Charlotte

Charlotte keeps a flat in Oud-Zuid and has done enough airport bookings to know that the tired traveller rarely wants conversation. She arrives, confirms the time you must leave the room, sets a phone timer where you can see it, and stops talking. Body to body is a format she likes when a guest has a shower and a spare hour, and a four-hand booking can be arranged through the house when the gap between flights allows it. Twenty-seven, blonde, a single working language, and a firm view that the departure time outranks everything else in the room.

Charlotte 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.