Six companions with black hair and six different plans for W2

Angelika leaves Mayfair about fifteen minutes before a W2 start and is realistic for same evening requests from seven. Athletic at 172 cm, confident about contemporary art and quick from years of tennis, she fits two hours, £500, split between new work on Bell Street and a hotel bar with jazz playing.

Karolina wears her hair back low and her humour dry. A pianist who saves up for the opera, she will explain the station roof to anyone who glances up at it. Weeknights are simplest, opera evenings need a few days of planning, and three hours, £700, leave room for a walk and a proper table.

Danielle prefers to start after eight, when a film at Notting Hill Gate still makes sense. Curvy at 170 cm with poker straight hair, she loves classic cinema and keeps short poems on her phone for quiet moments. From South Kensington she is about fifteen minutes away on the Circle line.

Milena, 175 cm with razor straight hair, is the most direct talker on the list and agrees to evenings and overnights quickly. She is at her best on the conference side of Edgware Road, about twenty minutes from home, and she is one of the names put forward for a plus one at a business event.

Roxi boxes, surfs and has a podcast lined up for every journey. Her evenings need a real dinner in them, ideally on Queensway, and she allows around twenty five minutes from Pimlico, so a start from eight works best.

Violetta looks composed and then laughs out loud at a good line. She prefers a four hour dinner date, £900, that finishes at a late show, and she reaches Little Venice from Belgravia in about twenty minutes by cab.

Every one of the six is filed by figure too. Angelika is toned and athletic; Danielle, Milena and Roxi are curvaceous; Karolina and Violetta are slim and slender, and four of the six are statuesque. By age band, Angelika and Roxi are in their early twenties, Danielle, Karolina and Milena in their late twenties, and Violetta in her thirties.

Dark hair worn long reads well against almost any setting, which is why this list suits a dress code. Tell the desk what the room expects, lounge suits at a conference dinner, something darker for the opera, smart but relaxed for a Queensway table, and she will dress to match. She will not arrive in anything that draws a second look from reception.

Give the desk four facts: her name, the start, the length and your hotel. The desk reads your full name and room number back to you before anything is fixed, and then the visit is confirmed. She is paid in notes on arrival, and cancelling costs nothing while three clear hours remain.