London, Ontario's attractions are spread across a flat, leafy city of 420,000 that the City of London calls the Forest City, and a visitor with a chauffeur sees them without the parking: Museum London and Eldon House at the forks of the Thames, Covent Garden Market and the downtown core, Victoria Park, Canada Life Place and the Grand Theatre, Springbank Park and Storybook Gardens along the river, Fanshawe Pioneer Village by the lake, Boler Mountain's ski hill and treetop course, the Western Fair District, the breweries, Wortley Village and Richmond Row. LondonLimo.net's black car service moves a visitor between them at fixed rates of $40-70 a journey, or by the hour for a day with the chauffeur waiting; Tourism London publishes the seasonal openings, and this page is the map as the chauffeurs know it.
The city in one paragraph
London sits at the forks of the Thames halfway between Toronto and Detroit, a university and hospital city of insurance head offices, a brewery and a military-vehicle plant, with a downtown on the east bank of the river, a Victorian park at its centre, a grid of tree-lined neighbourhoods around it and a ring of newer suburbs beyond. The river winds through it with parkland along most of its length; the Thames Valley Parkway runs the banks for forty kilometres. Visitors come for Western and Fanshawe, the hospitals, the head offices, the Knights, the festivals, the weddings and the families, and the attractions on this page are what they see in between. A chauffeured car makes the city small: no attraction is more than twenty-five minutes from another, and the neighbourhoods page describes the ground between them.
| From downtown London to | Minutes | Sedan, planning figure |
|---|---|---|
| Museum London, Eldon House, Harris Park, the forks | 5 | $40-50 |
| Covent Garden Market, Victoria Park, Canada Life Place, the Grand Theatre | in the core | $40-50 |
| Springbank Park, Storybook Gardens, the Thames Valley Parkway | 12 | $40-55 |
| Western University, the campus, the Arboretum | 15 | $40-55 |
| Fanshawe Pioneer Village, Fanshawe Conservation Area | 20 | $45-60 |
| Boler Mountain, Byron | 18 | $50-65 |
| The Western Fair District, the Raceway, the Agriplex | 8 | $40-55 |
| Wortley Village, Old South | 6 | $40-50 |
| A day of attractions, hourly, chauffeur waiting | - | $95-115 / h |
LondonLimo.net planning ranges before HST; the engine quotes the exact addresses and date.
The forks: Museum London, Eldon House and Harris Park
The Thames divides at the forks just west of downtown, and the city's history is there: Museum London's art and history galleries and its riverside terrace at Ridout and Dundas, the Eldon House museum in the Harris family's 1834 home and its gardens above the river, Harris Park's festival grounds below, the Ivey Park fountain, the Thames Valley Parkway's bridges. A visitor's morning starts here on foot; the chauffeur drops at the museum's door and waits, and the City's site describes the forks' heritage district.
Covent Garden Market, Dundas Place and the core
The Covent Garden Market on King Street with its food hall, its outdoor farmers' market in summer and its skating rink in winter; Dundas Place, the flexible street a block north with its restaurants and patios; Canada Life Place across King Street; the Grand Theatre on Richmond; the shops of Richmond Street and the Dundas core: the downtown is compact and walkable, and the chauffeur drops at the market's door and collects wherever the afternoon ends.
Victoria Park
The city's central park, a block of Victorian bandstand, trees, the cenotaph and the fountain between Richmond, Dufferin, Wellington and Central, is where London gathers: Sunfest in July, Rock the Park and Home County at Harris Park across the way, the Christmas lights from December, the Canada Day fireworks. The events page has the calendar; the park is a five-minute walk from any downtown hotel, and the chauffeur knows which streets close for each festival.
Canada Life Place and the Grand Theatre
Canada Life Place is the arena at King and Talbot where the London Knights play from September to the OHL playoffs, the Lightning play basketball and the concert tours stop between Toronto and Detroit; the Grand Theatre on Richmond Street is the professional theatre with a season from October to May in its restored 1901 house. The venues page has both in detail, with the drop-offs and the return; the concerts, sports and events page prices the evening.
Springbank Park and Storybook Gardens
Springbank Park runs along the Thames in the city's west for three hundred acres of paths, picnic grounds and the river's bends, and Storybook Gardens inside it is the children's park of fairy-tale playgrounds, a splash pad, a carousel and a small train that London families have visited for seventy years. A family's afternoon is an SUV by the hour with the chauffeur parked at Storybook's lot and a picnic in the trunk; the City's site has the seasonal hours.
Fanshawe Pioneer Village and the conservation area
Fanshawe Pioneer Village recreates a nineteenth-century Ontario village on the shore of Fanshawe Lake in the city's northeast, with costumed interpreters, working trades and seasonal festivals; the conservation area around it has the lake, the campground, the trails and the summer beach. A family's or a school group's day is a car or a coach by the hour, twenty minutes from downtown, and the village's Christmas events fill December weekends.
Boler Mountain: skiing, tubing and the treetop course
Boler Mountain in Byron is the city's ski hill - a modest hill with lifts, night skiing, a tubing park and a snow school in winter, and a treetop adventure course, a bike park and a mountain-biking network in summer. A family's ski afternoon is an SUV with the skis in the back, dropped at the lodge and collected at dusk; the hill is eighteen minutes from downtown and the chauffeur knows the lot.
The Western Fair District
The Western Fair District on Dundas Street East is the fairgrounds: the Western Fair itself in September, the Raceway's harness racing, the Agriplex's shows and conventions, the farmers' and artisans' market on Saturdays, the sports centre's rinks, and the Grove's concerts. A visitor's Saturday morning at the market and a family's evening at the fair are both a car by the hour; the venues page has the district.
Wortley Village, Richmond Row and the neighbourhoods
Wortley Village in Old South, voted the country's best neighbourhood more than once, has the cafes, the shops and the Sunday brunch; Richmond Row north of Oxford has the bars, the restaurants and the night; Old North's streets have the Victorian houses; Byron and Hyde Park the newer suburbs. The neighbourhoods page walks through each, and a visitor's evening between the village and the Row is two fixed-rate journeys or an evening by the hour.
The breweries, the distilleries and the taprooms
London's craft-beer trade - Forked River, Anderson Craft Ales, London Brewing and the taprooms along the east end and downtown - and the distilleries make an afternoon crawl the most-booked daytime tour in the city; the wine, brewery and distillery tours page has the route, by the hour, with the chauffeur waiting outside each.
Western University's campus and the Arboretum
The University College tower, the Middlesex College clock, the concrete beach, the Arboretum's trees, the Thames running through the campus, Alumni Hall's convocations, the football at Western Alumni Stadium: the campus is an attraction in itself for a visitor and a photograph stop for every wedding and prom in the city; the universities and colleges page has the campus and its calendar.
The Banting House, the Thames Valley Parkway and the small museums
Banting House on Adelaide Street, where Frederick Banting had the idea that became insulin, with its museum and the flame of hope; the Thames Valley Parkway's forty kilometres of riverside path for a morning's run or ride; the Royal Canadian Regiment Museum at Wolseley Barracks; the London Children's Museum; the Secrets of Radar Museum; Labatt Memorial Park, the oldest continuously operating baseball grounds in the world, where the Majors play: a visitor's second day, by the hour, with the chauffeur at each door.
Day trips from the city
Stratford for the Festival fifty minutes north, Port Stanley's beach forty-five minutes 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 visitor's week in London usually includes two.
A visitor's day, as the chauffeurs plan it
Morning at the forks - Museum London, Eldon House, a walk to the market for lunch; afternoon at Springbank and Storybook with the children, or the Western campus and the Arboretum without them; the evening on Richmond Row or in Wortley Village, or the Knights at Canada Life Place. An SUV by the hour from 9 until the last drop is a planning figure under $1,100 plus HST for the day, split among a family, with no parking, no map and no designated driver; the hourly page explains the minimums.
Visiting families, convocation weekends and the relatives from overseas
The grandparents from Delhi or Lagos here for a convocation, the family from Vancouver here for a wedding, the relatives who have never seen the city: the attractions on this page are their week, and the hotels page and the airports hub describe the arrival and the stay. A household account holds the visit's bookings; the travel desk the rooms and the tickets.
Three attraction days, as they actually ran
Grandparents from Mumbai, June. An executive SUV by the hour for a day: the forks and Museum London, lunch at the market, Western's campus for the photographs, Springbank Park, and dinner in Wortley Village. Nine hours; the family drove nothing.
A family with three children, March break. An SUV from a downtown hotel to Boler Mountain for tubing at 10, Storybook Gardens at 2, the Children's Museum at 4, and the hotel at 6. By the hour.
A visiting couple, October. A luxury sedan by the hour: the Western Fair District's market on Saturday morning, Fanshawe Pioneer Village's fall festival, the Thames Valley Parkway at Gibbons Park, and the Grand Theatre at 8. Eleven hours.
Booking it
Two addresses on the reservation engine for a single journey between attractions, or a day by the hour; the fixed rate appears before you confirm. A visitor's week is planned by the desk with the travel desk; the rates page has the in-city figures.
Planning figures. Rates are LondonLimo.net planning ranges before HST; the engine quotes the exact addresses, date and vehicle. Attraction names describe where we drive and imply no affiliation; opening hours and admissions are each attraction's own, and Tourism London publishes the season.
Three questions the desk is asked about a visitor's day
Can the chauffeur wait while we're inside? Yes - that is what an hourly booking is; the car is parked as close as the venue allows, the chauffeur's number is in your phone, and a text brings the car to the door. Is a car seat available for the children? Yes, on request at booking - forward-facing and boosters are carried; specify the age and weight. Can we change the plan during the day? Freely; the hourly booking has no route, and the chauffeur has driven every attraction on this page and will suggest the next when the children have had enough of the last.
100 Kellogg Lane and the Old East Village
The converted Kellogg's factory at 100 Kellogg Lane in the Old East Village is the country's largest indoor entertainment complex - the Factory's trampoline park, ropes course and climbing walls for the children, axe-throwing, a distillery and a brewery, restaurants, and since April 2025 Canada's first Hard Rock Hotel with its live stage and its indoor-outdoor pool; the Old East Village around it has the Western Fair's market, the Aeolian Hall and the Dundas Street East cafes. A family's rainy-day afternoon, a stag's axe-throwing hour and a weekend visitor's night are the bookings, eight minutes from the core and twelve from YXU.
