Every reservation we take is one of two shapes. Point-to-point buys a single journey: you are collected at A and delivered to B, and the price is settled before you travel. Hourly — sometimes called "as directed" — buys the car and the chauffeur for a block of time, and you decide where it goes while the clock runs.
The rule of thumb
If your itinerary is one hop with no waiting, book point-to-point. If it involves waiting, more than two stops, or a schedule that might move, book hourly. The moment a point-to-point trip acquires a "can you wait twenty minutes while I…", hourly was the cheaper booking.
What hourly actually costs
Hourly rates start at $75 per hour for a sedan and $85 for a six-passenger SUV, rising with capacity — $155 for a 14-passenger Mercedes Sprinter, $165 and up for party buses. Minimums apply: one hour on standard sedans and SUVs, three hours on vans, limousines and buses, and a three-hour sedan / four-hour SUV minimum on hourly reservations generally.
Those minimums are the thing to plan around. A two-hour dinner reservation booked hourly on a sedan is billed at the three-hour minimum, so a pair of point-to-point transfers may well come in lower. Six stops across an afternoon, on the other hand, is exactly what the hourly rate exists for.
Surcharges that apply either way
- Late-night surcharge — $10 on anything scheduled between 10:30 PM and 3:59 AM
- Holiday surcharge — $30 on major holidays
- Severe weather — $50 sedan / $95 SUV when conditions demand it
- Extra stop — from $10 per stop on sedans, $20 on SUVs
- Car seat — $10 each, front-facing, rear-facing or booster
Tolls are added to the final invoice, and gratuity and taxes sit on top of the quoted rate in both booking shapes.
When to just ask
Weddings, wine tours, proms and corporate days out rarely fit either template cleanly — they are usually a charter with a deposit and a fixed schedule. Send the itinerary through the quote request form and we will price the shape that suits it rather than the one that suits the price list.