Questions people actually ask the evening desk

As far ahead as suits you. A night three weeks away is arranged in the same four messages as a night tonight, and if your timings move in between, the start moves with them while the companion is still free. Once it is confirmed, the night simply sits in the diary until it happens.

Her time and her companionship for the hours agreed. Nothing else is offered and nothing else is sold. What an evening turns out to be is a matter between two adults and never appears on a price list. The figure is the same at two in the morning as it is at teatime, and it does not change according to what an evening turns out to involve.

To her, in person, when she arrives and before the time begins. The amount is the total the desk gave you when it confirmed the booking. She counts nothing at the door and makes no ceremony of it. The moment that is done the time starts and the arrangement is finished with.

Yes, on this site. One ladder runs from £250 for an hour up to £1,800 for a night, and it applies to everybody on the list in every postcode we cover. The rates page shows the whole thing. It also means the desk has no reason to steer you towards one name over another, which is worth more than it sounds when you are choosing from twenty eight.

Constantly, and at private flats and houses just as often. We hold no arrangement with any hotel anywhere. A guest receiving a visitor is ordinary business at any hour, and she arrives quietly and without ceremony. If a building has a side entrance, a gate or a buzzer that sticks, tell the desk when you write and the start time holds to the minute.

Because there is not one. Kentish Town, Highgate, Finsbury Park and Muswell Hill have no hotel worth the name, and we would rather write that plainly than send somebody looking. Each of those pages says where the nearest rooms actually are. It is a genuine feature of north London rather than an oversight: the hills were built as villages and the villages never wanted the traffic.

It depends entirely on which hill you are on. Around the stations and in N4 the journey is simple and short notice is realistic. Up in Muswell Hill it is closer to an hour from the middle of town, and the desk will always quote the real figure. Journeys here are made of hills, canals and railway lines, and two districts a mile apart can be forty minutes from one another.

Often, particularly around Euston, Kings Cross, St Pancras and Finsbury Park. Send the hour you want rather than asking how soon somebody could be there, and the answer comes back straight. If the hour you want does not work, the desk will say which one does rather than agreeing to something nobody can keep to.

One message and the start moves. The four companions anchored at the stations have spent a great deal of their working lives on platforms and treat a delay as ordinary rather than as a problem.

Yes, and they are hers. They are glamour and lifestyle photographs taken for this site, with every face softened and no nudity anywhere. The photo policy page explains how they are made and when they were last checked. Sets are reviewed at least twice a year against the woman herself, and any picture that has stopped looking like her comes down.

Completely, and in a practical way rather than a dramatic one. She dresses for the building she is entering, she does not linger at a reception desk, and the desk keeps almost nothing. The privacy page is specific about what little is held. Nothing about a booking ever travels through a link, a form or a web address, and no message from this desk will ever ask you to enter anything into a page.

Yes. A date is held for her return without any chasing. Several of the list are away in a given month and the profiles say so honestly rather than showing a permanent green light.

The districts on this site are what we know properly, and that is where our advice is worth having. For an address further out the desk adds the return travel and quotes you one figure first. Airport hotels take three hours as a minimum. Within Zones 1 and 2 her travel is already inside the figure, which covers every district on this site from the Euston Road to the top of N6.

A night, an hour, a district and a building. If there is a curtain, a doors time or a train, send that instead of a start time. The booking page sets out the five steps in order. A room number is never wanted at that stage and a first name is quite enough to be going on with.

Yes, and it is arranged in the same way with both companions confirmed in one message. Give the desk a little more notice, because two diaries have to agree rather than one.

Verity, who keeps the evening desk and answers most of the messages herself. She will tell you when something does not fit rather than squeezing it in, which is the most useful thing about her. The about page explains how the desk works.