A visit to your room in Soho, at whatever hour suits
This 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 in at Ham Yard, at a small room on Frith Street or wherever you happen to be staying, usually well inside the hour once the confirmation reaches you, dressed for the particular lobby she has to cross to reach you.
One hour begins at £250, ninety minutes is £400 and two hours is £500, with travel across Zones 1 and 2 already counted inside each figure. The whole ladder sits on the card. Nothing on it moves because your message arrives at half past midnight, or because the room is on Regent Street rather than a quiet stair in Chinatown.
Suited to Room visits
Ladies the host suggests most often for this kind of evening. Any name on the list can be asked for.
What the host needs from you
Write on WhatsApp or Telegram with a name from the list, or with two lines about the company you have in mind and let the host propose someone. An answer comes back inside 10 to 15 minutes carrying the name, the arrival time and the figure. A quarter of the fee by bank transfer holds it. Before she leaves home you send your full name and room number into that same conversation, and nothing else. She arrives, the balance is settled in cash or has already gone by transfer, and the booked time starts from the moment she is through your door.
Crossing a Soho lobby
Soho hotels are small and watchful in a way the grand houses of W1K are not. A lobby here is often one desk, four armchairs and a night porter who recognises everybody. That works in your favour rather than against it, because a well dressed woman arriving at eleven for a drink upstairs is the most ordinary traffic these buildings see. She dresses for the building she is entering, quiet and tailored for a townhouse room on Dean Street, a shade more evening for the bar at The Soho Hotel, understated for anywhere with a porter on a stool. Where a house asks guests to collect late visitors themselves, say so when you book and she messages from the pavement instead.
Flats and apartments above the shopfronts
A good many guests in this postcode never check into a hotel at all. Serviced flats behind Golden Square, apartments above Lexington Street and the quiet upper floors off Great Marlborough Street are visited on exactly the same terms. In place of a room number the host asks for the building, the flat and the name the porter or the entry system will know. Larger blocks keep somebody on the desk through the night, which makes a visit at one in the morning no more complicated than a corridor in a hotel.
Choosing the length
An hour suits a drink and a real conversation at the end of a long day, and it is where most first bookings sit. Ninety minutes adds a second chapter to the evening, room service perhaps, or a short walk down to the bar and back up again. Two hours is where the regulars settle, because at that length nobody is watching a clock. Should you want to stretch a visit once she is already with you, the extra time is agreed in the chat first and depends entirely on whether the rest of her night is clear.
Names often asked for at a Soho door
Jasmin keeps a Soho address and a Soho body clock, so a late message usually finds her awake and ten minutes from your lobby. Molly lives in the same few streets and is the easy answer when you want warmth rather than ceremony. Tiffany is also local, with chocolate brown hair worn long and a habit of arriving early. Stacy is the name to try when the message goes out at seven for that same night, and Samanta at 174 cm brings the composure a formal suite rewards. Three of those five sit in the statuesque group, which some guests prefer for a lobby that has to be walked through slowly.
When the room changes or the night runs late
If the hotel moves you upstairs, send the new number and nothing else about the evening alters. If your dinner overruns she waits a quarter of an hour, and beyond that the time is moved rather than extended past its end. Cancelling three hours or more ahead costs nothing at all, and inside two hours of the start half the fee stands. A booking nobody arrives for is charged in full. The booking page walks the whole sequence through in order, and the host will say all of this out loud before you transfer anything.
Room visits, asked at the door
Short, plain answers. Anything else, the host takes by message at any hour.
Usually inside the hour once the host has confirmed in writing, and often faster for the three companions who live in the postcode. If the name you asked for is busy the reply says so immediately and offers someone close in manner.
No. She is your guest like anybody else you might invite up for a drink. The only exception is a house that asks guests to meet late visitors at the desk, and then she writes as she reaches the entrance.
There is not. One hour from £250 is the shortest thing on the card, and the same figure applies at every hotel and private address across W1 and WC2, at every hour of the day.
Yes, and a fair number of guests prefer it. Once the booking is confirmed the full figure can go by bank transfer so that nothing needs handling at the door, and the transfer shows a neutral descriptor.
More occasions
- 01 · 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
- 02 · 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
- 03 · 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
- 04 · 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
- 05 · 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
- 06 · Duo companionshipDuo bookingsA 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...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 Room visits
Share the date, the venue and the pace you have in mind. The host replies with names that fit.