Monthly Chauffeur Service

What you are actually reserving

A monthly block is a claim on a chauffeur’s time. Instead of booking ride by ride and hoping the same person turns up, you reserve a number of hours each calendar month and the member operator in your city builds its rota around them. The chauffeur learns your addresses, the entrance you prefer at the office, the colleague who is always late, and the days when silence matters more than conversation.

The hours are priced at exactly the same hourly rates as a single booking: $155 for a Business sedan, $185 for an SUV Business Class, $235 for an SUV First Class and $285 for a first-class sedan such as a Mercedes-Benz S-Class, BMW 7 Series or Genesis G90. There is no discount for reserving and none is built in. What the block buys is priority on the diary, continuity of chauffeur and vehicle, and one invoice at the end of the month instead of forty receipts.

Every service day includes 93 miles. Beyond that, each additional mile is $3 in a Business sedan, $4 in either SUV class and $8 in a first-class sedan. Tolls, parking and in-car Wi-Fi are passed through at actual cost, so a day spent in a city centre garage is billed for what the garage charged and nothing more.

USD, within the home city, taxes and 20% gratuity included. Same hourly rates as a single booking — no reservation discount. Unused hours and miles do not roll over. Time beyond the block is billed at the same hourly rate.

Who reserves a chauffeur by the month

The pattern is the same across very different clients: somebody needs to be in a car most working days, in one city, for weeks at a time, and cannot afford a different driver each morning. Choose the description closest to yours; each card links here from the home page.

How a month runs in practice

The coming day is confirmed with you, your assistant or your household manager the evening before. Pickups, meetings, school gates and dinner reservations go onto one running schedule, and the chauffeur positions early for each of them. Waiting time between appointments is part of the block, so the car stays at the curb or a few minutes away rather than leaving and coming back.

When a day runs long, the extra time is simply billed at the same hourly rate as the block. When a month runs light, the unused hours and the unused miles expire with it; neither rolls into the next month. That is what keeps the chauffeur’s time genuinely held for you rather than resold.

• A named primary chauffeur, introduced before the first day
• A relief chauffeur who has been briefed on your routes for rest days and holidays
• A vehicle in the class you chose, no more than four model years old
• A running monthly log of days, hours and miles used
• One coordinator at the reservation desk, answering at any hour
• Discretion as a written policy, with an NDA before the first trip on request

When the work leaves the home city

Monthly clients rarely stay put. A day trip to a second city, a weekend at a country house or a board meeting three hours away is billed at 50% above the in-city rate for the hours spent out of town, plus the chauffeur’s hotel where an overnight is needed and a flat $100 travel allowance. The same rule applies whether the chauffeur is driving a network vehicle or your own car.

For international legs the desk can hand the itinerary to a member operator in the destination country, so a client based in London with a week in Dubai is met at the aircraft door by a briefed chauffeur rather than a stranger with a board.

Monthly chauffeur service around the world

Member operators provide monthly chauffeurs in the network’s busiest markets, including New York, Washington, Miami, Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Paris, Geneva, Zurich, Milan, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Doha, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney, and in many smaller cities on request. Rates on this page are quoted and charged in US dollars wherever the service is delivered.

You book a vehicle class rather than a single make. The models named on the vehicle cards below are the ones most often supplied; where a market fields an equivalent car instead, the desk tells you exactly which before you sign.

Choosing the right block

Forty hours suits someone who needs a chauffeur on two or three days a week — a founder with a standing board day, or a family with school runs on alternate days. Eighty hours covers four or five short days, the usual pattern for a senior executive who works partly from home. One hundred and twenty hours means most weekdays at around six hours. Two hundred and twenty hours, about ten hours a day across twenty-two working days, is a full-time chauffeur in everything but the employment contract.

If you are unsure, start smaller. Overtime beyond the block is billed at the same hourly rate, so a block that turns out a little small costs no more per hour than one that fits exactly, whereas hours you reserve and do not use simply expire.

The paperwork

Start date, block size, vehicle class, the named chauffeur, invoicing and the way the arrangement can be changed or brought to an end are all set out in the written agreement you sign before the first day. Nothing on this page replaces that agreement, and the desk will not ask you to rely on a phone conversation for any of it.

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