Can I pay cash for an airport limo in Toronto?

Yes — cash to the chauffeur, arranged upfront

Plenty of travellers simply prefer cash, and the booking flow treats that as a first-class choice rather than an awkward exception. When you get your instant quote at /ride/, you choose at checkout how you'll pay: card, or cash to the chauffeur on the day.

Choosing cash changes nothing else about the ride. You still get the SMS confirmation the moment you book, the emailed self-serve link to view or edit the booking up to 12 hours before pickup, and the SMS reminder about four hours out. The chauffeur, the vehicle and the flight tracking on airport pickups are identical.

The number you hand over is the number you were quoted — a flat, all-in total with gratuity and HST already included. No meter, no adjustment, no envelope math.

The card path: saved at booking, charged only when confirmed

If you'd rather not carry cash, the card option is deliberately low-commitment: your card is saved securely when you book, and it's charged only once the ride is confirmed — booking is not an instant charge. Apple Pay and Google Pay are supported alongside regular cards.

For arrivals, card has a practical edge: if you're landing at Pearson from abroad with no Canadian cash in your wallet, the ride is already settled and you walk from customs to the car without visiting an ATM. Corporate travellers get a second edge — an email receipt that drops cleanly into an expense report.

Quoted totals are built the same way regardless: base fare, gratuity, fuel where applicable, HST and the card fee, all inside the single number you see before booking.

What the all-in quote includes — cash or card

The promise behind the quote doesn't depend on the payment method. Every total shown at /ride/ includes the base fare, the chauffeur's gratuity, fuel where applicable, and 13% HST — the things that, elsewhere, appear as surprises at the end of a ride.

Airport direction matters more than payment method: a $15.27 airport pickup fee applies to every airport pickup and is already inside the quoted total, while rides to the airport carry no airport fee at all.

Because gratuity is included, a cash payer isn't expected to add a tip on top — the quoted figure is genuinely complete. If your chauffeur made the trip exceptional and you want to add something anyway, that's entirely your call, never an expectation.

• Quote = base fare + gratuity + fuel where applicable + HST + card fee
• $15.27 airport pickup fee — included on pickups, absent on drop-offs
• Gratuity is inside the total: no obligatory tip on top, cash or card
• The quoted number is final — no meter and no curbside adjustments

Cash or card: matching the method to the trip

Cash suits riders who like settling in person, anyone booking for a family member who'll take the ride alone, and travellers who simply don't want a card on file. Choose it at checkout, and have the quoted amount ready on the day — the SMS confirmation on your phone shows the exact total, so there's never a question about the figure when the ride ends.

Card suits arrivals from abroad, corporate trips that need clean receipts, and anyone booking on someone else's behalf — an assistant can book with the company card while the traveller rides without touching a wallet. It's also the tidier option for early-morning departures, when nobody wants to count bills at 4:30 a.m. And because the card is charged only once the ride is confirmed, choosing it at checkout commits you to nothing at the moment of booking.

Whichever you pick at booking, the arrangement stays flexible the way the rest of the booking does: details can be reviewed through the self-serve link up to 12 hours before pickup, and the phone line — (416) 200-5070, toll-free 1-877-200-5070 — handles anything inside that window, including last-minute bookings arranged entirely by phone.

A 15-year-old habit of transparent pricing

The cash option survives here because of how the pricing works. A metered ride paid in cash invites disputes; a flat all-in quote paid in cash is just… the quote. Toronto Airport Limo has run airport transfers across Pearson, Billy Bishop, Hamilton and Buffalo Niagara for 15+ years on exactly that principle: the price you see when you book — at /ride/ or on the phone — is the price, in either currency of trust: plastic or paper.

If you're weighing vehicles as well as payment, the /fleet/ page covers the range from Sedan to Sprinter Van and Stretch Limousine; the quote shows all-in totals per vehicle so you can compare before choosing how to pay.