Two from the board: how the office books duo escorts in London
A duo is two women from this board keeping you company on the same evening, which is all that duo escorts in London means here. It is asked for most often when there are two of you, when a table of friends wants the numbers to work, or when a guest simply enjoys the conversation more when it has three people in it. It is company and conversation for the hours booked, the same as every other plan here, and nothing beyond that is offered or implied.
Each companion is booked on the same ladder as she would be on her own, and each takes her own fee in person when she arrives. An hour is £250 each, two hours £500 each, and the four hour dinner £900 each. The office writes both names, the hour, the length and both figures into one confirmation so there is nothing to work out on the night.
On the board
Suited to two from the board
Note 02
Who pairs with whom
Pairs are not assembled by an office out of whoever is free. They are women who already know each other, usually because they live in the same postcode and have spent evenings out together, and that shows within about four minutes of the two of them sitting down.
It matters more than it sounds. Two strangers being polite at a table is a much duller evening than two friends who can take a conversation somewhere on their own while you enjoy watching it happen.
Note 03
Two zones that pair easily
Soho has three women living inside the same few streets, so a duo there is often two people who eat in the same rooms every week and argue about which kitchen is on form. Chelsea has two more within a short walk of Sloane Square, which makes an early table and a walk to the river a very simple evening to arrange.
Pairs can be put together across the zones as well, and the office builds the travel into the arrival window when it does.
Note 04
The pairs the office puts forward
Jasmin and Molly both live in Soho, both talk quickly and both have firm opinions about where you should be eating, which makes for an entertaining table and a very well fed one. Michelle and Cindy are the Chelsea pair, both unhurried, both better at hour three than hour one, and well suited to a long dinner. Luna and Samanta cover Mayfair between them and could not be less alike, one dressed for attention and one for the smallest room in W1, which is exactly why the evening works.
Other combinations are possible. Send two names from the who is free page and the office will tell you honestly whether they know each other.
Note 05
When there are two of you
A duo booked by two guests is an ordinary arrangement and the office takes several a month. Everybody is at the same table, the conversation belongs to all four of you, and the evening is what a good dinner with friends is: talking, eating and losing track of the time.
If the two of you are a couple booking together, read an evening you both booked first. It is written for that arrangement specifically and it sets out what the office asks of both of you.
Note 06
Notice, and why it is longer
Two diaries have to agree rather than one, so a duo is the plan least likely to come together at short notice. A few hours of warning is usually enough in the central zones and a day is better anywhere else. The office will not hold a pair open on the hope that the second name comes back to it.
If one of the two cannot do your night, you are told which one and offered an alternative with a reason attached, rather than a substitution you did not ask for.
Note 07
What a duo evening is like from the inside
Easier than most people expect. Two women who know each other take the pressure off a table almost immediately, because there is never the silence that a single introduction sometimes has to work through. They talk to each other as well as to you, which sounds obvious and is the entire difference.
The conversation belongs to everybody at the table and nobody is being performed at. If you would rather listen for the first half hour, that is a perfectly good way to spend it, and neither of them will make a thing of it.
Note 08
How the evening is arranged
Both women arrive together where they can, which is usually simplest, or within a few minutes of each other where they are coming from different postcodes. They dress to the same register so nobody in the room is reading a story into it. The table is booked for the number of people who will actually be at it.
Both figures are handed over in person, separately, at the start. The ladder is on the rates page and the four steps to a confirmation are 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.