Arrive at the minute agreed,
not the minute after.
Diplomatic transport is measured in minutes rather than kilometres. A car that is early can wait around the corner; a car that is late cannot be fixed. We plan Den Haag days backwards from the moment the door has to open, and we put the same chauffeur on the whole visit where the roster allows.
Den Haag keeps its appointments within a few square kilometres.
Almost everything a visiting delegation needs sits in a narrow band west and north of the centre. The World Forum on the Churchillplein handles the large conferences. The Vredespaleis, the Peace Palace on the Carnegieplein, stands a few streets away; the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has its building on the Johan de Wittlaan, and the International Criminal Court sits further out on the Oude Waalsdorperweg, near the dunes. Embassies and residences are scattered through the Statenkwartier, Zorgvliet and Benoordenhout, with more in Wassenaar along the N44.
The ministries pull in the other direction, clustered around the Turfmarkt and the Bezuidenhoutseweg beside Den Haag Centraal, with the Binnenhof — the historic seat of the Dutch parliament — by the Hofvijver a short walk away. Between those two poles the Utrechtsebaan funnels every A12 arrival into the same few hundred metres of tunnel and slip road, and it is the first thing that goes wrong on a tight schedule. A chauffeur who drives the city weekly knows which of those approaches to avoid at four in the afternoon.
Five bookings that repeat through the Den Haag year.
Flights are tracked from the moment you book. The chauffeur waits inside the arrivals hall with whatever the sign should say, luggage goes into the boot rather than onto a trolley, and the first sixty minutes after landing are free.
Large sessions turn the Churchillplein into a single-file drop-off. We agree a set-down point with your office beforehand and the car returns to it on a message instead of joining the queue for an hour.
Hearings overrun by their nature. An hourly booking keeps the same car and chauffeur parked nearby for as long as the day lasts, so nobody has to estimate a finishing time on the morning of it.
Three appointments around the Turfmarkt in one afternoon is a walking distance that nobody walks in February. The car repositions between buildings while the meeting runs.
A principal, an advisory party and a staff car with the papers and the cases. The V-Class takes seven with seven bags; the saloons take the rest, all leaving on the same timetable.
Four steps, and one number for everything after that.
Dates, addresses, how many passengers travel in each car and anything that must not slip. Bookings under a mission name, an attaché’s name or an assistant’s name are ordinary here.
Per car and taxes included, with waiting time already inside it. Where the visit needs an account rather than a card, we set up invoicing before the first pickup.
Which gate, which side of the building, who gives instructions on the day, who must not be telephoned. The brief travels with the job, not with a particular chauffeur.
Dispatch answers around the clock, and once a car is assigned you have the chauffeur’s number as well. A session that runs long is a message, not a new booking.
A chauffeur company. Nothing more is offered or implied.
We drive, we wait and we keep the programme to ourselves. AmstelCab does not employ or supply security personnel, does not provide escorts, and runs standard premium Mercedes-Benz and BMW cars with no modifications beyond the comfort they left the factory with. Where a mission travels with its own people, our chauffeurs work to their brief and take the day’s routing from them — which is a cleaner division than any company claiming to do both halves.
Nor do we claim a relationship with any embassy, ministry, court or international organisation. The buildings named on this page are named the way a street map names them: as places in Den Haag that a car may be asked to reach, with entrances and approaches worth knowing in advance. Whether your mission has used us before or is writing for the first time, the answer is the same fixed price and the same standard.
Prices agreed before the first car moves.
Airport transfers and hourly hire have fixed published rates per car, taxes included. A multi-day programme is quoted as a single figure covering every leg.
Short rides inside Amsterdam carry a minimum fare of €50 in Business Class up to 10 km and €70 up to 15 km. A booking placed within 12 hours of pickup adds 10%. Accounts are invoiced monthly; cancellation is free until an hour before pickup.
The city hub: districts, station approaches, the international zone and the run to Schiphol.
The A4 leg between the two cities, door to door on one fixed quote.
Multi-car days for visiting households, with the same waiting and the same restraint.
The residential municipality on the N44 where many residences and quiet dinners sit.
Yes. The board can show a mission or organisation name, a word agreed in advance, or nothing at all, with the chauffeur standing at a spot we describe to you beforehand. The chauffeur still meets you inside the arrivals hall and helps with the luggage as on any airport pickup.
Yes. Corporate and institutional accounts are invoiced, with the rides consolidated on one statement. Tell us the billing entity and reference when you set the account up and every booking afterwards carries it, so nothing has to be reconciled ride by ride.
By keeping the car nearby rather than sending it home. An hourly booking holds the same chauffeur for the whole block, minimum two hours with 40 kilometres included per hour, and extends on a message. For a fixed-quote transfer the chauffeur waits and dispatch confirms any change in writing.
Yes. Cars travel under one booking reference with one dispatcher across them, so a change to the lead car’s timing carries to the rest. Tell us the passenger count per car and we allocate between saloons and the seven-seat V-Class.
No. We are a chauffeur company: professional chauffeurs and standard, unmodified premium cars. We do not provide protection teams of any kind. If a delegation travels with its own staff, our chauffeurs follow their instructions for routes, entrances and timings.
For Den Haag we usually build in a margin and then use it by waiting close to the destination, because the Utrechtsebaan and the ring around the Statenkwartier are unpredictable in the afternoon. Give us the time the door has to open and dispatch works the pickup backwards from there.