Become an Escort in Hamburg: Calm Evenings by the Water

After dessert you take the few steps up into the hotel and stay a few more hours; from the table you had let your contact know that all was fine. When you climb into the taxi to Eppendorf shortly after midnight, it has started raining again, and at home you write "arrived". Saying goodbye, he asked whether this might be repeated in spring, almost in passing, and that is exactly how people in Hamburg mean things seriously. Dinner on the Alster, a few hours at the hotel, a taxi through the rain: a Hamburg evening makes no more fuss than that.

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Where your evenings happen

Nearly every evening in Hamburg happens by the water, and which water tells you a lot. On the Alster it turns elegant and quiet. On the Elbe, wider and windier.

Inner Alster: Fairmont Vier Jahreszeiten and Park Hyatt

Around the Inner Alster lies the old Hamburg of trade. On the Neuer Jungfernstieg stands the Fairmont Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten with Haerlin and the Jahreszeiten Bar. A few steps on, some guests stay at the Park Hyatt in the Levantehaus.

Elbphilharmonie, Laeiszhalle, Staatsoper

At the Elbphilharmonie the long escalator carries you up to the Plaza, where the harbour wind goes through every coat. Whoever hears a concert there often stays at the Westin in the same building. The Laeiszhalle is the more classic evening, and from the Staatsoper on Dammtorstraße you walk to dinner afterwards. You need not have studied music; an honest answer in the interval is enough.

HafenCity and Speicherstadt

Between brick warehouses and glass facades lies The Table, where one menu fills the whole evening. If a guest has come from further away, a musical is possible too, with the ferry across the Elbe.

Outer Alster: Fontenay, Atlantic, Harvestehude

On the Outer Alster it gets greener and quieter. In Harvestehude and Pöseldorf white villas stand behind old trees; on the shore lie The Fontenay with the Lakeside and the Hotel Atlantic. Guests who would rather meet nobody downtown like to invite you here. If one of these neighbourhoods is too close to your daily life, you simply leave it out.

Sundays on the Elbchaussee and in Blankenese

At the weekend an invitation likes to lead out to the Elbchaussee. At the Hotel Louis C. Jacob you sit on the Lindenterrasse and watch the ships pass almost within reach. Flat shoes for the stairs of Blankenese go in your bag.

And the Reeperbahn?

St. Pauli and the streets behind the main station have nothing to do with your evenings. A theatre night on the Reeperbahn can still be part of an invitation. We talk that through calmly before you agree. If a meeting point is not to your liking, you say no.

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How you are protected

Hanseatic guests book ahead. That suits your safety. Before you even hear of a guest, he has been through our KYC check. His advance payment is held on an intermediary account as a pass-through item until the date, and if even part of it is missing, the date does not happen.

Your dedicated contact leads the price talks for you and tells you place, length and fee before you agree. You never have to explain whether you accept a date or not. Should a short-notice enquiry come in for once, she asks whether it suits you; otherwise the evening is moved. On the night you write to her briefly when you arrive in the lounge and when you go from the restaurant to the hotel. One word, agreed between you two, is enough when you want to end the evening. Your way home is settled before you set out, even in foul weather. Where your limits lie is yours alone to decide.

There are no upfront costs and no minimum number of dates, and your fee reaches you after the date as a transfer with an invoice. More under how we work.

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What our models say

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What you earn in Hamburg

On the Alster people count quietly but precisely. No date begins under €1,000 in fees, and a concert night, dinner included, plus a few hours at the hotel brings you €3,000, for example. If it grows into a weekend on Sylt or the Baltic coast, it can reach €15,000, and ten days of travel, say to Scandinavia, bring €30,000 to €40,000. Every one of these amounts is the guest's fee; our agency commission and your taxes still come off it. How high the commission is, we tell you in the call after your application, and that is how it then stands in the contract.

The number of evenings in a month follows the rhythm of the city. Autumn and winter are carried by the concert season and Advent; in summer, evenings in town grow rarer and weekends by the sea more frequent. For many women, two to four evenings a month is a comfortable measure; some take more. You can check your own figures calmly against our guide on how much an escort earns. Examples, not a promise. How dinner, evening and travel bookings differ in fees is explained in our guide to escort jobs in Germany.

If you yourself work at a shipping company, a law firm or in the media, you name on the first call the industries and houses you rule out. Such enquiries never reach you. Your stage name is the only name guests know, in public your face does not appear, and we see your ID only once, internally, for the check. Watch the small things yourself: the Alster fountain in the window of a photo gives away where you live faster than your face. Should you run into each other by chance, you greet like two strangers.

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What Hanseatic guests value in you

What do guests in Hamburg wish for? That you keep your word, make no fuss about yourself and keep quiet about other people's business, as the old ideal of the honourable merchant has it. You need not be perfect, because whoever invites here wants above all an evening in which he has to explain nothing.

Understatement rather than entrance

Navy, black or camel in good fabrics go down better than big logos, and a dress the whole restaurant turns round for looks out of place on the Alster.

Punctual, even in foul weather

Drizzle belongs to almost every season in Hamburg and still does not count as an excuse. Ten minutes early and an umbrella that survives a gust. That is all it takes.

The Hamburg Sie, and English at the table

Some guests combine first name and the formal Sie, as in "Lena, would you care for another coffee?", and that is courtesy, not distance. Stay with Sie until he offers the du. German is always enough, and once a guest from abroad sits at the table, the evening can be in English. Shipping and the fairs bring plenty of them, so an accent surprises nobody. You need no experience, but you have to be 21; the rest is under the requirements to become an escort.

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Living in Hamburg, or a train away

Do you live in Lübeck, Lüneburg or Bremen? Then you are here faster than many think, from Lüneburg and Lübeck by regional train, from Bremen, Kiel or Berlin by ICE. Between the evening on the Alster and your everyday life lies a train ride. The guest covers a travel allowance for the way there and back, and your way home is settled before you agree. If you live nearer Hanover or Berlin, there are pages of their own for Berlin.

Guests who land in Fuhlsbüttel

Guests from abroad land in Fuhlsbüttel, and from there trips begin too, to Sylt or to Scandinavia; travel, flights and hotel are paid by the guest.

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Flying in or settling down

You need not live here to work here. Some women come for a week or two, by plane into Fuhlsbüttel or by train from Berlin or Copenhagen, and go home again afterwards. A furnished short-term flat in Eppendorf, Winterhude or Ottensen is more private than a hotel and close to where many evenings happen. If your stay overlaps a big fair, book it early and with free cancellation. Your fee comes by bank transfer, which calls for an account in your own name. Whether your passport allows you to work self-employed in Germany depends on where you come from, and that is worth checking with an independent advice centre before you plan anything.

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INTERNORGA, OMR, Hafengeburtstag: when Hamburg is full

The exhibition halls sit right in the city, and when a big fair is on, you notice it in the full tables around the Alster. March brings INTERNORGA and the restaurant trade. In May the OMR Festival fills the halls with the digital and marketing crowd, younger and more international. In even years SMM in September brings shipowners and shipyards from all over the world, and at their tables English is spoken.

Add to that occasions only Hamburg knows. The Hafengeburtstag in May, when there is hardly any getting through at the Landungsbrücken, or the Christmas parties of shipping lines and law firms in Advent. Even then bookings come long ahead, often together with hotel and flight.

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Four steps to your first evening on the Alster

1. One minute for the form. German or English, three recent photos are enough, and sending it decides nothing yet.
2. Within 24 hours you hear from us. We write back briefly and arrange a time for the call with you.
3. A call of 20 to 40 minutes. It is about Hamburg questions: whether you commute from Lübeck or Bremen, which shipping companies, law firms or neighbourhoods you rule out, and whether English evenings suit you. You may ask everything and must decide on nothing.
4. Photo shoot, free of charge. The photos are yours, and only when you say yes afterwards does the first enquiry come.

What an application that gets a quick reply looks like is in how to apply to an escort agency.

You need no prior knowledge, only to be 21, and if it goes no further, your application is deleted after 90 days. The first step is applying for Hamburg, confidential and free.

A few inner districts, above all around St. Georg and St. Pauli, have long had their own restrictions. What that means for where you meet, we go through together.

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