Questions people actually ask
The ones that come in most often, answered the way Nell would answer them on the phone. If yours is not here, write in and ask it; nobody minds.
Questions, answered plainly
01How do I book?
One message to the desk on WhatsApp or Telegram with the name, the day, the start time, the number of hours and the address. The reply comes back in ten or fifteen minutes with her arrival time and the figure. The booking page sets out all four steps if you want the longer version.
02How quickly can somebody get here?
Usually inside the hour from the moment it is confirmed. Shoreditch, Hoxton and Bethnal Green are quicker than that after nine; Bow and Limehouse can run to fifty minutes in the early evening. You are given the honest number before you agree to the hour, not after.
03What does it cost?
An hour is £250, ninety minutes £400, two hours £500, three hours £700, the four hour dinner date £900 and the ten hour overnight £1,800. A weekend is quoted on request. Every figure and what sits inside it is on the rates page.
04Is the fee the same for everybody on the board?
Yes. Twenty eight companions on the board, one ladder. Nobody here is priced higher than anybody else, no name unlocks a different list of figures, and nothing changes because a booking is longer or shorter than the last one you made.
05What does the fee cover?
Her time and her companionship for the length you booked, and nothing beyond that. It is not a price list for anything else, there is no list of extras on this site, and there never will be. Whatever two consenting adults decide between themselves in private is their own business and is not arranged, discussed or priced here.
06What if the companion I want is busy?
Nell says so in the first reply rather than after a wait, and offers the nearest hour she is free or two or three names who work the same streets. Each page on the board shows whether she is available now or the date she is back.
07Can she meet me at a restaurant or a bar?
Yes, and in the east that is often how an evening begins. Give the desk the place and the hour, and she meets you inside at the table rather than out on the pavement. The nights out page describes the dinner and the late night, the two usual shapes.
08Which districts do you cover?
Twelve of them, from Hoxton in N1 round to Limehouse in E14, with Hackney, Dalston, London Fields, Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, Spitalfields, Bow, Aldgate, Liverpool Street and Shoreditch in between. They are all on the east postcodes page. Anywhere else inside Zones 1 and 2 is reached at the same figure.
09Do you charge for travel?
Not inside Zones 1 and 2, which is every district on this site. Past that the fare both ways is added and quoted as a single figure before you confirm, so that nothing new turns up afterwards.
10Hotel or private flat?
Either, on identical terms and at the same figure. For a hotel we confirm the room number and the name it is held under; for a flat it is the address, the buzzer name and the floor. Warehouse conversions with a street door and a long stair are half of what we do in Hackney and E2.
11Are you connected to any of the hotels you name?
No. Not one. We name hotels because guests stay in them and need an address written down, and we take nothing from any of them. Your companion arrives as your guest and has no business at the desk.
12What happens if I have to cancel?
Three or more hours of warning and you owe nothing at all. Inside two hours it is half the figure. If she arrives and cannot get in, the figure stands in full. A late start carries a quarter of an hour of grace before any of that applies.
13Are the photographs current?
Yes, and they are taken for this site rather than collected from elsewhere. They are glamour and lifestyle photographs, faces softened, no nudity. When somebody's appearance changes the photographs are replaced. The photo policy page explains the whole of it.
14How discreet is this?
Your details are used to arrange the booking and for nothing else. Nothing identifying goes in a web address, no list is sold or shared with anybody, and message threads are deleted once there is no working reason to keep them. She arrives dressed for the building she is walking into, which in a hotel lobby matters more than anything written on a policy page. The privacy page has the rest in plain terms.
15Who am I actually writing to?
Nell, who runs the front desk, and who answers at whatever hour you write. You are not writing to a shared inbox or a bot, which is why answers take ten minutes rather than ten seconds. More about the desk on the about page.
16Is there an age requirement?
Yes. This site and everything on it is for adults 18 and over only, and every companion listed is an adult. If you are under 18, this is not for you.
17What languages are spoken?
English throughout, fluently, and a number of the companions have a second or a third language as well. Each page on the board lists hers among the facts. If a particular language matters for the evening you have in mind, say so when you write in and Nell will narrow the list down rather than leaving you to work it out from twenty eight pages.
18Can I arrange more than one evening at a time?
Yes, and people who come to London often do exactly that, naming the dates in a single message. Each evening is priced from the same ladder, length by length, and a run of them costs no more and no less than the same evenings booked separately. The desk keeps a note of it only for as long as you keep writing in.
The trains stop. We do not.
One message with the date, the time and the postcode, and the rest of the night is arranged quietly, anywhere from Hoxton down to the basin at Limehouse.