Companionship for couples, arranged with both of you
The reasons a couple gives for inviting a companion are seldom complicated. A celebration that wants a livelier table. A long weekend in London when one partner has a day of meetings and the other would enjoy company among the galleries. An anniversary dinner on Mount Street, where a third person with good conversation turns an ordinary meal into an occasion.
The format is the same companionship as every other line on the account, offered to two people at once. It is priced on the ordinary ladder shown on the rates page, one hour opening at £250, and held with a 25 percent deposit. A companion's figure stays exactly the same whether one guest is enjoying her company or two.
Suited to for couples
Both partners, fully in agreement
The house arranges a couples booking only when both partners want it. Either of you may write, but the message should say so plainly, and both names are given before anything is confirmed. Each partner must be an adult, and any request where that shared agreement is unclear is declined. It is a short check, and it makes for a far more relaxed evening.
Evenings couples tend to choose
Dinner comes first: a table for three at Scott's or in a hotel dining room, with the conversation moving among three people instead of two. Galleries come second, a slow afternoon along Cork Street and down towards Bond Street before tea. Third is the late drink, perhaps at the American Bar of The Stafford in St James's, where three people at a corner table look like old friends. Some couples simply want a knowledgeable guide for a Saturday: the Burlington Arcade, a gallery, tea at Brown's, and a table already booked for the evening.
A third at the table
The skill is balance. A companion booked by a couple speaks to both partners equally, never lets either of you feel like the audience, and quickly reads which of you wants to talk and which would rather listen. She follows your lead on the tone of the evening and never tries to set it herself. At a restaurant she takes the seat both of you can see without turning, and she lets your private jokes stay private.
Companions couples ask for
Nora brings quick warmth, strong views on champagne and a memory for small details that flatters everyone at the table. Patricia has a painter's eye and not a trace of judgement, a real gift at a table for three. Michelle, warm and genuinely curious, remembers what both of you said and asks about it later. Lea can build an evening around a theatre curtain and improves any plan you hand her. Lea and Patricia share the auburn and red profile.
If this is new to you both
Many couples who write to the house have never arranged anything like this before, which is entirely ordinary. Begin small: a drink in a hotel bar at seven, then dinner for three, with the evening closing once the plates are cleared. Tell the house it is a first time for you both. The companion proposed will be one whose manner is gentle and whose conversation fills any early pause, and the two of you can read her record together before you accept.
Where couples stay
Couples tend to choose the larger Mayfair hotels, where a party of three setting out to dinner draws no glance at all. The Beaumont and the hotels around Grosvenor Square suit an evening that begins in the suite and moves out, and the hotels along Park Lane put Hyde Park at the start of the evening walk. Residences are visited on identical terms, with the address taking the place of a room number.
Booking and discretion
Write with both first names, the hotel, the length and a line about the evening you picture. The reply names a companion and a figure within 10 to 15 minutes. A 25 percent deposit holds it, and your full name and room number follow before she sets out. As with every booking, the details are cleared once the evening is over, and the booking page sets out the order of things.
Questions on this line
No. Both partners must agree before a companion is confirmed, so the surprise can be the restaurant, but never the companion.
No. A companion stays on one line of the ladder whether she is with one guest or two, starting at £250 for an hour.
Yes, as a duo booking, with each companion on her own line and both confirmed together.
Two or three hours built around dinner. A shared table gives everyone something to talk about and a natural end to the evening.
The full name of whichever partner writes, together with the hotel room or the residence address. Both partners are named in the conversation before confirmation.
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One line settles it.
Date, time and address on WhatsApp or Telegram, and the house arranges the rest without a trace.