The Roster · Mayfair · W1K
Samanta beneath the Art Deco lamps of The Beaumont
A violinist's stillness, dark hair, and a private list of lobbies worth crossing town for.
Available todayDinners, settled before four
- Age
- 27
- Height
- 174 cm · 5 ft 9 in
- Hair
- long dark brown
- Eyes
- brown
- Figure
- slim
- Languages
- English
- Home district
- Mayfair · W1K, W1J
The full set
Four photographs, all of Samanta herself: glamour and lifestyle shots, some with the face softened, none with nudity. Tap any frame for the larger print. How we photograph.
Samanta, in brief
Composure is the word that attaches itself to Samanta within a minute of meeting her, and it never quite comes loose. Slim and 174 cm, with long dark brown hair, she has brown eyes that lend her a watchful, magnetic quality. Her style is sleek and noir: black tailoring, a silk shirt the colour of ink, a watch on a leather strap and nothing else to distract.
Elegant and composed, she brings a quiet order to an evening, with warmth beneath the poise for those who earn it. Late twenties. Her English is precise and cultured, and she is forever learning another language, although she insists none is yet fit for a dinner table. The violin has been her discipline since childhood, and she still practises most mornings. Design hotels are her passion; she notices the lighting, the materials and the proportions of a lobby, and keeps a private list of those worth a detour.
Her favourite Mayfair hotel is The Beaumont on Brown Hart Gardens, an Art Deco building of dark panelling and jazz-age glamour whose grill room feels like New York between the wars. She loves its craftsmanship and its atmosphere. She will take you to the bar before dinner and point out details you would never have spotted: the lamps, the monograms, the curve of a banister, the way the barman sets a glass down without a sound.
Mayfair is home, so arrivals across W1 are swift. She prefers dinner dates, settled by teatime. The Mayfair page shows her neighbourhood, and Cressida will settle the details through booking.
The hours, priced
The Society's figures apply to Samanta as to everyone on the roster: stated in pounds, given to her yourself at the door, and with her journey inside Zones 1 and 2 already folded in.
| Hour | Length | Fee | Suits | Enquire |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19:00 | One hourThe introduction | £600 | Long enough for a glass at the bar and a proper conversation, and a gentle way to begin. | Enquire |
| 23:00 | Ninety minutesThe nightcap | £900 | The hour with room left over for a second glass and an unhurried goodbye. | Enquire |
| 21:00 | Two hoursThe long drink | £1,100 | An evening in, or an opening two streets away, without anyone glancing at a watch. | Enquire |
| 22:00 | Three hoursThe second act | £1,500 | Supper somewhere small, then the remainder of the evening at a pace you set together. | Enquire |
| 20:00 | Four hoursThe table for two | £1,800 | Shaped around a single good table, from the first course to the last car home. | Enquire |
| 00:00 | Ten hoursUntil morning | £3,000 | From the first glass of the evening to breakfast in the suite. Ask a day ahead where you can. | Enquire |
| Fri | Two nights or moreThe weekend away | from £6,000 | In London or further afield, with one figure for the whole stay once the dates are fixed. | Enquire |
Past Zone 2, airports and changes of plan: Rates
Samanta, after dark
Samanta's evenings are elegant and unhurried. She is waiting at seven in a lobby she chose for its lighting, already seated, a glass in front of her and a small notebook closed beside it. Drinks first, in a bar with a story, then dinner at a table where the service is invisible and the food precise. She talks about the concerto she is practising, the hotel in Lisbon with the finest staircase she has ever climbed, the verbs she is learning and the ones that defeat her. Her notebook, she admits, is mostly hotel staircases. She listens carefully and answers honestly. The evening keeps a quiet rhythm and never hurries. By the end you understand why people call her magnetic, even if you could not explain it yourself.
Samanta answers
Light, mostly. Low lamps, no overhead glare, and somewhere to sit that does not face the door. Good lobbies let you arrive twice: once through the door and once in your own time.
The Méditation from Thaïs. It is short, it is beautiful, and nobody can talk over it.
I never say, until I can order dinner in it without blushing. That usually takes about a year.
Remarks in the book
The page is still blankNo remarks have been entered for Samanta yet. When a guest writes something worth keeping, and she agrees, it appears here beneath the guest's first name, with the month set beside it. Nothing on this page is ever composed by the Society.
Entered only after Cressida has read them · signed with a first name and the month only · withdrawn whenever Samanta asks
A line for Samanta
Samanta is already named. Fill in the brackets, send it, and Cressida answers every line in a single reply.
Good evening Cressida. May I book Samanta for [length] on [date], from [time]? I shall be at [hotel name], and will pass on the room number once you confirm.
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From After Dark Notes
- 6 min readAround the old embassy square: Grosvenor Square's hotels, weighed after darkThe square once called Little America now deals in hotels. The Biltmore, The Beaumont, The Twenty Two and their neighbours, judged by lobby, bar and lift for an evening in W1K.
- 6 min readSide doors, quiet lifts and unlisted floors: the hidden plan of a grand London hotelGrand hotels are built with more than one door, lifts that answer to a key and floors the buttons leave out. What each one is for, and why the Society still prefers the front door.
Send word about Samanta
Mention Samanta by name and the evening you have in mind. If she is spoken for, Cressida will say so plainly and suggest someone close in spirit.