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Chauffeur service in Craigavon, between Lurgan and Portadown

Craigavon was built to join Lurgan and Portadown and never quite finished the job, which leaves a landscape of dual carriageways, roundabouts and lakes with no centre.

Craigavon door to Belfast terminalCar in position before you leave CraigavonA27 and everything off itOne message, then a written Craigavon quotation
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Chauffeur service in Craigavon — summary

Craigavon sits in Northern Ireland, and a chauffeur here spends more time on A27, M1 and A3 than anywhere else. First Class Chauffeurs covers the whole of Craigavon for airport transfers, private aviation runs, executive travel and hourly work, with flights tracked from the tail number so a delay changes our arrival time rather than yours. Belfast is an indicative 35-55 minutes and about 25 miles from Craigavon. Landmarks used as reference points for pick-ups include Lurgan Park, Tannaghmore Gardens and Kinnego Marina. Neighbouring coverage runs to Portadown, Banbridge and Armagh. Nothing here is published as a price list; the written quotation for Craigavon is what fixes the price.

The area

Craigavon, Northern Ireland

Wider coverage

County Armagh, Northern Ireland

The airport Craigavon uses

Belfast

Drive to Belfast

35-55 minutes

Postal coverage in Craigavon

BT64, BT65 and BT66

Main roads in Craigavon

A27, M1 and A3

Nearest rail to Craigavon

Portadown and Moira

Adjacent coverage to Craigavon

Portadown and Banbridge

01Craigavon in brief

Chauffeur service in Craigavon

The plan was a linear city; what exists is a set of separate places connected by fast roads. Between the two older towns sit the hospital, the shopping centre at Rushmere, the balancing lakes and a scatter of housing areas, all reached by distributor roads with underpasses rather than junctions in the usual sense.

It is genuinely quick to drive and genuinely hard to describe an address in. The M1 runs along the northern edge with three junctions serving the area, so Belfast is around half an hour and Belfast International about forty minutes. Lurgan and Portadown both have stations.

02The essentials

The area
Craigavon, Northern Ireland
Wider coverage
County Armagh, Northern Ireland
The airport Craigavon uses
Belfast
Drive to Belfast
35-55 minutes
Postal coverage in Craigavon
BT64, BT65 and BT66
Main roads in Craigavon
A27, M1 and A3
Nearest rail to Craigavon
Portadown and Moira
Adjacent coverage to Craigavon
Portadown and Banbridge

03The area

The shape of Craigavon from the driver's seat

Written from the driver's side of the windscreen, about Craigavon rather than about the guidebook.

Dual carriageways, roundabouts and green space. There is no high street in the middle because the middle was never built as one; the shopping centre, the civic buildings and the hospital each sit on their own site with their own approach. The lakes and the country park occupy the space between. Lurgan and Portadown at either end are conventional towns with conventional streets, which is where most of the housing actually is.

04Demand

Who calls from Craigavon, and what for

The shape of a Craigavon week, stated plainly.

Craigavon Area Hospital is the largest single generator, serving the southern part of the country with a very wide catchment. The retail park and shopping centre draw shoppers from across the region. There is a strong manufacturing and logistics presence along the motorway corridor. And commuter airport work is steady, helped by the motorway being on the doorstep.

05Road time

The Craigavon clock

Road time in Craigavon, stated plainly rather than optimistically.

The M1 eastbound queues from half seven towards Belfast, with junction 10 and the Moira stretch the usual trouble. The hospital access roads are busiest at visiting times and shift changes. Rushmere fills on Saturdays and through December. The internal distributor roads themselves rarely queue, which means most of the time lost here is lost to navigation rather than to traffic.

06The kerb

Where the car waits in Craigavon

Why a Craigavon pick-up is described by kerb rather than by postcode.

Craigavon Area Hospital has a large site with separate entrances and a marked drop-off, so a department name is needed. Rushmere and the retail parks have extensive parking and several doors. Lurgan and Portadown stations both have forecourts with set-downs. The housing areas have their own loops, often with a single way in, so we ask for the street rather than relying on a postcode.

Collection notes for Craigavon

  • 01Give us the street and the area, since Craigavon has no centre and the postcode districts cover a lot of ground.
  • 02Craigavon Area Hospital is large with separate entrances, so a department name gets the car to the right door.
  • 03Lurgan and Portadown stations both serve this area and both have set-downs, so tell us which you are using.
  • 04Belfast International is around twenty-five miles north-east, and the City airport about thirty.
  • 05Rushmere and the retail parks have several entrances, so we agree a named door for a collection.

07Included as standard

What comes with the car in Craigavon

  • 01

    Someone waiting when you land at Belfast

    If you are travelling with someone who needs help, say so when you book the return into Craigavon. The chauffeur meets you further inside Belfast, and at the Craigavon end the car goes to the closest legal point rather than the convenient one.

  • 02

    The Belfast schedule, monitored

    Waiting at Belfast is counted by us rather than added to a Craigavon invoice. A chauffeur sitting at Belfast for ninety minutes because a connection failed is our problem, not a line on the Craigavon quotation.

  • 03

    A chauffeur for Craigavon, not a rideshare

    They wear a suit, hold the door on A27, load the boot and then leave you alone. Conversation is available and not compulsory, which at five in the morning on the way out of Craigavon is the setting most people want.

  • 04

    The Craigavon to Belfast figure

    Where a journey has more than one leg, a stop in Portadown on the way to Belfast, the whole thing is quoted as one figure rather than assembled from parts at the end.

  • 05

    Carried from the door in Craigavon

    An E-Class boot takes two large cases out of Craigavon comfortably. Put a third adult in the back and it is a V-Class, and we would rather say so when quoting the run to Belfast than find out at the Craigavon kerb.

  • 06

    Changing the plan halfway across Craigavon

    Adding a Craigavon address is a quotation question rather than a roadside one. Mention the stop in Portadown when you enquire and it appears in the written price instead of the conversation at the end.

08Terminals

The run to Belfast, and the others

These are timed from a Craigavon door to the terminal, because that is the number you can plan against. The walk to the car in Craigavon, the queue at the Belfast drop-off and the walk to the desk all sit outside it. The written quotation for Craigavon puts them back in.
Belfast
Indicative drive
35-55 minutes
Distance
25 miles

The long one from Craigavon. We would leave before the peak builds on A27.

Belfast City
Indicative drive
40-65 minutes
Distance
30 miles

Terminal checked against your flight number the day before the car leaves Craigavon for Belfast City.

The same runs are quoted from Portadown and Banbridge, adjusted for the extra distance rather than reused unchanged.

09In detail

Craigavon to Belfast, and back again

Four classes for Craigavon work

LF-01Four classes for Craigavon work

Four classes for Craigavon work

The SUV classes exist for weather, gravel and drives a good deal longer than the 25 miles out of Craigavon. Around Craigavon that is a smaller share of the work than the brochures imply, and we will say so rather than steering you into one.

Accessibility needs change the vehicle and sometimes the Craigavon collection point as well. Mention them when you enquire and the car that arrives in Craigavon is one that actually works for you.

Getting out of Craigavon in time

LF-02Getting out of Craigavon in time

Getting out of Craigavon in time

Getting out of Craigavon cleanly depends on A27. On a good morning the car is past A27 in minutes; on a bad one it is the whole problem, and the chauffeur will have chosen the alternative before you get in.

Where the outbound leg is by rail, the same logic applies at Scarva: the car reaches the station early, the bags go to the barrier, and you are on the platform instead of in a queue for one.

The inbound half of a Craigavon trip

LF-03The inbound half of a Craigavon trip

The inbound half of a Craigavon trip

Everything that makes an arrival at Belfast work happens while the car is still in Craigavon. The Belfast car park is chosen, the parking is paid, and the walk to the barrier is timed against the actual touchdown rather than the time printed on your Craigavon confirmation.

The cabin is warm before you reach it at Belfast and quiet for the whole run into Craigavon. If you want to sleep for the 35-55 minutes back to Craigavon, that is the expected use of the back seat rather than an imposition on anybody.

  • Waiting from touchdown at Belfast built into the Craigavon transfer
  • Bags taken from the Belfast trolley to the boot and on to Craigavon
  • A diversion away from Belfast requoted for Craigavon in writing, not argued about
  • Late landings still end with the cases at your door in Craigavon

10The cars

Vehicles for a Craigavon booking

What we would normally send to a Craigavon address, cheapest first. The written quotation names the car and the price for your run out of the BT64 district together.

Cabin

Mercedes-Benz E-Class

Passengers
Up to 3
Large cases
2, plus cabin bags
Cabin class
Cabin
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First Saloon

Mercedes-Benz S-Class

Passengers
Up to 3
Large cases
3, plus cabin bags
Cabin class
First Saloon
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Cabin MPV

Mercedes-Benz V-Class

Passengers
Up to 7
Large cases
5, plus cabin bags
Cabin class
Cabin MPV
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First SUV

Range Rover Autobiography

Passengers
Up to 4
Large cases
4, plus cabin bags
Cabin class
First SUV
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Use the hourly column for as-directed work in Craigavon, the half-day column for a morning of it, and the airport columns only to compare one class against another.

11Longer bookings

Between Oxford Island and the end of the day

From your door in Craigavon to the car

LF-04From your door in Craigavon to the car

From your door in Craigavon to the car

Most of the work in a Craigavon collection happens before anyone appears. Where to stop in Craigavon, which way to face, how long the car can sit there, and what to do when a delivery van is already in the only space.

If you have forgotten something the car turns round in Craigavon. That costs a few minutes at the Craigavon end and nothing at all next to discovering it at the Belfast check-in desk.

  • Pick-ups at Scarva made on the side that tolerates a stationary car
  • Collections from Craigavon Area Hospital arranged through the desk, not the forecourt
  • The car holds on M1 when the kerb outside your door will not take it
  • Cases carried from the door in Craigavon rather than watched
The station end of a Craigavon booking

LF-05The station end of a Craigavon booking

The station end of a Craigavon booking

Business travel in and out of Craigavon 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 Craigavon at the end of it.

Luggage is the reason most people book a car at Scarva. Two large cases across the Scarva concourse is unpleasant; the same two cases handed to a chauffeur at the barrier is not a problem at all.

12Local reference

Oxford Island, Scarva and the rest

If you say you will be outside Lough Neagh Discovery Centre, that is a precise instruction. This section is why a Craigavon pick-up can be described in one line.

Landmarks

  • Craigavon Lakes
  • Oxford Island
  • Lough Neagh Discovery Centre
  • Lurgan Park
  • Tannaghmore Gardens
  • Kinnego Marina

Venues and hotels

  • Craigavon Area Hospital
  • Rushmere Shopping Centre
  • South Lake Leisure Centre
  • Oxford Island Nature Reserve

Stations

  • Lurgan
  • Portadown
  • Moira
  • Scarva

Roads

  • M1
  • A3
  • A76
  • A27

BT64 · BT65 · BT66

13Practicalities

The train, the car and the Craigavon quotation

When the Craigavon diary is the itinerary

LF-06When the Craigavon diary is the itinerary

When the Craigavon diary is the itinerary

Hourly hire suits Craigavon days where the destination list is still provisional. Start at an address in Craigavon, aim at Oxford Island, and change it twice before lunch without anyone having to rebook anything.

Papers, coats and shopping stay in the cabin between Craigavon stops. That sounds minor until you have carried a laptop bag round Lough Neagh Discovery Centre for six hours because the car was parked somewhere else.

From a Craigavon address to a confirmation

LF-07From a Craigavon address to a confirmation

From a Craigavon address to a confirmation

Where the Craigavon day has several legs, describe its shape rather than each journey. A morning around Oxford Island, a run to Belfast, a return two days later: that is enough to quote from.

Changes to a Craigavon booking are normal. Flights move, meetings overrun, and a collection in Craigavon that was booked for nine becomes eleven. Tell us and we requote the Craigavon journey in writing if the price changes at all.

14Services

Chauffeur services available in Craigavon

Airport transfers, hourly hire and long-distance driving, all quoted for Craigavon on the same basis.

15What it costs

How a Craigavon booking is priced

Rates are per vehicle and per journey across the BT64 district. Four people leaving Craigavon costs what one person does.

Hourly, as directed

By the block

The car held for you between stops, with a minimum block named on the quotation.

Airport transfers

Quoted per journey

Priced against the drive from Craigavon, not against a zone map. Searching for a chauffeur service near me in Craigavon? This is that local service, quoted in writing before you travel.

Long distance

By the route

One car and one chauffeur from Craigavon 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

Areas next to Craigavon

A short drive from Craigavon, and covered exactly as thoroughly.

Craigavon sits in Northern Ireland. Every Northern Ireland area we cover is listed on one page, and the full coverage index runs to every town and district on the list.

17Answers

Craigavon chauffeur questions

Four things worth knowing before you book a collection in Craigavon.

Where exactly is Craigavon?

Between Lurgan and Portadown, and that is the honest answer. It was planned as a linear city joining the two towns and the middle section was never completed, so what exists is the hospital, the shopping centre, the lakes and several housing areas connected by dual carriageways. There is no town centre to meet in, which is why we ask for a specific address.

Can you collect from Craigavon Area Hospital?

Constantly. It is the acute hospital for a large part of the south of the country, so the site is big and has separate entrances for outpatients, maternity, the wards and emergency. Give us the department and the chauffeur waits at that door. For a discharge he will come inside rather than leave someone standing outside in the rain.

Which station serves Craigavon?

Lurgan and Portadown both do, at either end of the area, and both sit on the Belfast to Dublin line. Portadown has more services including the Enterprise; Lurgan is closer to the eastern side. Both have forecourts that take a car for a set-down. Tell us which one your ticket is for and we will be there.

Is Oxford Island worth a trip from here?

It is the most accessible piece of Lough Neagh shore in the area, about ten minutes north with its own visitor car park and the discovery centre beside it. Kinnego Marina is next door. The approach is a single road off the roundabout system, so it is easy to find and easy to be collected from, which is not true of much of the lough shore.

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