The long edition: ten hours, from the last glass to the first coffee
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 before breakfast when the squares outside are still empty. The figure is £2,400 and it is the same on a Tuesday as it is on a Saturday.
This is the one commission Rosie likes to hold a little ahead of time. Ask before eight in the evening where you can, so a diary can be cleared properly for a whole night instead of scraped together.
How ten hours usually run
Most begin between eight and ten at night, either at a table or with a glass upstairs, and end somewhere between six and eight the next morning. Nothing about that is fixed. A night that starts at midnight after a long flight ends at ten, and a night that starts at seven with dinner in it ends at five. Tell Rosie when you would like her to arrive and she will count the hours forward with you, in writing, so the morning is agreed before anyone goes to sleep.
Rooms that carry a whole night well
The grand houses around Knightsbridge and the corner of the park are built for it, with room service that never quite stops and lifts that reach a suite without crossing a bar. The quieter townhouse hotels in Belgravia suit guests who would rather the night felt like a private house than a hotel. Residences are just as welcome, and an overnight in a flat on a garden square is a gentler thing again: no corridor, no lobby, only a front door and a street that has gone entirely silent.
Breakfast, and the morning after
The morning is part of what you are booking and not an afterthought to it. Coffee arrives, conversation picks up more or less where it left off, and nobody is dressed and gone by six unless you have a flight. If you do, say so when you book and the last hours are arranged around it rather than around habit. Your companion leaves quietly and alone, and the evening ends as privately as it began.
Four plates who are easy across a whole night
Sonya is 32, in her thirties and the calmest presence in the edit at four in the morning. Michelle is 27 and unusually good company over a slow breakfast. Milena at 175cm has a still, unhurried manner that suits a long night better than a short one. Thea is 29, caramel blonde and green eyed, and treats a suite like a sitting room within about ten minutes. All four take overnight bookings regularly; Rosie will say who has tomorrow morning genuinely free.
What a whole night is not
It is ten hours of her time and her company, and nothing beyond that is on offer at any figure. The fee is settled with her personally when she arrives, once, in full, and no part of it appears on a hotel account or is asked for again in the morning. The ladder that leads up to it, £400 for an hour through to £1,300 for a dinner, is printed openly on the rates page so that nothing about the night is negotiated after dark.
Notice, and the night that becomes two
A day's notice is ideal and a few hours is often enough. Because a whole night takes a companion out of the diary entirely, Rosie confirms it in writing with the arrival hour and the leaving hour both named. If one night turns into a second, that is arranged on the morning of the first and priced as another overnight; for three or more, the season in SW1 page is the better read. Cancellations follow the same courtesy as every other commission: three hours and nothing is owed.
Late landings and early departures
Victoria makes a natural base for a late arrival from Gatwick, since the train delivers you to the hotels around the Royal Mews and your companion is a few streets away rather than an hour out along a motorway. For a dawn flight the reverse holds, and a night that ends at five with a car already booked is a perfectly ordinary request here. Airport hotels themselves are covered on the departures page, where a three hour minimum applies.
Faces for the long edition
Chosen for this kind of evening from what each of them enjoys. Every face in the edit may still be asked for.
The long edition, explained
4 answers. Tap a question to open it; anything missing, ask Rosie directly.
No. Ten hours is £2,400 every night of the week, including Fridays, Saturdays and the nights either side of a bank holiday.
Not at all. Plenty begin with a glass in the suite at eleven. If you would like a table in the first hours, say so and Rosie builds it into the timing.
Ten hours after it starts, which for most bookings means somewhere between six and eight in the morning. The exact hour is written into the chat before she sets out.
Yes, and many do. Rosie confirms the address once in the thread and asks for slightly more notice than she would for a hotel suite.
Other ways to spend the evening
- 01The Lanesborough, where Belgravia begins with a portico, a butler and a little ceremony5 min readA Regency portico that once fronted St George's Hospital, a butler for every room and a panelled bar of rare cognacs: how an evening companion fits The Lanesborough.
- 02Harrods after the tour groups, an early supper in the store and Knightsbridge after dark5 min readHarrods is more than its Food Halls: a tiled Dining Hall, the Tea Rooms, a perfume salon on the sixth floor and a Brompton Road exit into a Knightsbridge evening for two.
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.