The Map · 14 addresses near the square
The map: West End addresses, walked outwards from Berkeley Square
The Society's map is small by choice. Its pages cover the ground a guest is most likely to be standing on when he writes, each with the hotels people actually stay in, the stations nearest to them and the companions who live closest. Together they cover the West End escorts guests ask for most, with W1 escorts closest to the square.
Every visit is outcall: your companion travels to you, to a hotel room or a private door, and the Society keeps no premises for anyone to call at.
At 23:00
The last cars
Short drives between lit doorways, at whatever hour you happen to write.
Around the square
Every visit is outcall: hotel rooms, serviced flats and private houses. Each figure on the right counts the minutes on foot from the closest station. The whole map.
Hotels by postcode: W1K 4HR · W1K 1QA · W1K 1PN. Underground: Green Park.
Hotels by postcode: W1K 1QA · W1K 1PN · W1K 1BE. Underground: Hyde Park Corner.
Hotels by postcode: W1S 2YF · W1K 4HR · W1S 4BP. Underground: Bond Street.
Hotels by postcode: W1J 9BR · SW1A 1NJ · SW1A 1NY. Underground: Green Park.
Hotels by postcode: W1J 8LT · W1J 5EB · W1K 2AL. Underground: Green Park.
Hotels by postcode: W1K 2HP · W1K 6TF · W1K 4HR. Underground: Bond Street.
Hotels by postcode: W1J 9BR · W1J 7BJ · W1J 8LT. Underground: Piccadilly Circus.
Hotels by postcode: SW1A 1NJ · SW1A 1NY · SW1Y 6JF. Underground: Green Park.
Hotels by postcode: W1K 2AL · W1K 2HP · W1K 1QA. Underground: Bond Street.
Hotels by postcode: WC2R 0EZ · WC2B 4BZ · WC2N 4HX. Underground: Covent Garden.
Hotels by postcode: SW1X 7RL · SW1W 0JW · SW1X 7TA. Underground: Victoria.
Hotels by postcode: SW1X 7LA · SW7 1DW · SW1X 9PY. Underground: Knightsbridge.
Hotels by postcode: W1K 4HR · W1K 1QA · W1K 2AL. Underground: Green Park.
Hotels by postcode: SL4 1LJ · SL4 1LH · SL4 1PQ. Station: Windsor and Eton Central.
From the garden outwards
Berkeley Square, W1J, lends the Society its name and keeps the latest suppers. Mayfair widens the view into W1K, from Brook Street to the mews behind Mount Street. Park Lane is the page for galas and for suites above Hyde Park, while Piccadilly follows the old road from W1J 9BR towards the Circus.
Around those four lie the rest. Grosvenor Square holds the receptions, Mount Street holds the tables, Bond Street is the walk taken before dinner, Green Park suits an evening with no fixed end and St James's an early one. W1K and W1J explains the two postcodes themselves. Further out: Knightsbridge and Belgravia through Hyde Park Corner, Covent Garden east of the Circus, for the opera, and Windsor well beyond town.
Addresses the map leaves out
Marylebone, Chelsea, Soho and the City have no page here, yet each is visited on the same footing. Within Zones 1 and 2 her car is the Society's concern. Past that line the cost of a taxi out and back is added, and Cressida states it before anything is agreed; a hotel by Heathrow or Gatwick is never booked for less than three hours, the drive included. The rates page carries every figure.
Distance and arrival
Either will do. The pages overlap at their edges, and a hotel on Half Moon Street belongs as much to Piccadilly as to Mayfair. What Cressida needs is the hotel's name, not the page you found it on.
Yes. Bankside, the South Bank and Canary Wharf all lie within the first two zones, so the journey adds nothing to the figure. Write a little earlier than you would for W1, since the drive from Mayfair is longer.
One message to Cressida
Write with the night you have in mind, an hour, and where you will be staying. Cressida answers in the same thread, usually within minutes, with a name and a figure.