on this site, and the terms say it in the same words. The difference is only in how the hours are spent.
How these evenings usually open
Often with a drink somewhere small and close, because twenty minutes in a quiet corner does more for an evening than any grand opening. Some start at the hotel instead, with nothing booked and no decision made about whether you are going out at all. Both are ordinary. Tell the desk which you would rather and the confirmation says so.
The women who are good at this are the ones comfortable with a pause. That sounds like a small thing and it is not. A companion who can let a silence sit for ten seconds without filling it is worth two who cannot.
Telling the desk what you want from it
Two or three sentences is plenty. Say whether you want to go out or stay in, whether you have had a long day and would rather be listened to than entertained, and whether there is anything you would sooner not discuss. Cordelia passes that on, and the companion arrives already knowing it rather than working it out over the first half hour.
Lengths, and why ninety minutes is the floor
An hour at £250 is a drink and a conversation, and it can be lovely, but it is over before an evening of this sort has properly unwound. Ninety minutes at £400 is the shortest length that never feels watched. Two hours at £500 carries supper nearby. Three hours at £700 is where most guests end up once they have tried the shorter ones.
Adding time from the table
If the evening is going well and her diary is clear, ask her. Extra hours are charged at the next rung of the same ladder rather than at some figure invented on the night, and they are settled with her in the same way the original booking was. Message the desk from where you are sitting and Cordelia will say within minutes whether it is possible.
Four names who make it look easy
Lucy is the rare companion who is comfortable with a pause, and conversations with her go deeper by nine than they usually would by midnight. Rosa brings more energy than the rest of her square and takes afternoons as well as evenings. Tiffany is warm within a minute and enjoys an argument in good humour. Lea teases rather than declares, and it takes a moment to land.
Daytime, which suits this better than most
Nothing about this heading requires darkness. A long lunch and a walk afterwards is one of the better ways to spend a London afternoon, and several of the women on this list take daytime bookings by preference rather than as a concession. The hours cost exactly what evening hours cost, because no figure here moves for the clock.
Afternoons also solve a problem guests rarely admit to, which is that an evening booked at seven can be hard to get to after a working day that overran. A two o'clock booking has none of that pressure in it. If your London day has a gap in the middle of it rather than at the end, say so and the desk will work with the gap you actually have.
What this heading is not
It is not a different service with a different price, and it is not a promise about anything beyond hours and company. Every name on this site is booked on the one ladder, from £250 for an hour to £1,800 for a night, so nothing on this page costs more than the same hours booked under any other heading.
The fee goes to the companion in person when she arrives, and the written confirmation carrying her name, the hour, the length and the figure is the whole of the paperwork.
Two notes worth reading first
Other arrangements
One line is enough
Write the district, the hour and the number of hours. What comes back has a name in it, a time in it and a figure in it, and nothing moves after that.