A chauffeured black car from London, Ontario to Windsor with LondonLimo.net is 190 km west to the end of the 401 in about two hours off-peak, at a fixed rate shown before you confirm - a planning figure of $340-400 plus HST for a business sedan, $390-450 for an SUV, $600-700 for a Sprinter. Caesars Windsor on the riverfront, the University of Windsor and St. Clair College, Windsor Regional Hospital's campuses, the Stellantis assembly plant and the automotive suppliers, Walkerville's distillery district, Tecumseh, LaSalle and Amherstburg, Kingsville, Leamington and the Essex Pelee Island Coast wineries are the addresses the chauffeurs know; Windsor airport is fifteen minutes south of downtown, and the Ambassador Bridge, the tunnel and the Gordie Howe bridge carry the same car on to Detroit on the cross-border service.
Why Londoners go to Windsor and Essex County
Caesars draws the evenings and the weekends: the Colosseum's concerts and comedy, the tables, the towers, the riverfront with Detroit's skyline across the water. The university and the college draw London's students and their parents; Windsor Regional and Hotel-Dieu Grace exchange patients and specialists with London's hospitals; the automotive plants and their suppliers - Stellantis, the mould and tool shops, the parts makers along the 401 corridor - draw London's engineers and sales teams; the wineries of Kingsville and Harrow and the greenhouses of Leamington draw the tours and the business; Point Pelee and Pelee Island draw the birders and the summer; and the bridges draw everyone heading to Michigan. Windsor is also where a London run to Detroit's airport, stadiums and casinos crosses.
| From downtown London to | Sedan | SUV | Sprinter | Off-peak time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downtown Windsor, Caesars, the riverfront, Walkerville | $340-400 | $390-450 | $600-700 | 2 h |
| The University of Windsor, St. Clair College, Windsor Regional Hospital | $340-400 | $390-450 | $600-700 | 2 h |
| Tecumseh, LaSalle, the Stellantis plant, the 401 supplier corridor | $330-390 | $380-440 | $590-690 | 1 h 50 |
| Amherstburg, Kingsville, Harrow, the wineries | $350-410 | $400-460 | $610-710 | 2 h 10 |
| Leamington, Point Pelee, the Pelee Island ferry | $340-400 | $390-450 | $600-700 | 2 h |
| Windsor International Airport (YQG) | $340-400 | $390-450 | $600-700 | 1 h 55 |
| Windsor day, hourly, chauffeur waiting | $95-115 / h | $115-135 / h | $145-175 / h | 3 h minimum plus the run |
LondonLimo.net planning ranges before HST, one way; the engine quotes the exact addresses and date. A Caesars evening with the return is priced by the hour; a weekend is two one-ways.
The drive: the 401 to its end
West from London past St. Thomas's junction, Chatham and Tilbury across the flattest land in the province to the highway's end at Windsor, where it becomes the Herb Gray Parkway to the Gordie Howe bridge and the E.C. Row Expressway across the city; Highway 3 for the county and Walker Road for the airport. Two hours off-peak; light traffic in summer; and the winter risk of the Dutton-to-Tilbury squall corridor, which closes the 401 a few times each season and is read on Ontario 511 before every run, with Highway 3 and Longwoods Road as the slow alternatives.
Caesars Windsor: the show, the tables and the weekend
The Colosseum's headline concerts and comedy, the Augustus and Forum towers, the restaurants, the floor: a London couple's Caesars evening is a luxury sedan by the hour with the chauffeur waiting, or two one-way fares bracketing a night in the tower; a birthday group's is a Sprinter with the party aboard. The casino trips page has the rules, the ages and the province's other casinos; the travel desk books the room and the show.
The University of Windsor, St. Clair College and the student year
The university's campus by the Ambassador Bridge and St. Clair's campuses on the south side draw students from London, and the September move with a van of boxes, the parents' visit, the April return and convocation are household-account bookings; the reverse - Windsor students at Western and Fanshawe - is the same run the other way, and the university's site has the campus map the chauffeur already knows.
Windsor Regional, Hotel-Dieu Grace and the medical run
Windsor Regional Hospital's Met and Ouellette campuses and Hotel-Dieu Grace serve the county and send patients to London's hospitals for the care Windsor does not provide; the family's run from Windsor, Tecumseh or Leamington to Victoria Hospital or University Hospital with the chauffeur waiting and home the same day is a household-account booking, and a London specialist's clinic day in Windsor is the reverse.
The plants, the suppliers and the business day
The Stellantis assembly plant, the mould, tool and die shops that make Windsor the industry's tooling capital, the parts makers along the 401 and E.C. Row, the new battery-plant supply chain, the greenhouse economy of Leamington: a London supplier's Windsor-Essex day is an hourly booking with the chauffeur at each visitor lot, on the corporate account, often continuing across the bridge to a Michigan customer on the cross-border service.
Walkerville, the riverfront and the evening
Walkerville's distillery district with its restaurants and the Hiram Walker plant, the riverfront's parks and the sculpture garden facing Detroit, Ouellette Avenue's bars, the WFCU Centre's Spitfires and concerts, the Capitol Theatre: a London evening in Windsor is a sedan or SUV by the hour, and the City of Windsor's site publishes the calendar - the fireworks in June, the Bluesfest, the Balloonapalooza.
Essex County: the wineries, Point Pelee and the shore
Kingsville's and Harrow's wineries on the Essex Pelee Island Coast, Pelee Island's winery and the ferry from Kingsville or Leamington, Point Pelee's boardwalk and the May bird migration, Amherstburg's Fort Malden and its main street, Colchester's beach, Leamington's greenhouses and its marina: a London day in the county by the hour touches three of them with lunch in Kingsville, and the Tourism Windsor Essex site lists the season.
The bridges, the tunnel and Detroit
The Ambassador Bridge from Huron Church Road, the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel from downtown to downtown, and the Gordie Howe International Bridge from the 401's end: a London run to Windsor that continues to Detroit - Ford Field, Comerica Park, Little Caesars Arena, the Detroit casinos, Ann Arbor, DTW - crosses in the same vehicle with a chauffeur licensed to do it, the documents confirmed the evening before and the border wait in the rate, as the cross-border page explains.
Windsor airport and the flights
YQG on Walker Road flies Toronto connections and the sun, and a Windsor day that ends at a flight is one confirmation; Detroit Metro across the river flies everywhere else, and a Londoner's DTW run passes through Windsor at the two-hour mark.
The Windsor hotels
Caesars' towers for the occasion, the Hilton and the Best Western on the riverfront, the Holiday Inn and the hotels along Huron Church Road and Walker Road for a plant week or an early flight, the inns of Kingsville and Amherstburg for a winery weekend: the travel desk books the room on the file with the chauffeurs.
Weddings and events in Windsor-Essex
The wineries' event barns, the riverfront halls, the Ciociaro Club and the county's banquet halls, Fort Malden's grounds: a London wedding party by Sprinter and the guests by coach, the couple in a stretch through our partner fleet, quoted from the timeline as the wedding page describes.
Winter on the 401 west
The Dutton-to-Tilbury stretch is where the province's worst winter pile-ups happen, and the chauffeur reads 511 and the forecast before every run, leaves earlier, uses Highway 3, or advises a Windsor hotel the night before a morning flight from DTW. Winter tires from November to April; all-wheel-drive SUVs on the bad days; the fixed rate unchanged.
The honest alternatives
VIA Rail runs London to Windsor several times a day in under two hours and suits a solo traveller going station to downtown or to the university; the intercity bus is slow; a London taxi on the meter costs about the chauffeured fare with none of the certainty. For the casino evening, the student move, the hospital run, the plant day, the wineries and anything that crosses the bridge, the chauffeured fixed rate or the day by the hour.
Three Windsor bookings, as they actually ran
A Caesars show, Saturday. A luxury sedan from Old North at 4 for an 8 p.m. Colosseum concert, dinner in the tower, the floor after, and home at 2:30 a.m. Ten and a half hours by the hour; nobody drove.
A hospital referral, Monday. An executive SUV from Tecumseh at 6:30 a.m. to University Hospital in London for 8:30, the chauffeur waiting through the day, and home by 5. Booked by a daughter in Toronto on a household account.
A supplier's Windsor-Michigan day, Wednesday. A business sedan from a London industrial park at 6:30, a tooling shop in Windsor at 8:30, the Ambassador Bridge, a Dearborn customer at 11, back across at 3 with the declarations made, and home at 5:30. On the corporate account; eleven hours with the crossing in the quote.
Three questions the desk is asked about Windsor
Can the same car cross to Detroit? Yes - on the cross-border service, with a chauffeur licensed to cross, the documents confirmed the evening before and the bridge wait in the rate. Can the chauffeur wait through a Caesars evening? Yes, by the hour. Is Chatham on the way? Yes - a Chatham pickup on a Windsor run is priced as a stop.
Booking it
Two addresses on the reservation engine, the date and time, the vehicle class; the fixed rate appears; or book the Windsor day by the hour. Cross-border runs, Caesars groups and standing hospital bookings are set up by the desk; the rates page has Windsor beside Chatham, Sarnia and Detroit.
Planning figures. Rates are LondonLimo.net planning ranges before HST, one way from downtown London; the engine quotes the exact addresses, date and vehicle. Casino, university, hospital, plant and venue names describe where we drive and imply no affiliation; casino admission rules are the operator's and the AGCO's.
What Windsor looks like from the car
The 401 ending in the Herb Gray Parkway's sunken lanes with the Gordie Howe bridge's towers ahead, the Ambassador Bridge's blue span to the right, Detroit's skyscrapers across the river closer than any building in Windsor, the riverfront's parks and Caesars' towers on Riverside Drive, Walkerville's brick and the distillery's chimneys, the university's campus tucked under the bridge, and the county beyond - flat, agricultural, greenhouse-lit at night toward Leamington. The chauffeur knows the bridge approaches' truck lanes, the tunnel's plaza, the casino's drop-off loop and the E.C. Row's exits; the City of Windsor's site publishes the road work and the bridge authorities the crossing waits.
Visitors coming the other way
A Windsor tooling company's executive to a London supplier, a University of Windsor student collected for Western, a Windsor Regional patient to London, a Michigan visitor crossing the bridge for a London meeting: the same chauffeur, the same fixed rate in reverse, with the corporate account working for the Windsor company and the cross-border page covering a Michigan visitor's documents.
