Why we ask who you are
The question that puts people off before they have started. It takes a few minutes, it is standard at every agency worth using, and here is exactly what it involves.
A companion walking into a hotel room is stepping into a stranger’s space, alone, often in a city that is not hers. An agency that does not know who that stranger is has decided her safety is not its problem.
That is the whole reason. Everything below is detail.
What we ask
For a first booking, enough to establish that you are a real person with a real reason to be there. In practice that is one of:
- A work or professional reference — a company email, a LinkedIn profile, a business card. Nothing is contacted; we are confirming you exist.
- A prior reference from another agency or an independent companion you have seen. One message from them is usually enough.
- Hotel confirmation for the booking, in your name.
One of those, not all three. If none fit your situation, tell us and we will find something that works — including a larger deposit instead.
What we do not ask
- Photographs of your ID or passport
- Your home address
- Anything that could identify you to a third party
- Explanations about your personal life
If any service asks for a passport scan, walk away. That is identity theft with a plausible cover story, and no legitimate agency needs it.
What happens to it afterwards
Verification is a yes or no. Once it is yes, we keep the minimum required to arrange bookings — how to reach you, and that you are cleared. The underlying material is not stored, not shared, and not passed to any third party.
We do not keep lists, we do not send newsletters, and we have nothing to sell to anybody.
Why this protects you too
The screening runs both ways, though it is less obvious.
An agency that checks clients is an agency with a real relationship with its companions — it answers to them. That same agency is the one that will not send you someone other than the person you agreed on, because the companion would never work with them again.
Put plainly: the places that do not ask who you are will not tell you the truth about who is coming. The two go together far more often than not.
After the first time
Screening happens once. From the second booking onwards nothing is asked again, and arrangements take a message or two.
If you would rather not
That is a legitimate position, and there are plenty of services that will take your booking without a question. We are not one of them, and we would rather say so now than waste your evening.
If the concern is specifically privacy rather than the principle, say that. It is usually solvable — a deposit, a reference from someone we already know, or a first meeting somewhere public.