Black car in London · 2026-09-21 · 8-minute read
London, Ontario's attractions fit into two chauffeured days: day one downtown and north - Museum London and Eldon House at the forks, Covent Garden Market and Victoria Park, Western's campus and the Arboretum, Wortley Village for dinner and the Grand Theatre at 8; day two west and east - Springbank Park and Storybook Gardens, Boler Mountain, Fanshawe Pioneer Village, 100 Kellogg Lane and the breweries in the Old East Village, and the Knights at Canada Life Place or a Richmond Row dinner to finish. Each day is an hourly booking with LondonLimo.net - $95-115 an hour for a sedan, $115-135 for an SUV - with the chauffeur waiting at each door and the order set to avoid the lots that fill; the attractions page has the city, and this article the two days in order, with the swaps for children, a couple and rain.
Day one: downtown and north
| Time | Stop | Minutes from the last | The chauffeur's note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 | Museum London and Eldon House, the forks | from the hotel, 5 | The museum's Ridout door; Eldon House's gardens are a five-minute walk |
| 11:30 | Harris Park and the Thames Valley Parkway | walk | The bridges over the forks; the chauffeur moves the car to King Street |
| 12:15 | Covent Garden Market | 3 | Lunch in the food hall; the outdoor market in summer, the rink in winter |
| 1:30 | Victoria Park and the core | walk | The bandstand, the cenotaph; Richmond Street's shops |
| 2:30 | Banting House, Adelaide Street | 5 | The birthplace of insulin; the flame of hope |
| 3:15 | Western's campus and the Arboretum | 15 | University College's tower, the concrete beach, the Thames; the chauffeur knows the loops |
| 5:00 | The hotel, to change | 12 | |
| 6:30 | Wortley Village, dinner | 6 | The Village's restaurants; the chauffeur waits in the Village |
| 8:00 | The Grand Theatre, Richmond Street | 6 | The loading zone drop; the return at curtain-down |
About ten hours by the hour; a planning figure under $1,250 for a sedan or $1,400 for an SUV, plus HST.
Day two: west and east
| Time | Stop | Minutes from the last | The chauffeur's note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 | Springbank Park and Storybook Gardens | from the hotel, 12 | The children's park; the SUV at Storybook's lot |
| 11:30 | Boler Mountain, Byron | 8 | Tubing and skiing in winter; the treetop course and bike park in summer |
| 1:00 | Lunch in Byron's village or Wortley Village | 8 | |
| 2:15 | Fanshawe Pioneer Village | 25 | The nineteenth-century village by the lake; the seasonal festivals |
| 4:00 | 100 Kellogg Lane, the Old East Village | 15 | The Factory, axe-throwing, the distillery, the Hard Rock's stage |
| 5:30 | The breweries: Toboggan, Anderson, Forked River | 5-10 | A two-stop crawl; the chauffeur outside each |
| 7:00 | Dinner on Richmond Row, or the Knights at 7 | 8 | The Row's patios; or the Dundas Street door and the corner at the horn |
About ten hours; the same planning figures. The things to do article has a one-day version.
The forks, in more detail
The Thames divides at the forks just west of the core, and Museum London's galleries and terrace, Eldon House's 1834 rooms and gardens, Harris Park below and the Ivey Park fountain are a morning on foot; the chauffeur drops at the museum's door at 9:30, moves the car, and collects at the market at noon. The City of London's heritage pages describe the district.
The campus, in more detail
Western's campus is the city's most photographed afternoon - the tower, the clock, the concrete beach, the Arboretum's trees, the river - and the chauffeur knows the loops and where to wait; the universities page has the campus and a visitor with a student there adds the residence to the stop.
The Old East Village, in more detail
Kellogg Lane's converted factory with its Factory adventure park, axe-throwing, distillery, brewery and the Hard Rock Hotel opened in 2025, the Western Fair District's market three minutes east, Aeolian Hall's recitals, and the Dundas Street East cafes: a late afternoon and an evening in one district, and the Kellogg Lane article has the complex.
The swaps: children
Storybook Gardens and Boler Mountain move to the top of day one, the Children's Museum on Wharncliffe Road replaces Banting House, the market's rink replaces the Grand in winter, and Kellogg Lane's Factory takes the whole of day two's afternoon; an SUV with the car seats fitted, and the fleet page has the seats.
The swaps: a couple
Museum London's terrace, lunch at the Idlewyld, the breweries and the distillery, Aeolian Hall's evening recital or the Grand, and a nightcap on the Row; a luxury sedan by the hour at $135-165, and the venues page has the halls.
The swaps: rain
Kellogg Lane's Factory, the Children's Museum, Museum London's galleries, the market's food hall and the Grand's matinee, all indoors and within fifteen minutes of each other; the chauffeur drops at each door.
The third day: the region
Stratford's Festival fifty minutes north, Port Stanley's beach forty-five south, Grand Bend an hour northwest, the Essex County wineries two hours west, Niagara two hours twenty east: the destinations hub has each with the drive and the planning figure, and a third day usually goes to one.
The hotel, and the arrival
A visitor's two days start at Pearson or YXU with a name board and a hotel in the downtown cluster - a walk from the market and the Grand - booked through the travel desk on one file with the days.
Three itineraries, as they went
Grandparents from Mumbai, June, two days. Day one as above with Western's campus for the convocation photographs; day two with Springbank, the Pioneer Village and Kellogg Lane; an SUV both days; the Grand on the first evening.
A couple from Halifax, October, two days. The forks, the market, Banting House and the campus; the breweries, Kellogg Lane and Aeolian Hall; a luxury sedan; the Forest City Film Festival on the second evening.
A family of five, March break, two rainy days. Kellogg Lane's Factory, the Children's Museum, the market's rink and Boler's tubing when the rain turned to snow; a van; the Knights on the Friday.
Booking it
The two days are one email to the desk, which plans the hours, the rooms and the tickets on one file with the travel desk; a single journey between attractions is a fixed rate on the reservation engine; the attractions page has the city.
Three questions the desk is asked about the itinerary
Can we skip the campus? Of course - the itinerary is the chauffeurs' default and every stop is optional; a couple with no student in the family often swaps the campus for the breweries. Are tickets and admissions included? No - each attraction's admission is its own, and the travel desk buys tickets as an agent for a client who asks. Is one day enough? The one-day article is the compressed version; two days see the city without hurry.
The morning at the forks, timed
9:30 at Museum London's Ridout door; the galleries until 10:30; Eldon House's gardens at 10:40; the walk across the Thames Valley Parkway's bridge to Harris Park at 11:15; the chauffeur with the car on King Street at the market by 12:15. The attractions page has the forks.
The market and the core, timed
Lunch in the food hall from 12:15; Victoria Park's bandstand and the cenotaph at 1:30; Richmond Street's shops; Banting House on Adelaide Street at 2:30 for forty minutes - the birthplace of insulin's museum and the flame of hope are worth the detour; the chauffeur at the door at 3:10 for the campus.
The campus, timed
University College's tower and the Middlesex clock at 3:30; the concrete beach and the Arboretum's paths; the Thames under the University Drive bridge; Alumni Hall's exterior for the convocation family's rehearsal photograph; the chauffeur waiting at the campus's visitor lot; the hotel at 5. The universities page has the campus.
Day two's morning, timed
Storybook Gardens at 9:30 with the SUV at the lot; the carousel, the splash pad in summer and the train; Springbank's paths; Boler Mountain at 11:30 for tubing in winter or the treetop course in summer; lunch in Byron's village. The Boler site has the seasons.
Day two's afternoon, timed
Fanshawe Pioneer Village at 2:15 for the nineteenth-century village and its interpreters, twenty-five minutes across the city; Kellogg Lane at 4 for the Factory and the distillery; the breweries at 5:30; and the evening on the Row or at the arena. The Pioneer Village site has the seasonal festivals.
The hotel between the days
The downtown cluster - the DoubleTree or the Delta - puts the market, the Grand and the arena within a walk and the rest within fifteen minutes by car; the Hard Rock at Kellogg Lane puts day two's afternoon under the visitor's own roof; the hotels page has the choice and the hotels article the arrival.
The arithmetic, for a family of four
Two ten-hour days in an SUV at $115-135 an hour is a planning figure of $2,300-2,700 plus HST for the two days, with no parking, no map, no designated driver and the children asleep in the car between stops; against a rental car, two days of parking at eight lots, and a parent who did not see the city because they were driving it. The rates page has the hourly figures.
Booking checklist for the two days
The hotel; the arrival flight; the two days' start times; the passengers, the children's ages and any car seats; the must-see stops and the swaps; lunch and dinner preferences; the evening events and their tickets; the vehicle class; the account or the card; and a phone number. The desk plans it on one file with the travel desk.
A worked example: the grandparents' two days
Grandparents from Mumbai in June for a convocation: day one as above, with the campus stop stretched to an hour for the photographs at University College and the concrete beach, and the Grand's evening replaced by dinner at the Idlewyld; day two with Springbank, the Pioneer Village, Kellogg Lane's distillery for the grandfather and the market's rink for nobody, because it was June; an SUV both days with the same chauffeur, and the convocation day itself on the third; the Western article has the ceremony.
The Tourism London calendar, for the dates
Every stop on the itinerary has a season, an opening time and a closure day, and Tourism London publishes them; the desk reads the calendar when it plans a visitor's days, so that the Pioneer Village is not visited on a Monday it is closed or the market on a Sunday it is not open.
The desk's rule of thumb
Two days, ten hours each, by the hour; the SUV for a family and the luxury sedan for a couple; the downtown hotel for the walk to the market and the Grand; the swaps for children and rain; and the third day to Stratford or the shore. The rates page has the hourly figures.
