Two companions, one evening, one arrival time
A duo is two names on the same booking, arriving together at the same address at the same hour. It is asked for most often for a long night out, where a pair carries an evening more easily than one person can, and occasionally for a dinner where the table is four rather than two.
The arithmetic is the least mysterious part. Two companions means two figures from the same card, so two hours with a pair is £500 each and nothing further. There is no duo supplement, no combined rate and no separate price list, and any house that produces one at the point of booking is inventing it.
Suited to Duo bookings
Ladies the host suggests most often for this kind of evening. Any name on the list can be asked for.
How a pair is chosen
You can name both, name one and let the host suggest the second, or describe the evening and let the house propose a pair outright. The last is usually the best result, because the hosts know which companions actually enjoy each other's company and which have simply never met. A pair who are genuinely friendly makes an evening, and two strangers politely sharing a table makes a long night for everybody. Say which of the three approaches you want and the reply comes back inside 10 to 15 minutes.
Pairs the host suggests first
Tiffany and Luna work well together, one local to the postcode and one who brings dark auburn colour and easy laughter to a table. Bianka and Roxi are the other standing suggestion, both in their early twenties and both good in a loud room. Any other combination from the guest list can be asked for, and the host will tell you honestly whether the two of them have met before rather than pretending every pairing is a friendship.
Where a duo actually works in Soho
A pair is better out than in. The lanes around Leicester Square and the rooms along Old Compton Street absorb a group of three without anybody glancing twice, and a late supper in Chinatown at one in the morning is the version regulars keep coming back to. Hotel rooms work less well simply as a matter of furniture, since most Soho rooms are small and three people in one of them is a squeeze. If the evening is staying in, tell the host and she will ask about the size of the room.
Timing, and why it matters more with two
Two diaries have to line up, which makes a duo the booking least suited to a message sent at midnight. A day's notice transforms what is possible. Both companions arrive together rather than separately, because two women arriving at a hotel ten minutes apart is considerably more conspicuous than two arriving at once. The deposit is the standard quarter, calculated on the total of both figures, and the balance is settled once on arrival rather than twice.
What a duo evening is and is not
It is two people's company for an agreed number of hours, at a table, in a bar, at a show, or in a sitting room with a bottle of something good. Fees are for time and companionship only, and that wording does not change because the booking has two names on it rather than one. The host will answer any question about what an evening involves before you book, plainly and without theatre, and the frequently asked questions page covers the ground most guests want covered.
Extending, or shortening, on the night
Extra hours are agreed in the chat at the card rate and depend on both diaries rather than one, so they are less often possible than with a single booking. If one companion has to leave earlier than the other, and occasionally that happens, the host says so at the point of booking rather than at eleven o'clock. Cancellation follows the ordinary rule, free with three hours notice and half inside two, applied once to the whole booking.
Duo bookings, asked at the door
Short, plain answers. Anything else, the host takes by message at any hour.
No, and nor is there a surcharge. Two companions are two figures from the published card, so two hours with a pair is £500 each. Nothing else is added at any stage.
Yes. Name both and the host checks the diaries, or name one and ask for a suggestion alongside her. The reply will tell you honestly whether the two have worked an evening together before.
A day is comfortable and an evening is often workable. Same hour duo bookings are the hardest thing to arrange, because two diaries have to be clear at once rather than one.
Always, unless you specifically ask otherwise. Two guests walking into a lobby together attract far less attention than two arriving separately within a few minutes of each other.
More occasions
- 01 · Hotel outcall companionshipRoom visitsThis is the plainest line the house writes and the one written most often. You give the hotel, the hour and how long you would like her to stay. The host gives you a name and a figure. She walks...Step inside
- 02 · Dinner date companionshipDinner datesA dinner booking is four hours and £900, and in this postcode those four hours have a particular shape. Soho eats early for the theatres and then eats again at half past ten when the casts and the...Step inside
- 03 · Overnight companionshipOvernightsAn overnight is ten hours and £1,800. It usually begins somewhere between ten and midnight, which in Soho is not late at all, and runs through to the morning. It is the one booking the house asks...Step inside
- 04 · Girlfriend experience companionshipGirlfriend experienceThe phrase gets used loosely across this industry, so here is what it means at this door and nothing more. It is an evening with the formality taken out of it. She arrives as somebody pleased to...Step inside
- 05 · Travel companionshipTravel companionTwo different bookings share this page. The first is an airport run, a companion with you for the journey out to Heathrow or Gatwick or for the hours after you land, which carries a three hour...Step inside
- 06 · Business event companionshipBusiness eventsSoho works for a living, and its working evenings have a particular texture. Production companies on Wardour Street, agencies off Golden Square, post houses and record labels and the restaurants...Step inside
- 07 · Companionship for couplesCouplesCouples book this house for an evening together with a third person in it, most often a dinner and a bar afterwards, sometimes a show, occasionally a quiet evening at their own address. It is a...Step inside
- 08 · Night out companionshipNights outThis is the occasion Soho was built for. Three hours at £700 is the usual shape, four at £900 if dinner is inside it, and the whole night if you would rather not decide in advance. She meets you...Step inside
- 09 · Extended booking companionshipExtended bookingsSome guests are in London for a week rather than an evening, and would rather write one arrangement than send eight separate messages. An extended booking is exactly that. Several nights, or a run...Step inside
Book Duo bookings
Share the date, the venue and the pace you have in mind. The host replies with names that fit.