The desk, plainly
The day desk: how this operation actually runs
This is a small booking desk working a specific piece of London: the towers of E14, the Square Mile behind them, the docks east of them and Greenwich across the water. Twelve districts, twenty eight companions and one way of doing things.
Everything below is how it works in practice rather than how it might sound in a brochure.
One desk, one channel, written only
Every booking on this site goes through the same desk, on WhatsApp or Telegram. Maude runs the day, which in this postcode means from about nine in the morning until well after midnight, because the City and the Wharf do not keep office hours and neither does this.
Nothing is arranged by voice. A message leaves a record of the name, the time, the length and the figure, so nobody is reconstructing an agreement from memory afterwards. It also means you can write from a meeting without leaving the room.
Replies take about fifteen minutes because availability is checked before a name is sent, not after. An instant answer on a site like this one usually means nobody has looked at a diary yet, and a companion who turns out to be busy two messages later costs you far more than the quarter of an hour.
The companions, and how they are described
Twenty eight of them, and every one has a page of her own on the desk. The height is measured, the age is correct, the languages are ones she genuinely speaks and the home district is where she really works from. Where a fact would flatter, it still gets written as it is.
Availability is shown as it stands, not as a permanent invitation. Away means away, with a return date where there is one. A name is never offered before it has been checked, which is why a reply takes fifteen minutes rather than fifteen seconds.
The geography we actually cover
Canary Wharf is the centre of the map, and most evenings begin or end within twenty five minutes of it. West runs through Limehouse and Wapping into the City. East runs out along the dock to the exhibition halls and the airport. South crosses to Greenwich and London Bridge.
We do not claim the rest of London. If you are staying in Kensington, this is the wrong desk and you will be told so in one line rather than sold an hour of travel. Every district we do cover has its own page, with its stations, its walk times and its hotels.
What this desk will not do
It does not publish figures it will not honour, does not add anything on arrival and does not discuss what is not on offer. A fee covers time and companionship only, which is written into the footer of every page here for the simple reason that it is accurate.
It also does not pretend a hotel is a partner. Hotels appear on this site as addresses, because that is where guests stay, and none of them has any arrangement with us. Nobody at a front desk is ever told anything about a booking, before or afterwards.
Ages, consent and the unglamorous part
Everyone on this site is an adult of 18 or over and works by her own choice, on her own terms, and may end an evening that stops being one. There is no exception to that and nothing about it to negotiate around.
If anything you see anywhere suggests otherwise, report it to the Modern Slavery Helpline rather than to us. The figures are on rates, the steps on booking, and the questions this desk actually gets on faq.
Send the room and the hour
Write the district, the time and the length of the booking. The desk answers with a name and an arrival window, and the evening is set.