Alkmaar,
and the coast behind it.
The cheese city at the top of North Holland, with the dunes twenty minutes west and Schiphol half an hour south down the A9. A chauffeur covers both halves of Alkmaar: the canal-ringed old town around the Waagplein, where the car cannot follow you, and the business parks, beach villages and polder roads beyond it, where nothing else really works.
Alkmaar, without the parking, the meter or the wait.
Alkmaar is where the motorway network runs out. The A9 starts on the southern edge of the city at the Kooimeer junction and then runs unbroken to the airport — past Heiloo and Castricum, through Beverwijk and Velsen, under the Noordzeekanaal in the Wijkertunnel and on to Badhoevedorp — roughly 32 minutes when the road is clear. North of the city the same road continues as the N9 towards Den Helder, the N242 carries the traffic east to Heerhugowaard and the A7, and westward there is nothing but polder, dune and sea. That geography is the whole argument for a chauffeur here: everything south of Alkmaar is Randstad, everything north and west of it is coast, and one car crosses the line without a timetable.
We drive to Alkmaar for the people the region attracts. Families leaving a rented house in Bergen or Egmond aan Zee for a morning flight. Companies on the Boekelermeer and Beverkoog parks with visitors arriving from abroad. Patients and relatives heading for Noordwest Ziekenhuisgroep, the regional hospital on the Wilhelminalaan. Wedding parties gathering at the Grote Sint-Laurenskerk. And the weekend traffic in reverse: guests who land at Schiphol on a Friday evening and want the beach by dark, without a change at Alkmaar station and a taxi rank at the end of it.
From the front seat, Alkmaar is a small, tight centre inside a ring of canals. The Langestraat and the streets around the Waag — the old weigh house on the Waagplein that now holds the Dutch cheese museum — are for walking, not for driving, so the work is knowing where a car may still stop: the Bierkade along the canal, the edges of the Mient, the quiet ends of Luttik Oudorp. Our chauffeurs use those points, wait where waiting is allowed, and carry the bags the last few metres themselves.
Alkmaar to Schiphol and back at one fixed price — flight tracked, chauffeur in arrivals with a name sign, sixty minutes of free waiting.
A car and chauffeur that stay with you in Alkmaar: meetings, dinners and days that refuse to keep a schedule, from €65 per hour.
Point-to-point chauffeured car service in and around Alkmaar — booked online, quoted upfront, driven in a black Mercedes.
First-class sedans and the Mercedes-Maybach for the occasions in Alkmaar that ask for more than a taxi.
Alkmaar to Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels or Düsseldorf in one seat — one fixed quote, door to door, stops on request.
The Mercedes-Maybach S-Class, by arrangement, for the days when first class is not the brief.
From Alkmaar to Schiphol by motorway — your chauffeur plans the departure around traffic on the day.
About 32 minutes on a clear run. For departures we suggest booking at least three hours before your flight.
Alkmaar to Schiphol in Business Class, one fixed all-in price. Van Class €222, First Class €340.
Prices are fixed when you book and include taxes and normal waiting. Hourly hire in Alkmaar starts at €65 per hour (minimum 2 hours, 40 km per hour included).
The Waag, the cheese museum inside it, the Grote Sint-Laurenskerk and the hotels along the Langestraat — reached through the permitted quays, with the last metres on foot.
The old harbour district across the water from the centre, now offices, showrooms and restaurants, and the easiest place in Alkmaar for a car to wait.
The southern approach from the A9, the AZ ground on the Stadionweg and the quickest exit from the city on a match evening.
The business and energy park on the Heiloo side of the ring — head offices and plants where visitors usually arrive straight from Schiphol.
The north-western trade park and the Alkmaar-Noord shopping and station district around it, both a few minutes from the N242.
The dune villages west of the city: art galleries at Bergen, the sea wall at Egmond aan Zee, the wide forested dunes at Schoorl — all car country.
The everyday workhorse: sedans for one to three passengers.
Room for groups, families and luggage, with up to seven seats.
Flagship saloons for executives and VIP arrivals.
The pinnacle: Mercedes-Maybach, by request only.
Alkmaar to Schiphol and back at one fixed price — flight tracked, chauffeur in arrivals with a name sign, sixty minutes of free waiting.
A car and chauffeur that stay with you in Alkmaar: meetings, dinners and days that refuse to keep a schedule, from €65 per hour.
Point-to-point chauffeured car service in and around Alkmaar — booked online, quoted upfront, driven in a black Mercedes.
First-class sedans and the Mercedes-Maybach for the occasions in Alkmaar that ask for more than a taxi.
Private chauffeur, airport transfers and hourly hire in Zaandam, North Holland.
Private chauffeur, airport transfers and hourly hire in Haarlem, North Holland.
About 32 minutes for the 50 kilometres, almost all of it on the A9. The pinch points are the Wijkertunnel under the Noordzeekanaal and the stretch past Haarlem in the morning peak, so your chauffeur sets the pickup time with those in mind rather than with a stopwatch.
Alkmaar to Schiphol is a fixed €171 in Business Class, €222 in Van Class and €340 in First Class — per car, taxes included, the same in both directions. Hourly hire inside Alkmaar starts at €65 per hour with a two-hour minimum and 40 kilometres included per hour.
Yes, and often. Those villages sit ten to twenty minutes west of the city and are quoted as one fixed point-to-point ride, whether the address is a hotel on the Bergense boulevard, a holiday house behind the Schoorlse Duinen or a beach pavilion at Egmond. Give us the house number and the chauffeur comes to the door.
We do it regularly. Den Helder is about an hour north of Alkmaar along the N9, and we drop at the ferry terminal itself rather than the station, luggage included. The return works the same way: tell us the sailing and the chauffeur is waiting when the boat lands.
Yes — from €65 per hour in Business Class, minimum two hours, beginning and ending in Alkmaar. It suits a day between the business parks, a wedding, or an afternoon along the coast. For a day that runs on to Amsterdam or Den Helder we quote the whole itinerary as one fixed amount instead.