Mayfair BabesNo. 07 · p. 50
Issue No. 07p. 50 · Girlfriend experience companionship£400 /H

First person: the girlfriend experience, warm from the very first hello

In magazine terms this is the first person column: personal, relaxed and written as if to an old friend. The girlfriend experience is not a line on the price list but a mood, an evening where the company feels familiar from the first hello, conversation runs without effort and nobody is performing. It can be booked for an hour at £400 or wrapped around a whole dinner.

What guests mean by it is simple enough. A companion who takes your arm on the walk to dinner, asks how the meeting went and actually listens to the answer, laughs at the right moment and is curious about your day. Everything on this page, as everywhere on the site, is time and companionship only.

Part one

What it looks like on the night

Picture an ordinary Tuesday. You finish a long day of meetings, she is waiting in the lobby of your hotel near Bond Street with a kiss on the cheek and a question about how it went, and the two of you walk to dinner in no particular hurry. Over the meal she talks about the exhibition she saw at the weekend or the recipe that went wrong on Sunday. Afterwards there is a nightcap and the easy sense that this could have been one evening of many.

Part two

Warmth needs a little time

An hour can be lovely, but this format comes into its own on the two hour line at £750 or the three hour line at £1,050, when there is room for a walk, a meal and talk that drifts from one subject to the next. Plenty of guests find the four hour dinner date its natural home. There is no separate figure for the mood; it is simply how certain companions are, at any length on the rates page.

Part three

The women with the knack

Some people are simply easy to be around, and Bella knows exactly who they are. Rosa, with her chestnut curls, her soul records and a habit of baking for friends, is warmth itself. Cindy is relaxed and bright, Laura lively and full of travel plans, and Lucy so thoughtful that the conversation never runs dry. Thea, curvaceous and green eyed, likes a relaxed supper better than anything else on the list.

Part four

It lives in the small gestures

Nothing about this format is scripted, which is exactly why it works. She orders for both of you at a place she knows well, brings the conversation back to the story you began over drinks, notices when you are tired and suggests a quieter end to the night. She texts nobody at the table and gives you her full attention, the way a good friend does on an evening she has been looking forward to. By the time coffee arrives, the evening has stopped feeling arranged and started feeling like a habit you would happily keep.

Part five

How to ask for it

No particular words are needed. Tell Bella you would like a relaxed, affectionate evening rather than a formal one, mention anything you enjoy talking about, and say whether you would rather stay in or go out. She matches the mood to a name and puts the plan in writing. If you have met a companion before and enjoyed her company, simply ask for her again.

Part six

The same companion, again

This format deepens with repetition. A companion you see a second or third time remembers how you take your coffee, which table you liked on Mount Street and the story you were halfway through telling. Bella keeps a note of preferences so that a returning guest never has to start from the beginning, and she is straightforward about when a favourite is travelling and the date she returns.

Part seven

Kept elegant

The girlfriend experience is about affection and ease in company, and it sits within the same terms as every booking on this site. The fee covers her time and companionship and nothing else, she sets her own boundaries, and she is free to end any booking that stops feeling comfortable. That clarity is precisely what lets the warmth feel natural rather than rehearsed.

The girlfriend experience, asked

The girlfriend experience, explained

5 answers below. Tap a question to open it, and send anything we missed to Bella on WhatsApp.

No. It follows the same price list as every evening, from £400 for the first hour. You are choosing a companion and a tone, not an upgrade.

Yes. A lunch that becomes a walk through Hyde Park, an hour in the Cork Street galleries or afternoon tea at Brown's: daytime suits this format beautifully, and several of the women prefer it.

No. Contact always runs through Bella, which protects your privacy as much as hers. Let Bella know your next dates in town and she will set up the reunion.

Two hours. It leaves room for a drink, a proper conversation and a short walk, and it shows quickly whether you would like the next booking to be a full dinner.

Yes. The mood belongs to the companion rather than the length, so it suits the special edition as naturally as a single hour, and plenty of guests say the morning coffee is the nicest part.

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Describe the evening in one line.

A long supper, a gallery opening, a slow night upstairs: give Bella the outline and she will suggest the companion who fits it best.