The four Mayfairs

Park Lane. The hotel strip. Large lobbies, practised staff, and the easiest outcall in London because nobody there is surprised by anything. Loud at the Marble Arch end, calmer towards Hyde Park Corner.

Berkeley Square and around. The moneyed middle. Private members clubs, hedge funds, restaurants where the bill arrives without you asking. Busy until about eleven and then abruptly not.

The Bond Street end. Shops, so it empties completely after seven. Excellent for a quiet dinner, poor for atmosphere.

Shepherd Market. The odd one. A pocket of narrow lanes and old pubs behind Curzon Street that feels like a village and has a longer history with this trade than anywhere else in Mayfair. Worth walking through even if you do nothing there.

What it actually costs

Mayfair carries the highest rates we list and the reason is not snobbery, it is rent. An incall flat here costs a multiple of the same flat in Bayswater, and that sits in the hourly figure.

Expect the upper end of the range on Mayfair profiles, and add the restaurant, which in this postcode is rarely the smaller number. Our post on what an evening actually costs has the full arithmetic.

If the appeal is the address rather than the location, Marylebone is ten minutes away, quieter, and noticeably cheaper for the same evening.

The timing nobody tells you

Mayfair runs early. The bars fill from seven, peak around nine, and by half past eleven the streets are close to empty except for cabs.

That has two consequences. A booking arranged for ten in a Mayfair hotel is arriving into a quiet building, which is ideal. And a plan that assumes you can walk out at midnight and find somewhere open is a plan that ends in Soho, which is a different evening entirely.

Incall or outcall here

Outcall dominates Mayfair for the obvious reason: it is where the hotels are. If you are staying on or near Park Lane, an outcall is the path of least resistance and the buildings are built for it.

Incall exists but is thinner on the ground than in the west, because of what a flat costs. If incall is what you want, Marble Arch and Bond Street sit on the edges with more of it. Our guide on incall or outcall weighs the two properly.

Getting in and out

Green Park, Bond Street, Marble Arch and Hyde Park Corner ring the area, so nothing in Mayfair is more than about eight minutes from a tube.

Cabs are the harder part. Berkeley Square at eleven on a Friday is a bad place to expect one to appear, and the app will show you a driver circling one way system for ten minutes. Walk to Piccadilly or Park Lane and it solves itself.

What to book it for

Mayfair suits a certain shape of evening: a drink somewhere panelled, dinner that takes its time, and a hotel you are already staying in. It is the best postcode in London for that and mediocre value for anything else.

For a straightforward two hour incall, you are paying for an address you will not see much of. For a dinner date or an overnight, it earns the money.

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Earls Court

Red brick mansion blocks, a great many of them, arranged in long terraces around garden squares. Built as flats, still flats, and full of people who have lived there eighteen months and will move on.

That transience is the whole story. Nobody in an Earls Court block knows their neighbours, nobody remarks on comings and goings, and the buildings have lifts, porters and side entrances. It is one of the busiest incall areas we cover for exactly that reason.

The area itself is unglamorous and perfectly pleasant: cheap restaurants, old pubs, a lot of Australians. Nothing about arriving there at nine in the evening is notable. See Earls Court.

Kensington

Wider streets, larger buildings, embassies, and the museums up at the top end. Grander than Earls Court and considerably quieter after dark, because the shops close and the residential streets have nothing to draw anybody.

The hotels here are the interesting part. Kensington and Gloucester Road are thick with mid sized hotels serving the museums and the exhibition traffic, which means a lot of rooms, reasonable rates, and staff who see hundreds of guests a week. See Kensington and Gloucester Road.

South Kensington and High Street Kensington

Worth separating, because people use the names loosely.

South Kensington is museum territory and embassy staff, well lit and comfortable to walk in, with the best transport of the four.

High Street Kensington is shops during the day and residential at night, with a sharp drop in activity around seven. Good for an incall, thin for anything else.

Why the rates sit where they do

Middle of the range across all four, which is the honest sweet spot on this site.

You are paying less than Mayfair or Knightsbridge and getting a considerably wider choice than either, because this is where a lot of the incall flats are. If the priority is finding the right person rather than the right address, west London gives you more to choose from at a given budget. See what a London booking costs.

The transport, which is better than people think

The District and Piccadilly lines both run through, Earls Court is one of the few stations where they cross, and Gloucester Road adds the Circle.

Practically that means Heathrow direct on the Piccadilly, the West End in twelve minutes, and Victoria in eight. It also means the last trains are later than in a lot of central London, because the District runs a long way. Our post on getting around late at night covers the timings.

Eating first

Honestly? Not the reason to come here. South Kensington has a decent handful and Kensington Church Street a few more, but nothing that would pull you across town.

The usual answer is to eat elsewhere and come back, or to treat this as a straightforward incall area and not build an evening around the postcode. Our post on choosing a restaurant covers where the dining rooms actually are.

What it is good for

An uncomplicated booking, at a fair rate, in a building nobody looks at twice, fifteen minutes from wherever you have been.

That is not a small thing. A great deal of what makes an evening go well is that none of the logistics required any thought, and west London is where that is easiest.

See every area we cover, or ring +44 20 7846 3480.

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Tipping

Not expected. Genuinely not, in the way it is not expected in a London pub rather than the way it is not expected in a restaurant.

If an evening was good and you want to, it is welcome, and it is handled exactly like the rate: cash, in the envelope or beside it, without a conversation. Nobody counts it in front of you and nobody mentions it afterwards.

Nobody thinks less of anybody who does not, and it buys you nothing you would not otherwise get. See how to pay for the convention around the rate itself.

Gifts

A more interesting question, because the answer is not the obvious one.

What works. Small, consumable and impersonal. Good chocolates, a bottle of something, flowers if you are the sort of person who would. The appeal is the gesture rather than the object.

What does not. Anything expensive, anything that implies knowledge of her personal life, and anything she has to carry home on the tube at one in the morning. A large gift creates an obligation, which is the opposite of what a gift is for.

Perfume and lingerie. Both come up and both are a mistake unless she has actually said so. They read as a request rather than a present.

If you want to give something and are unsure, ask us when you book. It is a normal question.

The courtesies that actually register

These matter more than either of the above and they are all free.

• Be on time, or say if you are not. Two minutes on the phone converts a problem into a non event.
• Shower. The single most noticed thing in this entire business. See what to wear.
• Have the right cash, counted. Nobody wants to start an evening making change.
• Offer her a drink. Water at minimum. Most people forget and it takes ten seconds.
• Somewhere to put a coat and a bag. Small, and immediately obvious when it is missing.
• Say when the time is nearly up. Rather than letting it run and then rushing.

Extending

Common and straightforward. Ask before the time is up rather than as she is getting dressed, and leave the extra the same way you left the rest.

She may not be able to, because there may be somebody after you. That is not a judgement on the evening and it is worth asking early enough that it is a real question.

Afterwards

Nothing is required. No message, no follow up, no ceremony. The booking ends when it ends and that is the arrangement working properly.

If you enjoyed it and want to say so usefully, the thing that actually helps is a review on her profile, which other people read and which she sees. Ours are moderated and go up under a first name. Rather more valuable than a tip, and free.

If you want to see her again, our post on seeing the same escort again covers how that works, which is to say: ring and ask for her.

The one that costs nothing and matters most

Cancel properly. With reasonable notice there is no charge and nobody asks why. Cancelling on the day, repeatedly, costs somebody an evening each time and is the one thing that will get a client taken off the books.

That is the whole of the etiquette that is not covered in the etiquette guide. None of it is difficult and all of it is noticed.

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What you are actually looking for

Not the food. Or rather, not only the food, and it is a long way from the most important factor.

Noise. The single biggest one. A dinner date is a conversation, and a room at ninety decibels makes conversation into work. Hard surfaces, open kitchens and communal tables are the warning signs.

Table spacing. Two people who can be overheard talk differently from two people who cannot. It changes the whole evening and it costs nothing to check.

Whether they will let you sit. Some restaurants want the table back in ninety minutes. That is fine for lunch and wrong for this. Ask when you book.

Lighting. Dim is flattering and pleasant. Dark is a nuisance and bright is a canteen.

The shapes that work

The old fashioned proper restaurant. Tablecloths, a wine list with some depth, waiters who have been there years. Quiet, unhurried, and nobody will blink at anything. The most reliable choice by a distance.

The hotel dining room. Underrated. Calm, well spaced, used to people who are staying upstairs, and completely unremarkable to arrive at as two people. If the evening continues in the same building, it is close to ideal.

The small neighbourhood place. Twenty covers, one room, somebody’s name on the door. Warm and genuinely pleasant, though check the noise, because small rooms can be the loudest of all.

The shapes that do not

Anything with a queue and no bookings. Standing on a pavement is not a start to an evening.

Small plates and sharing. Fine among friends. As a first dinner with somebody it introduces a running negotiation over food that nobody needs.

Anywhere with a DJ. Self explanatory, and there are more of them in London every year.

The tasting menu. Three hours, twelve interruptions, and a rhythm set by the kitchen rather than by you. Superb food, wrong occasion.

Where to look, by area

Mayfair and Marylebone between them hold most of what suits this. Mayfair for the grand version, Marylebone for the same thing without the ceremony or the bill.

Knightsbridge and Chelsea are quieter and slightly older in feel. Notting Hill has the best neighbourhood restaurants in London and is a nuisance to get to and from.

Soho and Covent Garden have plenty of excellent food and almost nothing that suits a long, quiet dinner. Our post on hotel bars worth arriving early for covers the drink beforehand.

The practical part

• Book it yourself, days ahead. Not on the night, and not by asking her to. Anything worth eating in is gone by Wednesday for a Friday.
• Book for two under your own first name. Nobody asks anything else.
• Arrive first. Being at the table when she arrives is worth more than any amount of restaurant.
• Settle the bill discreetly, before the end. A card left at the start means the evening ends when you decide rather than when the machine arrives.

How long to book

Three hours is the standard shape for a dinner date and it is the right one. Dinner takes two, and an hour either side is what stops it feeling like a schedule.

Rates for dinner dates are quoted as a block rather than by the hour, and they are on the profile like everything else. Our guide on dinner dates covers how the evening runs, and what an evening costs has the arithmetic including the restaurant.

Tell us the restaurant when you book. It changes who we suggest, because some are far more comfortable in a dining room than others, and it means she arrives dressed for the room.

Every profile carries its dinner date rate alongside the hourly one, so you can see the figure before you ring. Browse the roster, or call +44 20 7846 3480.

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Chelsea

The King’s Road running west, garden squares either side, and a village that stopped being one about sixty years ago without ever quite admitting it.

What Chelsea has is restaurants. Not the grand hotel dining rooms of Mayfair but a long run of neighbourhood places that have been there decades, with proper tables and normal noise levels. Exactly the shape our post on choosing a restaurant argues for, at noticeably less than Mayfair.

What it does not have is hotels. A handful, none of them large. So an evening here is usually dinner followed by going somewhere else, unless the somewhere else is an incall. See Chelsea.

Sloane Square and the Belgravia edge

The eastern end, where Chelsea runs into Belgravia. Smarter, quieter, better connected, and the part of the area with the mansion blocks that make incall work.

Sloane Square itself is a transport hub as much as a place: the District and Circle lines, and cabs that actually exist at midnight, which is more than can be said for the King’s Road further west.

Fulham and West Brompton

Where it gets genuinely good value. Fulham is residential, calm, full of converted terraces and mansion blocks, and about fifteen minutes from South Kensington.

West Brompton and West Kensington sit between Fulham and Earls Court and share the same character: unremarkable streets, large buildings, nobody paying attention. Our post on the quietest parts of central London explains why that combination matters more than how smart an area looks.

Rates here sit in the lower half of what we list, which for this part of London is a bargain rather than a compromise.

The river, and why it matters

Worth knowing if you are planning routes. The Thames has far fewer crossings than people assume, and the ones that exist funnel traffic.

Practically: an evening that stays north of the river is straightforward, and one that crosses it twice is not. If you are coming from Clapham or Wimbledon, allow considerably more time than the map suggests. See getting around London late at night.

Getting about within it

The District line runs the length of it, which makes Sloane Square to Fulham Broadway a five minute job. The King’s Road itself has no tube along it, which is the single most annoying fact about Chelsea and the reason buses along it are always full.

Cabs are easy at the Sloane Square end and thin at the western end late at night. Walk to a main road.

What to book it for

A dinner that takes its time, in a room where you can hear each other, without a Mayfair bill. Then an incall ten minutes away rather than a hotel.

That combination is what this part of London does better than anywhere else, and almost nobody thinks of it. Our post on what an evening actually costs has the arithmetic.

See every area we cover, or ring +44 20 7846 3480.

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The short answer

London has no red light district. No street of windows, no licensed quarter, nothing to walk to. Amsterdam and Hamburg both have one because their law permits a concentration. English law specifically does not, and the rest of this page is the detail behind that sentence.

There was one, and it was Soho

For most of the twentieth century Soho did the job. Walker’s Court, Brewer Street, the streets around Berwick Street: clip joints, walk ups, neon, and a doorway economy that everybody in London knew about and nobody wrote down.

The walk up is the part worth understanding, because it is the only version that survives. A narrow door beside a shop, a handwritten card, a flat one or two floors above. One woman working, and a maid downstairs. That arrangement was never quite legal and never quite prosecuted, and a handful still operate.

What actually cleared it

Not a single law and not a campaign. Three things at once, over about thirty years.

Property prices. The most boring answer and the largest one. Soho went from cheap and disreputable to some of the most expensive commercial floorspace in Europe. A walk up cannot outbid a media company for a lease.

Licensing. Westminster spent the eighties and nineties squeezing the sex shops and clip joints through licensing rather than the criminal law, which worked far better than raids ever had.

The internet. By the time the leases ran out the doorway was obsolete anyway. Nobody needs a lit street to find anybody now.

Walker’s Court still exists. It has a theatre in it.

Why no new one appeared

This is the part that surprises people, and it comes down to one line of law.

In England and Wales a premises used by more than one person for prostitution is a brothel. That is the whole test. No sign is needed, no manager, nobody profiting, and the two people do not even have to be there on the same day.

A red light district is, definitionally, a lot of people working in close proximity. The law makes the concentration itself the offence, while leaving the individual entirely lawful. So the trade did not go away, it dispersed: one person per address, spread across the city. Our guide on what counts as a brothel sets the law out properly, and the legal position covers the rest.

The four places people still name

Ask around and the same handful come up. All four are historical, and it is worth knowing what is actually there now.

Soho. The real one, and largely gone. A few walk ups remain around Brewer Street and Greek Street, marked by a card in a doorway and nothing else. What Soho has instead is restaurants, theatres and a great many people. See Soho and the West End after dark, which also explains why the crowds make it one of the least discreet parts of London rather than the most.

Shepherd Market, Mayfair. The one people mention with a knowing look. It carried a genuine reputation from the nineteenth century well into the twentieth. Today it is a small square of expensive pubs and restaurants, and the reputation has outlived the fact by roughly forty years. Mayfair after dark covers what it actually is now.

Kings Cross. Street prostitution here was real and visible into the early 2000s, concentrated around the old goods yard and the streets behind the station. It ended through regeneration rather than policing: the land became a university campus, a Google building and a shopping street. Kings Cross is now a transport hub with good hotels attached.

Streatham High Road. The south London version, kerb crawling rather than premises, and the subject of repeated police operations through the nineties. Dispersed by the same combination of enforcement and the internet. See South London: Clapham to Croydon.

The pattern across all four is the same. None were closed by a single crackdown, and none were replaced.

Where it went instead

Into flats, and into hotels. The map of London now follows transport and housing stock rather than any historic quarter.

The incall clusters are where you would expect if you think about it for a minute: mansion blocks and porter buildings within a short walk of a tube. Paddington, Bayswater, Earls Court, Marylebone. Anonymous entrances, a lot of coming and going, nobody remarking on anybody.

That is not a district and it does not look like one from the street. You could walk the length of Sussex Gardens and see nothing at all, which is exactly the point. Our post on Paddington and Bayswater covers why that corner does more work than its reputation suggests.

The outcall map is simply the hotel map. Mayfair, Knightsbridge, the streets off Park Lane.

What this means if you are looking

Practically: there is nowhere to walk to, and the places that advertise themselves as though there were are worth avoiding.

The clip joint is the one part of old Soho that never quite died. The pattern is unchanged since the sixties: someone on the street, a promise of a bar, a bill for several hundred pounds and two men by the door. If you are approached on the street in the West End, that is what it is. There is no negotiating your way out of one, and the police are the correct answer rather than the card machine.

The same logic applies to anything promising what nobody else will. Our guide on what bareback means explains why an advert offering it is one of the most reliable warnings there is, and spotting a fake listing covers the other signals.

If something suggests somebody is not there by choice, the Modern Slavery helpline is 0800 0121 700.

What replaced it is better

Worth saying plainly rather than treating the change as a loss.

The arrangement now is a name, photographs, a stated rate, listed services and a phone number that answers. You know the price before you leave the house and you know who you are meeting. Set against a doorway, a card and whatever happened next, that is not a modern compromise. It is a straightforwardly better deal, and a safer one for everybody in it.

A small footnote

Every so often somebody proposes a managed zone for London, usually pointing at Leeds, which ran one for several years. It has never got anywhere here and probably will not: the law would need changing, and no London borough wants to be the one that volunteers.

So the answer to where the red light district went is that it was priced out, licensed out, and then made unnecessary. What replaced it is ninety four people working alone across forty five areas of London, in a city where we now cover a hundred and twenty one. Harder to photograph, and considerably easier to deal with.

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The booking

In central London most hourly rates sit between £200 and £400, and the number on the profile is the number. No booking fee, nothing to settle with the agency, no card on file.

What moves it: area, how long, and whether you want her to come to you. Outcall generally runs thirty to fifty pounds above incall to cover travel, though for a central hotel that gap is often nil. Our guide on what a London escort costs breaks it down properly.

Longer bookings cost less per hour. A two hour booking is rarely double a one hour one, and an overnight is a long way from eight times an hour.

Dinner, if there is dinner

The part people underestimate by the widest margin.

A decent central London restaurant for two, with wine, lands between £120 and £250. Somewhere with a name attached and you are past £300 before anybody orders a second bottle. Add service.

Two practical notes. Book the table yourself rather than leaving it to the evening, because the good ones are gone by Wednesday for a Friday. And a dinner date is usually quoted as a three hour booking rather than by the hour, which is worth knowing before you do the arithmetic the wrong way.

The hotel, if there is a hotel

A room in Mayfair or Knightsbridge on a weekday runs £250 to £500. Marylebone or Paddington will do the same job for £150 to £250 and nobody will think less of the evening.

The thing worth paying for is not the marble. It is a hotel with a proper lobby, a lift that does not open into a corridor of four rooms, and staff who deal with people arriving in the evening as a matter of routine. Our guide on hotel bookings covers which kinds work.

If the room is only for the booking, an incall removes the line from the budget entirely.

Drinks before

Cocktails in a central hotel bar are £18 to £24 each. Two rounds for two people and you are at £80 without noticing.

Not an argument against it. The half hour before is one of the better parts of the evening. Just count it.

Getting about

Cabs across central London are £15 to £30 a hop and considerably more after midnight or when it rains. Three moves in an evening is £60 to £90.

The cheapest fix is geography: pick a part of town where the whole evening happens within a short walk. Mayfair, Marylebone and Knightsbridge each hold the bar, the restaurant and the hotel inside ten minutes.

What it comes to

Three honest shapes rather than one number.

A straightforward evening. Two hour incall, nothing else. £350 to £600 all in, and no other line items.

Dinner and after. Three hour dinner date, restaurant, drinks, cabs. £800 to £1,200, with the restaurant the most variable part.

The full evening. Overnight, hotel, dinner, drinks, travel. £1,500 to £2,500.

The gaps are wide because the restaurant and the hotel move far more than the booking does. The booking is the one figure you know in advance.

Where people go wrong

Booking an hour when the evening wants two. The commonest and the most expensive mistake, because you pay for an evening that never quite starts.

Not counting the restaurant. It is regularly the largest single line and the one nobody budgets.

Chasing a rate well under the going one. Under two hundred an hour in central London is worth a second look, and not usually a bargain.

Paying by anything other than cash. A statement entry costs nothing on the night and a great deal later. See how to pay.

Trimming it sensibly

Incall instead of a hotel. One area instead of three. A longer booking instead of two shorter ones. Midweek instead of Friday, which moves the restaurant and the room but not the rate.

What not to trim is the length. An hour with a table booked at eight is not an evening, it is a schedule.

Browse the roster with rates on every profile, or ring +44 20 7846 3480 and describe the evening you have in mind.

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Why the trade lives here

Three things, none of them glamorous.

The building stock. Paddington and Bayswater are full of large white stucco terraces converted into flats, and mansion blocks with forty or fifty doors. A building where dozens of people come and go at all hours is a building where nobody is noticed. That is worth more than any amount of charm.

The transport. Paddington is a mainline station, the Heathrow Express, and four tube lines. Bayswater and Queensway sit on the Central and Circle. You can reach it from almost anywhere in London in half an hour and from an aeroplane in fifteen minutes.

The price. Central, but a fraction of Mayfair. That shows up directly in the rates.

What it is actually like

Mixed, transient and busy, which is the point. Hotels of every grade, a large international population, restaurants open late, and a permanent churn of people with suitcases. Nobody in Paddington is looking at anybody.

Bayswater immediately west is calmer and slightly smarter. Queensway is the spine and stays awake later than most of London. Lancaster Gate along the park is the quietest corner of the three.

The incall heartland

This is the practical bit. More of our incall bookings happen in Paddington, Bayswater and Edgware Road than anywhere else on the site, and the reason is the flats.

A porter building with a lift and a lot of tenants is close to ideal: unremarkable entrance, no neighbours who know each other, and a normal reason for anybody to be arriving at nine in the evening. Our post on the quietest parts of central London covers why that beats a picturesque street.

If you are arriving by train or plane

Paddington is the obvious base and frequently the cheapest sensible one.

The Heathrow Express takes fifteen minutes and runs until nearly midnight. The Elizabeth line is slower, cheaper and runs later. Either way you are in a hotel within half an hour of landing, and there are a hundred of them within ten minutes’ walk. Our guide on escorts near Heathrow covers the airport end.

One practical note if you are booking a hotel here: the ones directly on Praed Street and around the station are functional rather than pleasant. Walk five minutes into Sussex Gardens or towards Bayswater and both the rooms and the streets improve considerably for the same money.

Rates

Generally the lower half of what we list, which is not a comment on anybody. It is rent, the same as Mayfair being the upper half.

What that buys you in practice is more choice at a given budget. Around thirty escorts cover Paddington and a similar number Bayswater, so a same day booking here is far more likely to work than in a thinner area. See what a London booking costs.

The honest downside

It is not a destination. There is no reason to arrange a whole evening around Paddington unless you are already there, and the restaurants are mostly serviceable rather than good.

If dinner is part of the plan, eat in Marylebone and come back, which is a ten minute cab. If the plan is a straightforward booking with no production around it, this is the best value postcode in central London and it is not particularly close.

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The actual standard

Clean, pressed, and appropriate to where you are going. That is genuinely the whole bar.

Nobody is assessing the label. What people notice, in order: whether you smell fresh, whether the clothes fit, and whether they look like they were put on deliberately. The third one is the difference between a shirt and a shirt you chose.

By setting

An incall at her flat. The most relaxed of the lot. Smart casual is right: a decent shirt, trousers, proper shoes. A suit is overdressed and jeans are fine if they are good ones.

A hotel outcall. Same standard, with one addition: you are walking through a lobby. Look like a guest, which mostly means not looking like you are trying not to be noticed. See London hotel bookings.

A hotel bar or a restaurant. This is the one where it moves. A jacket is close to mandatory in a good London dining room after seven, and several will find you one if you arrive without. Our post on choosing a restaurant covers which sort of room you are walking into.

A party or an event. Whatever the event calls for, and tell us what that is when you book, because she is dressing for the same room. See party and event bookings.

The part that actually matters

Shower. Recently, not this morning. Clean teeth. Deodorant. Nails.

This sounds patronising written down and it is by a distance the most useful paragraph on this page. It is the single most common thing that makes an evening less good than it should have been, it costs ten minutes, and it is entirely within your control. Our guide on escort etiquette makes the same point at more length because it keeps coming up.

Go easy on the aftershave. A small amount is pleasant, a lot is unpleasant for two hours in a small room, and there is no way to take it off once you have applied it.

What she will be wearing

Dressed for the setting you told us about. That is why we ask.

An incall booking, she will be dressed for her own flat. A dinner date, she will be dressed for the restaurant. A hotel bar, she will look like somebody meeting somebody for a drink, which is the point.

If you have something specific in mind, say so on the phone rather than on the night. It is an ordinary request, nobody handling the call will react to it, and it is the only way it happens. Sprung on somebody at the door it simply does not, because she is already wearing what she is wearing. The same logic applies to role play, where the outfit is half the arrangement.

A few specifics people ask about

• Suit or no suit. No suit, unless you have come from work or you are going somewhere that wants one.
• Trainers. Fine for an incall. Not for a dining room.
• Coat. London, so yes. It also gives you something to do with your hands in the first thirty seconds, which is not nothing.
• Watch and jewellery. Wear what you normally wear. Nobody is valuing it.

The nervous version of this question

Underneath “what should I wear” is usually “will I seem out of place”. You will not. She has met a great many people and the range is wider than you imagine.

Turn up clean, on time, and having thought about it for five minutes. That is the whole of it, and it puts you ahead of most of the week.

If it would be your first booking, booking for the first time covers the rest of the evening. Or ring +44 20 7846 3480 and ask.

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Start with the law, because everything follows from it

In England and Wales selling sexual services is legal. So is paying for them. What is not legal is a short list of things around the edges: soliciting in public, controlling somebody for gain, and more than one person working from the same premises.

That last one is the definition of a brothel and it is the load bearing wall. It means the trade cannot concentrate. One person per address, or the address becomes an offence, and it is the person working who carries it. Our guide on what counts as a brothel sets it out properly.

So London ended up with the opposite of a red light district: several thousand people working alone, spread across the whole city. Which creates an obvious problem for anybody trying to find one.

The problem an agency solves

Dispersal is safe and inconvenient. If everybody works alone from a different address, then every enquiry is a separate negotiation with a stranger, and neither side knows anything about the other going in.

What an agency does is sit in the middle of that. One number, one diary, and somebody who knows who is free tonight without ringing round. That is genuinely all of it, and it is why the model survived the internet when a lot of intermediaries did not.

The three eras

The card era. Until the nineties, finding anybody meant a phone box, a contact magazine or a card in a newsagent’s window. Agencies existed and were mostly a phone number in the back of a listings magazine.

The listing era. The web replaced the card. Enormous directories appeared, anybody could list, and the volume of choice went from a handful to thousands. What it did not solve was verification: a directory checks nothing, by design, because checking would make it liable.

Now. The volume problem became a trust problem. When there are ten thousand listings and no way to tell which are real, the scarce thing is not choice, it is knowing that the woman in the photograph is the woman who arrives.

Which is where the difference actually sits

A directory sells advertising space. Anybody who pays gets listed, nobody is met, and if a photograph is eight years old and belongs to somebody else, that is between you and whoever posted it.

An agency puts its own name on each booking, which changes the incentives completely. We meet every escort on our books in person before her profile goes live and check her photographs against her at that meeting. Not because the law requires it, but because the agency is the thing you are trusting, and it only works if that is true. Our guide on agency or independent weighs both properly.

What that means in practice

• One call covers the whole roster. You do not ring around; somebody who holds every diary tells you who is free.
• The rate is the rate. On the profile, no booking fee, nothing settled with us. See how to pay.
• Somebody answers if it goes wrong. The single most underrated part. See what to do if a booking goes wrong.
• Nobody is employed. Every escort sets her own rate, hours and areas, and takes or declines any booking. Our casting page sets out the arrangement from the other side.

The thing that has not changed

For all the technology, the transaction is still a phone call between two people, because the useful information is not on a page. Whether she is free at nine, whether the two of you would get on, whether what you have in mind is something she does.

Thirty years of the internet has not improved on somebody knowing the answer and telling you. That is the whole business, and the rest is a website.

Browse the roster, or ring +44 20 7846 3480. We are open from ten in the morning until late, seven days.

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