The LondonLimo.net travel desk arranges the parts of a trip that are not the car - flights, hotels, resorts, activities, packages and car rental - through BookingWorldwide.net, an online travel agency in our network, and reconciles them with the chauffeurs on one file. You search below or send the desk a brief; the booking completes on BookingWorldwide.net; the coordinator holds the whole itinerary and the chauffeurs work to it. It exists for the London family planning a holiday out of YXU or Pearson, the relatives flying in for a convocation or a wedding, the family who needs a hotel by the hospital for a week, the company planning an off-site and the assistant who would rather make one call.
What the desk does
A chauffeur company sees the whole trip from the ground: the flight that lands at Pearson at 10:40 p.m. and the two hours on the 401 after it, the hotel that has no porte-cochere, the resort two hours up a snowy road, the conference whose delegates arrive on nine flights. The travel desk uses that view to arrange the rest of the trip so that it fits - the flight out of YXU that avoids the Pearson run altogether, the hotel five minutes from the hospital's entrance, the resort the SUV can reach in January - and holds it on one file with the chauffeur bookings. It does not replace a travel-management company for a large corporation; it does replace the four browser tabs and the three confirmations for everyone else.
Flights: YXU, Pearson, Detroit and Buffalo on one search
London's travellers choose between four airports, and the desk's first job is to say honestly which: London International for the direct flights it has and the connections through Toronto and Calgary, with a fifteen-minute chauffeur run; Pearson for everything else, with the two-hour run priced on the Pearson page; Detroit and Buffalo for the US fares that are sometimes half the price, with the border in the drive. The desk searches all four on BookingWorldwide.net, adds the chauffeur's fare to each, and shows the true door-to-door cost and time.
Hotels in London and everywhere on this site
The London hotels by cluster - downtown for the conference, Wellington Road for the hospital, the north for the campus, the airport for the plants; the Toronto hotels for the Toronto day or the night before an early Pearson flight; the Niagara, Stratford, Grand Bend and Detroit hotels for the destinations; and the hotels in every network city. Booked through BookingWorldwide.net with the chauffeur's transfers timed to check-in and check-out, and with the hospital, conference and long-stay rates the hotels offer when the desk asks.
Resorts and the escapes
Muskoka's lodges, Blue Mountain, the Niagara wine country's inns, the Huron shore's cottages and inns at Grand Bend and Bayfield, Tremblant and the Laurentians, Banff and Lake Louise, Whistler: searched and booked through BookingWorldwide.net with the chauffeur's run from the door in London to the resort's door, or to the airport and the network's chauffeur at the far end.
Activities, tours and tables
Tickets, tours, tastings and tables for the hours between the transfers: the Stratford Festival's seats and the dinner before, the Niagara wineries and the Falls, a Leafs or a Lions game, the Detroit Institute of Arts, a Pelee Island crossing, the Knights and the Grand in London itself; booked through BookingWorldwide.net and timed with the chauffeur who is waiting outside.
Packages: a trip as one file
A flight, a hotel and the ground handled as one file: a family's March break with the YXU flights, the resort and the chauffeur both ways; a wedding weekend with the guests' flights into Pearson and YXU, the hotels and the Sprinter shuttle; a convocation with the grandparents' flights, Windermere Manor and the SUV by the hour; a hospital month with the suites hotel and the daily runs; a company's conference at RBC Place with the delegates' flights, the rooms and the arrivals manifest. The desk builds it, BookingWorldwide.net books the air and the hotel, the chauffeurs are ours, and the invoice is one.
Car rental
Self-drive for the days a chauffeur is not needed - the week at the cottage after the chauffeured airport run, the road trip after the conference, the relatives' fortnight in the city - booked through BookingWorldwide.net and handed over where the chauffeur drops you.
Who uses the travel desk
London families planning the holiday flight, the cruise, the ski week or the visit from relatives abroad. Relatives flying in for a convocation, a wedding, a birth or a hospital stay, who want the flight, the hotel and the meet at the terminal arranged by one person who understands the ground. Patients' families who need a hotel by the hospital and the daily runs on one file. Wedding couples whose guests are flying in from three countries. Companies planning an off-site, a client visit or a conference without a TMC. Visitors to London who want the whole trip handled from the door at Pearson to the door at the hotel. Cruise passengers who want the pre- and post-cruise nights and the airport transfers on the file with the ship.
How it works
Search below and book on BookingWorldwide.net, then book the chauffeurs on the reservation engine and tell the desk to link them; or send the desk a brief - the dates, the people, the places, the budget - and the coordinator returns an itinerary with the flights, the hotels and the chauffeurs, books the air and the hotels through BookingWorldwide.net on your approval, books the chauffeurs, and holds the file. Changes go through the coordinator, who changes everything at once. The air and hotel bookings are made under BookingWorldwide.net's terms; the chauffeur bookings under ours.
One file, one invoice
Corporate accounts receive the flights and hotels booked through the desk on the same monthly invoice as the chauffeurs where the company wants it, coded to the same cost centres; household accounts and private clients receive one itinerary and one point of contact.
The network behind the desk
BookingWorldwide.net is part of the same network as LondonLimo.net, alongside the LimousineWorldwide.Directory, the LimousineAssociation.International and the sibling chauffeur companies; the network page describes it. The desk is a service of LondonLimo.net and the coordinator is ours, in London.
Three briefs, as the desk handled them
A convocation, June. Grandparents from Kolkata: the flights into Pearson, the meet with a name board, Windermere Manor for four nights, the SUV by the hour on the day, the Stratford matinee on the spare day, and Pearson again. One file, one email of confirmations.
A hospital month, autumn. A family from Sarnia with a patient at University Hospital: a suites hotel in the north cluster at the hospital rate, daily runs on a household account, the pharmacy and the grocery stops, and a relative met at YXU on the second weekend.
A March break, February. A Byron family of five: the YXU flights via Toronto that the desk found cheaper than Pearson direct once the chauffeur's fare was added, the resort, and the van both ways.
Three questions the desk is asked about travel bookings
Can the desk book a flight for a relative who is abroad? Yes - the booking is made through BookingWorldwide.net in the relative's name with the London family's card or the relative's own, and the chauffeur's meet at Pearson or YXU is linked to it, with the "in the car" text sent to any number in any country. Can the desk change everything at once if the plans move? Yes - the coordinator holds the file and changes the flight, the hotel and the chauffeurs together, under BookingWorldwide.net's terms for the air and hotel and ours for the ground. Does the desk charge a fee? No fee for the coordination; the air and hotel bookings are made at BookingWorldwide.net's published prices and the chauffeurs at the engine's fixed rates.
The desk and the airport choice, worked through
A London family of four flying to Florida in March: Pearson's direct flight plus the SUV both ways, or YXU's connection through Toronto with the fifteen-minute chauffeur run at $60 each way; the desk lays both out door to door and the family chooses with the whole number in front of them. A student flying home to Vancouver in April: Pearson direct with the sedan, or YXU via Calgary; the desk's answer depends on the week's fares, and the YXU page explains the airport's own logic. A couple flying to Europe: Pearson's evening departure, and the desk books the sedan for 2:30 p.m. against a 7:30 flight, as the Pearson page rules say.
Booking checklist for a travel brief
The dates; the people and their ages; the origin and the destination; the airport preference if any; the hotel preference or the cluster; the budget; the occasion - a convocation, a wedding, a hospital stay, a holiday; whether a chauffeur is wanted at each end; and the account or card. The coordinator returns an itinerary within a working day.
The London occasions the desk plans most
Convocation weekends for families from abroad; wedding weekends with guests from three countries; the hospital month; the March break; the Stratford or Niagara night away; the conference at RBC Place; and the relatives' first visit to Canada, from the door at Pearson to the door in London. The events page has the calendar these follow, and the hotels page the clusters the desk books into.
The desk for a company without a TMC
A London company that books ten trips a month does not need a travel-management company and does not want the assistant on four sites for each trip; the desk takes the brief, books the flights and the hotels through BookingWorldwide.net, links the chauffeurs, and puts the whole trip on the corporate account's monthly invoice under the traveller's cost centre - the assistant makes one call and sees one confirmation. For the conference, the desk builds the delegates' manifest the group transportation page describes and books the rooms in a block.
The desk and the destinations
Every page on the destinations hub ends with the drive; the desk adds the night: the Stratford inn after the play, the Fallsview hotel after the Falls, the Toronto hotel before the early flight, the Detroit hotel after the game, the Grand Bend cottage for the week, all booked through BookingWorldwide.net with the chauffeur's return timed to the checkout.
What the desk cannot do
It does not issue airline tickets itself, hold seats without payment, or override BookingWorldwide.net's fare rules; it does not sell travel insurance, though it will point to the Government of Canada's travel pages for what a traveller should hold; and it does not replace a travel-management company for a corporation with a global programme. Within those limits it does the thing the four browser tabs cannot: it holds the trip as one file with the chauffeurs, and one person answers for all of it.
