Become an Escort in London: the Season, Mayfair and Pay

London · 01 · Working with us

What you get with us

We handle enquiries, the checking of guests, the fees and the invoicing. You decide which evenings you want. The work in general is in our guide on getting started. Here we keep to London.

London · 02 · Evenings and guests

What a London evening can look like

Friday has been in your diary for almost two weeks, and on Thursday afternoon your contact sends the last details. The lobby at Claridge's at seven, the evening until about midnight, and the fee she settled with him when he booked. He is a fund manager from Geneva, in town for three days of meetings, and would like one dinner that is not about work. You are a few minutes early and walk once around the block on Brook Street. Then the short walk to The Connaught, where the table is in his name, and over dinner you talk about the city he grew up in.

After dinner you walk back to Claridge's and spend a few hours there, having sent your contact a quick "all fine" from the table. Shortly after midnight a black cab takes you up through Angel to Islington, and you text "home" from your kitchen with the kettle on. Dinner, a few hours at his hotel, a cab home: a London evening ends the way the city likes things, without any fuss.

London · 03

Where your evenings take place

London has no single quarter where everything happens, but most evenings stay in one part of town, because crossing the centre at seven takes longer than the first course. Your guests stay at Claridge's, The Dorchester or The Savoy, and the evening starts from there.

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Dinner in Mayfair

Many first evenings begin in the lobby of a hotel he knows well. You might meet at Claridge's and walk a few quiet streets to The Connaught, or he chooses The Dorchester on Park Lane. A wine list you need not be able to read. At the table, you simply ask.

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Opera in Covent Garden, theatre in the West End

The Royal Opera House sets no dress code, so a well-cut cocktail dress suits most nights and a long gown belongs to a gala. If opera is new to you, ask him in the interval what he hopes for from the second act. Supper afterwards is often at The Savoy on the Strand.

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Behind a club door in St James's

Much of London's social life still happens in private members' clubs along St James's Street and Pall Mall. He signs you in at the desk as his guest, sometimes with only a first name. Phones stay in your bag, which quietly protects you as well. The Ritz London on Piccadilly is a few minutes away.

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Knightsbridge, Belgravia and Chelsea

West of Hyde Park the evenings turn residential. Guests with a flat in Knightsbridge like to dine close to home, at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, for instance. In Belgravia The Goring has the feel of a private house.

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The City and Canary Wharf

East of St Paul's the rhythm follows the working week. Bankers and lawyers in town for a day or two book a weeknight dinner that ends at a sensible hour, and many stay at Rosewood London in Holborn. If he enjoyed it, he simply sends a new date next time.

Every meeting place is fixed before you say yes. If you do not like one, you simply say no.

London · 04 · Working with us

How you are protected

London is big enough to hide in, which is exactly why we check everyone. Every guest goes through our KYC check before an enquiry reaches you. His prepayment is held on an intermediary account as a pass-through item until the date. Without the full prepayment there is no date.

Then your dedicated contact gets in touch. She tells you the meeting place, the duration and the fee before you say yes, and she has already negotiated the fee with him. You never have to explain whether you accept a date or not. On the evening itself you are not on your own: you send her a short check-in when you arrive and when you move from the restaurant to the hotel, and one agreed code word, known only to the two of you, tells her quietly that you want to leave. How you get home is settled before you set off, even at one in the morning in Mayfair. Where your limits lie is yours alone to decide.

We ask no money of you in advance, and your fee reaches your account after the date by bank transfer, with an invoice. The details are in how we work and our safety standard.

London · 05

What our models say

London · 06 · Pay

What you earn

London pays in pounds and we quote in euros: an evening starts at €1,000 in fees, about £850 at the current rate, and you decide which ones you take. Dinner followed by a few hours at his hotel comes to €3,000, for example. A race day with dinner or a weekend at a country house can reach €15,000, and ten days of travel come to €30,000 to €40,000. All of this is paid by the guest. Our agency commission and your tax come out of it. How high the commission is we discuss on the phone after your application and put in writing in the contract.

How many evenings a month brings depends in London on the calendar. June fills with fixtures, August stays quiet. Many women do two to four evenings a month, some more, and nobody asks a particular number of you. Three dinners at €3,000 in a season month come to €9,000 in fees, about £7,500. Try your own numbers against the worked examples for fees. These are examples, not a promise.

London · 07 · Discretion

Discretion in London

What if someone recognises you? London is large enough that nobody looks twice at a woman in an evening dress stepping into a cab. Yet the worlds many guests move in are small, and bankers, barristers and gallery owners meet again and again at private views, auctions and race days.

So on the first call you tell us which worlds, firms and clubs are off limits for you. Enquiries from there never reach you. You appear under a stage name, your face is never recognisable in public, and most guests guard their reputation as carefully as you guard yours.

London · 08

Dress codes and what you bring

What do you need to know beforehand? Less than you think. London invitations nearly always name the dress code, and your contact checks anything unclear before you say yes. Black tie means a long gown or a very elegant cocktail dress. In the Royal Enclosure at Ascot a proper hat replaces the fascinator, straps sit on both shoulders and the hem falls just above the knee or lower. At a members' club smart casual still means no trainers.

What counts beyond that is curiosity about people and a calm head when an evening runs differently from the plan. English guests tend to understate everything, their own success included, and a little gentle teasing usually means he likes you. Money is never discussed at the table, because we have settled it beforehand. English is all you need, and your accent is never a problem. What else helps is in the requirements to become an escort.

London · 09 · Where to live

Living in London, or an hour away

Do you have to live in London? No, and for many women an hour away is the most comfortable arrangement of all. Fast trains from Cambridge reach King's Cross in under an hour, and Oxford is about an hour from Paddington. Your neighbours see no more than a woman in a good coat walking to the station. The guest always covers a travel allowance, so the train and the cab never come out of your own pocket. If an evening runs late, the way home is agreed before it begins. Both are small places, so you might exclude enquiries from your own college, lab or company.

Heathrow, City Airport and St Pancras

Long-haul guests land at Heathrow and stay a few nights in the West End, so a dinner on the night of arrival is often in your diary days ahead. Shorter flights end at London City Airport, close to the banks, and the Eurostar brings guests from Paris into St Pancras. The same train can take a London booking on to Paris, with the day of your return agreed in writing first. Flights and hotel are always paid by the guest.

London · 10 · First steps

Coming over from abroad

Some women spend only the season here and go home when August arrives. Before anything else, look at your passport. Since Brexit an EU passport no longer lets you work in the UK automatically, and GOV.UK shows what your status allows before you book a flat or a ticket.

A furnished short let in Marylebone or Pimlico keeps you central, and the flat stays your private home, where you never meet guests. Since fees are paid by bank transfer, you need an account in your own name, in pounds or in euros. Give yourself a few quiet days before the first evening and walk Mayfair in daylight. A new city can feel lonely in the first months, so keep time for things that have nothing to do with the work.

London · 11 · Season

Ascot, Wimbledon, Frieze: when London is full

London's summer keeps a calendar of its own. Invitations for its fixtures arrive a month or more ahead, so you usually know your race days before the season has begun.

Around the big fixtures Mayfair fills up and the best tables are hard to get, so many evenings are settled well ahead. Choose the days you will genuinely enjoy and leave quiet ones in between. A day at Ascot asks more of your feet than any dinner does. Whether you join a guest at the racecourse or meet him for dinner afterwards is agreed beforehand, and a no is entirely normal. August is quiet, because many regulars leave for the country. In September the opera returns, in October Frieze fills Regent's Park, and in December the diaries fill with dinners before Christmas.

London · 12 · Applying

Four steps to your first evening

1. Apply in one minute. You fill in the confidential form, in English or German. Photos can follow later, and sending it decides nothing.
2. An answer within 24 hours. Someone from our team gets in touch and suggests a time for a call.
3. A call, usually 20 to 40 minutes. We talk about the questions only London raises, such as which worlds, firms and clubs are off limits for you. You can ask anything and need decide nothing.
4. A free photo shoot. The pictures are yours, and then you decide whether we work together. Only then does the first enquiry reach you.

What belongs in an application and how an agency checks it is set out in how to apply to an escort agency.

You need no experience, and you need to be 21. Should we not end up working together, we delete your application after 90 days. Whenever you are ready, the form for London is waiting, confidential and free of charge.

London · 13 · Good to know

What is worth sorting out before your first London evening?

London works differently from the German-speaking cities, because there is no city office to visit before your first evening. You work as a self-employed companion, you keep your invoices and look after your own tax return once the work is regular, and if you come from abroad, GOV.UK shows whether your status allows self-employment. How the rules in England fit the way you want to work is easiest to understand in a conversation, so we go through it with you on the first call.

Where do you turn in London if an evening or an agency feels wrong?

National Ugly Mugs, a UK-wide charity independent of any agency, offers safety alerts and confidential casework to people in London. If anyone pressures or controls you or someone you know, the Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline is free and confidential, and in an emergency you dial 999.

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