Chauffeured Sprinter van service in New York, 7 to 14 passengers

Fourteen in the Standard Sprinter and fourteen in the Luxury Sprinter with the conference table, both in the same wheelbase. The Jet Sprinter seats seven, because each passenger gets a reclining captain's chair instead of a seat in a row. Those figures are confirmed capacities, not estimates.

The Standard and Luxury Sprinters are rated for 14 bags alongside 14 passengers, in dedicated space behind the last row. The Jet Sprinter takes 7 bags with its 7 passengers. When a party has more than that — sports kit, production equipment, a fortnight of cases — a cargo Sprinter follows the passenger van and carries the overflow.

Seating. The Standard has fourteen forward-facing quilted rows and is the workhorse for airport and group runs. The Luxury seats the same fourteen around a fixed conference table, so a team can work between addresses. The Jet drops to seven reclining captain's chairs with fold-out tables and a private-jet cabin treatment — fewer seats, far more room around each one.

Usually yes, and it is better even when it is not. One Sprinter is a single hourly rate against two SUV rates running in parallel, and it carries far more luggage than two SUVs put together. The bigger gain is that fourteen people arrive at one door at one time rather than splitting across two vehicles that hit different traffic.

Hourly as-directed bookings carry a three-hour minimum on a Sprinter van. Point-to-point airport transfers have no hourly minimum at all, because they are flat-rated on the route. If a short trip would cost less point to point, we will say so rather than book you onto the clock.

Yes. The van is matched to the live inbound flight, so a delay moves the pickup rather than costing you the vehicle, and meet-and-greet inside the arrivals hall is available on request. A Sprinter uses the standard vehicle pickup areas rather than the bus loading points, which keeps the walk with the luggage short.

That is what the hourly booking is for. The van and chauffeur are held for the block, so a roadshow, a site visit or a day out to the East End can move around without anything being rebooked between legs. Your chauffeur has the day's schedule in advance and manages the routing and the waiting between stops.

Yes, and it is one of the most common bookings we take on these vans. Fourteen seats with standing-height access means people get in and out without crouching, garment bags travel flat rather than folded into a boot, and the whole party arrives together instead of trickling in across three cars.

Above fourteen the right answer is usually a mini bus rather than two vans: the 23-seat bus is the next step, and the fleet runs up to a 55-seat motor coach. Our group transportation page covers the whole ladder from one passenger to 55 and which vehicle each headcount lands in.

All five boroughs plus Westchester, Long Island, northern New Jersey and Connecticut, with daily airport work at JFK, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty. Longer charters — the Hamptons, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington — are quoted as directed, because the waiting time and the return leg set the cost rather than the mileage.