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Curvaceous: ten companions with a host's instinct
TEN ON THIS LIST. Curvaceous is filed from build, and the women on it dress to it with confidence: tailored lines, good coats, colour when the room allows. Rosa, at 160 cm, is the shortest of them; Milena, at 175, the tallest.
What the ten share goes beyond silhouette. Several of them cook, bake or mix a serious drink, and nearly all of them notice when a guest is tired or hungry before they say so. They are sorted below by the room where that instinct works best.
Guest list 10
Curvaceous, on the list
The table first
Bianka, 165 cm, cooks Italian at home with real patience and studies wine; at the Four Seasons on Trinity Square she is likely to suggest moving dinner upstairs when the dining room gets loud. Rosa, 160 cm, bakes her own sourdough and judges every bread basket in the City, Sunday to Thursday. Both suit a four hour dinner date at £900.
After dark in the West End
Molly, 164 cm, starts from 10pm with a mezcal cocktail at Ham Yard and a head full of house music. Luna, 171 cm with auburn hair that reads red, prefers Hotel Café Royal on a weeknight. Danielle, 170 cm, is the calmest of the three: a late screening, then a low voice for the walk back. Hotels in the West End sit 30 to 45 minutes from all three, and none of them minds a start after eleven.
Runway rooms, all night if you like
Milena, 175 cm, is direct and glamorous and happiest with a full evening at the Sofitel by Terminal 5. Roxi, 168 cm, is the one for a delayed long haul: she watches the arrivals feed and still meets you with a grin on the Bath Road. Either suits an overnight: ten hours, £1,800, half paid ahead and the travel share of that half non-refundable.
Gatwick, three ways
Michelle, 173 cm, sorts out whatever is wrong, hunger, fatigue or homesickness, and mixes a proper drink at the Hilton by the South Terminal. Nancy, 170 cm and golden blonde, counts the train from Victoria as part of the evening and will lobby for sushi. Thea, 165 cm, would rather walk the gardens at Langshott Manor before dinner. Gatwick bookings need three hours of notice at least.
Also listed as
By colour, Nancy and Thea are blondes, Luna is auburn, Danielle, Milena and Roxi are raven haired, and the other four are brunettes. Rosa is also petite, while Michelle and Milena reach the statuesque list. By life stage, Bianka, Luna, Molly and Roxi are in their early twenties, Nancy is in her thirties, and the remaining five are in their late twenties.
Holding the booking
First the desk checks three things over WhatsApp: who you are, which hotel, which room. For a standard hotel evening, 25 percent by bank transfer then holds the time, and whatever remains is settled in cash at the door or sent by transfer in advance. Overnights take the 50 percent deposit set out above. Plans shift; three hours or more of notice moves or cancels a booking at no cost.
Choosing by the room
Start from where you are staying. A City suite points to Bianka or Rosa, a Soho or Piccadilly hotel to Molly, Luna or Danielle, a terminal hotel to the airport names. Then write to the desk: her name, where you are staying, when she should knock. Central London visits begin at £250 for one hour, travel included in Zones 1 and 2. Undecided? Describe the evening in two lines and the desk names two women who fit it.
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