Canary Wharf, no. 05 of 28
Jasmin, companion in Canary Wharf
Small, fast, and the last person in the room to run out of things to say.
- Age
- 22
- Works from
- Canary Wharf
- Height
- 160 cm
- Hair
- long, straight chestnut brown
- Eyes
- brown
- Figure
- petite
- Languages
- English
- An hour opens at
- £250
Guests are 18+. She sets the limits of her own booking, and a fee covers her time and her company, nothing besides. The whole ladder is on the rates page.
About Jasmin
Petite and 160 cm, Jasmin is easy to underestimate for about four seconds. The hair is chestnut brown, long and dead straight, and it swings when she turns, which she does often because she is interested in almost everything. Brown eyes, no fuss about them. Her dressing is precise to the point of being architectural: a fitted dress in one colour, a heel that puts her at about 171 cm, and a jacket she will refuse to hand to the cloakroom. Nothing about her reads as decorative.
At 22 she has energy that a long week cannot dent, and she is generous with it. She speaks English only, at speed, finishing other people's numbers for them and then apologising with no sincerity whatsoever. She asks better questions than most interviewers. Her private obsession is old maps of the docks, which sounds eccentric until she shows you where the water used to be and you find you have lost twenty minutes. She is funny, she is curious, and she will not pretend an evening is going badly when it is plainly going well.
In Canary Wharf she favours Plateau on the fourth floor of Canada Place, mostly for the glass and the light and partly because the wide terrace doors make the room feel further from the office towers than four floors can explain. She books the later sitting, closer to 20:30, and she likes the walk down Canada Square afterwards when the fountains are still on and nobody is about. Soho is home, so the Jubilee line puts her here in seventeen minutes from Green Park, and she will text when she boards.
The estate is described properly on the Canary Wharf page. From £250 for the hour, with the longer formats on rates. A note to booking wants nothing more than a date, a time and a building.
- Height 160 cm, petite build
- Long chestnut brown hair, worn straight; eyes brown
- Age 22, English speaking
- Home district Soho, evenings across E14
- Out of hours: old dock maps, running, terrible television
Booking her evening
Later bookings suit her, so three hours at £700 from about eight in the evening is what Maude suggests first. Give the desk the building and the floor and she will confirm the exact arrival time the same day.
Her figures are the desk figures, printed in full on the rates page, and the whole arrangement runs in one thread from the first line to the confirmation.
- 1 hour£250
- 90 minutes£400
- 2 hours£500
- 3 hours£700
- Dinner date£900
- Overnight£1,800
- WeekendPOA
Also on the desk
An evening with Jasmin
A late start suits her, and she announces it before you have to be polite about it. Half past eight on the fourth floor, the room lit low, the towers doing their thing through the glass, and an order that takes her ninety seconds because she read the menu on the train. She talks with her hands. Somewhere in the second hour she will get out her phone and show you the 1802 plan of the West India import dock, and where you are sitting turns out to have been under about four metres of water. It is a better party trick than it sounds. Afterwards she likes Canada Square with the fountains running and nobody around, then the short walk back to wherever the night continues. She is unhurried about endings and honest about timings.
Jasmin, in her own words
Why the late sitting?
Because the Wharf empties at eight and the whole estate becomes yours. Before that you are sharing it with thirty thousand people in lanyards.
Old maps, really?
Really. Half this postcode was water two hundred years ago and most people standing on it have no idea. I find that very hard to get over.
Are heels a problem at your height?
None at all, and I am not trying to borrow anyone's inches. I just like the line of the shoe.
Where she sits
What guests have written
Nothing is written here for Jasmin yet, which is usually what discretion looks like in E14. A note appears only when a guest writes one, she agrees to it, and the desk has checked that it reads as a first name, a month and nothing private.