SW3 escorts: a postcode guide to Chelsea and the King's Road

Chelsea is the core: the King's Road, Cheyne Walk, the Royal Hospital and the small hotels around Cadogan Gardens, with three companions living locally. Sloane Square sits on the boundary, the square itself in SW1W and the first stretch of the King's Road in SW3, with the Royal Court and Cadogan Hall a few steps apart.

West of Beaufort Street, the King's Road passes into SW10 towards World's End. Those streets are not in SW3, but they are covered on exactly the same fees.

Inside the code sit the Saatchi Gallery, housed in a former military headquarters off the King's Road, the Chelsea Physic Garden, Carlyle's House on Cheyne Row and the restaurants gathered around Brompton Cross, so a single evening rarely needs to leave it. For a guest who wants dinner, a walk by the river and the short way home, SW3 has all three within a mile.

North of the Fulham Road the code gives way to SW7 around Brompton Cross and Pelham Street, where South Kensington begins. Many guests staying in one code dine in the other; the walk between them takes about ten minutes, past the tiled front of Michelin House.

SW3 sits entirely inside Zones 1 and 2, so no travel is ever added. A standard hotel or residence booking in SW3 waits on a 25 percent deposit by bank transfer, and the balance follows at the door in cash, or afterwards by transfer. Overnights, events and travel bookings ask for half ahead, and the travel element of that is non-refundable. Fees run from one hour at £250 to the ten hour overnight at £1,800, all listed on the rates page. Cancellation is free with three hours' notice or more.

Cindy, Michelle and Stacy all live in Chelsea, so SW3 bookings are among the quickest on the map, normally within the hour and frequently sooner. The rest of the gallery covers the code on identical terms.