The Chauffeur Line

Parties & Nights Out

One car, all evening

Booked by the evening rather than the journey. The same car and the same driver stay with you from the first pickup to the last drop-off, waiting outside between stops — so an evening with four addresses in it does not become four separate scrambles for a ride, at four separate surge prices.

Held between stops

Dinner, then a bar, then home. The car waits rather than being re-booked, and nobody stands on a pavement at midnight.

Price fixed beforehand

Quoted for the evening in advance. It does not move because it started raining at 11pm or because it is New Year's Eve.

Everyone in one car

Up to seven in a people carrier, sixteen in a minibus. The group stays together and arrives together.

What it's usually booked for

  • Birthdays and anniversaries

    Collected from home, dropped at the restaurant, and taken home again — with the driver holding through the meal.

  • Theatre and the West End

    Dropped at the door rather than a ten-minute walk away, and picked up from an agreed side street once the curtain is down.

  • Hen and stag evenings

    Multiple pickups across different addresses, one arrival time, and a driver who has the whole night's plan in advance.

  • Christmas parties and corporate evenings

    The month when nothing is available at 11pm at any price. Booked ahead, it simply isn't a problem.

  • Restaurant and club nights

    Fixed price agreed up front, so the end of the evening involves no arithmetic and no surge multiplier.

  • Getting home safely

    The reason most of these bookings exist. Nobody drives, and nobody is negotiating with an app in the cold.

Worth knowing

Evening hire is quoted by the hour with a minimum booking, because the car and driver are yours for the duration rather than dispatched per journey. Tell us the rough plan and the operator will quote the whole evening as one figure.

Add the stops you know about in the notes field. Plans change on the night and that is fine — the driver adapts — but a route sketched in advance gets you a better price than an open-ended one.

Drinking is expected; a mess is not. Vehicles are licensed private hire cars, and a soiling charge applies if one needs professional cleaning afterwards. It is in the terms and the operator states the amount when they quote.

Book December early. Availability in the second half of December is the constraint, not price.

Plan the evening

Send the first pickup and the head count, and list the stops you know about in the notes. We'll come back with a price for the evening.

Pickup location
Drop-off location

No payment taken here, and no card details asked for. Your details go to our licensed operator, who confirms the car and a fixed price with you directly — usually within 2 hours between 7am and 10pm.