The late edition is for nights that do not stop at dessert. A cocktail at a hotel bar, a table somewhere with music, a club or a jazz room after eleven and an easy walk home beneath the Mayfair streetlamps. Your companion plans the route with you, knows which doors are worth the wait and keeps the evening moving at exactly your pace.
For a night out, the three hour line at £1,050 fits best, and the four hour line at £1,300 lets it begin with a proper meal. The women who love this format keep late hours by choice: Molly starts around ten and happily runs on into the small hours, and Jasmin likes to begin at nine.
A good night in Mayfair moves. Start with a martini at the Connaught Bar or beneath the art deco glamour of Claridge's, walk on to Sketch on Conduit Street or Park Chinois on Berkeley Street for dinner with a soundtrack, then finish at a hotel bar that stays open late, back near your room on Park Lane or Grosvenor Square. Each stop is a short stroll from the last, so the driver can have the night off until the very end.
Late London has something for every mood. Angelika will steer you towards live jazz in a small, low-lit room, Stacy, statuesque at 176 cm and dry as a good martini, knows the comedy clubs where the best sets happen after ten, and Tiffany likes to open with champagne in a beautifully designed hotel. Tell Bella what kind of night you want, loud or low-lit, and she will pick the companion whose idea of fun matches yours.
Mayfair goes quiet earlier than people expect, so the best late nights often cross a boundary or two. St James's has the clubby old bars around Jermyn Street; Soho, ten minutes east, has the late cocktail rooms and Ronnie Scott's on Frith Street; Marylebone, just north of Oxford Street, has the neighbourhood wine bars. Your companion can plan a route that starts under the chandeliers and ends somewhere with a band, then brings you home across town before dawn.
A night out asks one outfit to work in a hotel bar, a restaurant and a club. Your companion will choose something that does all three, often a sleek dress with a jacket for the walk between stops. If the plan includes a members' club with a code of its own, mention it; some still expect a jacket for men and frown on trainers for anyone.
As host, you cover the drinks, the dinner and any entry or tickets for both of you, exactly as you would on a night out with a friend. Her fee is separate: the figure from the price list for the hours you chose, which she receives from you directly as the evening starts. If the night grows, a quick message to Bella extends the booking before it runs over. Each length and its figure appear on the rates page.
The late edition finishes wherever you are staying, never on a pavement at closing time. Your companion walks or rides back with you, stays for a nightcap if there is time left on the booking, and leaves when the hours are up. Guests who find the night turning into a morning can move up to the special edition, ten hours at £2,400.
Plans made at the dinner table are welcome. Message Bella from the restaurant with where you are and roughly where you are heading, and a companion who keeps late hours can often join you within the hour for the second half of the evening. The desk in Mayfair answers at any hour, so a request sent after midnight is perfectly normal.
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Not at all. The desk works around the clock and the price list does not change after dark, so a booking can start whenever the night does.
Of course. Soho is ten minutes on foot, and a taxi across Zones 1 and 2 never appears as an extra. Tell Bella the rough plan and she will choose someone who knows those streets too.
A rough outline helps her dress for it, nothing more. The route can change as the night goes on; only the length of the booking needs agreeing with Bella.
When you want to start, your hotel, and what kind of night you fancy. Bella fills in the rest, down to which bars are worth reserving.
Yes, a night out works well as a pair. Both companions are priced from the usual ladder, and duo bookings explains how Bella chooses women who enjoy each other's company.
A long supper, a gallery opening, a slow night upstairs: give Bella the outline and she will suggest the companion who fits it best.
