Local BookingsFrom £250 an hourOutcall only
A companion at your room, or at your own front door
This is the booking most guests make first and the one Iris arranges most nights of the week. One companion, one address, an agreed number of hours. You send the hotel or the road, the hour you want the knock and how long the evening runs. Back comes a name, a figure and an arrival time that accounts for the journey, which matters more here than it would in town. These are outer postcodes and nobody on this line is going to tell you fifteen minutes when the honest answer is fifty.
The first hour is £250. Ninety minutes is £400 and two hours £500, which is the length most people settle on once they have done it twice. The clock changes nothing. A knock at two in the morning costs exactly what a knock at two in the afternoon costs, and there is no weekend line, no holiday line and no late surcharge anywhere on the seven rung ladder.
Suited to hotel rooms and front doors
The buildings guests write from
There is no arrangement with any hotel here and there never has been. These are simply the addresses that keep turning up in first messages. The beds along Lampton Road in Hounslow Central, a couple of minutes from the station and the cinema. The quieter places set back off the Great West Road and out towards Heston, where a hedge and a car park do most of the work. The long row of big blocks on the Bath Road at Heathrow, and the two buildings joined to their terminals by a covered walkway, which is the only way in west London to get from an arrivals hall to a chair without going outdoors.
She knows which entrance is still staffed at midnight, which of the lifts is quicker and which reception would rather a visitor waited downstairs. That knowledge comes from having used the building, not from a list.
Private addresses, flats and short lets
A good half of these evenings never involve a hotel at all. This borough is full of people renting by the month within a short drive of the runway, and of guests staying in an ordinary house rather than a room with a number on the door. For any of those Iris wants the street, the door number and how a visitor actually gets in: an entry panel, a porter, a gate code, a lift that wants a fob held against it.
A private address is checked once, at the start, and from then on it is treated exactly as a hotel room would be. Nothing about it is kept past the booking and nothing about it is mentioned to anybody.
What arriving looks like
She comes dressed for the building rather than for a photograph. A plain coat suits a lobby full of flight crew at eleven at night. Something softer suits a Tuesday at a flat in Isleworth where the neighbours know everybody. She walks to the lift unless the desk asks every visitor to sign in, and where it does she does what any caller would do, without drama.
If you would rather collect her from the bar or the lobby first, put that in your message and it is arranged instead. Guests at the airport hotels ask for it constantly and nobody there so much as looks up.
An hour, ninety minutes, or two
An hour is for the end of a long day: a drink from the fridge and a conversation with nothing whatsoever to do with work. Ninety minutes suits somebody who has eaten already and wants a later start than a dinner would allow. Two hours is the point where the evening stops feeling counted, and it is what most returning guests end up asking for without being nudged towards it.
Wanting her to stay on once she is there is perfectly ordinary. Say so while there is still time on the clock and, if her night is clear, the booking climbs one rung, two hours becoming three and £500 becoming £700, with the difference going to her at the time rather than afterwards.
How much notice is useful
Near a station this can be quick. The TW3 town centre, Brentford and Osterley are all reachable inside the hour on a decent evening, and Hayes is faster than its reputation suggests because the Elizabeth line is new and empty by ten. The Bath Road and Cranford are car journeys of about forty minutes and they get considerably slower between four and seven, so a same hour booking out there is a hope rather than a plan.
Two or three hours of warning widens the choice of companion enormously. An evening asked for at lunchtime usually has the run of the whole list, and a Friday asked for on Wednesday almost always does.
Five who answer quickly
Samanta takes midnight starts at the TW3 hotels and is two minutes from the station at her end of it. Angelika works the Lampton Road beds and will walk the park first if there is any light left in the sky. Roxi is two minutes from Hounslow West station and good on short notice. Molly would far rather begin at nine than at six and tells you so before you ask. Bianka is back on the sixth of October, and later dates can be held for her now.
The last one
never leaves
Whatever the hour, the route is still running and somebody is still answering. Name your stop and we will say who is free and how far off she is.
Adults only, 18 and over · Time and companionship only · The line runs 24/7