+£300 Escorts

£300 an hour is the central London band, and it covers most of zone one outside the three or four postcodes that price above everything else.

What it buys

A central address rather than a different standard of companion. At this rate you are in Marylebone, Kensington, Chelsea or the better parts of Bayswater, ten minutes from wherever you are having dinner.

The step up from £150 is almost entirely geography. The step up from £300 to £400 is the same thing again, concentrated in Mayfair, Knightsbridge and Belgravia. Nothing about the hour itself changes as the number climbs.

What the bookings look like

An even split between incall and outcall, and a much larger share of two hour bookings than the bands below. Dinner dates are normal here rather than exceptional, which is part of why the longer minimums exist at all.

Where these listings are

Across zone one, concentrated in the residential postcodes rather than the shopping ones. The rule of thumb is that the quiet streets carry the listings and the busy ones do not.

Getting better value

Move one stop out. Gloucester Road against Knightsbridge, or Bayswater against Mayfair, are the two clearest cases of the same evening at a visibly lower number.

Both sit a few minutes on the tube from the postcodes they undercut, which makes them the most sensible substitution anywhere on the price map.

High class covers the band above this one, and £150 the one below.