Around TownW1U · W1GPlatform to lobby: 4 min from Baker Street
Marylebone escorts, W1U and W1G, for the village north of the shops
Walk five minutes north from Oxford Street and the noise drops by half. Marylebone keeps a real high street, independent and slightly bookish, with a cheesemonger, a butcher, a bookshop with an oak gallery and a church at the top. Around it are Georgian terraces, red brick mansion blocks, the consulting rooms of Harley Street and a handful of hotels that feel more like private houses than hotels.
Of all the districts with a page on this site, it is the one where members of our list actually live, so bookings here are among our fastest to arrange, and the evenings among the calmest.
Stations and lit lobbies
Walking minutes from the nearest platforms, and the hotels around Marylebone worth knowing by name. They are listed as landmarks, never as partners: any reputable hotel, serviced apartment or private address is welcome.
Nearest stations
- Baker StreetBakerloo, Circle, Hammersmith and City, Jubilee, Metropolitan4 min walk
- Bond StreetCentral, Jubilee, Elizabeth line6 min walk
- Regent's ParkBakerloo7 min walk
- MaryleboneBakerloo, National Rail8 min walk
Hotels as landmarks
- Chiltern FirehouseMarylebone · W1U 7PA
- The LanghamMarylebone · W1B 1JA
- The MaryleboneMarylebone · W1G 8DN
- The Zetter Townhouse MaryleboneMarylebone · W1H 7JB
- Dorset Square HotelMarylebone · NW1 6QN
- The Landmark LondonMarylebone · NW1 6JQ
Who comes to Marylebone
Companions whose home districts sit nearest to Marylebone, so the ride over is short. Everyone in The Selection travels here on request.
Liana
Age 28Marylebone
Rosa
Age 25Marylebone
Luna
Age 22Mayfair
Samanta
Age 27Mayfair
Angelika
Age 24Mayfair
Jasmin
Age 22Soho
Molly
Age 24Soho
Tiffany
Age 24Soho
Two postcodes, one village
W1U takes in the high street, Marylebone Lane, Chiltern Street and the squares around Manchester Square and Portman Square. W1G runs east through Harley Street, Wimpole Street and Welbeck Street towards Portland Place. Between them sit the Wallace Collection in Hertford House, Wigmore Hall with its Edwardian concert room, and, on Sunday mornings, the farmers' market in the car park behind the high street.
People choose Marylebone for its pace. Dinner here is rarely hurried, a walk afterwards is pleasant at any hour, and the hotels are small enough that the night porter remembers your name by the second evening.
From a fire station to a railway palace
Chiltern Firehouse turned a Victorian fire station on Chiltern Street into a restaurant with a small number of rooms above it; for many visitors it is the first name that comes to mind here. The Langham, at the south-eastern corner of the district, is the grand choice, and its Palm Court still serves afternoon tea beneath the chandeliers. The Marylebone, on Welbeck Street, is a modern hotel with a lively bar a few minutes from the high street. The Zetter Townhouse Marylebone, on Seymour Street, is a Georgian house full of portraits and curiosities, with Seymour's Parlour on its ground floor.
Further north towards the park, Dorset Square Hotel is a Regency townhouse on the square where Thomas Lord laid out his first cricket ground, and The Landmark London, opposite Marylebone station, gathers its rooms around a glass-roofed atrium eight storeys high, with palms at the bottom. Guests book rooms in all six, which is the only reason they are named; none of them has any deal with us, and a private flat or a serviced apartment is just as welcome.
Walking minutes to the platforms
Baker Street, four minutes from the top of the high street, is the big interchange, with five lines. Bond Street, six minutes from the southern end, adds the Elizabeth and Jubilee lines. Regent's Park, on the Bakerloo line, is seven minutes from the northern streets, and Marylebone station, eight minutes away, serves both the Bakerloo line and the Chiltern trains from Oxford and Birmingham. Plenty of bookings here need no train at all, because the two companions who live in the district simply walk over.
How a booking in the village runs
A Marylebone booking starts with a short note to Clementine: the hotel or the street, your preferred hour and the length of the evening. She answers with a name and a price, then asks once, and only once, to confirm whose name the room is in, the building and the room or flat. If Rosa or Liana is free, the walk to you is a matter of minutes; anyone travelling in from further away usually arrives before an hour is out. Staying in a private house? The street and door number simply replace the room. Your companion is paid by you, in person, on arrival. The village is priced like everywhere else on this site: £250 opens an hour, £1,800 covers ten hours overnight, and the rates page shows every step between.
A slow evening up the high street
Early evening, the shops are still open and the light is soft on the brick. Meet at your hotel, then walk north past Daunt Books and its long skylit gallery, stopping wherever a window catches her eye. Dinner might be the single-dish steak supper at Le Relais de Venise, a few steps off the high street, or a table at the Firehouse if you reserved well ahead. Afterwards, a quiet loop through Manchester Square, dark behind its railings, and back to a hotel bar that closes when its last guest decides. Four hours covers it without a glance at the clock: the dinner date is £900.
Two who live here, and regular visitors
Rosa and Liana are both based in Marylebone. Rosa's ideal afternoon never leaves her own streets: cheese on Moxon Street, a gallery with a single room, then supper somewhere small. Liana prefers an early turn through the rose beds of Regent's Park before dinner. Of the regular visitors, Patricia comes up from Belgravia for the Wallace Collection, Vanessa from Paddington for Daunt Books, Milena from South Kensington for dinner at Chiltern Firehouse, and Karolina from Covent Garden for recitals at Wigmore Hall.
The edges of the village
Baker Street marks the western edge with its five-line station. Regent's Park begins where the high street runs out. Great Portland Street lies east, beyond Portland Place. Marble Arch is the south-western corner by the park, and Oxford Street forms the southern boundary, five minutes on foot from almost anywhere in the district.
Marylebone, asked
Perfectly. Give us the building, the flat number and whether a porter will expect a visitor. Homes are booked at the same rates as hotel rooms.
Rosa and Liana both live in the district, so a same-evening booking with either can be very quick. Ask for one of them by name, or ask Clementine who is closest tonight.
All six named on this page: Chiltern Firehouse, The Langham, The Marylebone and The Zetter Townhouse, and nearer the park Dorset Square Hotel and The Landmark. Any other hotel in W1U or W1G is equally fine.
Of course. Tell us which restaurant, what time and whose name holds the booking; she gives that name at the door and is shown to you. The bill for the meal is yours.
A very good one. The desk answers all week, and a Marylebone Sunday is gentle: the farmers' market in the morning, a long lunch, a quiet evening.
Read before you go
- 5 min readFront doors on a Georgian terrace: the small hotels of MaryleboneGeorgian terraces turned into small hotels, where a knock on the door feels like calling at a private address. Three to know, what sets them apart, and how an evening visit works.
- 5 min readDinner in Marylebone village, ten steps north of the West EndMarylebone Lane still follows the bends of a buried river. The village kitchens along it and up the High Street, how to choose one for a date, and how the evening is timed.
Lights on in Marylebone
Write the hotel or street in Marylebone, the time and how long. Inside Zones 1 and 2 the ride over costs nothing.