Several evenings in a row: how the office books an extended booking in London
Some people are in London for a week rather than a night. This plan is for them, and it is what the office means by extended booking escorts in London: the same companion across several evenings, booked in one exchange instead of five, so that nobody is starting again from the beginning each time. A weekend is quoted in writing rather than taken from the ladder, because two days shaped around your plans is not a rung on it.
The argument for it is simple. The second evening with somebody is better than the first, and the fourth is better than both. What you are buying is the part of an evening that usually has to be built from scratch, already built.
On the board
Suited to several evenings in a row
Note 02
How a run is put together
Send the dates you are in town, the hours that are actually free in them, and what each evening is likely to be. The office comes back with who can hold the whole run rather than most of it, which is a shorter list than you might expect and an honest one.
Each evening is priced from the ladder at its own length: £500 for two hours, £700 for three, £900 for the four hour dinner. They are written into one confirmation with the dates set out in order, and each night's figure is handed to her on that night.
Note 03
Why the same name
Because the first hour of any evening is spent working each other out, and on the third night it simply is not there any more. She knows where you like to eat, what you do not want to talk about, and whether you want the walk afterwards or the short ride back.
It also makes the practical side quiet. No room number to re-explain, no lobby to describe, no new arrangement to make each afternoon. If she has said yes to the run, the run is in her diary.
Note 04
Weekends
Two days is quoted rather than printed. The office sets out the hours inside each day, where the nights are spent, whether breakfast is part of it, and the total, all before you agree to anything. Nothing about a weekend is arranged by implication.
Most weekends here are built from a long dinner, an overnight and a slow Saturday rather than a solid block of hours, because that is what people actually enjoy. Say which part matters most and the quote is shaped around it.
Note 05
Two zones for a long stay
Belgravia is the quietest district in central London and goes silent at nine, which is a very different week from the one you get somewhere busier. The West End is the opposite argument, an umbrella rather than a district, with everything within a short walk and a theatre on most corners.
Every zone on the zones page takes extended bookings. The one that suits you depends on whether you want to be in the middle of the noise or ten minutes from it.
Note 06
Four who plan ahead well
Danielle takes two bookings a week and no more, which means a run with her is planned rather than squeezed in. Margo fills her diary a week or two ahead and is straightforward about it, so early beats urgent. Samanta wants a day of notice for the small rooms she likes and is worth the warning. Thea is at her best on the longer evenings and will say so honestly rather than selling you an hour.
The who is free page carries an away note against every name, including return dates where they are known, which matters more on this plan than on any other.
Note 07
Keeping the evenings different
Four dinners in a row with the same person in the same sort of room is three dinners too many, and the women who take these runs know it. Expect one long table, one night that is a walk and a bar, one early finish because you have a meeting, and one evening that does whatever it turns out to want to do.
Say at the start which nights are working nights and which are yours. A run planned around that is far better than one where every evening is treated as the same evening repeated, and it is much easier to arrange at the beginning than halfway through.
Note 08
Changing a night in the middle of a run
Plans move and the rules are the same as everywhere else. Three hours of notice or more and that evening is released with nothing owed, and the rest of the run stands. Inside two hours, half that night's figure applies. Nothing that happens to one evening affects the others.
If you want to add a night while you are here, ask as early in the day as you can and the office will tell you straight away whether she is free. The full ladder and the cancellation terms are on the rates page, and the written confirmation each run ends up with is described on the booking page.
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.