How a call gets onto the sheet, cue by cue
Nothing here is filled in on a web page: no form, no account, no basket. A booking is a short written exchange with somebody awake, usually five minutes from your first line to a confirmed evening. Nothing is settled by voice, and every detail stays in the thread where you can read it back.
Three cues, one message
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Half hour callChoose a name, or leave the casting to the desk
Read the company and note whoever you would like, or skip that entirely and sketch the evening you have in mind. Both arrive at the same place.
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BeginnersSend five lines
Her name, the date, when you would like to begin, how many hours, and where she should come. The wording on this page already puts them in that order.
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Curtain upRead the answer, then say yes
Within 10 to 15 minutes the desk writes back with her availability and the figure in whole pounds. Agree in the same thread and the evening is pencilled onto the call sheet at once.
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Cue 04Match three details, then wait for the knock
Before she leaves, the desk checks the name the booking sits under, the hotel and the room number. A private address is verified instead. Then she arrives at the minute written on the sheet.
The message to send
Stage door messageFIVE LINES, NOTHING MORE
Hello, I would like to book [name] on [date] at [time] for [duration]. I am staying at [hotel name], and will share the room number on confirmation.
Square brackets are yours to fill in. Your full name and the room number are asked for once, at confirmation, and are never typed into a form on this site.
How much notice a night actually needs
A request for tonight is ordinary here, and a message sent at two in the morning is handled exactly as one sent at midday. Dinner dates settle most easily in the early afternoon, and nights that run to morning reward a day of notice. The cues are identical whether the address sits in Bloomsbury or beside the platforms at Kings Cross.
Why the check is short
Verification happens once and takes a line. Your full name and the room tell her the evening is real and tell the desk where she is expected. They serve that evening only and are never typed into a form on this site.
What the desk will never ask you for
Card numbers, photographs of a card, identity documents, gift vouchers or cryptocurrency: none of these is ever requested. Every figure reaches you in the thread where the booking was made, and anybody writing from anywhere else is not this house, however convincing the message looks.
After the booking is written down
The figure is fixed, the arrival time is fixed, and the rates page holds the terms for late changes in full. If something shifts, write and say so: three hours of notice costs nothing at all.
Before you write
Yes, and for a first evening it is the better habit. The diary takes bookings weeks out, and a date written down early is simply confirmed again on the day.
A first name is enough to open the conversation. The full name, hotel and room number are matched once, at confirmation, and go no further than the desk.
Yes, provided the person she is meeting is the one whose name and room the desk verifies before she travels. Assistants arrange evenings here regularly.
Inside WC2 usually well within the hour, often twenty minutes. Elsewhere in Zones 1 and 2 allow a little longer, and the desk gives you the minute in writing.
Yes, if you write early enough for her diary. Three hours ahead is always easy; closer than that, the desk says plainly whether the new hour works.
Write the first line
One message names the evening you want and the desk answers inside a quarter of an hour, at any point on the clock. Tell us the day, the hour, how long you would like and where she should come, and the rest is written down for you.
Running order
- Half hour
- Beginners
- YouCurtain up
- Interval
- Final bow