Become an escort in Geneva: lakeside evenings between diplomacy and the watch fair

Geneva · 02 · Evenings and guests

What an evening in Geneva can look like

The session at the Palais des Nations ran into the afternoon, and your guest is waiting in the hall of the Beau-Rivage. He asked two weeks ago, and this morning your contact sent place, fee and time, until one. After an aperitif in the hall you walk along the water to Il Lago at the Four Seasons des Bergues, where a window table is kept. He tells you how long a room full of delegations can fight over one sentence.

After dinner you walk back along the quay to the Beau-Rivage for a few hours; your "all fine" left from the table. Towards one a taxi carries you across the Pont du Mont-Blanc to Eaux-Vives. In Geneva an evening is as reliable as the timetable of the Léman Express.

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Where your evenings take place

Geneva is so small that you could walk most of the way, and yet each shore has its own tone. Your guests stay on the right bank at the Beau-Rivage, the President Wilson or the Ritz-Carlton Hotel de la Paix. On the Rhône it is the Four Seasons des Bergues or the Mandarin Oriental.

On the right bank, facing the Jet d'Eau

Along the Quai du Mont-Blanc and the Quai Wilson the grand hotels stand in a row, and from nearly every hall you see the fountain above the lake. The Beau-Rivage is where people like to meet for an aperitif; a little further along the Quai Wilson lie the President Wilson and L'Atelier Robuchon at The Woodward. The side streets of the Pâquis just behind are the city's red-light district, and your evenings have no business there.

On the Rhône, in the old town and at the Grand Théâtre

Where the lake turns into the Rhône stands the Four Seasons des Bergues with Il Lago, a little downstream the Mandarin Oriental on the Quai Turrettini. If a guest invites you to the Grand Théâtre on the Place de Neuve, you walk up into the old town afterwards. The Place du Bourg-de-Four is still full of voices late at night.

Champel and Cologny, where evenings stay private

Champel on the left bank is a quiet residential quarter, and dinner there feels more like an invitation than a night out. Cologny lies raised above the shore, with villas and gardens, and in summer you eat on the terrace. On the opposite shore, in Bellevue, Tsé Fung cooks at La Réserve right by the water. Such invitations come long in advance, often with an overnight stay, and you know that before you say yes or no.

Geneva · 04 · Working with us

How you are protected

Geneva is a city of protocols, and your date has one too. Every guest goes through our KYC check before his request reaches you. He has also paid in advance, and that prepayment is held on an intermediary account as a pass-through item until you meet. No date without the full prepayment.

Because Geneva's big dates are fixed early, you are usually booked here with notice. If somebody does ask for the same evening, your contact turns to you first, and if it does not suit, the date is moved. Before you agree she tells you meeting place, length and fee. You never have to explain whether you accept a date or not. On the night you let her know briefly when you arrive in the hall of the Beau-Rivage and when you cross over to Il Lago. The code word you agreed earlier tells her quietly that you want to leave, on the Quai du Mont-Blanc or in Cologny. Your way home stands before the evening starts, even across the border to Annemasse. Where your limits lie is yours alone to decide.

From you we ask no money in advance, and nobody prescribes how many dates you take.

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What our models say

Geneva · 06 · Pay

What you earn, counted in francs

Geneva is expensive, and that goes for your evenings as well: a date begins at €1,000 in fees, in francs about CHF 950. An evening with an aperitif on the quay, a long dinner and a few hours at the hotel lies at €3,000, for example, about CHF 2,800. A weekend in Verbier or a few days by the lake can reach €15,000, roughly CHF 13,950, and ten days of travel run from €30,000 to €40,000. The guest pays all of that. Off that come our agency commission and your taxes and costs; the commission's level you learn in the conversation after your application.

How many evenings a month brings depends in Geneva on the city's calendar. Two to four evenings a month is common here, some women do more, and nobody prescribes a number. For your own month there is how much escorts earn. These are examples, no promise.

Geneva · 07 · Discretion

Discretion in Geneva

What if somebody recognises you at a reception? Geneva receives people from all over the world, but the circles within it are small. Whoever works at an organisation, a bank or a trading house meets the same faces again and again. Receptions, working groups and the slopes at Verbier in winter are their meeting points.

Should you belong to one of those worlds yourself, you name on the first call the organisations, houses or sectors from which you want no requests. None from there ever reaches you. Your profile shows a stage name, and your face is never public. Guests from diplomacy and finance need that reserve as much as you do. Nobody asks for business cards at the table.

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What you bring

What must you know? Less than you fear. Guests in Geneva value tact, curiosity about the world and a quiet reliability. You need not know how a resolution comes about or what a commodity trader does with his day. Ask him, and he usually tells you gladly. Logos stay in the wardrobe in Geneva, and money is not discussed at the table. From November to March the bise sweeps across the quays, a cold north wind against which a good coat helps more than any accessory.

French, English, German: what you really need

In the street and in a taxi Geneva speaks French, and whoever manages a few sentences is received more warmly. At the table it looks different: many guests come from abroad themselves, so many evenings can be in English, and German always gets you through. The call with us is in English or German, and the application form exists in French too. One word you pick up fast: in this part of Switzerland dinner is often still "souper". Experience is not necessary, you must be 21, and the other requirements to become an escort you can read at leisure.

Geneva · 09 · Where to live

Living in Geneva, or across the border

Do you have to live in Geneva? No. Every morning many people commute into Geneva from France and from Vaud, and nobody asks why you come over the border in the evening. From Annemasse the Léman Express takes you straight to Eaux-Vives or Cornavin; from Lausanne you take the train along the lake. From Zurich or Basel an evening in Geneva becomes a short trip with a night away. Getting there and home again is covered: a travel allowance is paid by the guest, always.

If you live on the French side, talk through the questions that come with crossing the border early, with Aspasie or with the cantonal migration office, the OCPM. Guests from your own town you simply exclude. When you fly in, the train from the airport reaches Cornavin in a few minutes, and Palexpo sits right next to the terminal, which saves time in watch fair week. If a guest invites you on a trip, he covers flights and hotel, and programme and return are known to you before you accept. There are pages of their own on Zurich.

Geneva · 10 · Season

Watch fair, UN and Escalade: when Geneva is full

The beat in Geneva is set by the big dates of the watch industry and the international organisations. The UN Human Rights Council sits at the Palais des Nations from late February to late March, from mid-June to early July and from September to early October. Delegations then stay in town for weeks. In April Watches and Wonders at Palexpo fills the city like nothing else in the year, and requests for it come early. In May follows the World Health Assembly of the WHO, with many evenings in English, in September the Geneva Watch Days and the new season at the Grand Théâtre. December brings the Escalade in the old town and company dinners until shortly before Christmas.

In late July and August many Genevans are away, which is a good time for a break. The motor show that made Geneva known for decades no longer exists, so in spring the session weeks and the watch fair are what count. Whether you use these weeks or keep them free is your decision.

Geneva · 11 · Applying

Four steps to your first evening by the lake

1. Apply in one minute. In English, German or French, with three recent photos, and sending it promises nothing yet.
2. A reply within 24 hours. We answer in English or German and propose a time for the call.
3. The call, usually 20 to 40 minutes. It is about what concerns only Geneva: where you live, city or Annemasse, the times of year you would like to use, and the organisations or banks you rule out. Everything may be asked, nothing has to be decided.
4. A free photo shoot. The photos stay yours, however you decide afterwards. Only with your yes does the first request come.

How the application works step by step, from the details to the call, is in how to apply to an escort agency.

You need no experience, you must be 21, and if it stays at the application, we delete it after 90 days. The first step is the confidential form for Geneva, and it costs you nothing.

Geneva · 12 · Good to know

What does the canton of Geneva ask of you before your first date?

Geneva handles the start in its own way. According to the canton, you first attend an information session at Aspasie and then register, by appointment, with the specialised police unit in charge, the BTPI. Whether and how that works for you also depends on your passport and where you live, so it is worth clearing up early with Aspasie or the OCPM.

General information, not legal advice. Binding answers come from the authority and a local advice centre.