Executive Sedan
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HOURLY CHAUFFEUR SERVICE NYC
Hourly and as-directed chauffeur service, with the car held for you
The car stays with you. Book the hours, direct the day.
A chauffeur and vehicle held for a block of time across New York City and the tri-state — a day of meetings, a day of errands, an event with waiting either side, or a group programme with several stops.
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- As-directed, multi-stop
- Waiting time included
- Sedan to 55-seat coach
- 24/7 dispatch
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Hourly service in New York at a glance
Hourly service, also called as-directed, means a vehicle and chauffeur are reserved for a block of time rather than for a single journey. You decide where it goes as the day happens, and the car stays with you between stops instead of leaving and being rebooked.
The clock starts at your first pickup and runs until the last drop, including the waiting in between. There is a minimum per vehicle — two hours on an executive sedan or Escalade ESV, three on a Sprinter van, four on a mini bus and five on a motor coach — and time beyond the booking is charged in the same hourly increments.
It is the better buy whenever a day has more than two or three stops, or any real waiting in it. Separate point-to-point transfers mean paying for a vehicle to drive back across the city empty and then return, and it leaves you waiting for a car at each stage instead of walking out to one.
Every vehicle in the fleet books by the hour, from an executive sedan up to a 55-seat motor coach, so a day of meetings and a day moving thirty people are the same kind of booking at different sizes.
Rated 4.7 stars from 300+ Google reviews with more than 3,100 clients carried, from a fleet of 30-plus vehicles we own and chauffeurs we employ. Dispatch is reachable at any hour on (718) 360-9383.
How the clock works
Four hours means four hours of the car, not four journeys.
An hourly booking is a contract about time rather than about a destination. This is what that time actually includes.
It starts at your first pickup
Not when the vehicle leaves our garage. The agreed start time is the moment the chauffeur is at your door, ready to go.
Waiting between stops is inside it
The chauffeur holds nearby rather than being released, which is what makes walking out of a building to a waiting car possible on a street where standing is rarely legal.
You direct it as the day happens
A meeting that relocates or a stop nobody planned is a direction to the chauffeur, not a new booking. The itinerary is yours for the block.
It ends at the final drop
If the day runs long the booking extends in the same hourly increments at the same rate, confirmed with you rather than simply run on.
Know roughly how long you need?
Enter the day and the passenger count and you will have an hourly price in under a minute.
What gets booked by the hour
Days with a shape but not a fixed itinerary.
Every one of these has the same tell: at the moment of booking, nobody can list the addresses in order. That is the day an hourly booking is for.
A business day of several meetings
Three or four addresses with waiting between them, where the second one always runs long and the third moves downtown.
Corporate transportationAppointments and errands across the boroughs
A day where the car carries what you are collecting and nobody has to find parking between one stop and the next.
Manhattan car serviceEvent days with waiting either side
The vehicle holds while you are inside and is at the kerb when you come out, instead of a pickup you have to arrange from the lobby.
Venue transportFamily days with luggage or equipment
Loading once and leaving it loaded is most of the value — a booking with children, instruments or sports kit in it is rarely three clean transfers.
The full fleetSite visits, viewings and tours
Property viewings, campus tours, location scouting: a route that is decided as you go and rarely survives its own schedule.
Sprinter van serviceGroup days on one vehicle
A Sprinter, mini bus or coach held from the morning pickup through every stop to the return, rather than a set of separate transfers.
Group transportation
The fleet
Every vehicle books by the hour.
Executive sedans and Escalade ESVs, Sprinter vans including the conference-table version, mini buses and 55-seat motor coaches — each at its own hourly rate and minimum.
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Rates and minimums
Every vehicle books by the hour.
Indicative as-directed rates with the minimum each vehicle carries. Tolls and the chauffeur’s gratuity sit inside the figure; the widget above prices your actual day.
Executive sedan
One to three passengers with a day of appointments across the city
from$85/hr
2-hour minimum
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Cadillac Escalade ESV
A family or a small team who want room for bags between stops
from$95/hr
2-hour minimum
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Mercedes Sprinter van
Up to 14 people kept together through a day of several locations
from$110/hr
3-hour minimum
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A team that works between stops rather than only travelling between them
from$150/hr
3-hour minimum
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23-seat mini bus
A group held for an afternoon, an event or a day out of the city
from$150/hr
4-hour minimum
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55-seat motor coach
A whole group on a day programme with the coach waiting between legs
from$250/hr
5-hour minimum
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Tell us the day, we will quote the hours.
Describe the stops and the waiting and we will say how many hours it really needs.
Hourly or point to point
Which of the two your day actually is.
We would rather tell you a transfer is cheaper than put a short trip on the clock. The number of stops decides it.
- Book point to point
One trip, no waiting
A single journey between two known addresses is cheaper as a flat-rated transfer, and it does not tie up a vehicle you are not using.
- Book hourly
Three or more stops, or real waiting
Separate transfers make you pay for the vehicle to cross the city empty between legs, and leave you waiting for a car at every stage. Held by the hour it is one vehicle, one chauffeur, one price.
- Book hourly
A day nobody can put in order yet
If the itinerary will be decided as the day happens, an hourly booking is the only arrangement that does not need rewriting every time something moves.
Not sure which yours is? Describe the day and we will say which books better. Call (718) 360-9383
In every hourly booking
What the rate actually buys.
The vehicle stays with you
Held between stops rather than dismissed and rebooked, which is the whole reason to book time rather than trips.
The itinerary is yours
As-directed means the chauffeur takes direction through the day. A stop added at noon is not a new reservation.
One chauffeur for the block
The same person for the whole booking, briefed before the start rather than handed the next leg as it comes.
Tolls and gratuity inside the rate
Quoted in the hourly figure, so nothing is settled in the vehicle. Parking at a long stop is the one extra, flagged before you book.
Every size books the same way
Sedan through to a 55-seat coach, each at its own rate and minimum, so a group day is the same booking at a different size.
Licensed, insured, employed
A licensed New York ground-transportation provider, commercial insurance on every vehicle, and chauffeurs we employ rather than contract.
Related services
Groups, corporate accounts and the fleet.
An hourly booking is one way to buy the fleet. Those pages cover the vehicles themselves, the group range and how a corporate account is run.
Executive partner
Official New York Jets Small Business Partner.
A partnership we hold directly with the organization — the same standard of service we bring to every airport transfer.
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In depth
How booking a car by the hour actually works
As-directed means the plan can change
A transfer is a contract about a destination: you name two addresses and the price follows from them. An hourly booking is a contract about time, and the destinations are yours to decide while it runs. The chauffeur takes direction through the day, so a meeting that moves downtown or a stop nobody planned is a change of route rather than a new booking.
That is the practical difference, and it is the reason the arrangement exists. The day that looks like four separate trips at nine in the morning almost never stays four trips: the second one runs long, the third moves, and somebody wants to stop on the way. Held by the hour, none of that costs anything but the clock.
What the clock covers, and where it starts
Time runs from the agreed start at your first pickup through to the final drop, and waiting between stops is inside it — that waiting is most of what you are paying for. The chauffeur stays with the vehicle nearby rather than being released, which is what makes walking out of a building to a waiting car possible at all in a city where standing is rarely legal.
Each vehicle carries a minimum because it cannot take another booking inside the block: two hours on a sedan or SUV, three on a Sprinter van, four on a mini bus, five on a motor coach. Below the minimum a point-to-point booking is usually cheaper, and we will say so rather than putting a short trip on the clock.
The days people actually book
Business days with several meetings are the most common, and the ones where the arithmetic is clearest: three transfers plus two hours of waiting cost more than a four-hour hourly booking and deliver less. Beyond that it is errands and appointments across the boroughs, days with children and equipment where reloading a car four times is the whole problem, and long event days where the vehicle waits while you are inside.
Visitors book it differently again — an afternoon with a driver who knows the city, a day of viewings or site visits, a school or campus tour with stops in three boroughs. The common thread is never the destination. It is that the day has shape but not a fixed itinerary.
Groups by the hour, and when the day runs long
Hourly is not only a car service. A Sprinter van, a mini bus or a motor coach books the same way, which is how a group day works: one vehicle held from the morning pickup through the stops to the return, rather than a set of transfers that each have to arrive on time independently. The group transportation pages cover which size suits which headcount.
If the day overruns, the booking simply extends in the same hourly increments — we would rather add an hour than have you rush a meeting to release a vehicle. Where a day is long enough to run into a chauffeur's legally capped working hours, we say so when quoting and plan a second chauffeur rather than discovering it at eight in the evening.
Good to know
Hourly service questions, answered.
What does hourly or as-directed car service mean?
A vehicle and chauffeur are reserved for a block of time instead of for one journey. You direct where it goes as the day happens and the car stays with you between stops, rather than dropping you and being dispatched elsewhere. It is booked in hours, not by route.
What is the minimum booking time?
It depends on the vehicle: two hours on an executive sedan or Escalade ESV, three on a Sprinter van, four on a mini bus and five on a motor coach. The minimum exists because the vehicle cannot take another job inside your block — for anything shorter, a point-to-point booking is usually the cheaper way to do it.
Does waiting time count against the hours?
Yes, and that is the point of the arrangement. The clock runs from your first pickup to the final drop including all the waiting in between, because the chauffeur and vehicle are held for you throughout rather than released between stops.
What happens if the day runs longer than booked?
The booking extends in the same hourly increments at the same rate — nothing is rebooked and no new vehicle is dispatched. We would rather add an hour than have you cut a meeting short, and the chauffeur will confirm the extension with you rather than simply running on.
Is hourly cheaper than booking separate transfers?
Above about three stops, or on any day with real waiting in it, almost always. Separate transfers mean paying for a vehicle to cross the city empty between your legs and leave you waiting for the next one. Below the minimum, or for a single trip, point-to-point is cheaper and we will tell you so.
Can I change the plan during the booking?
Yes — that is what as-directed means. The itinerary belongs to you for the block, so a meeting that relocates, a stop that gets added or an order of stops that changes is a direction to the chauffeur rather than a new reservation.
Which vehicles can be booked by the hour?
All of them. Executive sedans and Escalade ESVs, 14-passenger Sprinter vans including the conference-table version, mini buses from 23 to 38 seats and 55-seat motor coaches all book hourly at their own rate and minimum.
Can we book a group vehicle for a whole day?
Yes, and it is the usual way a group day is run: one Sprinter, mini bus or coach held from the morning pickup through every stop to the return. Our group transportation pages cover which size fits which headcount, and the same hourly minimums apply.
Do you cover the boroughs and the tri-state area on an hourly booking?
Yes. An hourly booking can cross the city and the region freely — the five boroughs, Westchester, Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut — because you are buying the vehicle's time rather than a fixed distance. Longer runs out of the region are quoted as directed.
Are tolls and gratuity included in the hourly rate?
Tolls and the chauffeur's gratuity are quoted inside the figure so there is nothing to settle in the vehicle. Parking charges on a day with long stops in garaged buildings are the one thing added afterwards, and we flag it before the booking rather than on the invoice.
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