Marina

02 Who arrives

Marina, and how she works.

Hospitality in her hands is practical rather than a mood, water poured, curtains adjusted, the two of you settled before anything begins. She likes the symmetry of couples work, two people reaching the same calm by slightly different routes, and she and her partner for the evening hold one pace from the first minute. Oud-Zuid is her neighbourhood and she knows which buildings have a lift and which have the staircase. English is her only language, and she is warm in it without any of the warmth switched on for the occasion.

Marina decides which bookings she takes and may decline any of them; she sets the limits for what a session includes, says what they are, and may end a visit at any point, as the terms set out.

She works outcall only, your hotel room, your serviced apartment, your own flat. Forty to sixty minutes across the centre once the booking is settled, at any hour. Schiphol airport hotels are by arrangement.