Most of what goes wrong with a booking goes wrong before it starts, and almost all of it is avoidable. People contact an agency without having decided what they actually want, leave out the one detail that matters, or leave it far too late on a Saturday in July. None of this is complicated; it simply is not obvious the first time.
This guide walks through the whole process in order: what to decide before you make contact, what we will ask you, why verification exists, what happens on the day, and the mistakes that come up most often.
This is the first fork and everything else follows from it. Outcall means a companion travels to you — your hotel, your apartment, a villa. Incall means you travel to a private apartment kept for appointments. If you are a visitor staying in a hotel, outcall is almost always simpler. If you live in Athens, or you are staying somewhere you cannot receive anyone, incall is the answer. Full detail on both: outcall and incall apartments.
Be realistic rather than economical. One hour is genuinely one hour and it goes quickly. Two hours is the most commonly booked duration in Athens because it allows a conversation, a drink and no clock-watching. If dinner is involved, or you are on the Riviera or near the airport where travel eats into the evening, book longer from the start. Extending an appointment midway through is often impossible, because your companion may have a later commitment.
Before you message, know: where you are (hotel name and room number, or full address with floor and buzzer), when you want to start, and how long for. Having these to hand turns a booking into a two-message exchange instead of a twenty-minute one, which matters most when you are trying to arrange something for the same evening.
Contact us directly with the details above. A clear opening message — where, when, how long, and any companion you have in mind — gets a fast, specific answer. A message that says only “hi” gets a slower one, because we have to ask you everything anyway.
For an outcall booking: the hotel name and room number or the full address, a name to give at the door if reception asks, a contactable phone number, and the start time and duration. For incall: a phone number and the start time and duration. That is the whole list. We do not ask for identity documents, employers, or anything you would reasonably object to giving.
Once availability is checked, we confirm the companion, the start time, the duration and the total — including any travel supplement — before you commit. Nothing is added afterwards. If you are told a price on booking and a different one on arrival, you are not dealing with a serious agency.
Two directions. On the companion side, we verify identity and age and check that photographs are genuinely of the person and genuinely current, and we re-check over time rather than once at sign-up. Our verification page explains this in detail. On the client side, we confirm a booking is real by asking for a contactable number and a proper address — this exists so that someone travelling across Athens at eleven at night is going somewhere that exists.
We do not keep client records after a booking is complete, we do not build lists, and we do not contact you afterwards unless you have asked us to. Our discretion page sets out the practice in full.
You will be given an arrival window rather than an exact minute, because Athens traffic makes precision dishonest. In the centre that window is typically thirty to forty-five minutes from confirmation. Further out — the Riviera, Kifisia, the airport — it is longer. If your plans change, tell us as early as you can; a start time moved in advance is trivial, a start time moved on the doorstep is not.
Payment is made at the beginning of the appointment, discreetly and without discussion. This is the universal convention and it exists so that the subject is closed and the rest of the time is not about money. Methods and deposits are covered on our rates and payment guide.
Plans change and we would far rather know. Cancel or move a booking with reasonable notice and there is no difficulty. Cancelling at the door, after a companion has crossed the city, is a different matter and is treated as such. Repeated late cancellations end the relationship.
The single most common one. Same-evening bookings in central Athens are usually fine, but on a summer Saturday on the Riviera, or anywhere near the airport, late notice means taking whoever is available rather than choosing. If you know your plans on Tuesday, book on Tuesday.
“A hotel near the Acropolis” is not an address. Athens has hundreds of them. Give the property name and the room number, or the street, number, floor and buzzer. Every minute of vagueness at the booking stage becomes five minutes of confusion at the door.
Anything you want to be part of the arrangement should be raised when you book, calmly and directly, so that it can be agreed or declined between adults in advance. What does not work — and what will end an appointment — is raising it for the first time once it has started. Our etiquette guide covers this properly.
You land at Athens airport at six in the evening on a Thursday, check into a hotel near Syntagma by half past seven, and have a free evening. You would like dinner and company, and you have not booked anything.
Message us from the airport, not from the hotel. Say: Syntagma, hotel name to follow, start at nine, three hours, dinner included, and ask for a restaurant suggestion. By the time you have checked in, you will have a confirmed companion, a confirmed total including any supplement, and a table somewhere that actually has one. Three hours covers a nine o’clock table — Athens does not eat earlier — and the rest of the evening without a schedule.
Do not message at half past eight asking for someone at nine, on a Thursday, with dinner. Central Athens can often absorb short notice, but restaurants at that hour cannot, and you will spend the evening taking whatever was left rather than choosing. The message costs nothing to send two hours earlier.
If you are in Athens for several nights and want the same companion more than once, say so at the first booking. Availability across consecutive evenings can be held, but only if we know it is coming; discovering on Friday that you would like Saturday too is a much weaker position.
Anything involving a restaurant, an event or a specific venue needs at least a day, and more at weekends or in high season. The constraint is usually the venue rather than us. See our dinner date page.
The Riviera in summer and the airport area at any time both need more notice than central Athens, because the travel has to be built into someone’s schedule rather than improvised. A day is comfortable; two hours is optimistic.
These carry the most commitment on both sides and need the most notice — days rather than hours. They may involve a deposit, and the hours are agreed explicitly rather than assumed. See the overnight page and our travel companion page.
In central Athens, a few hours is generally enough. For a specific companion, a specific evening, a dinner date, or anything on the Riviera in summer or near the airport, give a day. The earlier you book, the more genuine choice you have.
Your location in full, a contactable phone number, a name for the door if it is a hotel, and the start time and duration. Nothing beyond that. It is the minimum required to make a booking work and it is not retained afterwards.
Look for the verified badge, check that the photographs are consistent with each other in build and features rather than only in styling, and be sceptical of any rate that is far below the market. Our verification guide explains what the badge actually means and how to read a profile.
Tell us as soon as you know. With reasonable notice there is no issue at all. Late cancellations, particularly after a companion has begun travelling to you, are treated differently — which is only fair, given the journey.
Yes, provided the person the booking is for knows about it and is contactable on the day. What does not work is a booking arranged as a surprise for someone who has not agreed to it. We need to reach the actual guest to confirm details and timing.
Give complete information the first time you message: where you are, when you want to start, and how long for. That one habit removes most of what goes wrong — vague addresses, missed arrival windows and rushed evenings all trace back to an incomplete first message.