Covent Garden Chauffeur Service

Covent Garden runs from Long Acre and Seven Dials down to the Strand, with the market building and the piazza at its centre and the opera house on Bow Street beside it. It is one of the few parts of central London genuinely busy at every hour, and the theatres along Drury Lane, Aldwych and the Strand keep it that way until well past eleven. Our passengers are mostly here for a performance, dinner beforehand, or both in a tightly timed sequence.

The piazza itself is pedestrianised and the streets around it are narrow, heavily loaded and often blocked by deliveries. Wellington Street, Tavistock Street and Bow Street offer the practical set-downs, and Southampton Street runs down towards the Strand where a car can pull in. On a performance night the streets immediately around the opera house are best avoided at curtain-down, so we position on the Strand or Kingsway side instead. Covent Garden sits inside the congestion charge zone.

What people travel here for is unusually specific: the opera house on Bow Street, the theatres of Drury Lane and the Aldwych, dinner beforehand in the streets around Seven Dials, and the shops of Floral Street, Neal Street and Monmouth Street during the day. Curtain-up is not negotiable, which is why we build the journey backwards from it rather than forwards from your front door, and allow for the Strand behaving badly.

Getting out afterwards is the part that catches people. The Strand and Aldwych clear slowly once a performance ends, so we route east towards the City or north via Kingsway depending on where you are going. Heathrow from Covent Garden is typically 50 to 85 minutes and Gatwick 60 to 100. London City is close, usually 30 to 55 minutes. St Pancras and the Eurostar are ten to twenty minutes north, which suits an early continental departure.