In your area: thirteen addresses, from Marble Arch to Knightsbridge, none far from the next

Mayfair is the whole district on one spread, and Mount Street is the terracotta stretch this magazine returns to most. Grosvenor Square keeps the working week, Berkeley Square keeps the late doors, and Bond Street keeps the windows.

Park Lane is for suites with the trees beyond the glass, Hyde Park takes the whole perimeter path, and Marble Arch picks up where the hotel row runs out. Across the Corner, Knightsbridge adds the green awnings and the best suites in SW1.

Down the hill, Piccadilly holds the arcades, Green Park the park side lobbies and St James's the quietest doors in London. W1 is the index to the nine spreads that share the postcode.

Every hotel named across these spreads is printed as an address, the way a location credit is printed under a photograph: not one of them holds an arrangement with Bella, and none would need one. Your companion arrives as your guest, and nobody at a front desk is told anything.

These pages are a map, not a fence. Hotels and homes in Marylebone, Soho, Belgravia, Chelsea, Covent Garden or anywhere else inside Zones 1 and 2 are reached with travel already inside the rate. Further out, Bella prices the taxi both ways and you see the total first, while hotels out at Heathrow and Gatwick carry a three hour floor, journey included. Every figure sits on the rates page.

Our figure is about an hour from Bella's confirmation to the knock in W1, more in the evening rush, on a packed Friday or out by the airports. The exact time reaches your WhatsApp or Telegram chat as your companion sets off. Booking for later in the week? She arrives at the minute you name. Start with The Women if you would like to choose first.