Queensway after The Whiteley
Bayswater has always had two faces: the grand terraces facing the park and the noisy, generous street behind them. Queensway is the street. What has changed is that the building at its top, a department store that stood empty for years, has become the smartest address in W2, with a hotel that runs a spa the size of a small station and apartments that sell to people who could have bought in Knightsbridge. The Queensway escorts we introduce are matched to that mix: polished enough for the new lobby, relaxed enough for the old street, and interested in both.
As with every part of the circle, each companion has been met in person by our team and her photographs verified before she appears here. Introductions are arranged privately, in plain correspondence, and nothing about an evening is shared with a hotel, a restaurant or anyone else.
An evening that starts late and ends later
Queensway keeps later hours than most of central London. The Persian grills and Lebanese rooms along the street serve well past eleven, Westbourne Grove ten minutes north has the more fashionable tables, and the bars inside The Whiteley are built for the hour after dinner rather than before it. That suits a certain kind of evening: a first drink at the hotel around eight, supper at nine or half past, and a walk back along the edge of Kensington Gardens with the park gates locked and the street still bright.
For a different register, the Porchester Centre a few minutes away keeps one of London's last Victorian Turkish baths, and Kensington Gardens itself, entered at Black Lion Gate at the bottom of the street, is the best morning-after walk in the city.
Two registers in one street, and dressing for both
The trick to Queensway is that its two halves want different clothes. The lounge at Six Senses London is a hotel room in the international sense, cool, quiet and lit for people who arrived on a long flight, and a companion dresses for it as she would for Mayfair. The grills two hundred yards down the street are loud, warm and unbothered, and the same dress reads as overdressed by the time the second plate arrives. Our Queensway companions know this and dress for the walk between the two: something that looks right under the hotel's low lamps and equally right at a pavement table at half past ten. Tell us where the evening is likely to end when you enquire and she will arrive ready for it, which is one of the small reasons an evening arranged through a house runs more smoothly than one arranged from a listing.
Queensway escorts, incall and outcall across W2
Introductions here divide between the hotels, Six Senses London and the smaller houses on Inverness Terrace and the park side, and the apartments in The Whiteley and the stucco terraces around it. Hotel evenings begin in the bar; visits to homes begin at the door at the hour agreed, with everything settled in advance. Outcall covers all of W2 between Notting Hill Gate and Paddington, and every companion in the circle visits Queensway by arrangement rather than only those who live nearby.
Incall is by arrangement in central London, a short taxi from Queensway or Bayswater stations; tell us your hours when you enquire and we will say who hosts.
Rates, notice and screening in Queensway
Queensway sits on the same scale as the rest of London: £500 an hour for a first introduction rising to £2,000 for the most requested companions, a few on application, with long evenings and overnights quoted as one figure before you book.
Because the street runs late, same-evening introductions are often possible even when you message us at nine; a few hours' notice is the usual ask. First introductions include a brief screening step, done once and kept private, and members are never screened again.
The park at the bottom of the street
Queensway ends at Black Lion Gate, and through it lies the quietest side of Kensington Gardens: the Italian Gardens to the east, the Round Pond and the palace to the south, and a broad walk under plane trees that is empty at nine in the morning and lovely at seven in the evening in summer. It changes how an evening here can run. Guests staying at The Whiteley sometimes begin with a walk rather than a drink, meeting their companion at the gate and circling the pond before the street lights up behind them. Others keep the park for the morning after, when the cafés by the Serpentine open and a coffee together is the gentlest possible end to a night. A companion who knows W2 will suggest which suits the hour and the weather, and the plan is agreed when you book.
Who comes to Queensway, and how to begin
Guests at Six Senses London who want an evening that stays in the neighbourhood. Residents of The Whiteley and the terraces who prefer good company at home. Visitors to the Middle Eastern restaurants who know the street from another decade and are pleased to find it grown up. All of them are well matched by a companion who is comfortable in more than one register and speaks more than one language; several of ours do.
To begin, send a WhatsApp message with the evening you have in mind, or use the form on our contact page at any hour. Queensway station is on the Central line and Bayswater on the Circle and District, a minute apart on foot, and a taxi from Marble Arch takes seven minutes. We suggest one or two companions who suit the plan, confirm the details privately, and leave the evening to you.