Hourly chauffeur service from LondonLimo.net is a black sedan, SUV, luxury van or Sprinter with a licensed chauffeur booked by the hour in London, Ontario, for any day with more than two stops or an end time nobody can fix. Planning figures: a business sedan $95-115 per hour, an executive SUV $115-135, a Sprinter $145-175, with a three-hour minimum on sedans, SUVs and vans and four on the Sprinter; stretch limousines and party buses are hourly too, through our partner fleet. The chauffeur and the vehicle stay with you between stops, the route changes as the day does, and the hourly rate includes the chauffeur, the vehicle, fuel and gratuity. It is the right product for the executive day, the hospital wait, the wine tour, the wedding day and the evening out.
When by the hour beats point to point
A single journey with a known end is a point-to-point booking and it is cheaper that way. The moment the day has three or more stops, or a stop whose length nobody knows, the arithmetic flips. Three point-to-point journeys in London cost more than three hours by the hour, and the chauffeur is with you for the whole of it: the bags stay in the car, the meeting overruns without a phone call, the fourth stop is added at the third, and the return happens when you walk out rather than when you booked. The hourly rate exists so that the day can be what it turns out to be. The engine will price both ways in seconds if you give it the stops; the desk will tell you honestly which is cheaper.
| Vehicle class | Hourly planning figure | Minimum |
|---|---|---|
| Business sedan | $95-115 | 3 hours |
| Luxury sedan | $135-165 | 3 hours |
| Executive SUV | $115-135 | 3 hours |
| Luxury van | $120-140 | 3 hours |
| Executive Sprinter | $145-175 | 4 hours |
| Stretch limousine (partner fleet) | $150-220 | 4 hours |
| Limo bus / party bus (partner fleet) | $190-290 | 4-5 hours |
Figures are before HST and are LondonLimo.net planning ranges; the engine quotes the exact date, vehicle and hours, and weddings, proms and holiday dates may carry a different minimum stated on the confirmation.
How the hours are counted
The clock starts at the pickup time you booked and runs until the chauffeur drops you at the last address; it does not start when the car leaves the garage and it does not run while the chauffeur drives home, which is not true of every operator in the province. Time is billed in fifteen-minute blocks after the minimum. If the day runs long the chauffeur stays, at the same hourly rate, and dispatch is told so the next booking is covered. If the day ends early the minimum still applies, because the chauffeur and the vehicle were reserved for it. A journey that leaves London - to Kitchener, to Stratford, to the Pelee Island wineries - is still charged by the hour if the chauffeur waits and returns with you; a one-way run to Toronto is cheaper as a city-to-city fixed rate.
The executive day
The most common hourly booking in London is the working day with stops: the head office at 8, the plant on Veterans Memorial Parkway at 10, a client in Woodstock at noon, lunch, the courthouse at 3, the hotel at 6 and dinner at 8. A business sedan for nine hours is a planning figure under $1,000 plus HST, the papers never leave the car, the assistant made one booking, and the executive spent the day working rather than parking. Visiting boards, roadshows, auditors and the annual site tour by the Toronto parent run the same way; the corporate chauffeur service page explains how it sits on an account.
The hospital day
A day of appointments across University Hospital, Victoria Hospital and St. Joseph's - bloodwork at 7, imaging at 9, the consultant at 1, the pharmacy, home - is an hourly booking with a patient in the back and a chauffeur who waits at each entrance, helps with the doors and the bags, and never asks when the appointment will end. Families out of town book it for a parent; patients from Sarnia, Chatham or Goderich book it for a London day of treatment with the run in and out included. It is also the product for a discharge whose time keeps moving.
The wine tour, the brewery run, the day out
The wineries of Pelee Island and Essex County, the Niagara bench, London's own breweries, the Christmas lights, the Stratford Festival matinee with dinner after, Grand Bend for the day: an SUV or a van by the hour turns any of them into a day nobody has to drive. The chauffeur plans the route, waits at each stop and gets everyone home. Six people in a van at a planning figure of $120-140 an hour is cheaper than any organised tour and goes where you choose.
The wedding day and the evening out
Weddings are hourly by nature: the house, the ceremony, the photographs, the reception, the send-off. A stretch limousine through our partner fleet, a luxury van for the party and an SUV for the parents are booked for the day with a coordinator; the wedding page describes the full day. The evening with no fixed end - the anniversary dinner and the bar after, the concert at Canada Life Place and the drinks on Richmond Row, the casino night in Point Edward - is a sedan or SUV by the hour from 6 p.m. until whenever, with nobody watching the time.
What the chauffeur does between stops
Waits with the vehicle, nearby, reachable by text in seconds. Moves the car if the parking rules require it, so you never come out to an empty curb. Keeps the cabin at the temperature you asked for. Holds the bags, the coats, the samples, the flowers. Does not leave the vehicle unattended with your belongings in it. Does not take another job. And when the schedule changes - the meeting runs to four, the tasting room is closed, the reception is running late - re-plans the rest of the day without being asked.
Multi-day programmes
A visiting board for three days, a film crew for a week at the Western Fair District, a family in London for a funeral, a roadshow through Southwestern Ontario: multi-day hourly programmes are quoted in writing by a coordinator, with a named lead chauffeur, a daily minimum and a daily rate below the hourly equivalent. The vehicle can be held overnight at your hotel if the programme starts early. Send the schedule to the desk; the quote comes back the same day.
What is not included, and what is
Included: the chauffeur, the vehicle, fuel, gratuity, water, Wi-Fi where the vehicle has it, waiting at every stop. Not included: parking charges at venues that levy them, tolls on the 407 if you ask for it, admission tickets, meals, and - beyond London - a chauffeur's overnight accommodation on a multi-day programme, which is agreed in the quote. The engine shows the hourly rate and the minimum before you confirm; the receipt shows the hours and any of those pass-through items separately.
Three hourly bookings, as they actually run
An auditor, Tuesday. A business sedan from the DoubleTree at 7:45: the client's head office, a satellite site in St. Thomas, back to the office, the hotel at 6. Ten and a quarter hours; one line on the firm's account.
A daughter in Calgary, Thursday. An executive SUV collects her mother in Old South at 8:30 for a day of appointments at Victoria Hospital and St. Joseph's, waits at each, takes her to lunch and home at 3. The booking was made from Alberta; the receipt went there too.
Six friends, Saturday. A luxury van from Byron at 11 a.m. to three Essex County wineries and lunch at a fourth, home by 7. Eight hours, one fare split six ways, nobody drove.
Planning figures. Hourly rates on this page are LondonLimo.net planning ranges before HST; the reservation engine quotes the exact date, vehicle and hours. Minimums on proms, holidays and large events are stated on the confirmation.
Airport waits and the long connection
An hourly booking is also the answer to the awkward airport day: the parent arriving at YXU at noon whose flight home is at 6, the delegation with four hours between the Pearson landing and the London meeting, the executive who wants to work from the car between a Terminal 3 arrival and a Terminal 1 departure. The chauffeur and the vehicle are yours for the hours, the bags stay aboard, and the day is priced once. Pearson's own rules on commercial pickups and waiting are handled by the chauffeur, as they are on every airport page.
Film, television and production days
The Forest City has a working screen industry, and production days run on the hour: a unit driver from the hotel to a location in the Western Fair District at 5 a.m., cast moves between set and the trailers, a producer's day of meetings, the wrap party. Sprinters for crew and SUVs for talent are booked by the hour with a coordinator on multi-day programmes, invoiced to the production's account, and every chauffeur has signed the confidentiality undertaking that a set requires.
Accessibility, children and the passengers who need more time
An hourly booking is the right shape for a passenger who cannot be rushed: a wheelchair user on a day of appointments, with an accessible vehicle arranged with notice through our partners; a parent with a newborn and the car seat fitted; an elderly relative who needs the chauffeur's arm at every door. The chauffeur waits, helps and does not watch the clock in a way the passenger can feel. The rate is the same hourly rate; what changes is the plan, which the desk builds with you.
How the hourly rate compares with the alternatives
A rideshare driver cannot be asked to wait; a taxi on the meter can, at a waiting-time rate that adds up faster than an hourly chauffeur and without the vehicle, the licence or the name the night before. A rental car with a driver from the company's own staff costs the driver's day. For a three-stop morning in London the rates page puts the numbers side by side; for a working day, the hourly chauffeur is almost always the cheapest option that does not cost someone in the company their day.
The engine, and the desk
Hourly bookings for sedans, SUVs, vans and Sprinters are made instantly on the reservation engine: vehicle class, start time, hours, first address; the rate and the minimum are shown before you confirm; stops are given to the chauffeur on the day. Stretch limousines, party buses, coaches and multi-day programmes are quoted in writing by the desk with a coordinator. Either way the chauffeur's name, mobile and plate arrive the evening before and the receipt itemises the hours.
Where the hours go: a London day by the clock
Downtown to the Western campus is fifteen minutes; to Fanshawe on Oxford Street East, the same; to the 401 hotels at Wellington Road, twenty; across the city from Byron to Argyle, thirty-five at the wrong hour. A three-hour minimum therefore covers a downtown breakfast, a campus meeting and a lunch in Wortley Village with time to spare, and a five-hour booking covers London and a stop in St. Thomas or Woodstock. The chauffeur knows the hour-by-hour pattern - the Wonderland Road crawl at 5, the Oxford Street backup by Masonville, the Richmond Row closure on festival weekends - and plans the sequence of stops to spend your hours in meetings rather than in traffic.
