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Raven hair: six companions, listed by the hour they start
BLACK, WORN LONG. Six women, and between them they cover the whole clock after dark. Four prefer hotels in the West End, two prefer rooms at Heathrow. The list runs in order of start time, because the hour is usually the first thing a guest knows.
Hair is the only thing they share. Heights run from 168 to 178 cm, temperaments from dry and private to loud and quick, and all six work from the same board: an hour at £250, two at £500, a four hour dinner date at £900.
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Raven haired, on the list
From 7pm: Angelika
Angelika, 172 cm and athletic, starts earliest of the six. Tennis fills her mornings and live jazz her nights, so a drink in your hotel bar tends to lead to the late set at Ronnie Scott's on Frith Street. West End hotels come first in her diary. Two hours or more gives the music room to breathe.
Curtain up: Karolina
Karolina, 174 cm, lives a few minutes from Bow Street and plans her best evenings around the Royal Opera House. Champagne at six, the performance, supper afterwards. She plays piano, reads a facade the way others read a menu and never checks her phone in company. Opera nights need a few days of notice so the timings line up.
After 9pm: Danielle
Danielle, 170 cm with hair to the small of her back, begins once the dinner crowd thins out. Old films are her great love, the Prince Charles Cinema near Leicester Square her favourite late screen, and a slim book of poems usually rides along in her bag. A four hour booking leaves room for the film and the walk back to your room.
Late: Violetta
Violetta is the tallest woman on the site at 178 cm. She prefers late starts, lets a silence sit comfortably and ends it with a very dry remark. Foyles on Charing Cross Road first, then a late table, then a comedy bill if a good one is on. Her profile shows when her diary next opens.
Late landings: Roxi and Milena
Roxi, 168 cm, trains at a boxing gym most mornings and shrugs at delayed flights; she follows your arrival from the train and meets you in the lobby of the Bath Road Radisson Blu Edwardian. Milena, 175 cm and direct, favours the Sofitel joined to Terminal 5 and suits a full overnight at £1,800, held with 50 percent upfront. Airport visits start at three hours, travel included.
Tell her the plan, not the outfit
Jazz, opera, a cinema, a bookshop and a terminal lobby each ask for something different, and all six dress for the room they are walking into. A line about the plan, plus the dress code if there is one, is plenty. Late is held exactly like early: your name, hotel and room are checked on WhatsApp, then 25 percent by bank transfer holds the time. Nothing on the board rises after midnight. If a show overruns or a flight lands late, say so in the chat; a quarter hour of grace applies, and past that the desk simply sets a new one.
Same colour, other lists
Angelika, Karolina, Milena and Violetta also sit on statuesque, while Danielle, Milena and Roxi appear on curvaceous. Heading out with no fixed plan for the room yet? Night out company explains how a night of bars and live music ends at your own door. For warmer shades, see brunettes, then send the desk an hour and a hotel.
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