What are the real luggage limits for each airport limo vehicle?

The honest numbers, class by class

Luggage capacity is where marketing and reality drift apart across the livery industry, so here are the working numbers this fleet actually books against:

• Sedan — about 3 checked bags in the trunk, carry-ons in the cabin
• Premium Sedan (Mercedes-Benz) — the same ~3 checked bags; the upgrade is the car, not the trunk
• SUV — roughly 5–6 checked bags with passengers aboard
• Premium SUV (Cadillac Escalade) — roughly 5 checked bags
• Sprinter Van — 8–10+ checked bags in a dedicated rear bay, plus strollers and gear
• Stretch Limousine — seats up to 10 but carries the least luggage per seat; built for occasions, not baggage

Book under the limit, not at it

A vehicle loaded to its exact rating has zero slack, and airport trips generate slack demands constantly: the duty-free bag that appeared overnight, the coats that came off in the terminal, the extra carry-on someone gate-checked on the way in. If your count says six bags and the vehicle says six bags, one surprise puts luggage on laps.

Direction matters more than people admit. Travellers come home heavier than they left — gifts, shopping, the souvenir that seemed reasonable in the moment — so a return pickup should be sized for the return load, not the outbound one. Booking the same class both ways is fine when you left a margin; it's the at-the-limit bookings that pinch.

Season plays the same trick. Winter travel means bulkier coats and boots occupying cabin space, and December runs add gift luggage in both directions. When a trip straddles any of these, sizing up one class costs less than it seems: the difference is often smaller than the stress it removes. The one number always worth volunteering at booking is the honest bag count — it costs nothing to type and lets the quote carry the right vehicle, which is the entire game.

Irregular items count — usually double

A folded stroller, a garment bag that can't be crushed, an instrument case, a car-seat base — none of these are 'a bag', and each consumes cargo volume less efficiently than a suitcase because it stacks badly. The working heuristic: every irregular item displaces one to two checked bags from the counts above.

Sporting gear is its own category with its own page — the golf clubs, skis and oversized luggage guide covers which vehicle fits which equipment. For ordinary family irregulars, the adjustment is simple: a family of four with three suitcases and a stroller is a four-bag booking, which still fits an SUV easily but has quietly left sedan territory.

When in doubt, say the item out loud at booking. 'Three checked bags, a double stroller and a garment bag' takes five seconds to type and lets us confirm the fit before anyone is standing in a driveway doing cargo Tetris. Regular gear travellers end up booking the larger class by default; the first trip where something didn't fit teaches the lesson permanently.

How the bags and the seats trade against each other

Every capacity above assumes a normal passenger load. Fill every seat and the luggage numbers shrink; travel two-up in an SUV and they grow, because empty seat space becomes soft cargo room for coats and carry-ons. The two limits are one shared budget, which is why the fleet's honest sizing question is always 'how many people AND how many bags', never either alone.

The comparison page on how many suitcases fit a sedan vs SUV works this trade in detail for the two commonest classes. The short version: three people/three bags is a sedan's ceiling, and six people/six bags is past an SUV's — that combination belongs in the Sprinter Van.

Whatever you're carrying, the chauffeur loads and unloads it — luggage handling is part of the service, with no per-bag fees anywhere in the fleet. Your only job is booking the vehicle it all fits in; /ride/ prices every class side by side to make that a ten-second decision.

• Seats and bags share one space budget — count both, always
• Full seats = minimum luggage room; empty seats = bonus room
• 3 people + 3 bags: sedan ceiling · 6 people + 6 bags: past the SUV, take the van
• No per-bag charges in any vehicle; the chauffeur handles loading