On the list tonight: escorts in Leicester Square, Cranbourn Street to Irving Street
Leicester Square is the loudest patch of WC2H and the easiest to leave. Four sides of cinema fronts and hotel lobbies face a garden with Shakespeare in the middle of it, and the crowd rotates all evening: the queue for a premiere, the ticket booth in the middle, the late screening emptying at one in the morning, the tour groups photographing the lights. Ten steps off the square in any direction and the noise drops by half.
That contrast is the reason the house likes it here. A room above the square is minutes from every stage door in the West End, and still quiet once the curtains are drawn. Hotels, stations, timings, an evening worth copying and the ladies who know the square best are set out below, with the full ladder on the rates page.
Stations, on foot
- Leicester SquareNorthern, Piccadilly1′walk
- Piccadilly CircusBakerloo, Piccadilly3′walk
- Charing CrossBakerloo, Northern, National Rail4′walk
Walking times run from the station exit into Leicester Square. She comes straight to your door, whatever the hour.
Hotel doors
- WC2H 7DXLeicester Square · outcall to your room
- W1D 7DTSoho · outcall to your room
- WC2N 4HXCovent Garden · outcall to your room
- WC2H 9HBCovent Garden · outcall to your room
- W1B 4DYRegent Street · outcall to your room
Listed as landmarks, never as partners. She visits guests staying at them; your room number waits until the host has confirmed.
Closest to Leicester Square
The 8 ladies below live closest to Leicester Square. Every other name on the ladies can come here too, travel in Zones 1 and 2 included.
Nancy
Tina
Karolina
Molly
Tiffany
Jasmin
Luna
Margo
A square that never entirely empties
The cinemas set the rhythm. The Odeon Luxe on the east side takes the big premieres, with barriers, carpet and a crowd that forms hours early. The Empire holds the other half of the audience, and the Prince Charles on Leicester Place runs the films everyone else has stopped showing, often past midnight. The ticket booth in the garden sells the evening's unsold theatre seats to whoever is patient enough to queue at three in the afternoon.
Around the edges the square is more civilised than its reputation. St Martin's Court, a lane on the eastern side, holds panelled dining rooms and a stage door or two. Irving Street runs down to the National Portrait Gallery. Gerrard Place opens into the lanterns of Chinatown within thirty seconds. The square is a junction rather than a destination, which is exactly why it suits an arrival.
Hotels above the crowd
WC2H 7DX sits on the south side, six floors above ground and six below, with a cinema, a pool and a lobby big enough to be anonymous at any hour. The house on the western corner towards Wardour Street keeps a dark lobby and a lift bank that most guests reach without speaking to anybody. The long red block on the north side looks straight out over the garden. Down St Martin's Lane, WC2N 4HX is three minutes from the square and far quieter than the walk suggests. The small, plain rooms on Orange Street are the option a street behind the cinemas.
None of these houses has an arrangement with us and we would not claim one. They appear here because guests stay in them and ladies walk into them as invited visitors, exactly as they would into a flat on Cranbourn Street.
One minute to the platform
Leicester Square station opens onto the northern corner, about 1 minute away, with the Northern and Piccadilly lines. Piccadilly Circus is 3 minutes west along Coventry Street, and Charing Cross, on the Bakerloo and Northern lines and every National Rail service to the south east, is about 4 minutes down the hill.
After a premiere the pavements around the square are managed with barriers and the taxi ranks move slowly, so a lady may ask to meet you in the lobby rather than at the kerb. It is faster, and nobody stands about on a carpet that belongs to somebody else's evening.
Timing it around a screening
Premiere nights are the one evening here that needs planning. The square closes to traffic, the crowd arrives early and the streets around it take an hour to clear afterwards. Book in the afternoon for those, name the hotel, and the host will suggest a start time that misses the worst of it.
Ordinary evenings need nothing more than a message. A host replies inside 10 to 15 minutes, confirms the lady and the figure, then checks your full name, hotel and room once over WhatsApp or Telegram. Once the host has confirmed in writing the evening is yours, an overnight or an event simply takes a longer conversation beforehand, and you settle with her yourself, in person, once she reaches your door. Reckon on about an hour between that confirmation and her knock, more when a premiere has closed the square, and the host tells you her exact time in the chat as she leaves.
An evening on the square, sketched
18:45, a table in St Martin's Court where the fish is unimprovable and the waiters have seen every opening night since the eighties. 20:30, the late screening at the Prince Charles, because nobody books a premiere at short notice. 22:45, a walk of ninety seconds under the Chinatown gate for a last plate of something salty and a pot of tea. 23:45, back across the square to the hotel while the crowd is still deciding where to go.
Three hours at £700 covers that comfortably. Trim it to ninety minutes at £400 for a drink and an hour upstairs, or extend it to the four hour dinner date at £900 if the film is long and the night is not.
Neighbours of WC2H
The square sits between two home districts, which is why so many names on the list know its lobbies. From Soho, to the north, Molly is at her best after ten, Jasmin starts late and Tiffany keeps midweek evenings open. From Covent Garden, on the other side, Nancy, Tina and Karolina treat the lanes around St Martin's Lane as their own.
Anybody else on the guest list comes to WC2H on the same figures, and the journey is inside the fee wherever she starts.
Thirty seconds to the next door
Chinatown begins under the gate on Gerrard Place. Soho starts across Charing Cross Road. Piccadilly Circus is the far end of Coventry Street, and Charing Cross is the bottom of the hill towards the river. The whole district is summarised on the West End page.
Before you go, class="kw">read
Two notes from the door that fit an evening around Leicester Square.
- 01 · 5 min readThe West End After the Curtain FallsA West End evening does not end when the curtain drops, it turns a corner. Where the crowd goes next, and how to already have a table waiting when it does.Step inside
- 02 · 6 min readStacked From Cellar to Roof: An Evening at WC2H 7DXA tall new hotel on Leicester Square, with a pub at street level, a restaurant off the lobby and a terrace near the top. Where to sit at each hour, and how a quiet visit upstairs is arranged.Step inside
Leicester Square, asked at the door
Short, plain answers. Anything else, the host takes by message at any hour.
Yes, at any hour. Late screenings finish long after the last train and the house does not close. Message with your hotel and a time, and expect her about an hour after the host confirms, with the precise minute sent over once she is under way.
WC2H 7DX, the Wardour Street corner, the red block on the north side, WC2N 4HX a few steps down and the rooms on Orange Street. Each one is listed by its postcode or its street; there is no arrangement with any of them and none is needed.
Only the timing. The square closes to cars, the crowd is heavy for an hour either side, and your visitor will meet you in the lobby rather than at the entrance. Book in the afternoon and the host will plan around the road closures.
One hour, from £250. Ninety minutes at £400 and two hours at £500 are the usual late requests, and travel anywhere in Zones 1 and 2 is already counted in the figure.
The doors next door
The neighbourhoods that share a street, a station or a short walk with Leicester Square. The full map sits on the neighbourhoods page.
West End hotels
Arrivals at W1B 4DY and WC2H 7DX, and private addresses close by.
escorts in Piccadilly Circus
Arrivals at W1B 4DY and W1D 7DT, and private addresses close by.
Chinatown hotels
Arrivals at WC2H 7DX and W1D 7DT, and private addresses close by.
Leicester Square, after dark
Tell the host where you are staying in Leicester Square and when. The rest is arranged quietly.