A chauffeur in Naarden,
inside the walls and out again.
A town built as a six-pointed star, with moats where other places have ring roads. We bring guests to the gate, wait outside the cobbles, and put one fixed price on the whole thing.
A star on the map, cobbles on the ground.
Naarden-Vesting is the rare fortification that was never demolished for building land. The bastions, the double moats and the arrowhead ravelins still surround the old streets, which is why the shape only makes sense from above — most people meet this town first as an aerial photograph and then again through one of its gates. Inside are the Grote Kerk, with its long-standing Matthäus Passion tradition, the Nederlands Vestingmuseum built into the ramparts, and the mausoleum of Comenius, the Czech educator buried here.
Around the walls the town is ordinary and busy in a useful way. Naarden and Bussum share a station on the Amsterdam–Amersfoort line, the Gooimeer opens out to the north with marinas along its edge, and the A1 runs past the southern side. Muiden and its moated castle, the Muiderslot, are ten minutes west; the rest of Het Gooi begins immediately to the south.
Two things make a chauffeur worth having here. The first is the Vesting itself: narrow gates, cobbled lanes and parking that was designed for garrison carts. The second is the clock — concerts, dinners and flights that all land outside the hours when getting home is easy. Schiphol is about 22 minutes and 35 kilometres away, Amsterdam roughly twenty-five minutes. For anywhere beyond, see chauffeur service across the Netherlands.
Concerts, visitors, moorings and morning flights.
Choral evenings fill the Vesting and empty its parking long before the doors open. We drop at the gate nearest the church and return to the same spot when the last note has gone.
The ramparts, the museum in the bastion and a table on the Marktstraat make an easy half day. The chauffeur parks outside the walls and is back on a message when the walking is done.
A short, dark run down the A1 with the cases already in the boot. Your chauffeur confirms which departure hall you need beforehand; book at least three hours before take-off.
We watch the flight, meet the passenger inside the hall with a name sign — theirs, a company name or none at all — and allow a free hour after landing before anything is charged for waiting.
Trains come in from Amsterdam and Amersfoort all day, and the last stretch with luggage is the awkward part. A car at the forecourt turns it into five minutes.
The Muiderslot sits at the mouth of the Vecht ten minutes away, and the old defence line runs south through the polder from there — an afternoon with a car and no timetable.
Naarden to Schiphol, or a car kept for the evening.
The airport journey is a single all-in amount per car over the 35 kilometres, taxes included and unchanged by the traffic. An evening inside the Vesting, where the car mostly waits, is better bought by the hour.
Short journeys — the station, a restaurant, the marina — never fall below the class minimums of €50, €70 and €90 for the first ten kilometres. Pickups arranged less than twelve hours ahead carry the ten per cent short-notice addition; until the final hour, cancelling costs nothing.
Which gate, what time, who is coming.
The Vesting is small but its lanes are one-way and cobbled, so tell us where you want to stand and we will be there. Book on the website or send the details to dispatch on WhatsApp.
The price per car is settled at booking, whatever the evening does afterwards. Companies can be invoiced through an account; everyone else settles by card, Apple Pay, iDEAL or Klarna, and none of those costs a cent more.
Between the drop and the pickup your chauffeur stays close by rather than going home, so the return leg does not depend on a free car turning up somewhere in Het Gooi.
Confirmed, en route, on board, arrived — and the live position on the My Ride page. Handy when the booking is for guests who have never driven into a fortress before.
Along the Gooimeer and down the A1.
Ten minutes east: the thatched core, the Bijvanck and the lakeside quarter.
South through the heath, for the Mediapark and the station district.
Twenty-five minutes west — the city hub, its hotels and its airport runs.
The old waterline forts south of Muiden, in one unhurried afternoon.
Usually 22 minutes or so for the 35 kilometres by the A1 and the A9, with more allowed in the morning peak near Muiderberg and Amstelveen. The Business Class price is €120, fixed at the moment of booking.
It can reach the gates and the streets that allow traffic, and that is usually where you want to be set down anyway. The chauffeur then waits outside the walls, so nobody is left circling a cobbled lane looking for a space.
Yes, in both directions. Give us the time the performance ends and the chauffeur is in position before the doors open; if it overruns, the car stays put and nothing about the price changes.
We do that through the sailing season. Give the harbour and the berth, and allow a little time if the crew is still tidying up — waiting is planned in rather than billed by surprise. Wet kit travels in the boot.
Yes. Bussum is across the station from the Vesting and Muiden is ten minutes west along the A1, so both sit inside the same patch of road for us. Give the address and the chauffeur takes it from there.
Hourly hire handles it. Business Class costs €65 for each hour, a Van €80 and First Class €100. Two hours is the minimum, each of them carries 40 kilometres, and the day has to begin and end in the same town. Naarden, Muiden and the forts in between fill an afternoon comfortably.