10 arrangements
Nothing at Albemarle Privé is sold as a package. There are ten arrangements, and each describes one kind of occasion: an hour in your suite, a dinner, a night, a journey, a table of clients. The ladder of fees stays the same across all ten. What differs is the planning, and the planning is what these pages record.
Every page names the companions Octavia would propose first, the rooms and streets where that occasion usually unfolds, and the few questions worth settling before you write. They are suggestions and no more. Any woman in the introductions may be asked for any arrangement, and each decides for herself which evenings she accepts.
Each arrangement is time and companionship, shaped around one kind of occasion. Open one to see how Octavia arranges it, and which companions she would suggest.
Most first evenings with the house begin here. You are staying at Brown's, or at The Stafford, or in a borrowed flat off Jermyn Street, and you would like company for an hour or for the evening....
Of the ten arrangements, dinner is the one the house is proudest of. Four hours at £1,800, built around a single reservation, with time for a glass beforehand and a slow walk afterwards. The...
Ten hours, £3,000, one companion. The overnight begins the way a dinner does and ends at breakfast, and between the two nobody needs to consult a watch. Hour for hour it is the most generous line...
It is a borrowed phrase, and the house uses it with care. Here it means one thing: an evening in which the company feels familiar rather than formal. Conversation starts easily and keeps going....
Some evenings are shaped by a timetable rather than a reservation. A night at a Heathrow hotel between two long-haul flights. The first evening after landing, when London is still only an idea. A...
A chair at a charity dinner. A table of clients in a private room on Pall Mall. A reception at a gallery on Cork Street. Some evenings are better attended with someone beside you, and better still...
A duo is two companions booked together for the same evening. A dinner for three at a round table. A celebration that deserves more than one voice. A suite in which the conversation needs a third...
Couples write to the house too. Partners in town for an anniversary. Two visitors who would like someone local to walk them through St James's after dark. A pair who simply enjoy a third voice at...
Some evenings are not meant to stop after dessert. The late invitation is for those: a first drink in a hotel bar, a table with some life in it, music after eleven, and a car home through empty...
The longest arrangement the house makes is also its quietest. One companion, across a weekend in London, a run of evenings during a long stay, or a few days somewhere else entirely. Weekends begin...
The hotel introduction is the plainest of the ten: one hour from £600, at any address between Albemarle Street and the far side of the park. The luxury dinner gives four hours to a single reservation. The girlfriend experience is a matter of temperament rather than length, and the late invitation follows the bars of St James's and wherever the night points after them.
The overnight engagement runs from dinner to breakfast. The travel companion keeps to a timetable, whether it starts at Heathrow, St Pancras or a private terminal. Extended engagements stretch across a weekend, a run of dinners during a long stay, or several days abroad, and the formal plus one attends the galas, receptions and client dinners that are better not faced alone.
The duo brings two companions who share a real interest to one table. Couples evenings are arranged for two guests who have chosen the idea together, and only then.
Every fee is in whole pounds and buys time and companionship, nothing else; the rates page prints each one. The figure Octavia writes in the thread is the figure you hand to your companion, in person, when she arrives. Her journey is free anywhere inside Zones 1 and 2. One check is made before she sets out, once, and it goes no further than the chat.
Should an occasion fall between the ten, describe it in a sentence. The booking page explains the exchange; Octavia reads every message herself, at any hour, and replies with a name, a minute and a fee.
A dinner, a journey, a table of clients: one sentence is enough. Octavia proposes the companion best suited and sets out the details in writing.