A security-conscious chauffeur,
not a security company.
Some passengers need the driving half of a careful plan: a route thought through in advance, a car nobody looks at twice, and a chauffeur who does not leave it. That is what we do, and this page is equally clear about what we do not.
The car is the part of the plan we are responsible for.
Executives in the middle of a difficult announcement, a family with a recognisable surname, a speaker who has drawn attention, a witness on the way to court: all of them need transport that behaves predictably and attracts nothing. We supply the vehicle, the chauffeur and the planning around both, and we work to whatever brief your own advisers have set.
In practice that means the route is decided before the day rather than on the day, the timing is agreed rather than improvised, and one named person at dispatch holds the whole picture. The chauffeur knows the address, the entrance, the alternative entrance and where he will stand. He does not need to ask your guest for directions and he does not repeat the itinerary to anyone.
The cars help simply by being ordinary in the right way. Black Mercedes-Benz and BMW saloons carry nothing on the doors, no roof sign, no livery and no advertising. On a hotel forecourt in The Hague or a side street in Amsterdam-Zuid they read as somebody else’s car, which is exactly the point.
What we are, and what we are not.
It is easier for everyone if the line is drawn on the website rather than in a briefing room. AmstelCab is a chauffeur company. Where a client needs more than driving, we work alongside the specialists who provide it.
The days that need this kind of care.
Results, a recall, a restructuring. Directors move between the office, the lawyers and the venue without standing on a pavement waiting for a car to be found.
Met inside the arrivals hall at Schiphol, or at the hotel’s service entrance rather than the lobby, with a blank name sign or none at all if that is what the moment requires.
School runs, riding lessons, the flight home. The same chauffeur wherever possible, so a child is not handed to a stranger every week.
Courthouses and supervisory bodies have crowded front doors. We agree the entrance with your lawyers first and set down where the cameras are not.
If you travel with advisers, they set the plan and we drive it — a Van Class car behind the principal’s saloon, radios and route sheets on their side of the line.
From the first message to the last set-down.
Tell dispatch the shape of the day and any constraints your advisers have given. If your compliance team needs a signed confidentiality agreement first, send it with the request and we will arrange it.
Addresses, entrances, timings, waiting points and a second route. It stays with dispatch and the assigned chauffeur, and it is not forwarded on.
The same chauffeur runs the whole engagement wherever the hours allow, so nobody has to be introduced twice. For multi-day work we agree the rota with you in advance.
The car waits where you agreed it would, not where parking is easiest. When you come out it is already unlocked and the boot is open.
Time, mostly — because the car waits.
Work of this kind is nearly always booked by the hour, so the car and chauffeur stay with you between appointments. Straight transfers are quoted point to point instead.
Hourly hire includes 40 kilometres per hour and starts and ends in the same city. Taxes are included, there is no card surcharge and no surge pricing on a difficult day. Bookings made within 12 hours of pickup carry a 10% short-notice surcharge. Multi-day and multi-car arrangements are quoted individually.
Send the outline, not the details.
A first message needs only the dates, the city and roughly what the day involves. Dispatch replies with availability and a fixed price, and the sensitive detail can wait until a confidentiality agreement is in place if that is how you prefer to work.
The same principles for private clients who simply prefer not to be noticed.
How we drive for households and protocol offices, and who sets the rules on the day.
Embassies, ministries and delegations in The Hague, driven to protocol.
Accounts, invoicing and standing arrangements for companies that book regularly.
No. AmstelCab drives; we do not provide any kind of security staff, and we would rather say so plainly than let a booking be made on a wrong assumption. Clients who need that side of things engage a specialist firm, and we then drive to the plan that firm sets.
They are not. The fleet is standard production Mercedes-Benz and BMW models in black, without livery or roof signs. Their advantage is that they look like every other executive car on a hotel forecourt, not that anything has been added to them.
Yes, and it is the arrangement we prefer. They decide the route, the entrances and the timings; we supply the cars, the chauffeurs and one contact at dispatch who takes instructions from them. We stay inside the remit we were given.
It stays with dispatch and the assigned chauffeur, and it is used to run the trip and nothing else. Nothing is posted online, no photographs of cars at addresses are published, and your booking is never used as a reference. A confidentiality agreement can be signed on request.
Wherever the hours permit, yes. Continuity is a large part of the value: one person who already knows the entrances, the timings and the preferences. For engagements that run past a driving day we agree the handover in advance rather than on the night.
Dispatch answers 24 hours a day and will tell you honestly whether the right car and chauffeur are free. Anything booked within 12 hours of pickup carries a 10% surcharge; beyond that there is no difference in how the trip is planned.