What an evening costs, by length, in whole pounds
Seven lengths and seven figures. Each is the fee for the whole booking, the same at four in the afternoon as at midnight, and the same whichever companion you choose from the hall.
Read the ladder first, then the notes beneath it: the three hour floor at the airport, what happens when a flight moves, and how the fee reaches her.
Every length the desk takes
- One hour£250
A town length. Not offered out here: her journey alone would outlast the booking.
- Ninety minutes£400
Also central London only. Listed so you can see the whole ladder, not because a Bath Road evening can use it.
- Two hours£500
Dinner and a conversation that goes somewhere, and still short of the airport floor.
- Three hours£700
Where every booking on this side of London begins, her drive or her train counted inside the hours. A drink, dinner and the walk afterwards, without hurrying any of it.
- Four hour dinner date£900
The length a theatre night in Hayes wants, and the one most guests pick when they are not flying at dawn. Write in the afternoon if a table needs holding too.
- Overnight, ten hours£1,800
Aperitif at eight and coffee before a mid morning flight. Settle it a day ahead where you can, so the whole night is held.
- WeekendOn request
Two or three days, or a stay that runs across a trip. Hester sends one figure for the whole of it once she has your dates.
Each figure covers her hours and her company, and nothing is added to it once the length is agreed. A landing that slips does not change the number.
The fee is handed to the companion in person when she arrives. A weekend and anything longer than a night are quoted the same way, by length, in the same message thread.
Hello, I would like to book [name] on [date] at [time] for [duration]. I am staying at [hotel name], and will share the room number on confirmation.
Why the airport starts at three hours
Every companion here lives in central London: fifty minutes to an hour out to the perimeter, more when the M4 has an opinion, and the same again home. A one hour booking at the Bath Road would put her in a car twice as long as she spent with you.
So three hours, £700, is the shortest booking anywhere on this site, and her travel sits inside that figure rather than beside it. It is not a surcharge with a rule wrapped round it. It is what the journey is.
What the figure covers and what it does not
Her time and her company for the whole booked length: a drink, dinner, a walk down a village lane, a long conversation in a quiet room. Fees are for time and companionship only, and there is nothing else on offer to price.
It also covers her journey to any address on the airport areas pages and back. No supplement for a late hour, a suite or a weekend, and no service charge anywhere.
Travel beyond this side of London
Everything from Cranford in the east to Colnbrook in the west sits inside the figure. For anywhere further, another airport or the far side of town, her taxi both ways is worked out when you book and written beside the fee for your yes or no. Once agreed it does not move.
When a flight moves
Tell Hester as soon as the board changes. The roads are quiet after eight, so an hour either way is usually workable and moving a start time costs nothing.
Cancel with three or more hours to spare and nothing is owed. Inside two hours, half the fee falls due; a companion left standing in a lobby nobody comes down to is the whole of it. If you are running late she waits fifteen minutes, then the desk sets a new hour rather than quietly trimming your booking. If the cancellation comes from this side you are told at once and owe nothing.
How the fee reaches her
You hand it to her in person when she arrives, in pounds, exactly the figure in your confirmation. Nothing goes near your hotel bill. It happens in the first minute of the evening and is then finished with.
Making a booking longer
Say so while the booked time is still running, not at the end of it. If her evening has room, the booking steps up to the next length above and you pay only the difference between the two figures printed here. The whole sequence, from first message to room number, is on the booking page.
Asked most often at this end of town
Why can I not book one hour at a Heathrow hotel?
Is a night at an airport hotel priced differently from one in town?
Does the fee change for a dawn start or a late finish?
Can I book two evenings in the same trip?
Is a weekend figure worked out from the daily lengths?
What if my flight is cancelled and I am not staying after all?
Read the sign, then pick the hour
Send a length, a time and the road or the terminal you are staying near, and a name comes back with a travel window on it.