Longer pieces on the hours themselves. Each one takes a stretch of the night apart, says what narrows and what holds, and ends with the questions that stretch actually attracts.
The message first, then the hour, then the room, the payment and the harder cases. Each file closes on the questions its readers sent back.
Three in the morning is the quietest hour this city has and one of the most straightforward to book into. This guide sets out what genuinely changes at that hour, what does not change at all, and how to arrange a session so the hour works for you rather than against you.
Somewhere around four the night stops behaving like a night. This guide covers the stretch from four in the morning until seven, the two entirely different guests who book into it, and why the same session works differently depending on which of them you are.
The overnight is the most misread format on the list. It is a block of eight hours rather than a session of eight hours, and this guide sets out what it contains, what it costs, who it suits and how to place it against the morning that follows.
Some guests are not up late. They are simply awake, on a clock that belongs somewhere else or to a job that runs while the city sleeps. This guide is for them, and the advice it gives is the opposite of the advice for a long evening.
The question arrives most nights in some form: is it too late. The short answer is that no hour is too late, and the useful answer is that two specific things narrow as the night goes on, neither of which is the one people worry about.
Two lines settle it: where the room is, and what time you want someone at the door. The answer comes back with a name, an arrival window and the whole figure, whatever the clock says.