Amsterdam to Strasbourg,
a full day on the road.
Just over six hours at the wheel, from the Amsterdam ring to the Rhine bridge at Kehl. This is a working day rather than a hop, and people choose it because the car stops at the address itself — the Quartier européen, a hotel on the Grande Île, a village on the Alsace wine route.
The shortest of the long French runs.
Strasbourg is where the Rhine corridor hands over from German motorway to French street, and of every French city we quote from Amsterdam it is the one that still fits inside a single day. Six hours and a bit at the wheel sets you down outside a building on the Ill rather than at a gate at Entzheim, with no weight limit on what came with you: dossiers, a sample crate, a cello, three suit carriers.
Most of the kilometres are German, which is why the clock behaves better than the map suggests. The usual line is the A12 to Arnhem, the A3 past Cologne, the A61 down the Rhine towards Ludwigshafen and the A5 through Karlsruhe, leaving the motorway at Appenweier for the crossing at Kehl. When the Ruhr is blocked solid we take the western line instead — Brussels, Luxembourg, Metz and the A4 — for the same fixed amount.
Arnhem on the A12, the A3 past Cologne, the A61 towards Ludwigshafen and the A5 through Karlsruhe to the Rhine crossing at Kehl.
Around 370 minutes of actual driving. Add two comfort stops and the last kilometres through the city, and the honest figure is about seven hours.
The whole car, one way, taxes included — confirmed in writing before a chauffeur is assigned to the job.
Returns, waiting days and itineraries with several addresses in Alsace are quoted one by one. Send the dates on WhatsApp and dispatch puts a single figure on the whole plan, including the chauffeur’s own night if the schedule needs one.
Each class is one fixed amount for the entire car. Pick on rear space and boot space; the chauffeur standard does not change between them.
Over six hundred kilometres the rear cabin matters more than the badge on the boot. Three travellers with hard cases ride better in a Van Class than in a saloon. The Maybach crosses borders by arrangement only, never as a first-come booking.
The European Parliament, the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights stand within a few streets of one another in the Quartier européen. The car sets you down at the entrance and waits wherever you point it.
Obernai, Colmar and the villages of the Route des Vins lie south of the city. Keep the car for a second day and the wine route becomes a series of stops instead of a car-hire problem.
A posting to Strasbourg means more luggage than any ticket allows. We load the boot in Amsterdam, drive down once, unload at the new address and bring the car home empty.
A city you can walk, once the car has done the hard part.
The Grande Île, the island wrapped by the two arms of the Ill, holds most of what visitors come for: the sandstone cathedral with its astronomical clock, the Palais Rohan behind it, Place Kléber, and the timber fronts and covered bridges of Petite France. Almost none of it is worth reaching by car, which is exactly why the car should end its day at the hotel door.
Germany starts at the far end of the Europabrücke. Kehl is a five-minute drive, Baden-Baden a short run further into the Black Forest, and Entzheim airport lies southwest of the city for guests who fly one leg and drive the other. Tell your chauffeur which of these belong in the plan and they go into the quote rather than onto a meter.
The natural halfway house on the western line, and a destination in its own right.
Three hours further south again, and the point where we start recommending a night on the way.
How cross-border work is planned, priced and staffed from Amsterdam.
Every intercity route we quote, from short Randstad hops to the far side of France.
About 6h10 of driving for the 610 kilometres, which works out at close to seven hours door to door with two proper breaks. Departures before eight in the morning usually clear Cologne before the worst of it gathers, and your chauffeur will suggest a start time once the pickup address is known.
Yes, and most guests do. Six hours behind the wheel is a long stretch but a legal and comfortable one for a single chauffeur with breaks built in. If you would rather arrive fresh for an early meeting, an overnight around Luxembourg or Karlsruhe can be built into the itinerary and quoted with it.
Normally the Rhine line through Cologne, Koblenz and Karlsruhe, crossing into France at Kehl. The alternative runs west through Brussels, Luxembourg and Metz and is chosen when traffic or roadworks make it the faster option. Both are covered by the same agreed price, so the decision costs you nothing.
It can. Extra days with the same chauffeur and the same car are arranged as a package rather than as separate trips, which is usually simpler and clearer than hiring locally. Give us the shape of the days and we will put one price on them.
The Netherlands, Germany and France all sit inside the Schengen Area, so there are no routine border posts on either line. Carry a passport or national identity card regardless — police checks near the Rhine crossings do happen, and they are quick when everyone has papers to hand.