GDThe guides
How the ground half of a journey actually works
60 guides on arrivals, bookings, cars and long roads. Written by people who have stood in the arrivals hall and driven the M6 at three in the morning.
Written quotation, usually within the hour
Chauffeur travel guides
First Class Chauffeurs publishes 60 long-form chauffeur guides across 4 categories: Airports, Booking, Fleet, Travel. These are the long answers. Everything here started as a question somebody asked at a kerb, on the phone at half past five in the morning, or in an email three weeks before a wedding, and each guide sets out what actually happens rather than what a brochure would prefer to say. Where there is a trade-off, both sides of it are written down. Where a journey is better made some other way, that is written down too. The library is grouped by the four things people ask about most: what happens at an airport, how a booking is put together, which car suits which load, and what a long day on the road is really like. Nothing here is a price list, and no guide asks you to enquire before it tells you something useful. The pricing page lives on the pricing page and the figures quoted in these articles come from it.
Airports
18 guides. Arrivals, departures, terminals and the forty minutes that decide whether a transfer feels calm or frantic.
Booking
16 guides. How a job is quoted, what changes the figure, and the questions worth asking before anything is confirmed.
Fleet
14 guides. What each car actually holds, what it is like to sit in for four hours, and when a cheaper one is the right answer.
Travel
12 guides. Long distances, multi-day itineraries, and the parts of a road journey nobody plans for.
01Why these exist
Answers with the numbers left in
These are the long answers. Everything here started as a question somebody asked at a kerb, on the phone at half past five in the morning, or in an email three weeks before a wedding, and each guide sets out what actually happens rather than what a brochure would prefer to say. Where there is a trade-off, both sides of it are written down. Where a journey is better made some other way, that is written down too.
The library is grouped by the four things people ask about most: what happens at an airport, how a booking is put together, which car suits which load, and what a long day on the road is really like. Nothing here is a price list, and no guide asks you to enquire before it tells you something useful. The pricing page lives on the pricing page and the figures quoted in these articles come from it.
AT18 guides
Airports
BK16 guides
Booking
FL14 guides
Fleet
TR12 guides
Travel
03Most recent
Added or rewritten lately
- 11 August 2026Reading a chauffeur quotation properlyFive things a quotation should tell you and four things a vague one is hiding. A checklist to use on anybody’s figure, not only ours.
- 14 July 2026Child seats in a chauffeur car, and what the rules sayThe UK exemption for private hire vehicles is real, and it is not a reason to travel without a seat. What we fit, and what we need to know.
- 2 July 2026S-Class, i7 and Maybach: an honest comparisonThree rear cabins, two of them quoted alike. Where the i7 beats the S-Class, where it does not, and the journeys that justify the Maybach.
- 16 June 2026Five hours in the car with a dog in the backWhere the dog actually travels, why a crate beats a harness, the boot problem, and an honest account of what we will and will not carry.
- 2 June 2026What an airport meet and greet actually involvesWhat happens between your aircraft landing and the boot closing, and why the chauffeur is standing inside rather than waiting outside.
- 26 May 2026London to Manchester: car or train, door to doorTwo hours ten on the train against four hours up the M6. The comparison only makes sense once you count both ends of it.
04Answers
About this library
How often are these guides revised?
When something changes on the ground rather than on a schedule. A terminal reorganises its arrivals hall, an airport alters its drop-off arrangements, a road layout changes at a junction we use every week, and the affected guides get rewritten. Each article carries its published date, and the ones that have been revised carry an updated date beside it.
Do the prices quoted inside the guides stay current?
Every figure in a guide is read from the same basis the pricing page publishes, so the two cannot drift apart. They describe how a journey is put together rather than what it will cost. Your written quotation confirms the final price, what it includes and any applicable tax.
Which guide should I read first if I have never booked a chauffeur?
Start with the one on how a quotation is built, then the one on hourly hire against a transfer. Between them they cover the two decisions that change the figure most, and they take about fifteen minutes to read. If your journey starts at an airport, add the guide on how much waiting time an arrival needs.
Can I ask a question these guides do not answer?
Yes, and it is worth doing. Several of the articles here exist because somebody asked something we could not answer in two lines. Send the question with the journey attached and you will get a direct reply rather than a link to a page that half covers it.
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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.
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