How much does hourly chauffeur service cost per hour?

Two tiers: $85 for hours one to three, $73 after

Hourly rates on the Sedan step down rather than up. The first three hours price at $85 each and form the minimum block; from the fourth hour onward the rate falls to $73 and stays there for the rest of the day. A ten-hour booking is billed at three hours of $85 and seven of $73, not ten hours of the opening rate.

The reason the block starts at three is that an hourly reservation removes a specific chauffeur and a specific vehicle from the transfer pool for the whole period, waiting included. Three hours is the point where that commitment makes sense, and in practice most as-directed days fill it without effort.

A neat coincidence makes the Sedan easy to hold in your head: its hourly rate and its minimum transfer fare are both $85, so one hour of as-directed time and a short airport transfer finish on exactly the same $97.97 all-in.

• Hours 1 to 3: $85 each — three-hour minimum
• Hour 4 onward: $73 each
• Base for the minimum block: $255
• Every additional hour adds $84.14 to the finished total

What a block actually costs, three hours to ten

These are finished, all-in figures for the Sedan with 13% HST and the card fee already inside — the number your card is charged, not a base rate awaiting extras.

Read the right-hand column rather than the left: because hours four and beyond price at $73, the effective hourly cost falls the longer the booking runs. A three-hour block works out to $97.97 an hour and a ten-hour day to $88.29, a difference of almost ten dollars an hour across the same vehicle and chauffeur.

Days that run over are handled the same way rather than penalised — an extra hour is $73, reaching the bill as $84.14. If the itinerary is genuinely unpredictable, book the hours you are confident about and settle the rest afterwards.

• 3 hours — $293.91 all-in, about $97.97 per hour
• 4 hours — $378.05, about $94.51 per hour
• 5 hours — $462.19, about $92.44 per hour
• 6 hours — $546.33, about $91.06 per hour
• 8 hours — $714.61, about $89.33 per hour
• 10 hours — $882.89, about $88.29 per hour

How $85 becomes $97.97

The surcharge stack on an hourly booking is identical to the one on a transfer, which is the reason the two products can be compared honestly. Take the block's base — three hours at $85 is $255. Add 13% HST for $288.15. Add the 2% card fee for $293.91.

There is no gratuity and no fuel surcharge in the stack, hourly or otherwise, so nothing else joins it. That holds for every vehicle class, exactly as it does on transfers.

Two consequences follow. The block is settled up front, so nothing is owed at the end of the day however many stops the chauffeur has waited through — gratuity is not included and never expected, though you can add one by card through the post-ride link or in cash if you wish. And the quoted figure is the charged figure — an hourly booking is not an estimate that resolves later, which is what makes it approvable as an expense before the day begins.

• $255 base, +13% HST, +2% card fee = $293.91
• No fuel surcharge on any vehicle, hourly included
• Gratuity not included and not expected — tipping is optional, by card through the post-ride link or in cash
• Quoted before the day begins, charged unchanged

What the three-hour minimum costs a short day

If your plan needs a car for ninety minutes, the minimum still applies and the booking is $293.91. That is the honest number, and it is the point at which the hourly product stops being the right one — a short A-to-B movement is a transfer, priced from $97.97 in a Sedan, and the hourly chauffeur or one-way transfer page draws the line properly.

The minimum is also why the format rewards being realistic about the day rather than optimistic. Three appointments across the GTA with travel between them will use the block; two appointments forty minutes apart will not.

There is no way to buy a shorter block at a lower price, and no discount for booking several blocks across a week — the rate card is the rate card, as the are airport limo fares negotiable page sets out.

Blocks that begin at an airport

An hourly day that starts with an arrival is a common shape: the chauffeur collects a visiting executive at the terminal and the same car carries them through the day's meetings. The airport pickup fee applies to that first movement exactly as it would on a transfer — $15.27 on the Sedan, which lands on the bill as $17.60 — and flight tracking times the start of the block to the actual landing rather than the schedule.

Meet and greet is available on that first leg for $65 flat, and it is the version most first-time visitors appreciate: a name sign inside arrivals rather than a phone call from the curb.

For everything else, the block behaves as it does anywhere — the car stays with the passenger, the waiting is included, and the finished total is known before the flight lands. Price a block for your own day at /ride/, or call (416) 200-5070 if the itinerary needs building by hand.