Tailored: ten commissions, one tariff, and the evenings SW1 does properly
Everything Rosie arranges belongs to one of the ten commissions below. They run roughly from the shortest to the longest, and each has a page of its own setting out how the hours usually pass, which streets and suites suit them, what your first message should contain and which of the plates read best against it. The tariff does not move between them. An hour is £400 whether it is spent over a nightcap in Knightsbridge or at a corner table on Elizabeth Street, and every other figure is printed on the rates page.
Two things hold across all ten, and they are worth saying before anything else. Each commission covers her time and her company alone. The fee is settled with your companion herself, in person, as she arrives, and nothing to do with the booking ever appears on a hotel account.
Evenings, tailored
Each one is described on its own page, with the faces best suited to it and the questions guests usually ask first.
Suite and townhouse calls
Hotel outcall companionship
Most of what Rosie arranges looks like this. One companion, one address, one door that opens at the hour agreed. There is no premises of ours to find and no lobby of ours to sit in, because every...
Dinner at the corner table
Dinner date companionship
Four hours is the length this neighbourhood was built for. Time enough for a drink before the table is ready, a dinner nobody hurries, and the walk back under the carriage lamps that is often the...
The long edition
Overnight companionship
Ten hours changes the shape of an evening rather than simply extending it. Nobody is watching a clock, nothing has to be decided in a hurry, and the best part of the booking is usually the hour...
The familiar hour
Girlfriend experience companionship
Some guests do not want an occasion. They want the version of an evening where two people fall into conversation quickly, where nobody is performing and where the first ten minutes feel like the...
Departures
Travel companionship
SW1 is a departures board with houses on it. The Gatwick Express leaves from Victoria every half hour, the trains south run to the coast from the same sheds, and the helipad at Battersea is seven...
Gala nights and client tables
Business event companionship
There are evenings where the company you arrive with is part of the impression you make. A charity dinner in a Park Lane ballroom, a client table after a long day of meetings, a private view in St...
Two plates, one evening
Duo companionship
A duo is not two bookings stacked on top of each other. It works when the pair have met, like each other's company and can carry a conversation between the three of you without anyone having to...
The shared edit
Companionship for couples
Couples book here regularly, and the bookings that go well are always the ones where both of you have read the same page and agreed on the same name. This is a social arrangement before it is...
The night out
Night out companionship
SW1 is not a district that shouts, and its nights out reward anyone who knows where to look. The bars here are hotel bars and mews bars, the kitchens that serve late do it quietly, and the best...
A season in SW1
Extended booking companionship
Some visits are long enough to have a rhythm. A week of meetings with four free evenings in it, a weekend that begins on Friday afternoon, a stay in a serviced flat that runs into a second week....
From an hour to a season
The short commissions come first. Suite and townhouse calls begin at one hour and cover most of what is asked for on the night. Dinner holds four hours around a table, booked or improvised. The familiar hour is about manner rather than length, an ease that reads like a second evening instead of a first. Where there are more people in the room, there is a pair from the edit, a companion for two hosts, and a night out that finishes at your own door.
Then the longer ones. The long edition runs ten hours from a last glass to a first coffee. Departures are built around a train or a runway, gala nights around a seating plan, and a season in SW1 around a diary that stays open for days rather than hours.
Ten districts, one postcode at heart
Any of these commissions can begin in any of the districts on Our London, from the stucco crescents of Belgravia to the river end of Pimlico. Across fare Zones 1 and 2 her journey is already inside the figure; further out, Rosie quotes the fare both ways as a single sum before you agree to anything. The hotels named on these pages are landmarks to steer by and nothing more, since no house in London has any arrangement with this edit.
If none of the ten quite fits
Describe the evening in two or three lines instead. The hour, the address, how long you would like and the kind of company you have in mind is plenty for Rosie to work with, and she will suggest a name and the commission that comes closest. Sunday lunches, gallery afternoons and quiet hours that answer to none of these headings are arranged every week at exactly the same figures. Send one message and she will reply in writing, in plain English, with a name and an arrival time.
Describe the evening in a single line.
A dinner, a gala, a quiet night in the suite: describe it to Rosie and she will name whoever suits it best.