RSResource centre
Everything we know about the ground half of a journey
Guides, answers and a journal, written from arrivals halls and motorway lay-bys rather than from a marketing plan.
Written quotation, usually within the hour
Resource centre
The First Class Chauffeurs resource centre holds 300 articles in three libraries: 60 guides, 150 answered questions and 90 journal entries. Most of what goes wrong on a first-class trip goes wrong on the ground. A flight lands forty minutes early and nobody is there. A booking says two bags when it meant two trolleys. A car is quoted for four hours when the day was always going to run to seven. None of that is exotic, and all of it is avoidable if somebody explains how the ground segment is actually put together, which is what this part of the site is for. There are three kinds of writing here and they answer different sorts of question. The guides take a subject and work through it properly. The questions give one answer to one thing, in the length it deserves. The journal is dated: notes from particular days, particular airports and particular roads, written down while they were still fresh. Nothing in any of them is gated behind an enquiry form.
Guides
60 guides. Long-form articles that work a subject through from end to end.
Questions
150 answers. One question, one answer, no preamble before it starts.
Journal
90 entries. Dated notes from particular days on particular roads.
01What this is
Written down so you do not have to ask at the kerb
Most of what goes wrong on a first-class trip goes wrong on the ground. A flight lands forty minutes early and nobody is there. A booking says two bags when it meant two trolleys. A car is quoted for four hours when the day was always going to run to seven. None of that is exotic, and all of it is avoidable if somebody explains how the ground segment is actually put together, which is what this part of the site is for.
There are three kinds of writing here and they answer different sorts of question. The guides take a subject and work through it properly. The questions give one answer to one thing, in the length it deserves. The journal is dated: notes from particular days, particular airports and particular roads, written down while they were still fresh. Nothing in any of them is gated behind an enquiry form.
03Start here
Six that answer most of the questions we get
04By subject
Browse the whole centre by category
- 73 articles
Airports
- 16 articles
Booking
- 14 articles
Fleet
- 12 articles
Travel
- 10 articles
Travel and business
- 20 articles
Cities and routes
- 15 articles
Vehicles
- 15 articles
The craft
- 10 articles
Seasons and occasions
- 30 articles
Booking and pricing
- 30 articles
The car and the journey
- 30 articles
Coverage and distance
- 25 articles
Occasions and services
05Answered
Questions people ask before they book
- Occasions and servicesCan a chauffeur drive an author or speaker on a book tour?Yes, and it is one of the better uses of a car: several towns in a week, stock in the boot, and a quiet cabin between events.
- Coverage and distanceCan a chauffeur take me to a country house hotel?Yes, and the useful part is the last mile. Send the approach detail and the car arrives at the right gate rather than the neighbouring farm.
- AirportsHow does a private jet transfer differ from an airline transfer?No terminal, no queue and far less margin. The car is arranged through the handler and is on site well before the slot rather than at it.
- Coverage and distanceHow much does a long distance chauffeur cost?Quoted against the route rather than from the card, with the vehicle returning included. Vehicle class moves the figure more than the mileage does.
- The car and the journeyCan a chauffeur collect something without me in the car?Yes, for documents, luggage, a delayed bag or a passenger you are not travelling with. It is booked as a transfer with named contacts at both ends.
- AirportsCan I be dropped at departures or only at a car park?At departures, right outside the terminal doors. Most large UK airports charge for stopping there, and the fee is passed through at cost.
06From the road
The latest journal entries
07The centre in numbers
What is actually here
- Articles
- 300
- Guides
- 60
- Questions
- 150
- Journal entries
- 90
08Answers
About the resource centre
What is the difference between a guide and a question here?
A guide takes a whole subject, such as choosing between hourly hire and a transfer, and works through it in eight or nine sections with the numbers left in. A question answers one specific thing in a few hundred words. If you are deciding something, read a guide. If you are checking something, read a question.
Who writes this material?
The people who run the journeys, working from the jobs themselves. That is why the detail runs to lift routes, junction numbers and boot capacities rather than adjectives. No individual byline is published on any of it, and nothing here has been reprinted from another chauffeur website.
Are these articles specific to London, or do they apply anywhere in the UK?
Both. The airport material names real terminals, so much of it is London-heavy simply because Heathrow and Gatwick are where most arrivals land. The booking, fleet and long-distance writing applies wherever we drive, and the regional airports from Manchester to Belfast City get their own coverage.
Can I use something from here on my own site?
Ask first. A short quotation with a link back is welcome. Wholesale copying is not, partly for the obvious reason and partly because a good deal of this material is specific enough that it would be wrong on a website describing a different operation.
FCReservations
Tell us the journey. We will send the price in writing.
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.
- Telephone
- +44 7775 554848
- Hours
- Reservations answered around the clock, every day of the year.