The car is already waiting
when you come out.
Board days are decided at the margins: the eight minutes lost looking for an entrance, the call taken standing in a car park, the dinner you reach flustered. An executive chauffeur removes those margins and hands them back to you.
A day measured in doors, not in kilometres.
Directors rarely describe their travel in distances. They describe it in arrivals: the ten o’clock at a head office on the Zuidas, a ministry in The Hague at half past one, a supervisory board in Rotterdam by five, a table booked in Amsterdam for eight. Between those doors sits a car that either helps or gets in the way. Ours is briefed on the doors — which entrance the security desk expects you at, where a car may stand without being moved on, which side of the building the rain comes from.
The rear seat itself is an S-Class, an EQS or a BMW i7 in First Class, or an E-Class or EQE in Business Class when the party is smaller and the trip shorter. What matters more than the badge is what happens around it. You are not asked how the day is going. The temperature is where you left it. The bottle of water is cold, the chargers are in the armrest, and the person driving has read the schedule before you got in.
Six shapes a director’s week keeps taking.
Collected at home before six, driven to the departure hall your chauffeur has confirmed, and nobody in the house has to be awake to move a car afterwards.
Amsterdam, Utrecht and Rotterdam in one afternoon is an ordinary hourly booking. Coats, cases and the next set of papers stay in the car while you are inside the building.
A non-executive flying in for the afternoon session: met inside arrivals, driven to the office, held through a board that overruns, and returned to the airport unprompted.
A site visit, dinner with the works council, a hotel, then a plant outside Eindhoven before lunch. One chauffeur, one car, one quoted figure for the whole itinerary.
Roughly two and a half hours each way puts a European appointment inside one working day, with the car at the kerb when it ends rather than a return leg to rebook.
A dinner, a première, a client at the Concertgebouw. Nobody checks a watch on your behalf, and the car is on the agreed street when you decide the evening is over.
How a familiar chauffeur actually comes about.
Consistency is not a package you buy; it is something we build after a few rides. This is the sequence most of our regular passengers go through.
The first conversation is about how you travel: which class, whether you work or rest, which building entrances give trouble. Dispatch writes it down once and applies it to every booking afterwards.
After a ride that went the way you like, name the chauffeur. We hold the request against your bookings and send the same person whenever the roster allows, which for weekday work in the Randstad it usually does.
On an hourly booking the chauffeur stays put while you are inside. A session that runs forty minutes over changes nothing but the number of hours — no meter, no second car to summon.
For multi-day visits, send the itinerary and dispatch quotes the whole thing as one arrangement, the chauffeur’s own accommodation included. You approve a figure before the first pickup.
Two ways to buy the day.
A day of appointments is bought by the hour, so the car belongs to you between them. A single journey from one address to another is quoted point to point instead, as one fixed all-in figure settled when you book.
Hourly bookings run for a minimum of two hours, include forty kilometres in each hour and start and end in the same city. Taxes are in the figure, cards and Apple Pay cost nothing extra, and a corporate account can be invoiced monthly. A car ordered less than twelve hours before pickup carries a 10% surcharge.
The Randstad on weekdays, the border when the week demands it.
Most executive work stays inside the Randstad, and the geography is forgiving: Amsterdam to Utrecht is about three quarters of an hour down the A2, The Hague just under an hour by the A4, Rotterdam around an hour when the ring behaves. Beyond it we drive the whole country — Eindhoven and Brainport, the chemical cluster around Geleen, the northern offices in Groningen — as one fixed quote rather than an hourly clock.
Across the border the same car keeps going. Brussels and Düsseldorf are each roughly two and a half hours from Amsterdam, which makes either a long but ordinary day; Frankfurt is about five hours on the A3 and usually an overnight, with the chauffeur staying with you rather than handing you over at the frontier. The quote covers fuel, tolls and taxes to the final address.
The same cars seen from the desk that books them: status updates for the booker, accounts and invoicing.
If the hours in the car are working hours: rear-seat space, quiet electric cabins and what the connectivity really is.
Investor days where the schedule moves twice before lunch and the car has to move with it.
The S-Class, EQS, EQS SUV and i7 in detail — the class most of these bookings travel in.
You can ask for one, and for regular weekday work in the Randstad we can usually honour it. Name the chauffeur after a ride that suited you and dispatch attaches the request to your bookings. Holidays and long-distance days occasionally make it impossible, in which case you are told who is coming instead.
By the hour when there is more than one stop, when a meeting might overrun, or when you want the car and your belongings to stay with you. Point to point when it is simply A to B — a home-to-airport run or a single evening arrival. Dispatch will say which is cheaper for the day you describe.
Yes. What is written here is what happens in the car; how the booking is placed and reported is set out on the corporate chauffeur service page. Your assistant books, receives the confirmation and the status messages, and never has to ask you where the car is.
Chauffeurs are used to being the quietest person present and treat what they hear as nothing to do with them. Calls, papers and passengers are not discussed outside the car. If your compliance team wants a confidentiality undertaking signed before a sensitive programme, send it with the booking.
The chauffeur waits and the hourly rate simply continues. There is no surge pricing, no penalty and no renegotiation at the kerb. If the overrun means a later leg has to be dropped or moved, one message to dispatch rearranges the rest of the day.
Yes, and it is the usual arrangement for anything past Brussels or Düsseldorf. The same car and chauffeur stay with you for the whole itinerary, the chauffeur’s accommodation is built into the price, and you approve a single all-in figure rather than a run of separate fares.