Groningen,
the north by private chauffeur.
The capital of the north: a university city with a car-free heart, a teaching hospital on the edge of the old town and one of the longer drives to Schiphol on the Dutch map. That distance is the argument. A chauffeur turns two hours of motorway into a seat you can work in, from your door in Groningen to the departures hall — or from the arrivals hall to the UMCG, the Zernike campus or an office at Europapark.
Groningen, without the parking, the meter or the wait.
Groningen sits at the top of the country, where the A7 from Friesland and the A28 from Drenthe meet the ring road at the Julianaplein. Schiphol is about 130 minutes away on a clear road — west on the A7 to Joure and down the A6 through Flevoland, or south on the A28 past Assen and Zwolle when the traffic reports favour it. The intercity covers the same ground in a little over two hours and delivers you to a platform; the car delivers you to the hall, with the bags in the boot and the laptop open the whole way. For a delegation, a family or a visitor with a full day of meetings, that is the whole case for booking one.
We drive to Groningen for the people its institutions attract: visiting clinicians and patients’ families for the UMCG on the Hanzeplein, researchers for the Zernike campus on the northern ring, delegations for the energy and gas companies clustered around Corpus den Hoorn and out at the Eemshaven, exhibitors and speakers for MartiniPlaza, and guests who would like to reach a hotel near the Grote Markt without first learning the one-way logic of the Diepenring.
From the front seat, Groningen is a city with a sealed centre and an open ring. Inside the Diepenring — the canal that circles the old town — most streets are closed to cars, so a chauffeur here is as much about knowing the access streets and the last permitted stopping points near the Martinitoren, the Forum and the Groninger Museum as about the motorway. Ours do, and they walk the final metres with the luggage.
Groningen to Schiphol and back at one fixed price — flight tracked, chauffeur in arrivals with a name sign, sixty minutes of free waiting.
A car and chauffeur that stay with you in Groningen: meetings, dinners and days that refuse to keep a schedule, from €65 per hour.
Point-to-point chauffeured car service in and around Groningen — booked online, quoted upfront, driven in a black Mercedes.
First-class sedans and the Mercedes-Maybach for the occasions in Groningen that ask for more than a taxi.
Groningen to Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels or Düsseldorf in one seat — one fixed quote, door to door, stops on request.
The Mercedes-Maybach S-Class, by arrangement, for the days when first class is not the brief.
From Groningen to Schiphol by motorway — your chauffeur plans the departure around traffic on the day.
About 130 minutes on a clear run. For departures we suggest booking at least three hours before your flight.
Groningen to Schiphol in Business Class, one fixed all-in price. Van Class €888, First Class €1358.
Prices are fixed when you book and include taxes and normal waiting. Hourly hire in Groningen starts at €65 per hour (minimum 2 hours, 40 km per hour included).
The Martinitoren, the Forum on the Nieuwe Markt, the Vismarkt and the hotels behind the Martinikerk — reached through the access streets across the Diepenring, with the last metres on foot.
The main station on the southern edge of the centre and the museum on its island opposite — the pickup point we use most in Groningen.
The university hospital on the eastern side of the old town, where patients, families and visiting clinicians arrive straight from Schiphol and want the entrance, not a car park.
University, Hanze and research companies on the northern ring road — conference visitors, professors and doctoral candidates with early flights home.
The office district beside the southern ring, FC Groningen’s stadium and the Europapark station, a few minutes from the A7 in either direction.
The south-west of the city around the Julianaplein junction: energy-sector head offices, the Martini Ziekenhuis, and the convention halls of MartiniPlaza on the edge of the park.
The everyday workhorse: sedans for one to three passengers.
Room for groups, families and luggage, with up to seven seats.
Flagship saloons for executives and VIP arrivals.
The pinnacle: Mercedes-Maybach, by request only.
Groningen to Schiphol and back at one fixed price — flight tracked, chauffeur in arrivals with a name sign, sixty minutes of free waiting.
A car and chauffeur that stay with you in Groningen: meetings, dinners and days that refuse to keep a schedule, from €65 per hour.
Point-to-point chauffeured car service in and around Groningen — booked online, quoted upfront, driven in a black Mercedes.
First-class sedans and the Mercedes-Maybach for the occasions in Groningen that ask for more than a taxi.
Private chauffeur, airport transfers and hourly hire in Leeuwarden, Friesland.
Private chauffeur, airport transfers and hourly hire in Zwolle, Overijssel.
About 130 minutes for the 200 kilometres on a clear run. Your chauffeur chooses between the A7 and A6 through Flevoland and the A28 via Zwolle on the day, based on the traffic reports, and plans the pickup so that the peak around Almere or Amersfoort does not cost you the flight.
The train is direct and takes a little over two hours, and for one traveller with a rucksack it is a fine choice. The car is door to door in about the same time, carries the luggage, lets you work or sleep, and is priced per car — €684 in Business Class, €888 for up to seven in Van Class — so for two or more people, a delegation or a flight at an awkward hour it is usually the better arithmetic as well as the better seat.
Groningen to Schiphol is fixed at €684 in Business Class, €888 in Van Class and €1358 in First Class, per car and taxes included, in either direction. Hourly hire inside Groningen starts at €65 per hour with a two-hour minimum and 40 kilometres included per hour. Rides to Assen, Leeuwarden, Zwolle or anywhere else are quoted per kilometre as one fixed amount before you confirm.
Yes. Eelde lies a short drive south of the city, across the provincial border in Drenthe, and a pickup there is quoted as one fixed point-to-point ride — into Groningen, or onward to Assen or Leeuwarden. Mention the flight number when you book so dispatch can plan the pickup around it.
Daily. The Eemshaven is about forty minutes north-east along the N46, and Delfzijl, Assen, Emmen and the Wadden coast are all within the fixed-quote area. Give us the addresses and the order of the day and you receive one price for the whole itinerary, with the stops built in.