£300 / hour Anouk
Two hours is her true session. Book one and she'll think you stopped at the interval.
Anouk holds one unfashionable opinion and works by it: sixty minutes is a preview. Book her for an hour and you'll get good work and a faint sense that she thinks you left at the interval. Book two, and you meet the thing her whole approach is built for — a first hour that takes the week apart, and a second that does something better with the quiet left behind.
Time behaves strangely in her room. Guests swear the second hour runs shorter than the first, and they mean it as praise. Her lingam work sits inside that long arc rather than on top of it — unrushed, one part of the whole rather than the point of it — and her regulars keep reaching for the same word about her, which is patient. One told me the second hour rearranged his opinion of everything he'd been buying elsewhere.
She's a poor match for a lunch break, and a poor match for dipping a toe in — Yana is the kinder first door, and I'll say so if you ask. Anouk is for when you already know you like this work and want the ceiling of it. Long session or short, the frame holds — massage, and no touching her — and the price quoted is the price paid — £300 the hour, twice over for two.
The second hour is the one you're paying for. Took me two visits to understand that sentence.
When you can get her
- A two-hour session starts by nine at the latest, so it ends by eleven.
- Weekday evenings from six are her core diary.
- Ninety minutes she accepts. Sixty she accepts with an eyebrow.
- Couples take her long format well — think four days out for a weekend.
She'll take a ninety, and quietly think you should have stayed longer.
What she is booked for
Asking for Anouk
Two hours seems a long time to be lying there. Is it honestly not too much for a normal person?
The worry evaporates somewhere around minute seventy — that's her regulars talking, not me. If you're torn, book ninety as the compromise. She'd rather that than a rushed sixty.
Does the two hour one just cost double?
Yes — £600, stated before you confirm and unchanged after. Her rate twice over, not a package.
She also travels
MaryleboneBayswaterEdgware RoadEarl's CourtCamdenWestminsterSohoCovent GardenMayfairOxford Circus every area
The others
£350 / hour Elise
Books out first, week in, week out. If it's Friday you want, ask on Monday.
£300 / hour Noor
Runs the nuru side and won't start until the mat's properly warm. Quite right too.
£350 / hour Verity
Says the least of anyone in the building. Several regulars book her for exactly that.
£350 / hour Ines
If there are two of you, hers is the first name to consider.
£300 / hour Marta
The slowest hands in the house, and every bit of it deliberate.
£300 / hour Lena
Half her diary happens in hotels, and none of it rattles her.
£250 / hour Sofia
The strong pair of hands. Ask twice for firmer and firmer is what you'll get.
£300 / hour Camille
The constant half of most four hands bookings — she's what keeps two rhythms in time.
Book Anouk
Name her in the message with a day and a time. If she is taken we will say so rather than quietly booking you with someone else.