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ARSouth East England · West Sussex
Chichester has a Roman street plan with a pedestrian crossing at the centre, and a racecourse and motor circuit on the hill above that fill the roads several times a year.
Written quotation, usually within the hour
Ground transport for Chichester and the streets around Selsey Bill. The pattern of work is consistent: transfers to and from Southampton, Gatwick, Farnborough and Heathrow, hourly hire that starts at Chichester Marina and ends somewhere else entirely, and long-distance runs that leave Chichester before the traffic builds on A286. Reckon on an indicative 45-70 minutes from Chichester to Southampton, roughly 35 miles. Stations at Barnham, Chichester and Fishbourne are used as collection points when the train is doing the middle of the trip. Coverage extends to Portsmouth, Worthing and Petersfield. Nothing is published as a price list, and the written quotation confirms what the journey out of Chichester costs.
Chichester, South East England
West Sussex, England
Southampton
45-70 minutes
PO18, PO19 and PO20
A27, A286 and A259
Fishbourne and Bosham
Portsmouth and Worthing
01On Chichester
Four streets meet at the Cross, and none of them takes a car through it. Traffic runs on the ring instead, a loop that only goes one way round, so an address in the north-east quadrant is reached by a different route from one in the south-west. The A27 bypasses the city and its roundabouts are the local bottleneck.
Goodwood is the other governing fact. Race meetings, the Festival of Speed and the Revival each bring tens of thousands of cars up a set of narrow lanes, and on those days the whole city is affected. Beyond the events there is the theatre, the cathedral, the harbour villages and a steady flow of airport work south and east.
02The essentials
03The area
A small city with a strict grid inside the old walls and a ring road round the outside. North, South, East and West Street are pedestrian in the middle, and the side lanes are narrow with resident bays. South of the A27 the Manhood peninsula runs down to Selsey on a single road that fills in summer. North of the city the Goodwood lanes climb quickly and are single track in places.
04Demand
Events, culture and the coast. Goodwood generates hospitality work with long waits and strict car park allocation; the Festival Theatre brings evening bookings; the harbour and the marinas bring visitors. There is also a solid base of residential airport work, most of it to Gatwick and Southampton, and cruise transfers from the villages towards the Solent.
05Road time
Event weekends at Goodwood dominate the calendar, and on those days the lanes north of the city are marshalled from early morning. Summer weekends fill the Selsey road southbound. The A27 roundabouts at Fishbourne and Bognor Road are slow at peak in both directions. For a Gatwick flight we allow ninety-five minutes from PO19.
06The kerb
Nothing waits at the Cross or on the pedestrianised sections. We set down on the ring or in one of the car parks and walk in, and for the Festival Theatre we use the Northgate side. Goodwood collections work from the car park your pass specifies, with a walking point agreed beforehand. In the harbour villages the lanes are narrow and turning space is scarce.
07Included as standard
Airlines republish a schedule; from Chichester we watch the aeroplane instead. The two diverge often enough that a car leaving Chichester on the printed time would spend half its life waiting at Southampton and the other half arriving late.
One price, in writing, before the car is allocated to your Chichester collection. If the journey from Chichester to Southampton changes we requote in writing rather than adjusting an invoice afterwards.
Collections from Southampton back to Chichester are met inside the building. Trolley to the boot, boot to A286, and you are in Chichester without having negotiated a short-stay car park with three suitcases.
Waiting is included at Southampton from the moment the aircraft lands, at no cost to the Chichester price. Elsewhere it is quoted by the hour, so a ninety-minute dinner near Chichester Cathedral does not turn into an argument.
Someone who has driven A286, A259 and A285 in the rain at rush hour, rather than an app deciding a stranger is four minutes away. The chauffeur is briefed on your journey before the car leaves for Chichester.
The chauffeur loads and unloads on every Chichester booking. On a collection from Chichester Marina that means the cases are in the boot before you have finished saying goodbye at the door.
08Terminals
| Airport | Indicative drive | Distance | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southampton | 45-70 minutes | 35 miles | Terminal checked against your flight number the day before the car leaves Chichester for Southampton. |
| Gatwick | 55-85 minutes | 45 miles | The long one from Chichester. We would leave before the peak builds on A286. |
| Farnborough | 60-90 minutes | 48 miles | Farnborough arrivals watched from wheels-up, so a late landing moves our clock and not your Chichester booking. |
| Heathrow | 75-110 minutes | 65 miles | Heathrow arrivals watched from wheels-up, so a late landing moves our clock and not your Chichester booking. |
Terminal checked against your flight number the day before the car leaves Chichester for Southampton.
The long one from Chichester. We would leave before the peak builds on A286.
Farnborough arrivals watched from wheels-up, so a late landing moves our clock and not your Chichester booking.
Heathrow arrivals watched from wheels-up, so a late landing moves our clock and not your Chichester booking.
The same runs are quoted from Portsmouth and Worthing, adjusted for the extra distance rather than reused unchanged.
09In detail
LF-01Saloon or MPV out of Chichester
Cabin class covers the everyday work: the E-Class does the 45-70 minutes from Chichester to Southampton as capably as anything else in the fleet, and the rear seat is a perfectly good place to spend it.
Where a group is travelling from Chichester, two saloons often beat one large vehicle. Everyone gets a door, the luggage splits sensibly, and neither car has to collect from three Chichester addresses before it starts.
LF-02Chichester to the departure gate
We would rather wait at Southampton with twenty spare minutes than leave Chichester late and reach the drop-off with none. The collection time on a Chichester confirmation carries that bias, openly and on purpose.
Terminal choice at Southampton matters more than people leaving Chichester expect. Tell us the airline when you book and the chauffeur takes the right spur off A286, which at Southampton can be the difference between a two-minute walk and a fifteen-minute one with a trolley.
LF-03Southampton to your door in Chichester
The alternative to being met is a phone call from a Southampton car park, a walk with a trolley, a lift you cannot find, and Chichester still an hour away. We do the other thing: a person inside the terminal holding a board, who then carries the bags to the car and drives you to Chichester.
The last thirty seconds are the ones people remember: cases at the door in Chichester, the car pulling away, nothing left to arrange. That is what the 35 miles along A286 were for.
10The cars
First Saloon
Cabin MPV
Hourly and half-day figures hold across the country, Chichester included. The airport columns are the published London fares; a Chichester transfer to Southampton gets its own written price.
11Longer bookings
LF-04The start of a Chichester journey
A pick-up near Barnham has rules of its own, because station kerbs are enforced properly and a rank is not a waiting bay. We use the side of Barnham that tolerates a stationary car, and you are told which side that is.
The boot closes, the door closes, and the car is moving out of Chichester. Where the run is to Southampton the chauffeur has already chosen between A286 and A259 for that hour and will not be reconsidering it at the first junction.
LF-05Meeting a train at Barnham
Business travel in and out of Chichester often runs rail for the distance and car for the ends. It is quicker than driving the whole way, and a good deal less trouble than parking in Chichester at the end of it.
Luggage is the reason most people book a car at Barnham. Two large cases across the Barnham concourse is unpleasant; the same two cases handed to a chauffeur at the barrier is not a problem at all.
12Local reference
PO18 · PO19 · PO20
13Practicalities
LF-06Between Selsey Bill and Chichester Cathedral, all day
As-directed work starts wherever you want it to start — a house in Chichester, Chichester Marina, or Barnham off a train — and runs until you release the car. In between the chauffeur finds somewhere legal to wait in Chichester and stays contactable.
If the Chichester day overruns, it overruns. Additional time is charged at the published hourly rate and confirmed afterwards in writing, not applied as a penalty on a Chichester roadside.
LF-07Before the car is allocated to Chichester
Luggage is the detail left out most often, and the one most likely to change which car reaches Chichester. Two cabin bags from Chichester and four large cases are different bookings even on an identical route.
Questions before you commit to a Chichester booking cost nothing. Whether 45-70 minutes is realistic for your flight, whether the cases will fit, whether A286 is going to be a problem that particular morning.
14Services
15What it costs
By the block
The car held for you between stops, with a minimum block named on the quotation.
Quoted per journey
Priced against the drive from Chichester, not against a zone map. Searching for a chauffeur service near me in Chichester? This is that local service, quoted in writing before you travel.
By the route
One car and one chauffeur from Chichester to the far end of the run.
No standing price list. Send the journey on WhatsApp and the written quotation confirms the price, what it includes and any applicable tax. The pricing page sets out what moves a figure, and one message on WhatsApp fixes it for your journey.
16Nearby coverage
Chichester sits in South East England. Every South East England area we cover is listed on one page, and the full coverage index runs to every town and district on the list.
17Answers
The lanes north of the city are marshalled from early morning and the car parks are allocated by pass, so we work from your pass rather than the postcode. Departures from the city that day leave earlier, and for the return the chauffeur is positioned before the crowd starts moving.
Usually, but not through the Cross, which is pedestrian, and the ring runs one way, so the approach depends on which quadrant you are in. We set down on the nearest legal stretch or in a car park and the chauffeur walks in for the bags.
Southampton at thirty-five miles is the closest, going west on the A27 and the M27. Gatwick at forty-five miles is the one with the destinations, reached across country rather than on a motorway. Neither is quick, so the collection time is set on the generous side.
Yes, from Bosham and Itchenor down to West Wittering and Selsey. PO18 and PO20 are standard ground. The lanes down there are narrow with little turning space and they fill in summer, so we ask about the drive and leave earlier on a fine weekend.
FCReservations
Message us the date, the pick-up and where you are going. You will get a fixed written quotation with the vehicle, the chauffeur’s arrival time and what the figure includes — no form to fill in, and no estimate that moves later.