Woerden,
a market town with a motorway.
A small town in the Groene Hart — the Green Heart, the open farmland the Randstad is wrapped around — with the A12 along its southern edge and four cities within forty minutes. A chauffeur turns that middle position into an advantage: Schiphol in about half an hour, and no change of train with a suitcase at the end of it.
Woerden, without the parking, the meter or the wait.
Woerden is a town, not a metropolis, and it does not pretend otherwise. The old centre is a compact grid of streets on the Oude Rijn with a moated castle at its western edge, a church square, and a cheese-trading past it still wears as an identity — the warehouses and the market that served the polder dairies are part of the place. Around that centre lie the newer neighbourhoods of Molenvliet, Snel en Polanen and Waterrijk, and beyond them the polders begin immediately: Kamerik, Zegveld and Harmelen are villages in the same municipality, reached along dead-straight roads between ditches.
What makes Woerden interesting to a chauffeur is its geography. The A12 runs past the southern edge with its own exit, which puts Utrecht a quarter of an hour east and Gouda about the same to the west. The A2, the A4 and eventually the A9 are all within reach from there, and so the town sits within roughly forty minutes of Utrecht, Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam without belonging to any of them. Woerden station is a junction where the Gouda and Leiden lines part company, which is useful for commuters and rather less useful at half past four in the morning with three suitcases.
Our work here divides neatly. On weekdays it is the business parks — Honthorst and Barwoutswaarder along the Oude Rijn, and the offices near the station — plus the directors and visiting clients who need to be somewhere else in the Randstad by ten. At weekends and in the evenings it is the other Woerden: the castle, the Stadsmuseum, a restaurant on the water, a wedding in one of the polder villages, and guests who have discovered that the countryside starts four minutes from the motorway.
Woerden 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 Woerden: meetings, dinners and days that refuse to keep a schedule, from €65 per hour.
Point-to-point chauffeured car service in and around Woerden — booked online, quoted upfront, driven in a black Mercedes.
First-class sedans and the Mercedes-Maybach for the occasions in Woerden that ask for more than a taxi.
Woerden 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 Woerden to Schiphol by motorway — your chauffeur plans the departure around traffic on the day.
About 29 minutes on a clear run. For departures we suggest booking at least three hours before your flight.
Woerden to Schiphol in Business Class, one fixed all-in price. Van Class €200, First Class €306.
Prices are fixed when you book and include taxes and normal waiting. Hourly hire in Woerden starts at €65 per hour (minimum 2 hours, 40 km per hour included).
The streets inside the former defences, the church square and the moated castle beside them — narrow, short of parking and easiest reached by a car that drops you and leaves.
The junction where the Gouda and Leiden lines separate, with offices and a growing quarter around it: our usual pickup point for anyone whose train got them this far but no further.
The business park on the southern side towards the A12, close enough to the motorway that a visiting client can be at the door twenty minutes after leaving Utrecht.
Workshops, yards and offices strung along the Oude Rijn to the west — addresses that reward a chauffeur who has been there before.
The residential west of the town, where most of our early-morning airport pickups begin, long before the first train leaves the station.
The village between Woerden and Utrecht on the old Rijn road, with country houses along the water and a straight run to the A12.
Polder villages north of the town, laid out along a single road each, where the nearest railway is the one you drove past to get there.
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.
Woerden 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 Woerden: meetings, dinners and days that refuse to keep a schedule, from €65 per hour.
Point-to-point chauffeured car service in and around Woerden — booked online, quoted upfront, driven in a black Mercedes.
First-class sedans and the Mercedes-Maybach for the occasions in Woerden that ask for more than a taxi.
Private chauffeur, airport transfers and hourly hire in Utrecht, Utrecht.
Private chauffeur, airport transfers and hourly hire in Leiden, South Holland.
Roughly 29 minutes and 45 kilometres when nothing is in the way. There are two sensible routes: west along the A12 to Bodegraven and then the N11 towards the A4, or east to Utrecht and north on the A2. Your chauffeur chooses on the morning itself, because the first is usually quicker and the second holds up better when the A12 is queuing.
€154 in Business Class, €200 for a Van and €306 in First Class, fixed at booking — charged to the car rather than to the head, taxes included, and identical in either direction. Hourly hire inside Woerden starts at €65 per hour with a two-hour minimum and 40 kilometres included in each hour.
Yes, and from the farms and hamlets between them. The quote is calculated from the actual pickup address, so a polder lane costs what the distance says it costs. Give us the address and, where it helps, the nearest bridge or junction — the chauffeur arrives at the gate rather than at the end of the road.
For the journeys the timetable handles badly. The train is excellent towards Utrecht, Gouda and Leiden; the airport means a change with your bags, an early departure means a platform before the first service, and a client who must reach three addresses across the Randstad in a day cannot do it with tickets. That is the work we take.
Yes. A corporate account replaces card payment per ride with monthly invoicing, gives your office one direct line to dispatch, and sends status updates to whoever made the booking — chauffeur en route, guest in the car, safely arrived. Our corporate chauffeur service page sets out how it works.