Company for two people, arranged with both of them
Couples book here regularly, and those bookings are among the easiest the desk writes, provided one thing happens first: both of you are part of the conversation. Not a form and not a questionnaire, simply a message where both voices appear, so that what is being arranged is clear to three adults rather than to two. After that it is an ordinary booking on the ordinary rail: two hours at £500, four with dinner in them at £900.
The usual shape in this quarter is a table for three and the evening that follows it. Bloomsbury suits that particularly well, because the dining rooms there are quiet and nobody at the next table is paying the slightest attention, and the townhouse hotels take a party of three without a flicker. Over the river, Waterloo works for the same reasons once a performance at the National has come down.
Who suits this call
A shortlist rather than the whole company. If none of these is free on your night, the desk will name three more who carry the same evening just as well.
Why the desk wants to hear from both of you
Because a booking one person has arranged and the other has merely been told about goes badly, every single time. A line from each of you is enough and it can sit in the same thread. It means the evening is genuinely agreed, it means she knows who asked for what, and it means nobody is surprised at the door. Couples who write together also get a far better suggestion out of the desk, since two sets of preferences are easier to match than one.
What is agreed beforehand, in writing
The hours, the address, the shape of the evening, and anything either of you would rather did not happen. That last part is the useful one and it is treated as a firm line rather than a preference. She has her own lines and will say where they are. Everything agreed stays in the booking thread where all three of you can read it back, and nothing beyond her time and her company is ever sold, promised or implied anywhere on this site.
An evening that works for three
Meeting for a drink first is the version that works best: twenty minutes somewhere neutral before the table. Dinner for three is easier than people expect, because the conversation has more room in it than a dinner for two does. Afterwards is whatever the three of you agreed. Guests who have done this before nearly always book four hours rather than two, since the first hour goes on getting comfortable and nobody wants to watch a clock through the second.
If it is a first time for both of you
Say so, and the desk slows down. It explains what is arranged and what is not, suggests a length, and names two or three companions who are genuinely easy with couples rather than whoever happens to be free. A drink first and a short booking is a perfectly good way to begin. The booking page reads the sequence out in order, and nothing at all is owed at any point before the booking is confirmed.
Names who are easy with couples
Thea is green eyed, warm and unbothered by a new room, and the walking boots by her door say most of what needs saying about her. Lucy is gentle from the first minute, which is the quality that counts for most here. Sonya is calm in a way that puts two nervous people at ease inside ten minutes. Danielle is the slower reel of the company. Two of those four are curvaceous, if that is part of what you are looking for.
A companion may decline, and so may you
Any booking here can be turned down by the companion without a reason being given, and couples bookings occasionally are. That is the system working rather than failing. On your side nothing is owed until the booking is confirmed, after which the usual terms apply: three hours of notice costs nothing, and inside two hours half the figure stands. Nobody on this sheet works under pressure, from a guest or from us.
This evening, answered
No. One companion, one set of hours, one figure off the rail. Two hours is £500 whether you are one person in a hotel room or two people at a table with her.
A line each is all it takes, and the same thread is fine. It is the one reliable way of knowing an evening is agreed by everybody in it, and it makes the desk's suggestions considerably better than a guess would be.
Yes, and it is the version the desk recommends. Twenty minutes in a hotel bar or a quiet room nearby takes the edge off everything that follows, and those minutes sit inside the hours you booked rather than beside them.
Say so, at any point. Before confirmation, nothing whatever is owed. On the night, an evening that turns out not to suit simply ends early and the booked hours stand, which is the arrangement all three of you agreed to in writing.
Written for this evening
Other evenings
Call the stage door
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