Leicester Square escorts in WC2H, from the red carpet to the quiet floor
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 arrive fastest 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.
Your address
- HotelsWC2H · 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 Leicester Square
Any lady on the list can be with you in Leicester Square. 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
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
The Londoner 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. W London, on the western corner towards Wardour Street, keeps a dark lobby and a lift bank that most guests reach without speaking to anybody. The Radisson Blu Edwardian Hampshire looks straight out over the garden from the north side. Down St Martin's Lane, the hotel of that name is three minutes from the square and far quieter than the walk suggests. The Z Hotel on Orange Street is the small, plain 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. A quarter of the fee by bank transfer holds a standard booking, half for an overnight or an event with the travel share of that half non refundable, and the balance is settled quietly on arrival. From confirmation she is generally at the door inside the hour, sometimes in half of it from a Soho address.
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.
Fastest to WC2H
The square sits between two home districts, which is why arrivals here are quick. From Soho, a few streets north, Molly is at her best after ten, Jasmin starts late and Tiffany keeps midweek evenings open. From Covent Garden, a lane or two east, Nancy, Tina and Karolina can be at a Leicester Square lobby in minutes.
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.
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 she is usually with you inside the hour of confirmation.
The Londoner, W London, the Radisson Blu Edwardian Hampshire, St Martins Lane a few steps down and the Z Hotel on Orange Street. We name them as addresses only; there is no arrangement with any hotel 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.
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.
Piccadilly Circus
Piccadilly Circus sits 1 minute away on foot.
Chinatown
Leicester Square sits 2 minutes 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.
Leicester Square, after dark
Tell the host where you are staying in Leicester Square and when. The rest is arranged quietly.