Concert, sports and event transportation from LondonLimo.net is a chauffeured sedan, SUV, van, Sprinter or partner limo bus booked for a game, a show, a festival or a gala - in London at Canada Life Place, the Grand Theatre, RBC Place, Centennial Hall, London Music Hall and the Western Fair District; in Toronto at Scotiabank Arena, Rogers Centre, BMO Field and the concert venues; in Detroit at Ford Field, Comerica Park and Little Caesars Arena; in Buffalo at the Bills' stadium; and at Hamilton's and Kitchener's arenas. In the city a round trip is two fixed-rate journeys, the return booked for a time you move by text; out of town it is a fixed one-way rate or a day by the hour with the chauffeur waiting. Nobody parks, nobody drives home, and the events calendar has the dates.
The arena night in London
Canada Life Place on Dundas Street is where London goes out: the Knights forty-odd nights a season from September to the OHL playoffs in May, the Lightning basketball season, the concert tours that stop between Toronto and Detroit, the family shows. Parking in the core on a game night is the reason a black car exists: the chauffeur drops at the door on Dundas or King, and the return is booked for ten minutes after the final buzzer, moved by text if the game goes to overtime. A sedan from Byron is a planning figure of $50-70 each way; an SUV for six from Masonville a little more; and the evening's second half - dinner on Richmond Row or the bar after - is one more stop. The venues page describes the loading zones and the streets the police close on a big night.
| Event, from London | Vehicle | Planning figure |
|---|---|---|
| Canada Life Place, Grand Theatre, RBC Place, Centennial Hall - from anywhere in London | sedan / SUV, each way | $45-75 / $60-95 |
| Western Mustangs at Alumni Stadium, Homecoming | sedan / SUV, each way | $40-60 / $55-80 |
| Toronto: Scotiabank Arena, Rogers Centre, BMO Field, Budweiser Stage, Coca-Cola Coliseum | sedan / SUV, one way | $320-380 / $370-430 |
| Hamilton: FirstOntario Centre, Tim Hortons Field | sedan / SUV, one way | $245-295 / $295-345 |
| Kitchener: the Aud, Centre In The Square | sedan / SUV, one way | $200-240 / $240-290 |
| Detroit: Ford Field, Comerica Park, Little Caesars Arena, the Fox | SUV / Sprinter, one way + border | $480-580 / $720-860 |
| Buffalo: Highmark Stadium, KeyBank Center | SUV / Sprinter, one way + border | $520-620 / $780-920 |
| Group of 14-30 to any of the above | Sprinter or partner limo bus | by the hour, quoted |
Figures are LondonLimo.net planning ranges before HST, from downtown London; the engine quotes the exact addresses and date. A same-day return with the chauffeur waiting is priced by the hour and is usually cheaper for Hamilton and Kitchener.
Toronto: the Leafs, the Raptors, the Jays, TFC and the concerts
Two and a quarter hours to the Gardiner and the drop at the gate: Scotiabank Arena for the Leafs and Raptors, the Rogers Centre for the Jays, BMO Field for Toronto FC and the Argos, Budweiser Stage and the Coliseum for the summer tours, Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall for the seated ones. The evening game means a 4 p.m. departure from London and a midnight return; the chauffeur waits in the city on an hourly booking or the group books two one-ways. A Sprinter for fourteen at a planning figure of $580-680 one way is $45 a head, less than the train and the streetcar with a group, and it leaves from your driveway. A weekend of it - the Saturday game, the hotel, the Sunday brunch - is the travel desk's job with the hotel on the same file.
Detroit and Buffalo: the Lions, the Tigers, the Red Wings, the Bills
Londoners have always been a Detroit sports town, and the cross-border game day is the most social booking on this site: a Sprinter of fourteen in Lions jerseys from a house in Westmount at 8 a.m. for a 1 p.m. kickoff at Ford Field, tailgating in the Eastern Market lots, and home across the Ambassador Bridge by 9. Comerica Park for the Tigers, Little Caesars Arena for the Red Wings and the Pistons, the Fox Theatre and the Fillmore for the concerts; Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park for the Bills. The border is handled on the cross-border service - passports, NEXUS where the group has it, the bridge queue in the rate - and the chauffeur is licensed and insured to cross. Game-day Sundays at the bridges are busy; the plan leaves an hour for the return crossing.
Festivals and the summer calendar
Sunfest in Victoria Park in July, Rock the Park at Harris Park, the Home County festival, Pride London, the Western Fair in September, the Forest City Film Festival in October, and the Christmas markets: the festivals close streets downtown and fill the parking, and a car that drops at the edge of the closure and collects from the same spot at an agreed time is the way a family or a group does a festival evening. The events calendar has the dates each year; the chauffeur knows the closures.
Galas, fundraisers and the corporate table
The hospital foundation galas, the RBC Place dinners, the Museum London and Grand Theatre fundraisers, the Ivey and Western alumni dinners, the chamber's awards: a company with a table of ten sends an SUV round the guests' houses and a second at the end of the night; an individual couple books a luxury sedan by the hour from 6 until the last dance. Black tie and a chauffeur in a dark suit at the door is what the evening looks like, and the corporate account makes the table's transport one line.
The Western calendar: Homecoming, the Mustangs, the formals
Western has its own event season: Homecoming in October with the game at Alumni Stadium and the parties before and after, the Mustangs' football and hockey seasons, the faculty formals, the Ivey ball, orientation week, and convocation. Alumni fly in from Vancouver and New York, stay downtown and need a car for the weekend; students book Sprinters for the formal; parents book SUVs for the game. The prom and graduation page covers the formals and convocations; the hotels page the weekend.
The return, and the surge that does not happen
The thing everyone remembers about an event is the hour after it: the parking garage that takes forty minutes to empty, the rideshare that is surging four times its daytime price, the taxi rank with a line down the block. The return is booked with the outbound at a fixed rate, for a time you move by text from inside the venue; the chauffeur waits in the holding zone the venue allows and pulls to the door when you walk out. The price was set at lunchtime. That is the whole product, and it is why the game night is the most repeated booking a household makes.
Groups: from six to a busload
Six in an SUV, fourteen in a Sprinter with belts, sixteen to thirty in a partner limo bus with the game on the screens on the way, fifty in a coach for the company's night at the Jays: the desk quotes groups in writing with a lead chauffeur and a manifest, collects from several addresses in order, and gets everyone home in the same order. A group to Toronto or Detroit is the booking where the bus beats every alternative on cost per head.
Teams, tournaments and the athletes themselves
Minor hockey to a tournament in Kitchener, a Western varsity team to a game in Hamilton, a club's swim meet in Windsor, a school's track team to the OFSAA finals: Sprinters and coaches with the equipment bays, a chauffeur who has driven to the arena before, and a coordinator who handles the return after the final. The group and team transportation page is the detail; the corporate account structure works for a club as it does for a company.
Accessibility at the venues
Canada Life Place, RBC Place, the Grand Theatre and the Toronto and Detroit stadiums all have accessible entrances that are not the main door, and the chauffeur knows where they are; an accessible vehicle is arranged with notice through our partners, and the return is timed for the accessible exit. Tell the desk when booking and the plan is built around it.
Three event bookings, as they actually ran
A Knights playoff game, April. An SUV from Old South for six at 6:15 to the Dundas Street door, dinner after at a restaurant by the market, and home at 11:45 - two fixed rates and one stop, the return moved twice by text through overtime.
A Lions Sunday, November. A Sprinter for fourteen from Westmount at 8 a.m., the Ambassador Bridge in forty minutes, Eastern Market, Ford Field, and the bridge home in ninety on a busy Sunday. Eleven hours by the hour, one fare split fourteen ways.
A gala at RBC Place, May. A luxury sedan by the hour from 6 p.m. for a couple in Masonville: the gala, the after-party at a hotel bar, home at 1. Seven hours; black tie; nobody drove.
Planning figures. Rates are LondonLimo.net planning ranges before HST; the engine quotes the exact addresses, date and vehicle. Venue, team and festival names describe where we drive and imply no affiliation or ticket access; tickets are yours.
The Grand, Centennial Hall, Aeolian Hall and the theatre night
Not every event is an arena. The Grand Theatre on Richmond Street runs a season from October to May; Centennial Hall on Wellington hosts the orchestra, the touring musicals and the comedians; Aeolian Hall in the east end and London Music Hall on Queens have the club and folk tours; Fanshawe's and Western's theatres have the student seasons. A luxury sedan from the door to the theatre and back after dinner is a planning figure of $45-75 each way, and the Stratford Festival an hour away is the same product with a longer drive, covered on the Stratford page.
Ticketing, timing and the chauffeur's briefing
The chauffeur is briefed with the venue, the start time, the section or the entrance you are using, and the return time you expect; large venues open doors an hour or more before the event and the drop is timed for it. Where a venue publishes a bag policy, a parking-lot closure or a rideshare zone, the chauffeur knows it; where the police close a street for a big night, the drop moves to the nearest open block and the pickup to the agreed corner. Tickets are yours; the venues page links each venue's own site for the rules.
