Rolls-Royce Phantom
3 passengers · 2 large cases
Hourly Hire
Chauffeur by the Hour, With the Car Kept Beside You
Hourly hire is the answer whenever the day has more than two stops and no reliable sense of when each one will end.
Quoted individually. Share the outline and we reply with a written price — no rate card, no obligation.
- Coverage
- London & the whole UK
- Vehicles
- Saloon to Rolls-Royce
- Availability
- Day and night, year round
- Pricing
- Quoted individually
You reserve the chauffeur and the vehicle for a block of time, and within that block the itinerary is yours to change. Add a stop, drop one, sit in the car for twenty minutes to finish a call before going in. There is no per-journey charge accumulating in the background and no negotiation about whether an extra address counts as a new booking.
The car staying with you is the practical benefit. Shopping goes into the boot rather than around your wrists. An umbrella lives in the door. Between an appointment in Marylebone and dinner in Chelsea you have somewhere warm and quiet to sit rather than an hour to fill in a hotel lobby. In London weather, that alone tends to justify the arrangement.
Most hourly bookings carry a minimum duration, which we confirm in writing when we quote, and additional hours can usually be added on the day if the evening runs long. Where a booking is going to take you well outside the city, we will normally suggest a full-day rate instead and tell you plainly which works out better.
It suits medical appointments, viewings, a day of meetings, a theatre evening, a wedding party moving between two venues, and any occasion where the honest answer to how long you will be is that you genuinely do not know yet. It is also the arrangement we suggest most often to people who have never used a chauffeur before, because it is the easiest to judge: book three hours, see how the afternoon goes, and extend if it suits.
Why Luxury Chauffeurs
Why Clients Choose Us for Chauffeur by the Hour
01
Measured clearly
The block runs from your first collection to your final drop, and the start time and duration are confirmed in writing before you commit to anything.
02
Advice on hours
We will tell you if three hours is not enough for the afternoon you have described, because an under-booked block is the one thing that spoils this arrangement.
03
A choice of vehicle
The same hourly block can be taken in a saloon, a people carrier or something considerably grander, and we will say which suits the afternoon you have planned.
04
Mileage made clear
Hourly bookings usually carry a mileage allowance, and we set out what it is at the quotation stage rather than mentioning it afterwards if the day ranges further.
At a Glance
Chauffeur by the Hour
Change as you go
Stops can be added, dropped or reordered inside your booked block without renegotiating the arrangement.
Somewhere to wait
A warm, quiet cabin between appointments beats a hotel lobby and costs you nothing extra in an hourly booking.
Extend on the night
Additional hours can usually be added while you are out, subject to the chauffeur's availability and driving hours.
Local Knowledge
Judging how many hours
Estimating is the skill, and most people underestimate. Count the time inside each appointment, add the driving between them, then add a third. London traffic and the walk from a legal stopping place to an actual front door absorb far more of an afternoon than anyone expects. If you finish early, you simply finish early; if you run out of booked time in the middle of a schedule, the whole thing becomes awkward.
Hourly hire assumes you stay within a broad area, and most bookings carry a mileage allowance to reflect that. Three hours spent moving between Chelsea, the City and Marylebone uses almost no distance. Three hours that includes a run to Windsor and back uses a great deal, and is usually better quoted as a half day. Describe roughly where the afternoon will range, not only how long it will last, and the quotation will be the right shape from the start.
Work out the comparison honestly. Two point-to-point journeys are usually the cheaper answer; four are usually not, once each one carries its own waiting and its own arrival. Somewhere around the third stop the arithmetic turns, and it turns sooner when the gaps between stops are short. One last practical point: the block starts at the time you booked, not the time you come downstairs, so build your own getting-ready into it.
Ways to Travel
Chauffeur Services
Every service is available on this page's journeys. Each has its own detail, timing and pricing basis.
Luxury Vehicles
Choose Your Chauffeur Driven Car
From an executive saloon to a Rolls-Royce. Model, colour and specification are subject to availability and booking confirmation.
Rolls-Royce Cullinan
4 passengers · 3 large cases
Rolls-Royce Ghost
3 passengers · 2 large cases
Land Rover Defender
5 passengers · 4 large cases
Mercedes-Benz E-Class
3 passengers · 2 large cases
Mercedes-Maybach
3 passengers · 2 large cases
Mercedes-Benz S-Class
3 passengers · 2 large cases
BMW i7
3 passengers · 2 large cases
Four Steps
How Booking Works
Chauffeur booking with us is a conversation rather than a checkout. Every journey is priced individually.
01
Tell us the journey
Send the date, the addresses and the shape of the day on WhatsApp, or use the journey planner. There is no obligation and no card details are taken to get a price.
02
We quote in writing
You receive a written quotation covering the vehicle, the timings and everything included — no estimates that move later, and no surge pricing.
03
The car is held
On confirmation a vehicle and a named professional chauffeur are assigned to your date, and the terms are put in writing.
04
Your chauffeur arrives
Briefed on the route, the access and the waiting arrangements before the day, so nothing is decided at the kerb.
Included as Standard
What Every Chauffeur by the Hour Booking Includes
Quoted as one price. No hidden extras added at the end of the journey.
- A block of time reserved in your name
- Start time and duration confirmed in writing
- A stated mileage allowance for the booked hours
- Unlimited stops and reordering within your block
- Shopping, coats and cases kept in the locked boot
- An umbrella carried to the door in bad weather
- Additional hours quoted before they are added
- Parking and waiting arranged legally at every stop
Hourly hire is the answer whenever the day has more than two stops and no reliable sense of when each one will end.
Corporate & Business
Hourly hire for work
A morning of back-to-back meetings in one city is the classic case for booking a chauffeur by the hour. Four addresses within a couple of miles of each other produce a great deal of stopping and very little driving, which is exactly the pattern that separate transfers handle badly. The car becomes the place you sit between them, which is worth more than the driving itself.
For companies it is also the simplest thing to approve. One block of hours, quoted once, invoiced once, with a reference on it, instead of a scattering of individual journeys that have to be matched up afterwards. Where a visitor is being hosted for a day, an hourly booking lets whoever is looking after them change the plan without going back to the office for permission each time.
Who We Drive
Who Travels with Us for Chauffeur by the Hour
Afternoons of appointments
Anyone with a clinic visit, a fitting and a school pickup in the same afternoon, where the only certainty is that none of them will finish on time.
Property viewings
Buyers and agents seeing four flats across three postcodes, with a car to sit in between them and somewhere to leave the paperwork.
Visitors with a list
Guests in London for two days who want to see a great deal, stop when something looks interesting, and not think about the Underground at all.
Evenings out
Couples and small groups going to dinner, then on somewhere else, who would like the decision about how to get home made several hours in advance.
Events & Occasions
Evenings, ceremonies and celebrations
Hourly hire suits the occasions that have a beginning but no reliable end. A christening lunch that turns into an afternoon, a birthday dinner that moves on somewhere, a milestone anniversary where the older guests want to leave early and everyone else does not. Two blocks in one evening, one for the arrival and one later for the departures, is a common and sensible way to arrange it.
It also works for the parts of an occasion nobody plans. Somewhere for a bride to sit before the photographs, a warm car for grandparents while the group is still on the church steps, or a discreet exit for someone who has had enough of a party. Tell us who is likely to need the car and when, and the chauffeur will know without anybody having to explain on the night.
Airports
Airport Chauffeur Connections
Met in arrivals with a name board, luggage carried, and departures planned around your check-in.
Popular Journeys
Long Distance and Intercity Journeys
Quoted door to door as a single movement, including the return leg and any waiting in between.
- 01London to ManchesterTypically 4 to 5 hours by road, depending on traffic
- 02London to BirminghamTypically 2 hours 30 to 3 hours 30 by road, depending on traffic
- 03London to OxfordTypically 1 hour 30 to 2 hours by road, depending on traffic
- 04London to CambridgeTypically 1 hour 30 to 2 hours by road, depending on traffic
- 05London to BathTypically 2 hours 30 to 3 hours 30 by road, depending on traffic
- 06London to BristolTypically 2 hours 30 to 3 hours 30 by road, depending on traffic
- 07London to the CotswoldsTypically 2 to 3 hours by road, depending on traffic
- 08London to SouthamptonTypically 2 to 2 hours 30 by road, depending on traffic
Timing & Availability
Short notice and busy evenings
Daytime hourly bookings are among the easiest things to arrange quickly, and a weekday afternoon can often be covered within a few hours of asking. Evenings are a different matter. Between six and eight, and again around eleven, demand across London concentrates sharply, so a booking that spans both ends of an evening should be placed several days ahead rather than on the day.
December is the month to plan for. Party season fills weekday evenings as thoroughly as weekends, and the fortnight before Christmas is the hardest time of year to add hours at short notice. The same applies to the evenings around major matches, awards ceremonies and West End first nights. Where an evening is likely to run long, reserving the extra hour at the outset costs less trouble than trying to find it at midnight.
Professional Chauffeur Standards
The Standard We Hold
What a premium chauffeur service should mean in practice, rather than in a brochure.
Vetted professional chauffeurs
Every chauffeur is licensed, insured and vetted before they drive for us. They are briefed on your journey in advance and dressed for the occasion.
Discretion by default
Vehicles carry no branding. Your chauffeur speaks when spoken to, and what is discussed in the back of the car stays there.
Immaculate vehicles
Current-generation cars, valeted before every journey, with still water and charging in the rear compartment.
One point of contact
The same person handles your enquiry, your quotation and your booking, so nothing is explained twice.
Where We Travel
Nationwide Chauffeur Service
London is where most of our work begins, but a chauffeur can be arranged to and from any address in the United Kingdom.
Get a Quote
Request a Personalised Quotation
Every journey is priced individually against distance, duration, vehicle and timing. Send the outline and we will reply with a written quotation.
Frequently Asked
Chauffeur by the Hour — your questions
Yes, and it varies by vehicle, date and location. We confirm the minimum in writing with your quotation before you commit, so there is never an unexpected condition attached after the fact.
Message your chauffeur while you are out. We can usually extend, though it depends on his onward commitments and legal driving hours. Booking a little more time than you expect to need is the safer approach.
Yes. Within your booked block, waiting is simply part of the time you have reserved. That is precisely why hourly hire suits days with unpredictable finish times better than separate point-to-point transfers.
You can, and it works well in any city. For journeys that range widely across the country we will usually recommend a full-day booking instead and explain which of the two suits your route better.
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Coverage
London & the whole UK
Quoted individually, in writing, before anything is confirmed.
Arrange Your Chauffeur
Where Will Your Next Journey Take You?
Tell us the date, the destination and the mood of the day. We will reply with a written quotation and a chauffeur assigned to you.