Where guests stay
- The NedCity of London
- Four Seasons Hotel London at Ten Trinity SquareTower Hill
- citizenM Tower of LondonTower Hill
- Pan Pacific LondonCity of London
Named as landmarks only. No hotel is a partner of ours.
Desk openReel 04 · AreasEC3 · EC4
Bank and Monument escorts, EC3 and EC4. Late evenings at the old centre.
Several of the City's oldest streets meet at Bank junction, with the Bank of England, the Royal Exchange and Mansion House facing one another across it. A few minutes south, the Monument marks where the Great Fire of 1666 began. Between the two lies the oldest part of the financial district, and once darkness falls few places in central London are stiller. Read on for the nearby hotels, the three closest stations, how long she takes and which companions live nearest.
EC3+1EC3, EC4
1MINOn foot from Bank
£250/HROpening rate
24/7Desk hours
01 · Bank and Monument
Location notes
The hotels, stations and postcodes behind a booking in Bank and Monument.
Minutes on foot
- BankCentral, Northern, Waterloo and City, DLR1MIN
- MonumentCircle, District2MIN
- Cannon StreetCircle, District, National Rail4MIN
EC3 · EC4
Bank and Monument lies within Zones 1 and 2, so her journey adds nothing to what you pay.
Hotel, name and room are checked once, then kept at the desk. See booking.
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On call for Bank and Monument
A shortlist for this side of the river, drawn differently on every district page. Any companion on the reel will make the trip; ask for the one you have in mind.
From £250Available today
Tina
Aged 26Covent Garden
From £250Available today
Karolina
Aged 27Covent Garden
From £250Available today
Nancy
Aged 30Covent Garden
From £250Away
Violetta
Aged 30Belgravia
From £250Available today
Jasmin
Aged 22Soho
From £250Available today
Lea
Aged 23Belgravia
22 more companions travel here too · all 28 frames on one page: Models
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Where the Fire started and the money stayed
The Monument is a Doric column of Portland stone designed by Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke. It is 202 feet tall and stands 202 feet from the site of the baker's shop on Pudding Lane where the fire broke out. Climb its 311 steps and the whole river opens up below. At its foot, Fish Street Hill leads down towards London Bridge and the water.
Up the hill, Bank is the old centre of British finance. The Bank of England has stood on Threadneedle Street since 1734, and the Royal Exchange opposite is now a covered courtyard of luxury shops. In the evening the grand façades are lit, the pavements are empty, and a single restaurant window can be the brightest thing on the street.
Five minutes east, Leadenhall Market and the steel and glass Lloyd's building face each other across a lane, the Victorian and the high-tech a few metres apart. Lombard Street still hangs the old painted signs of its banks over the pavement, and Change Alley and St Michael's Alley thread between the buildings, narrow enough to feel like private passages.
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The late shift and the visitors
Evenings here are mostly booked by people in town on business. Traders who work to the hours of markets on the far side of the world. Lawyers from the firms around Cannon Street. Visitors who took a room close to their meetings for a week. They book at unusual hours, sometimes just before midnight, and want a companion who treats a quiet, formal hotel as the most natural place in the world to be.
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Hotels within a walk of the junction
The Ned stands almost on the junction, in the old Midland Bank building on Poultry; its banking hall now holds several restaurants and bars under one enormous ceiling. Four Seasons at Ten Trinity Square is ten minutes east beside Tower Hill, with citizenM Tower of London next door. Pan Pacific London is about ten minutes north east, just off Bishopsgate.
We name these as places guests stay. None is a partner of ours. If you are in a serviced apartment off Cannon Street or King William Street, the arrangement is identical: your name, the address and the room, checked once and kept at the desk.
Hotels in this corner of the City have a particular tone after dark. The doors are heavy, the staff formal and friendly, the lobbies nearly empty. A companion who looks like a colleague arriving for a late drink fits perfectly, and that is precisely how she dresses.
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Bank, Monument, Cannon Street, and the drive
Bank station sits a minute from the junction; four services stop there, from the Central line to the DLR, and a newer entrance on Cannon Street opened in 2023. Monument, on the Circle and District, is two minutes off and joined to Bank below ground. Cannon Street station, four minutes south, has the same two lines plus mainline trains to Kent.
Your companion comes by car. From the West End the fastest route runs along the Embankment and Upper Thames Street, and late at night it can take barely twenty minutes. Allow up to an hour from confirmation. Zone 1 travel is on us.
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A formal evening, briefly told
A quarter past eleven. Someone who has negotiated since breakfast sends a short message from a room at The Ned: ninety minutes, as soon as possible. The desk replies with a companion, £400 and an arrival just before midnight. She comes in through the Poultry entrance, crosses the banking hall like any late diner, and the conversation that follows has nothing at all to do with work. At half past one she is on her way home.
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Who comes to Bank, and the streets around it
Karolina, Nancy and Tina live in Covent Garden, the closest of our home districts to the junction. Violetta and Lea come from Belgravia, and Jasmin from Soho. Each has a profile in the gallery with her details and her rate.
The wider City of London page covers the whole Square Mile. Liverpool Street is ten minutes north and Aldgate ten minutes east, and over the bridge from Monument, the Shard and the London Bridge hotels are only a stroll away.
Q · Questions
Bank and Monument, answered
No. The desk never closes, and late requests in this part of the City are routine. Message with your hotel and the length you want; confirmation comes back within minutes.
Yes. She arrives as any evening guest would, dressed for the building. If the hotel asks visitors to wait in the lobby, she waits there until you come down.
An hour, from £250. Ninety minutes at £400 suits a late booking well, since it leaves time for a drink first.
Yes, together with Cannon Street, Lombard Street and Fish Street Hill. Anywhere in EC3 and EC4 is covered at the same rates.
Yes. The column opens by day and closes in the early evening, so an afternoon suits it. The tickets are yours to arrange; she meets you at its foot at the agreed time.
No. Three facts are enough: the guest name on the room, the hotel, and the room number. Your employer, your meetings and your reasons for being in town are never asked about.
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Nearest crossings
Next door to Bank and Monument, on foot or a single stop away.
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From The Journal
- 6 min readThe old Midland Bank on Poultry: The Ned by weekday and by weekendA Lutyens bank turned hotel, its old banking hall now a row of restaurants, with a vault beneath. How an evening at The Ned changes between a loud Thursday and a slow Sunday.
- 5 min readFacing the bascules: the rooms that see Tower Bridge, and when the view earns its pricePlenty of rooms are sold as river view. Far fewer look straight at Tower Bridge. Which windows really face the bascules, and the bookings where paying extra for the view actually makes sense.
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Bank and Monument, tonight
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