Is gratuity included in an airport limo fare?

No — the quote covers the ride, and a tip is yours to decide

When you price a trip at /ride/, the total on screen is the full cost of the ride. It's assembled from the base fare, 13% HST and the card fee — one finished number rather than a base with asterisks. What it doesn't carry is a gratuity: none is built in, and none is added afterwards.

That's a deliberate design choice, not an accounting quirk. Tipping norms around chauffeured cars are genuinely confusing — is it 10%? 20%? on the pre-tax figure? — and the end of an airport run, luggage in hand at your front door, is the worst possible moment for arithmetic. So the fare is settled before the car moves, and the tip question is lifted off the curb entirely: a link arrives after the ride, and you decide then, at your own pace, or not at all.

So the fare does the arithmetic in advance. A Pearson pickup to Vaughan quoting $115.57 all-in means exactly that: ride completed, chauffeur thanked, nothing further owed.

Contrast the alternatives: a metered cab ends with a tip decision made under pressure at the curb, and rideshare apps push a tip screen at you before you've closed the door. Here the fare is final before the car is even dispatched, and a tip — if you choose to leave one — is a quiet decision made afterwards, on your own time.

• Gratuity is not part of the instant quote — and it's never added at the end
• The quote does include 13% HST, the card fee and the airport pickup fee where applicable
• Airport pickups also include the $15.27 pickup fee
• The number you accept is the number you pay

So should you tip your chauffeur?

Only if you want to. Gratuity isn't part of the fare and it's never added for you, so a tip is a genuine thank-you rather than a line item — many passengers leave 10–20% for good service, but it's entirely your call, and it's completely fine to leave nothing.

Moments that move passengers to add something: a chauffeur wrangling a family's worth of oversized luggage, an unflappable pickup after a flight that landed four hours late, help with an elderly parent's arrival, or a spotless early-morning run that saved a meeting. Cash handed directly to the chauffeur is the simplest way to do it.

What you should never feel is pressure. There's no tip prompt in the booking flow and no expectant pause at drop-off. After the ride you'll get a text or email with a link to rate the trip and, if you wish, add a tip for the chauffeur by card — or hand cash over on the day. The service was priced honestly at the start; anything beyond it belongs entirely to you.

Why all-in pricing with optional tipping is better for everyone

For passengers, it makes quotes comparable and final. When one operator quotes a bare base fare and another quotes all-in, the bare number looks cheaper right up until tax, fees and a mandatory gratuity land on it. An all-in quote with no automatic tip can be compared honestly against any competitor's true final cost.

For business travellers, it makes expenses clean: one figure, one email receipt, and a tip only if you choose to add one — charged to the same card if you use the post-ride link. US-inbound visitors — a large share of airport limo traffic — particularly appreciate that nothing is expected at the curb and there's no local custom to decode from the back seat; the tip question, if it comes up at all, waits for the link.

And for the ride itself, it removes the strangest dynamic in ground transport: the silent, mutual awareness of a tip to be settled at the door. With the fare paid before the car ever moved and any tip left to a link afterwards, the chauffeur's attention is on the road and your luggage — not the endgame.

How to see your all-in total

Enter your route and vehicle at /ride/ and the instant quote returns the finished figure — HST, card fee and any airport pickup fee inside. Current examples: a Pearson pickup runs from $115.57 all-in by sedan to Vaughan, Brampton or Mississauga, and from $173.20 by SUV. The /fleet/ page helps with the vehicle choice.

Payment works either way you prefer: a card saved securely at booking and charged only once the ride is confirmed — Apple Pay and Google Pay supported — or cash directly to the chauffeur on the day. The quoted total is the price on both paths.

Book online three or more hours ahead; closer than that, call (416) 200-5070 or toll-free 1-877-200-5070. After 15+ years of airport runs, the pricing philosophy hasn't changed: finish the counting before the ride, not after.