Karolina, companion in Maidenhead
Tall, slim, black haired, reliably the best informed person about what is on this week.
- Age27
- Leaves fromMaidenhead SL6
- An hour opens at£250
- ArrivesHotels and private addresses, outcall only
- On file met in person by the desk06 of 28
- Height174 cm
- Hairlong, straight black
- Eyesbrown
- Figureslim
- LanguagesEnglish
About Karolina
Karolina keeps her own counsel until she has decided about you, and then she is excellent company. She is 174 cm and slim, with the upright carriage of someone who was told to stand straight as a child and never stopped. Long black hair, straight, worn loose. Brown eyes, watchful. Her clothes are exact rather than showy: a clean line, dark colours, one piece of silver, and a coat that looks better than it cost.
Late twenties, English, careful with words and quietly funny with them. She goes to things: plays, recitals, small gigs in rooms above pubs, and she will have read something about it beforehand. She has opinions about staging and she does not volunteer them unless asked, at which point you get all of them. She is a good listener, which is rarer in this line than it should be.
Maidenhead suits her because Norden Farm Centre for the Arts on Altwood Road puts something decent on most nights of the week, and an early show there leaves the whole evening still ahead of you. It is a ten minute drive from the station and a short one from the Shoppenhangers Road hotels. She lives in Covent Garden, so the Elizabeth line runs her straight out, about fifty minutes to Maidenhead, and the last train back towards London is later than most people assume.
Maidenhead carries her dates and the rooms she likes playing to. Her hour opens at £250, the fuller list lives on rates, and booking would rather have a week than a single day.
- 174 cm, slim
- Long black hair, straight; brown eyes
- Late twenties, English
- Keeps: small theatres, recitals, reading about a play before seeing it
- Lives in Covent Garden, straight out on the Elizabeth line
Booking her
If there is something on that Karolina wants to see she will say so, and an evening built around a show needs three hours rather than two. Give Etta the date early and she will check what is playing.
Her figures are the figures every companion here works to, printed in full on the rates page, and the order a booking runs in is set out on the booking page.
- One hour, from£250
- Ninety minutes£400
- Two hours£500
- Three hours£700
- Dinner date, four hours£900
- Overnight, ten hours£1,800
- A weekendPOA
- The travel and cancellation lines sit on the rates page.
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An evening with Karolina
The show is the frame, not the point. Karolina gets there early enough for a drink in the bar, where she will tell you exactly enough about what you are about to watch and then stop. During it she is completely still. Afterwards is when the evening really begins: she has thoughts, she wants yours, and she is genuinely interested in whether you liked it rather than whether you agreed with her. Dinner runs late from there, or you go back to the hotel and keep talking in the bar, which is often better. Maidenhead is not a late town, so she plans the food before the curtain rather than after. She is warm once the guard is down, and the guard comes down quickly with anyone who pays attention.
Karolina, three questions
01Why a show first?
Because then we have something to argue about. It saves both of us from the first half hour of polite questions.
02How late does Maidenhead stay open?
Not very, by London standards. Eat before ten or eat in the hotel. There is no third option worth taking.
03Do you mind if a guest hated it?
I prefer it. Somebody who hated it has actually watched it. Polite agreement tells me nothing at all. If a table goes quiet I ask which scene they would cut, and it never stays quiet.