Karina

She lives in the Centrum, twenty-five years old and blonde, close to the canal ring that brings so many first-time visitors to Amsterdam in the first place. Guests who landed that afternoon and booked a room near the runways without checking the distance are familiar to her. Of her three languages, English carries the bulk of her working week, with Russian and Latvian ready whenever a guest reaches for them. Nuru is the format she is known for, which needs a proper shower, so she asks about the bathroom before agreeing to it. What happens in a session stays her call from start to finish. Any journey out to Schiphol is arranged in advance, with its length agreed first.

Karina 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.