Tina, companion in Covent Garden

Maiden Lane is barely a street and Tina has spent a good deal of her life on it. She is 158 cm, the smallest woman on this list and the one with the most stamina, with an athletic build, espresso brown hair worn long and brown eyes. At 26 she is brisk, funny and practically impossible to tire out.

Her English is fluent and rapid fire. She runs, boxes at a gym off Drury Lane twice a week, and is the only name here who will genuinely suggest a walk at midnight and mean it. She is straightforward company: she asks what you want rather than guessing at it, and she takes a plain answer as a compliment rather than a slight. She is also the most practical person on this list. She will tell you the real walking time, order the second bottle before you ask, and find a table where there are none.

Rules on Maiden Lane is her recommendation, the oldest dining room in London and the one she takes people to when they claim to have seen everything. Afterwards the Strand hotels are four minutes away, the Aldwych ones six, and the walk into Soho is ten if the night is still young. Covent Garden is home, so the gap between a confirmed booking and her arrival is usually the time it takes you to change your shirt. She knows which WC2 kitchens still take a booking at half past ten and which give up at nine.

Her district page is Covent Garden. Every duration is priced under rates. One booking message with a hotel, and Romilly will tell you exactly how quickly she can be at it.

Tina is the fastest arrival in WC2 and often at the door within twenty minutes of a confirmation. Give Romilly the hotel and the hour and he will tell you exactly how fast.

Every figure she works to is on the board of rates, and the rest is one message away.

Tina does not run out of evening. A drink at seven, dinner at eight in a room with a hundred and fifty years of paint on the walls, and she is still the most awake person at the table at one in the morning. She talks fast, laughs faster, and has a running commentary on Covent Garden that is worth the booking on its own.

What surprises guests is the walk. She will take you out at midnight, across the empty piazza, down to the river and back, and it will turn out to be the part of the night you remember. Afterwards she is content with a quiet hour and a closed door, and she keeps to the finishing time exactly, cheerfully, without ever making it feel abrupt.