Chinatown escorts in W1D, for the hours when the kitchens are still on
Chinatown occupies six streets of W1D and keeps the latest hours in the West End. Gerrard Street runs the length of it under lanterns strung from the lamp posts, with the painted gates at either end, ducks turning in the windows and pots of tea arriving before anybody has ordered. Lisle Street runs parallel one block south, Newport Court and Macclesfield Street cross between them, and every doorway seems to lead upstairs to a room that is still serving.
Guests book here for the simplest reason in the city: this is where the evening goes when everywhere else has stopped. Below are the hotels a lady walks into, the two stations and the walk from each, how the door answers after midnight, and a supper worth copying. Every figure is on the rates page, with the message template on booking.
Stations, on foot
- Leicester SquareNorthern, Piccadilly2′walk
- Piccadilly CircusBakerloo, Piccadilly4′walk
Walking times run from the station exit into Chinatown. She comes straight to your door, whatever the hour.
Your address
- HotelsW1D · room visits
- ApartmentsServiced and short stay
- ResidencesPrivate homes
- Any hourDay, late or overnight
Outcall only. Tell the host where you are staying and any arrival notes for the front desk.
On the list for Chinatown
Any lady on the list can be with you in Chinatown. Open a card for her file and a message with her name in it.
Angelika
Bianka
Cindy
Danielle
Jasmin
Karolina
Laura
Lea
Liana
Lucy
Luna
Margo
Michelle
Milena
Molly
Nancy
Nora
Patricia
Rosa
Roxi
Samanta
Sonya
Stacy
Thea
Tiffany
Tina
Vanessa
Violetta
Six streets that keep their own clock
The rhythm here runs backwards to the rest of W1. The lunch rush belongs to the cinema crowd, the early evening to families at round tables, and the interesting part starts around eleven, when the theatre audience has been fed and the chefs from half of Soho come in to eat. Kitchens on Gerrard Street take orders until two or three in the morning, the bakeries open their hatches, and the karaoke rooms upstairs run on until they are asked to stop.
It is also the least self conscious quarter in central London. Nobody is dressed to be photographed, nobody is queueing to be seen, and a couple sharing a late plate of dumplings at one in the morning draws exactly no attention. Discretion here is a by product of everybody minding their own supper.
Rooms a lantern's length away
The Londoner is the nearest large house, ninety seconds south through the gate on Gerrard Place, with a lobby deep enough to cross unnoticed at any hour. W London sits on the Wardour Street corner at the western gate, its lift bank a few steps from the door. The Radisson Blu Edwardian Hampshire looks over Leicester Square from the north side, two minutes away. The Z Hotel on Moor Street is a small plain option one street east, and Ham Yard Hotel is four minutes north in its courtyard off Great Windmill Street.
None of them has an arrangement with the house, and we would not invent one. They are named because guests stay in them and a lady arrives as your invited visitor, asking nothing of the desk. The flats above the restaurants on Gerrard and Lisle Street are visited on the same terms, buzzer and staircase included.
Two stations, two and four minutes
Leicester Square station is about 2 minutes from the eastern gate, on the Northern and Piccadilly lines. Piccadilly Circus is roughly 4 minutes west along Shaftesbury Avenue or Wardour Street, on the Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines. Both run late, and the night buses from Trafalgar Square are a short walk south.
Gerrard Street itself is closed to cars for most of its length, so a cab will stop at the Wardour Street end or on Shaftesbury Avenue and the last thirty seconds are on foot under the lanterns. Tell the host which end of the street you are nearest and she will come to the gate you can see.
Answering at one in the morning
The house keeps a host awake at every hour, which matters more in this postcode than in most. Send the hotel, the hour, the length of the evening and either a name from the list or a sketch of the company you want. The reply arrives within 10 to 15 minutes with her name and the figure.
One check follows: your full name, the hotel and the room number over WhatsApp or Telegram, confirmed once and held with the door. A quarter of the fee by bank transfer secures a standard hotel or residence booking; overnights, events and travel ask half, and the travel share of that half is not refundable. The balance is settled on arrival in cash or by transfer under a discreet reference.
After confirmation she is usually with you inside the hour, and often faster here than anywhere, because three ladies on the list live a few streets north. A late request is not an imposition. If anything, the small hours are when this part of W1D is at its most agreeable.
Supper at eleven, and what follows
23:00, a table at Joy King Lau or Four Seasons, whichever has the shorter queue, for roast duck and a pot of jasmine tea. 23:45, a slow walk the length of Gerrard Street while the lanterns sway and the last of the theatre crowd disperses. 00:15, a cocktail behind an unmarked door, because half the good drinking in this postcode happens upstairs or downstairs and never at street level. 01:00, back through the gate to your room.
Two hours at £500 covers supper and the walk back. Three hours at £700 leaves time for the cocktail, and the four hour dinner date at £900 is the version where nobody looks at a watch. Ten hours overnight, £1,800, ends with breakfast somewhere that opens early.
Closest doors to the gate
Jasmin is the obvious name here. She lives a few streets away, starts after nine and treats the drinks list at every late door between Wardour Street and Newport Court as personal territory. Molly, also from Soho, considers midnight the middle of the evening rather than the end of it. Tiffany prefers a midweek supper and will photograph the lanterns on the way back.
From Covent Garden, five minutes east, Nancy is fond of a late counter and Tina is easy company at short notice. Everybody else on the guest list comes to W1D on the same figures, travel included.
Out through either gate
North across Shaftesbury Avenue the small streets of Soho begin. East through Gerrard Place is Leicester Square and its cinemas. West along Wardour Street brings you to Piccadilly Circus in four minutes, and south of the square the hill runs down to Charing Cross. Every street of the postcode is listed on the W1D map.
Chinatown, asked at the door
Short, plain answers. Anything else, the host takes by message at any hour.
Yes, and this is the postcode where that request is most common. A host is awake at every hour, and after written confirmation she is usually at the door inside the hour, frequently sooner from a Soho address.
The Londoner and W London at either gate, the Radisson Blu Edwardian Hampshire on Leicester Square, the Z Hotel on Moor Street and Ham Yard Hotel four minutes north. They are addresses we arrive at, never partners of the house.
Certainly. Book two hours or more, name the restaurant, and she will meet you at the table or at the gate, whichever is easier to find. The booking starts at the time you agree, so the meal is part of the evening.
One hour, from £250, with ninety minutes at £400 the usual late request. Travel anywhere in Zones 1 and 2 is inside the figure, so a Chinatown address never carries a fare.
There is no such hour. Kitchens here serve past two, the door answers all night, and a booking made at one in the morning runs on exactly the same terms as one made at seven in the evening.
Other doors
The same card opens every one of them. Choose a neighbourhood for its hotels, stations and answers.
Soho
Arrivals at The Soho Hotel and Ham Yard Hotel, and private addresses close by.
West End
Piccadilly Circus sits 2 minutes away on foot.
Leicester Square
Leicester Square sits 1 minute away on foot.
Piccadilly Circus
Piccadilly Circus sits 1 minute away on foot.
Carnaby
Oxford Circus sits 3 minutes away on foot.
Charing Cross
Charing Cross sits 1 minute away on foot.
Oxford Circus
Arrivals at The Langham, and private addresses close by.
Fitzrovia
Goodge Street sits 3 minutes away on foot.
Tottenham Court Road
Tottenham Court Road sits 1 minute away on foot.
W1D
The W1D map: its districts, streets and doors in one place.
Chinatown, after dark
Tell the host where you are staying in Chinatown and when. The rest is arranged quietly.