Out late, across town: how the office books night out escorts in London
This is the plan for evenings that are not built around a dining table, the one the office books when somebody asks for night out escorts in London. A show and supper afterwards, three bars and a walk, a basement with a piano, or the sort of night that starts with a drink and ends somewhere neither of you had heard of at eight o'clock. Three hours at £700 is the usual shape and four at £900 covers a late supper inside it.
The thing you are actually booking is local knowledge with good company attached. Somebody who knows which room is worth an hour on a Tuesday, which one is coasting on its name, and how to get you back to your hotel at one in the morning without standing in a queue for a taxi.
On the board
Suited to out late, across town
Note 02
How a late evening tends to run
One drink near you to start, largely so she can work out what kind of night you want. Then a room she has chosen, then usually one more. Supper happens late or not at all, and either is fine. The walk back is the part most guests remember, because this city empties in a way that surprises people who only see it at six in the evening.
Nobody is marching you between venues. If the second bar turns out to be the whole night, she will be perfectly happy to stay in it.
Note 03
Theatre nights
If there is a curtain, it goes in the first message, because it sets the shape of everything around it. The house view here is firmly that dinner belongs after the show rather than before: a rushed six o'clock table ruins both things, and supper at half past ten fixes everything.
Covent Garden is where most of these evenings happen, with alley rooms that fill up with people who have just watched the same thing you did. Several of the women on the board see everything that opens and will tell you what is actually good this month rather than what has the biggest poster.
Note 04
The late districts
Soho runs later than anywhere else on the board and is fifteen minutes end to end on foot, which is why the women who live there would rather walk it than sit in a car. The east is the other option, quieter in the small hours but open in every direction if you know where you are going.
The zones page sets out how late each district honestly runs, including the ones that look busy on a map and are asleep by eleven.
Note 05
Four who are better after ten
Tiffany has no interest in a hushed room and will say so before you book one, and a midnight finish is normal rather than an extension. Lucy starts at eight at the earliest and is better at ten than at seven, and can find the one good room on any street within ten minutes of arriving on it. Roxi wants supper at half past ten after a curtain and talks the entire way through it. Molly counts the twenty minute queue outside a counter as part of the evening rather than an obstacle.
Everyone else on the who is free page will take a late booking. The away notes are edited by hand, so what you read is what the office actually knows.
Note 06
Queues, doors and guest lists
Nobody on this board is going to get you past a rope, and anybody promising that is selling something. What they can do is steer you away from the rooms where you would be standing outside in the first place, which achieves the same evening with less standing.
A twenty minute wait at a counter with somebody good to talk to is not an obstacle, it is the start of the night. A forty minute wait outside a basement because a door team is making a point is an hour of your booking spent badly, and the women here will tell you which one you are about to join.
Note 07
Getting home
Ask her. Several of the women on this board will walk twenty minutes rather than wait ten for a car, and they are usually right about which is quicker at that hour. She knows the streets that stay busy and the ones that do not, and she will take the busy ones.
Her journey home is her own arrangement and is already inside the figure, whichever zone you are in. It is not something you need to organise or pay for at the end of the night.
Note 08
Notice, and finishing times
Late plans are often arranged the same day, particularly in the central zones where somebody is usually nearby. What the office asks for is the finish time you actually want rather than the polite one, because a booking that ends at midnight and a booking that ends at two are different evenings and should be written down as such.
If the night turns into a longer one, ask before the booked hours run out. If it was always going to be a longer one, the whole night is the honest plan and the rates page shows why it works out better per hour.
From The Roundup
Two notes worth reading first
More plans
Other ways an evening is arranged
Last strip
Say a name and an hour
Write in with a length, a time and the zone you are staying in, and a name from the board comes back with a window attached. That is the whole of the arrangement.