A chauffeur in Hilversum,
from the studio gate to Schiphol.
Het Gooi keeps early call times and late edits. A black car, a chauffeur who knows which gate opens at six in the morning, and a fixed all-in price for the whole car.
Brick, heathland and a working media district.
Hilversum is the odd one out in Het Gooi: a town of villa lanes and pine woods that also happens to be where a large part of Dutch broadcasting, radio and post-production works. The Mediapark sits on the north side, a campus of studios and production houses with barriers, badge readers and call sheets; a few minutes away the Raadhuis, Willem Marinus Dudok’s yellow-brick town hall, still looks like the most modern building in town.
Around it the map turns green quickly. The heath between Hilversum and Laren, the woods at Anna’s Hoeve, the fairways of the Hilversumsche Golf Club — all of it within a few minutes of the centre, and almost none of it convenient without a car. The people we drive here are usually working to someone else’s clock: a studio call before dawn, a guest arriving at Hilversum station who needs to be on set in ten minutes, a flight that leaves before the first train would get anyone to the terminal.
The geography is generous. The A1 and the A9 put Schiphol about 22 minutes away over 35 kilometres, Amsterdam is roughly half an hour by the same roads, and the A27 runs south to Utrecht in twenty. For everything beyond Het Gooi, see chauffeur service across the Netherlands.
The rides that come out of Het Gooi.
Guests, presenters and crew collected from home or from a hotel and set down at the right barrier, with the car held nearby for the return leg rather than circling the campus.
Bags in the boot, the A1 west while it is still quiet, and a drop at the departure hall the chauffeur confirms in advance. On the way back we track the flight and meet you inside arrivals with a name sign.
Bags loaded at the house, a short run through the pines to the club and a car that is back at the door when the round and the lunch are finished.
Dinner in the canal belt, a concert, a premiere. Half an hour there, no parking to find, and a chauffeur waiting on a message rather than on a meter.
Hilversum station is a short hop from the centre but an awkward one with luggage or a tight schedule. Booking for someone else sends status updates to you and to them, from confirmed to safely arrived.
Hilversum to Schiphol, and the hourly alternative.
The airport run is one fixed all-in amount per car for the 35 kilometres, taxes included. When the day has several stops and no clean endpoint, hourly hire is usually cheaper and always simpler.
Hourly hire begins and ends in the same town, which fits a recording day that runs long. A booking made less than twelve hours before pickup adds ten per cent; cancellation is free up to an hour beforehand.
Booked at night, at the door at five.
Not the departure time — the time you need to be standing at the barrier. Book online or message dispatch on WhatsApp; the car is planned backwards from your deadline.
The all-in amount is shown with the booking and does not change afterwards. Add a flight number for an airport run, or a child seat at five euros each.
The car is at the address early. If the edit overruns or the guest is still in make-up, the chauffeur stays put and dispatch keeps whoever is expecting you informed.
Het Gooi and the two cities on either side.
The neighbouring Gooi village across the heath, five minutes up the road.
Half an hour west on the A1 — the full city hub, airport transfers included.
Twenty minutes south down the A27, for the Jaarbeurs and the station district.
A golf day in the pine woods, driven from the front door and back.
Around 22 minutes for the 35 kilometres when the A1 and A9 are moving, and the chauffeur builds in a margin for the morning peak at the Amstelveen interchange. Business Class is €120, fixed at booking whatever the traffic does.
Yes. Tell us which entrance and which name is on the list, and the car is there at the agreed minute. Between a drop-off and a pickup the chauffeur waits nearby rather than driving away, so the return leg does not depend on the traffic.
We drive around the clock, every day of the year. A five o’clock departure from Het Gooi is an ordinary booking for us; dispatch confirms it the evening before and you have a direct line to the chauffeur once the car is assigned.
That is what hourly hire is for: from €65 an hour in Business Class, minimum two hours, with 40 kilometres included per hour. It starts and ends in the same town, so a day looping between Hilversum, Laren and Bussum works well; a run to Amsterdam and back is quoted as a fixed journey instead.
Van Class carries up to seven passengers and seven bags with captain chairs and walk-in headroom, which covers a small crew with kit. For more people we send more than one car and keep them together on the road.
Yes, and it is worth booking on their behalf. We track the flight, the chauffeur is inside the arrivals hall with a name sign showing your name, the company name or nothing at all, and the first sixty minutes of waiting after landing are free. You get the status updates as the ride progresses.