Crew notes: eighteen questions the desk is asked most

Yes. Theatre manners are the one thing every woman in the company is briefed on before her first booking here: phone off before the house lights drop, no talking through an act, opinions saved for the interval. Several of them buy their own tickets in the months they are not working.

Gladly, and it will name rooms that genuinely hold a table past ten rather than the first result on a map. The reservation itself is yours to make, since a restaurant should have your name on it rather than ours.

Afternoons are booked all week, and Wednesday and Saturday matinees are among the busiest calls on the sheet. The desk reads messages at every hour, so an afternoon in Covent Garden is arranged exactly the way a midnight one is.

One hour, at £250. There is nothing shorter on the rail and there never has been, because half an hour is not an evening and this house does not pretend otherwise.

Often, if her diary is clear behind you. Ask her, she messages the desk, and the extra time is agreed in writing at the ordinary rate before the current hour ends. Nothing is ever added afterwards as a surprise.

Both, throughout WC2 and the postcodes around it. This house keeps no premises for guests to visit and runs no incall of any kind: outcall only, to hotel rooms, serviced flats and private homes, which is why no address is published anywhere on this site.

That is how a good many evenings here begin. A hotel bar, a table in a restaurant or a foyer before curtain up all work, and she will be dressed for whichever you name in your message.

Yes, with a little more notice, since two diaries have to agree with each other and with yours. Mention it when you first write and two names will be put forward together rather than one at a time.

Anywhere in London, and often beyond it. Zones 1 and 2 carry no extra charge, which covers the whole circuit from Holborn outwards. Past that the cab is counted both ways and quoted as one total before you agree, and airports run to three hours at minimum.

Yes, and it is a regular booking in this postcode. Brief the desk on the room, the dress code and the story you would rather tell, and she will arrive knowing all three. She is discreet about her work by habit, not by instruction.

You hear immediately, not five minutes before she was due. The desk will offer alternatives for the same hour, and if none of them suits, nothing is owed and the evening is struck from the sheet without a discussion about it.

If the change comes early enough for both diaries, yes, and the booking simply moves across to the new name. Inside two hours it becomes a cancellation followed by a new booking, so it is worth writing the moment you are unsure.

The desk asks for none of the things a fraud asks for: no card numbers, no card photographs, no identity documents, no vouchers, no cryptocurrency, and no fee invented mid conversation under any name at all. Figures and times appear only in the thread where the booking itself was made. Anything else, whoever it claims to be, is not this house.

No. Nothing is posted, no account is opened and no mailing list exists, and the fee passes directly to her when you meet. Cards are not accepted, so nothing is stored anywhere to be leaked later.

As little as it can. No client database is kept, no mailing list exists, and nothing about your preferences is stored for a future sales pitch. The conversation and its details are cleared in routine housekeeping once the evening has closed, and you are welcome to delete your side whenever you like.

Only genuine feedback from completed bookings is ever printed here, read before publication, carrying a first name and a month and no explicit detail, edited for those rules alone rather than to improve the sentiment. Imperfect notes stay up when they are real, any companion may have a note about her removed, and nothing is invented to fill a wall.

Yes, that is an ordinary week here for arrivals at St Pancras and from the airports. Write with your arrival day, the hotel and the hour you expect to be free, and the desk will hold the call and confirm again once you are on the ground.

Anything beyond time and company. Fees here are for time and companionship only, and nothing further is sold, implied or negotiable at any figure; a request of that kind ends the booking on the spot. What two adults decide privately is their own business and never ours to arrange.