You book hours rather than an itinerary. The car takes you where you want to go, waits while you look, and moves on when you are ready. The plan is a starting point rather than a schedule, and it usually changes by lunchtime.
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01/The short answer
You book hours rather than an itinerary. The car takes you where you want to go, waits while you look, and moves on when you are ready. The plan is a starting point rather than a schedule, and it usually changes by lunchtime.
That flexibility is the difference between a private car and a coach tour. Nobody is counting you back on board, and a place that turns out to be worth an extra hour gets one.
QA-01/How a day is built
How a day is built
You send a rough list of what you would like to see and we suggest a shape: an order that works with the traffic, realistic timings, and where the car can actually stop at each point. That last part is the one that saves the day.
Then it flexes. Weather, queues and how much you actually want to see all change the plan, and an hourly booking absorbs every one of those without anything being rebooked.
Hours booked, not a fixed route
A suggested order that works with the traffic
The car waits at each stop rather than being dismissed
Coats, bags and shopping stay in the vehicle
The plan changes freely as the day goes
QA-02/What the chauffeur can and cannot do
What the chauffeur can and cannot do
They know the roads, the stopping points, when a place is busiest and which approach gives the best first sight of something. That is practical local knowledge accumulated from driving these routes, and it is genuinely useful.
They are not qualified guides and we will not describe them as such. Where you want proper guiding inside a site, that is arranged with the venue, and the car handles everything between one and the next.
QA-03/London days and days out
London days and days out
In London a half day covers the central sights comfortably and a full day gets you to Greenwich, Hampstead or Kew as well. The car waiting is what makes it possible: you are not managing a route between stops, only looking at things.
Beyond London, Windsor, Oxford, Bath, Stonehenge and the Cotswolds are all realistic day trips. A combination of two is usually the sensible maximum, since the driving between them is longer than people expect.
QA-04/What it costs
What it costs
The vehicle rate by the hour, so eight hours is that rate times eight. For a family of four or five that works out considerably less per head than most alternatives once entry and transport are counted.
For a group, the V-Class is the obvious choice: everybody gets a window, the seats can face each other, and the shopping goes in the back rather than on somebody's knees.
We will tell you what needs booking ahead and what does not, which for the popular sites is most of them. Buying the tickets is usually easier done directly by you, and the day is then planned around the time slots you hold.
How many places can I see in a day?
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Fewer than the list you arrive with, honestly. Four or five in London is comfortable; two outside it is realistic once the driving is counted. A day that tries to do eight becomes a day spent mostly in a car.
Can the tour include lunch somewhere?
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Easily, and it is worth building in. The chauffeur will know somewhere near where you are rather than where you planned to be, which matters when the morning has run over and everybody is hungry in the wrong postcode.
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.
