Become an escort in Zurich: evenings from Paradeplatz to the Zürichberg

Zurich · 02 · Evenings and guests

What an evening in Zurich can look like

The request came on Monday for Thursday, so you have known all week: half past seven at the Storchen, above the Limmat. Your contact confirmed fee and time, until about one. He landed from London this morning, sat in meetings at Paradeplatz all day and wants a quiet dinner, in German with a little English. You cross the Rathausbrücke, and he stands up as you come in.

In the Rôtisserie you eat over the water, and by dessert you notice he would rather listen than talk. Then a few hours at his hotel follow; your "all fine" went off from the table. Around one a taxi drives you home through a city long asleep. Zurich evenings are as orderly as the city itself, and that makes them relaxed.

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Where your evenings take place

Zurich is a small big city where you walk from Paradeplatz to the opera house. Your guests stay at the Baur au Lac, the Park Hyatt or up at the Dolder Grand.

Business dinners at Paradeplatz

At Paradeplatz many a day of meetings ends with a dinner a guest would rather not have alone. He might choose ORSINI in the Mandarin Oriental Savoy or the Widder Restaurant on Rennweg. If colleagues share the table, you have agreed beforehand how you know each other. Nobody here is looking for a stage.

Opera, Tonhalle and the evening on the quay

In Seefeld the opera house plays on Sechseläutenplatz, and beforehand you meet at La Réserve Eden au Lac on the Utoquai. Concerts are heard across the water in the Tonhalle, a few streets from the Park Hyatt. Floor-length is rare in Zurich; a plain dress in a quiet colour suits nearly every premiere. After the last act you walk back along the water to his hotel.

Up on the Zürichberg: The Dolder Grand

A guest who likes quiet invites you up the Zürichberg, where The Dolder Grand sits above forest and lake and The Restaurant cooks. The Dolderbahn or a taxi takes you up in no time. Because nobody passes by chance up there, the house suits a second or third meeting.

Old town, Limmat and the Baur au Lac

At the lake end of Bahnhofstrasse the Baur au Lac sits in its own park, a house where guests who prefer not to be seen have stayed for generations. Across the old town stands the Storchen with its terrace over the Limmat, a few steps on the Widder Hotel. The Langstrasse in Kreis 4 is known as nightlife strip and red-light district, and your evenings never go near it.

Zurich · 04 · Working with us

How you are protected

Zurich guests are discreet, and we vet them all the same. Every guest goes through our KYC check before his request lands with you. His prepayment is held on an intermediary account as a pass-through item until you meet. Incomplete prepayment, no evening.

Bookings in Zurich usually come a few days ahead. Should someone ask for the same evening, your contact asks you first and otherwise finds another day with the guest. She tells you meeting place, length, occasion and fee beforehand. You never have to explain whether you accept a date or not. During the evening you write her a line when you arrive at the Storchen and when you change location. With the code word you agreed on earlier you let her know quietly that you want to go, in a lobby on Bahnhofstrasse or in the Engadin. Your way home is sorted before you set off, even if the last train to Zug has gone. Where your limits lie is yours alone to decide.

You pay us not a franc in advance, and there is no minimum number of evenings.

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What our models say

Zurich · 06 · Pay

What you earn, counted in francs

Zurich pays in francs, we count in euros: an evening starts at €1,000 in fees, converted about CHF 950. A business dinner with a few hours at his hotel afterwards comes to €3,000, for example, roughly CHF 2,800. A weekend in the Engadin can reach €15,000, around CHF 13,950, and ten days of travel cost the guest €30,000 to €40,000. Meant is always the amount the guest pays. From it come our agency commission and your taxes and contributions; the size of the commission we tell you in the conversation after your application.

Our figures are in euros; paid out you get the equivalent in francs at the day's rate, by transfer with an invoice. An account that takes francs without heavy fees saves you trouble. How many evenings a month brings depends in Zurich more on the season and on regulars than on trade fairs. Many women land at two to four evenings a month, some above. Run your own months through how much escorts earn. Examples, not a promise.

Zurich · 07 · Discretion

Discretion in Zurich

What if somebody recognises you at Paradeplatz? Zurich is the financial centre of Switzerland, and still the same people run into each other surprisingly often. They meet at lunch on Bahnhofstrasse, at the subscription concert and at the guild dinner on Sechseläuten. Anyone at a bank, a law firm or an insurer knows the feeling.

If you work in that world yourself, you name on the phone the houses and sectors from which you want no request, and that is where it stays. Outside you appear under your stage name, and your face is never on show. Guests from these professions bring their own discretion, and hardly a name falls at the table.

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What you bring

What do you have to bring? Less than you think. Zurich guests value reliability over glamour and a style that never gets loud. They want to talk with you about the opera as easily as about their last hike in the Engadin. In a city where the tram runs to the minute, punctuality gets noticed. Big logos and lots of jewellery look out of place on Bahnhofstrasse; a coat of good cloth and a plain dress look right.

Swiss German you need neither speak nor understand, because Zurich switches to standard German as soon as it hears you are not from here. Some evenings can be in English. A "Grüezi" on arrival and a "Merci" to the waiter still earn you a smile. Experience is not required, only to be 21, and what makes the start easier is in the requirements to become an escort.

Zurich · 09 · Where to live

Living and commuting

Do you have to live in Zurich? No, and it is often nicer not to live where your evenings happen. S-Bahn and fast trains bring you from Winterthur, Baden or Zug to the main station in about half an hour. In Zug nobody asks why you walk to the station in a long coat on a Thursday. For the way there and back the guest always carries a travel allowance. The trip costs you not a franc.

The canton makes a difference. Winterthur belongs, like the city, to the canton of Zurich; Zug is a canton of its own, and Baden lies in Aargau. Because so much in Switzerland is decided by canton, we go through on the phone where you live and what that means for registering. In Winterthur, Isla Victoria also advises you locally. If you live across the border, around Lake Constance for instance, Zurich is close too, and which notification you need first is explained further down.

Guests from abroad land at Kloten, from where the train reaches the main station in a few minutes, and some fly on in the morning to Milan or New York. If a guest takes you on a trip, he pays flights and hotel, and you know programme and return before you say yes.

Zurich · 10 · First steps

If you moved to Zurich for work or study

Many English speakers live in Zurich for a job at a bank, an insurer or a tech company, or for a place at ETH. For them the city has an advantage. Evenings can be entirely in English, Swiss German is never expected, and a guest who notices you are not from here switches without a second thought. What your visa or permit allows is a separate question, which Flora Dora and the authorities answer, not an agency. Fees come in francs by transfer, so an account in your own name that takes francs is worth having. The flat you live in stays private, since dates take place elsewhere.

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WEF, Film Festival and Sechseläuten: when Zurich is full

Every January the WEF meets in Davos, and because a large share of participants travel via Zurich Airport, you feel those days in the city too. Many stay a night in Zurich before or after Davos and would rather not spend the evening alone at the hotel. Davos itself is tightly secured then and booked solid. An invitation up there therefore only works as a trip planned well ahead, with travel, hotel and return at his expense, and you get everything in writing before you accept.

From late September the Zurich Film Festival follows around Sechseläutenplatz, and at the same time opera and Tonhalle open their new season. In April the guilds parade through the centre for Sechseläuten. In high summer the opera house and the Tonhalle take a break, and it goes quieter. Whether you accept a WEF request or keep those days free, you discuss beforehand. A no is perfectly normal.

Zurich · 12 · Applying

Four steps to your first Zurich evening

1. Apply in one minute. In German or English, with three recent photos, and sending it agrees to nothing yet.
2. An answer within 24 hours. You get a message from us with a suggestion for when we could talk.
3. A phone call, usually 20 to 40 minutes. It covers what Zurich asks: your canton and passport, the banks, law firms or sectors you rule out, and whether a mountain weekend is for you. You may ask anything, and you need to settle on nothing.
4. A free photo shoot. The pictures are yours even if you decide against us afterwards. If you say yes, the first request reaches you.

What goes into the application and what happens after is explained in our guide to applying to an escort agency.

Experience is no condition, you must be 21, and if the application leads nowhere, we delete it after 90 days. When you are ready, here is the confidential application for Zurich, free and without obligation.

Zurich · 13 · Good to know

Who is responsible for what in Zurich, the city or the canton?

In Zurich the city and the canton share responsibility. The city has its own ordinance on where and in what form this work may take place, and the city police issue permits mainly for street work and for salons. The canton's Office for Economy runs the notification procedure for EU and EFTA nationals who work in Switzerland for a shorter period, and it names this line of work explicitly among the sectors the procedure covers. If you live in Switzerland, social insurance (AHV), health insurance and taxes come on top, and if you hold another passport or a student permit, ask Flora Dora or the FIZ before anything else.

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