Cars for a household,
not only for a guest.
A visiting family rarely travels as one car and one address. There is the principal, the party that moves half an hour earlier, the office that keeps the diary and the luggage that arrives separately. We put a chauffeur on each of those threads and one dispatcher across all of them.
The principal is one car. The visit is usually four.
Households book differently from companies. A single booking form rarely survives contact with the day: the private appointment moves by an hour, the party splits between the hotel and the Zuidas, someone needs to be at Schiphol at dawn while the rest of the family is still at breakfast. What a household wants from a chauffeur company is not a vehicle so much as capacity — several cars held at the same address, under one reference, with one number to call when the plan changes.
That is the arrangement we quote for. A Mercedes-Maybach S-Class or an S-Class for the principal, a second saloon behind it and a V-Class for staff and cases; all of them black, unbadged and parked where they were told to park. Chauffeurs stay with the cars for as long as the day runs, including the two hours in the middle when nothing happens at all. Waiting quietly is most of the work, and it is priced as part of the hire rather than as an extra.
Five requests that come up on almost every visit.
A scheduled flight into Schiphol, or a General Aviation arrival at Schiphol-Oost where dispatch works to your handler’s timings. If the household has booked the Schiphol VIP Centre, tell us and the cars meet you at its door rather than in the arrivals hall.
The shopping street behind the Rijksmuseum has almost nowhere to stop and nowhere to stand. The V-Class takes the bags on each pass while the lead car circles the Museumplein, so nothing is carried further than the kerb.
Clinics and hospitals are the appointments that run longest and are least worth discussing. We are told an address and a window, never a reason; the chauffeur parks where the entrance is quiet and waits for the message that says come forward.
A concert at the Concertgebouw, a dinner on the Amstel, a reception near the Dam. These are the arrivals where being four minutes early matters as much as not being late, and the chauffeur holds the street corner until the minute agreed.
Official business tends to sit in Den Haag while the family stays in Amsterdam. The A4 makes that a comfortable there-and-back, with the cars held at the destination rather than sent home in between.
From a first message to a household that has its own cars.
Dates, number of cars, number of passengers per car, and any address that needs a rear or underground entrance. Names are optional; an aide’s name on the booking is entirely normal here.
Per car, per day or per hour, taxes included, with waiting time inside the figure. Multi-day arrangements are quoted as one itinerary rather than as a stack of separate rides.
Entrances, timings, who gives instructions on the day and who must not be phoned. Where a family travels with its own staff, the chauffeurs take the day’s instructions from them.
One number reaches dispatch around the clock and the chauffeur directly once assigned. Changes on the day are handled by moving cars, not by rewriting bookings.
We drive, we wait, and we keep quiet. That is the whole offer.
AmstelCab is an Amsterdam chauffeur company. We supply chauffeurs and premium Mercedes-Benz and BMW cars in standard, unmodified form. We do not supply security personnel, we do not provide escorts, and no car in the fleet has been altered for anything other than comfort. Households that travel with their own team should keep that team; our chauffeurs work to their brief and take the day’s routing from them.
We also make no claim to any relationship with a court, a household, a ministry or an institution, and we do not trade on names. Palaces, embassies and museums appear on these pages the way they appear on a map: as addresses a car might be asked to reach. What a household is buying here is a car that is at the door at the agreed minute, a chauffeur who has already walked the entrance, and a company that does not discuss where anyone went.
What is fixed, and what is quoted.
Airport transfers and hourly hire have published prices, per car and taxes included. Everything a household actually books — several cars, long waits, a full itinerary — is quoted as one figure before the first pickup.
Hourly hire starts and ends in the same city. A booking made within 12 hours of pickup adds 10%; cancellation is free until an hour before. Child and baby seats are €5 each and are fitted before the car reaches the address.
One thread, one dispatcher, one price.
Households rarely have a booking that fits a form. Send the dates, the number of cars and the constraints that matter — a rear entrance, a blank sign, an aide who holds the diary — and dispatch replies with one fixed figure for the whole visit and keeps the rest of the arrangement on the same thread.
The Mercedes-Maybach S-Class itself: two reclining seats, fixed airport prices, never a first-come booking.
Where a chauffeur’s job ends and a client’s own team begins, written out plainly.
Unmarked cars, blank signs and quiet entrances for anyone who would rather not be noticed.
The residential municipality between Den Haag and the dunes, and how a day there is driven.
Yes, and it is the usual arrangement. Cars sit under one booking reference with one dispatcher across them, so a change to the lead car’s timing moves the others with it. Tell us how many passengers travel in each and we allocate classes accordingly.
No. We are a chauffeur company only. Our cars are standard premium Mercedes-Benz and BMW models with no modifications of that kind, and we neither employ nor supply protection teams. If a family travels with its own staff, our chauffeurs simply follow their instructions for routes, timings and entrances.
It is part of the hire rather than a surcharge. On an hourly booking the car and chauffeur stay with you for the whole block, minimum two hours, with 40 kilometres included per hour. For a full day or a multi-day visit dispatch quotes one fixed figure that already assumes the car spends much of it parked.
Only where you want it to. The sign in the arrivals hall can carry your name, an aide’s name, a company name or nothing, and the booking itself can be made in an assistant’s name. Status updates go to whoever booked, so the office sees that the car has arrived without anyone having to call the guest.
Ask when you book and we plan the roster around it. Continuity is what makes the fourth day easy: the chauffeur already knows which gate opens, where the car can stand and how long the family usually takes to come down.
Yes, and it makes the day simpler. Send us the timings and the entrances your own people have agreed and we brief the chauffeurs to that plan. On the day they take instruction from your staff and keep dispatch informed, so nothing is decided twice.