What guests ask once they are ready to book

No. Plenty of guests start with the evening rather than a name: a client dinner near Bank, a late drink in Shoreditch, a quiet night in with room service. Describe it and the desk comes back with two or three names from the models reel, with a line on why each one fits. Choosing takes a minute either way.

No. One hour at £250 is the shortest booking, and there is no half hour version at any price. If an hour feels tight for what you have in mind, ninety minutes at £400 usually fits a late start better.

Often. Tell the desk, or ask her to, before the booked time ends. Whether it can stretch depends on the rest of her night. Extra time is charged as the step up the ladder, so two hours that become three cost the difference between those two lines on the rates page and nothing more.

There are fifteen minutes of grace on the agreed start. Send the desk a line as soon as you know, and the start usually moves to suit you. Beyond fifteen minutes the evening is rebooked rather than shortened, something late finishes around Bank and Monument make fairly common.

None at all. She gives reception whatever it asks for, including the name you are staying under, and follows the routine like any other visitor. Some hotels work this way after dark, and she is used to it. Where a hotel would rather visitors stay downstairs, she takes a seat in the lobby and you collect her.

Whichever you prefer. A drink downstairs suits a first booking and a longer evening; straight to the room suits a late hour and a short one. The rooftop bars of Shoreditch and the hotel bars along the river are both easy starting points. Say which in your first message.

Yes. Airport hotels need a three hour booking, the drive included in that time, and you get a single price before you agree. Guests arriving by train often find a hotel by London Bridge Station or Liverpool Street simpler.

The desk, once, to confirm the booking, and the companion, who needs the hotel, the room and whose name to give at reception. No one else hears them. The details are not copied into any system, and the privacy notice explains how briefly they are kept.

Use whatever first name you like while you talk. At the confirming stage the name has to match the one the room is booked under, because that is the name the hotel will recognise. It goes no further than the desk and the companion.

To her, in person, once she is with you, and in pounds. The desk arranges the evening; she is paid for her time. The figure is the one written in the confirmation, and it does not change at the door.

Nothing from this desk will. You hand her fee to her directly, face to face, and the desk never takes card details or sends payment requests, so no line carrying our name ever reaches your bank.

No. The fee in the confirmation is the whole cost. Nothing is added for a late hour, a grand hotel or a long taxi queue, and nobody will hint otherwise.

Ask the desk. Profiles show when a companion is away and the day she returns, but whether she is free at a particular hour tonight changes too quickly for a web page. Expect the answer within a quarter of an hour; if she is taken, it suggests someone who is free.

Occasionally plans change on her side too. You are told as soon as the desk knows, and offered another companion for the same time or a different evening with her. If neither suits, you owe nothing.

Yes. Ask for her by name when you next write. The desk keeps no file of past guests or their preferences, so mention anything worth repeating, a restaurant you liked or the hotel you prefer, and it is arranged the same way again.

Yes, with notice. Travel bookings are arranged one by one and priced in writing around your dates and destination before anything is agreed. They need more notice than an evening in town, usually a few days, so name the city and the dates in your first message. Weekends are quoted the same way.

Adults aged 18 or over, and nobody else. Where age is uncertain the desk says no, and it may equally refuse a guest who seems too intoxicated or discourteous for an evening both people would enjoy. Every companion is 18 or over too, confirmed from her identity document in person.

Fees are for time and companionship only: her company, for the hours you book. Nothing beyond that is offered, implied or for sale. A request for more ends the booking at once, and the fee is kept. The terms state it as a condition of every booking.