The unscripted version of an evening
The phrase is worn out everywhere else, so here is the plain version of what it means at this desk. An evening booked this way has no script in it. She does not arrive with a routine, she is not counting down the hour in her head, and the first twenty minutes are spent finding out who you actually are rather than establishing what you are buying. The figures are the ordinary ones on rates, starting at £250.
It is not a different service and it costs nothing extra. It is a different temperature. Some women are warm within ninety seconds and some take an hour to thaw, and both are worth having as long as you know which one you booked. That is what the desk is for, and it is why the board carries a tagline and three paragraphs on each woman rather than a list of measurements.
Suited to girlfriend experience
What it means on this site
Company that behaves like company. Arriving and sitting down rather than announcing herself. Eating properly, laughing at the right things, asking a question she actually wants the answer to, and being comfortable with a silence when one turns up. If you want an evening where nothing has to be decided in advance, this is the way to book it, and the whole of what is sold is her time and her attention for the hours you agreed.
What it does not mean
Nothing beyond time and company is offered, listed or implied on this page or any other. Whatever two adults do with an evening is their own business and is never part of what is arranged here, and anybody promising you otherwise in this trade is selling something they cannot deliver. The honesty is not legal throat clearing. It is the reason the evenings work: nobody arrives with an obligation and nobody is performing to a brief.
The first twenty minutes
This is the part that decides the evening and it is mostly her job. She will get your coat off the chair and your phone off the table without making a point of either. She will ask what your week has been rather than what you do. If you are nervous, and plenty of first time guests are, the good ones simply talk until you have forgotten to be, which takes about a quarter of an hour.
There is no moment where the booking formally begins. She comes in, the coat goes over a chair, the kettle or the bottle gets dealt with, and by the time either of you has noticed, twenty minutes have gone and the evening is running. That absence of a starting gun is most of what people mean by the phrase, whatever else the rest of this trade has done to it.
Staying in, or going out
Both work and neither is the proper version. A flat in Hackney with the heating on and nothing planned is exactly as good an evening as a drink on Hoxton Square followed by whatever comes next. What matters is saying which one you want, because an evening that keeps changing its mind about whether it is going out eats an hour on the doorstep.
Who reads this way naturally
Bianka asks nosy questions and listens to the answers properly. Molly will have you talking about your family by the second drink. Nora is hard to rattle and easy to be around. Jasmin will reorganise your evening twice and keep checking you are enjoying it. Tina is the reason nights run long. None of them is doing an impression of warmth, which is the only version worth booking.
Length, and why an hour is fine
An hour at £250 is enough to know whether you want a longer evening, and the desk will never push you past it. That said, this is the booking most improved by time: ninety minutes at £400 is comfortable, three hours at £700 is where the conversation stops being polite, and the people who book four at £900 are almost always the ones who have done it before.
Two notes worth reading first
Girlfriend experience, in detail
01Does it cost more than an ordinary booking?
No. There is one ladder on this site and it starts at £250 an hour. How an evening feels is a question of who you book rather than which page you booked her from.
02I have never done this before. Is that awkward?
It is common, and it is fine. Say so in your first message and Nell puts you with somebody who is good at the opening half hour rather than somebody who expects you to run the evening.
03Can I book the same woman again?
Yes, and most regulars here do exactly that. The second evening starts about an hour ahead of where the first one did, which is the main argument for picking one name and sticking with it.
04What if we simply do not get on?
It happens rarely and nobody pretends otherwise when it does. Tell the desk afterwards and Nell will put you with somebody different rather than defending the first choice. She reads people for a living.
Other nights on the book
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.