Michelle, companion in Hounslow Central

Some guests want an airport hotel and some want a town, and the ones who want a town end up in Hounslow with Michelle. She is 173 cm and curvy, dark brown hair long and straight, eyes brown, and she wears the sort of coat that makes a Lampton Road lobby look better than it is. Late twenties. Chelsea is home, and the run out here on the A4 takes her about forty minutes on a weeknight.

Warmth is her obvious quality and she does not ration it. She is interested in what people do, particularly the engineers and project managers who fill the hotels out here for weeks at a time, and she can hold a conversation about a job she has never done without pretending to understand it. English, spoken easily. She laughs a lot and is very hard to embarrass.

The larger hotel on Lampton Road is her usual, two minutes from Hounslow Central station and a straight fifteen minute run down the Piccadilly line to the central terminals. That combination is the point of Hounslow: you get a town with a high street, restaurants that are open past nine, and an airport close enough to be convenient rather than oppressive. On Friday and Saturday the trains keep going through the night, which changes how an evening here can end.

TW3 and the streets around it are covered on Hounslow Central. Tell the desk the hotel, the night and whether you want dinner out or in, and she will book accordingly. Rates has every duration.

Hounslow is the one place on this side of the airport where going out is genuinely worth it, and she makes the most of that. The high street does South Asian food better than most of central London and it is still busy at ten. She will pick somewhere, walk you there in under fifteen minutes, and order more than you meant to eat.

Afterwards it is a short walk back to Lampton Road with the traffic thinning and the last aircraft going over towards the airport. She is unhurried about the rest of the evening. If you would rather skip the restaurant entirely she is just as content with a table in the hotel and a long conversation about what you are doing out here in the first place.