Escorts in Knightsbridge, SW1X and SW7: who is close, and how soon

At seven the dining rooms have staff who still have time to talk, the pavements have emptied of shoppers and the traffic on Brompton Road has thinned to something a taxi can move through. By nine the same rooms are full of people who booked at eight, and by half past ten a good number of them have closed the kitchen. That is not a complaint about the district, it is simply how it runs.

An early start also solves the problem that catches people out in SW1X, which is that there is very little to do afterwards within walking distance. Knightsbridge is a residential postcode wearing a shopping street. If you want a second stop after dinner it is either a hotel bar, the walk up to the park gates, or a short fare east into Belgravia.

Knightsbridge station is effectively on the doorstep, a minute from the middle of the district, and it carries the Piccadilly line only. Hyde Park Corner is five minutes east on the same line and is often the quicker exit in the evening because the streets around it move better. Sloane Square, Circle and District, is nine minutes south and is the one you want if your evening is heading towards Chelsea.

The park gates at the top of Sloane Street are a five minute walk and, on a dry evening, twenty minutes out and back is one of the better things to do here after dinner. Companions arrive by taxi, and with so much of the board living in the south west, the usual hour from the office confirming is one this zone keeps without strain.

Guests in the park side suites who have a single free evening and no wish to cross town for it. Residents of the squares who want an arrival that looks like nothing at all. People in London for two days of meetings who have learned that a seven o'clock dinner leaves them capable of a nine o'clock start the following morning.

The request the office hears most often in SW1X is for a clear finish time. It is an easy one to honour. The length is agreed before she leaves, and when the hours are up the evening ends without anybody having to raise the subject.

Walk east along Knightsbridge and you are in Belgravia by the time you reach Wilton Place. Sloane Street runs south to Sloane Square and then into Chelsea. West along Kensington Road takes you past the Albert Hall and into Kensington in about fifteen minutes on foot. North across the park, and it is a real park rather than a square, Mayfair begins at Hyde Park Corner. South Kensington, Sloane Street and Hyde Park itself all meet the district at one edge or another.