Chauffeur service in Hamilton: the airport, McMaster, the hospitals, the escarpment and Ancaster by the hour

Hamilton, the head of the lake

Hamilton is the city of six hundred thousand at the western end of Lake Ontario, an hour from Toronto down the QEW and the 403 and the GTA's western anchor: John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport at Mount Hope, McMaster University and the McMaster Children's Hospital, the Juravinski Cancer Centre and Hamilton General and St. Joseph's, downtown Hamilton's FirstOntario Centre and Concert Hall and the James Street North galleries, Westdale's village by the university, Ancaster's and Dundas's old towns on and under the escarpment, the escarpment itself with its hundred waterfalls and the Bruce Trail, the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Dundurn Castle, Tim Hortons Field and the Tiger-Cats, the Royal Botanical Gardens shared with Burlington, and the steel city's revived Ottawa Street and Locke Street. A chauffeured Hamilton booking is an airport run to Mount Hope's sun flights, a medical block at the Juravinski or McMaster, a McMaster move-in or convocation, a corporate day across the port and the health-sciences campuses, an Ancaster or Dundas wedding, a Tiger-Cats game night, or a Toronto visitor's waterfall day; the pillar page explains the hourly product and this page is the city.

Hamilton International Airport

John C. Munro Hamilton International at Mount Hope, fifteen minutes south of the city up the escarpment on Highway 6 - WestJet's, Swoop's, Flair's, Lynx's and Sunwing's flights to the sun destinations, the west and the Maritimes, the overnight cargo hub, and a terminal small enough that the curb is fifty metres from the gate - is the airport the west of the GTA uses in winter, and a Hamilton, Burlington, Oakville or Ancaster family's 6 am flight to Cancún or Punta Cana is the airport run the desk does most from Hamilton from December to March. The Pearson page's meet-and-greet and waiting rules apply; the airport's own curb rules are simpler, and a Toronto family choosing Hamilton's cheaper sun flight books the hour-and-a-quarter run down the QEW in the SUV with the bags.

McMaster, and the campus routine

McMaster University's campus in Westdale - the residences along Main Street West and Sterling, the Health Sciences Centre and the Children's Hospital on the campus, the DeGroote business school, the Ron Joyce Stadium, the Convocation Hall - brings Toronto and GTA families west for September move-in, June and November convocation, the parents' weekend and the recruiting season, and the routine the Kingston page describes is the same here: the SUV with the student's things to the residence's loading zone at the allotted slot, the Sprinter for the family at convocation, lunch in Westdale or on Locke Street, and home up the 403. Mohawk College's Fennell campus on the mountain is the same booking, and McMaster's academic calendar sets the dates.

The hospitals, and the referral

Hamilton Health Sciences - the Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre on Concession Street on the mountain, Hamilton General on Barton, McMaster University Medical Centre and the Children's Hospital on the campus, St. Peter's - and St. Joseph's Healthcare on Charlton and its West 5th mental-health campus are the referral hospitals for the west of the GTA and the Niagara peninsula, and a Burlington, Oakville, Milton or Niagara patient's consultation day at the Juravinski is the medical chauffeur page's product: an hourly block with the chauffeur waiting through the morning at the Concession Street entrance, the patient helped to the door, lunch when the patient is able, the drive home with the seat reclined, and the same chauffeur for a course of treatments across weeks. A Toronto patient sent to Hamilton for a specialty is the same day with the QEW in the block, and a family's visits to a patient across weeks are a standing arrangement the desk sets up once.

Ancaster, Dundas and the weddings

Ancaster's old village on the escarpment - the Ancaster Mill on the creek, the Old Firehall, the Hamilton Golf and Country Club that hosted the Canadian Open - and Dundas's valley town beneath it - the Dundas Valley conservation area, the Webster's and Tews Falls, the Dundas Driving Park, the Collins Hotel, the King Street shops - are the west's prettiest wedding backdrops, and the wedding page plans a Hamilton wedding from the churches of Ancaster, Dundas and Westdale or the downtown cathedrals to the reception at the Ancaster Mill, the Hamilton Golf and Country Club, the Dundas Valley Golf Club, the Liuna Station on the old railway concourse, the Royal Botanical Gardens or the Art Gallery of Hamilton; the photographs at Webster's Falls, the Dundas Peak, the Ancaster Mill's creek or the Dundurn Castle's grounds; the stretch limousine or the S-Class for the couple, the Sprinters for the party and the families, the midnight send-off. Booked months ahead for a summer Saturday; the Ancaster Mill's Saturdays a year ahead.

Downtown, James North, the FirstOntario Centre and the Tiger-Cats

Downtown Hamilton's FirstOntario Centre - the Bulldogs, the concerts that skip Toronto's arenas, the rebuilt arena's new seasons - the FirstOntario Concert Hall, the Art Gallery of Hamilton on King West, James Street North's galleries and its monthly Art Crawl and September's Supercrawl, the Hamilton Farmers' Market, the restaurants of James North, Locke Street and Ottawa Street, and Tim Hortons Field's Tiger-Cats on a Labour Day Classic against the Argonauts: an evening booking of four to five hours covers dinner on James North and a concert or a game with the car positioned on Bay or York before the encore, the sports page has the venue-exit rules, and a Toronto Ticats fan's Labour Day in the Sprinter is the group booking with the chauffeur as the responsible party.

The escarpment, and the waterfall day

Hamilton calls itself the waterfall capital of the world with a hundred-odd falls along the escarpment inside the city - Webster's and Tews in Dundas, Albion Falls and Buttermilk on the east mountain, the Devil's Punchbowl at Stoney Creek, Sherman and Tiffany and Chedoke in the west - and a Toronto visitor's waterfall day is eight hours in the SUV down the QEW: Webster's and Tews and the Dundas Peak in the morning, lunch in Dundas or at the Ancaster Mill, Albion and the Devil's Punchbowl in the afternoon, the Bruce Trail walked in pieces, the Royal Botanical Gardens or Dundurn Castle if there is time, and the QEW home. The tourist page adds it to a wider week, and the City's waterfall guide has the trails and the parking rules the chauffeur knows.

The port, the steel and the corporate day

Hamilton's harbour - the ArcelorMittal Dofasco and Stelco steelworks, the port's terminals, the Bayfront's new investment - the health-sciences and life-sciences campuses at McMaster's Innovation Park on Longwood, the downtown's new towers and the offices of the insurance and engineering firms, and the airport's cargo and aerospace park: a Toronto or a visiting executive's day across them is the roadshow page's block with the QEW's and the 403's timing built in, the corporate account bills monthly, and a Pearson-to-Hamilton-to-Burlington-to-downtown day is the shape the desk sees most; the Burlington page covers the junction fifteen minutes east.

Where the car waits, in a table

A Hamilton referral day, timed (book 8)

7:00 an Oakville door, the sedan, a patient and a spouse. 7:35 the QEW and the 403 to the Juravinski on Concession Street; the car at the lay-by by 7:50. 8:00 to 12:30 the appointments and the imaging; the chauffeur in the lot, the phone on. 12:45 lunch on Locke Street when the patient is able; the car on Locke. 2:00 a second appointment at McMaster's medical centre. 3:30 the 403 home with the seat reclined. 4:15 Oakville. Eight hours and a quarter; nine billed; the same chauffeur booked for the next three Thursdays before the car left the drive.

The car

The Luxury SUV for the airport run with the sun-destination bags, the waterfall day, the McMaster move-in and winter; the Executive Sedan for the referral day, the corporate day and the game night; the Mercedes S-Class for the couple, the elders and the visiting executive; the Executive Sprinter for the McMaster convocation family, the wedding party, the Ticats group and the health-sciences campus's visiting team; the stretch limousine for the couple at the Ancaster Mill. Every vehicle has winter tyres from November for the escarpment's roads. The fleet page has capacities.

What it costs

A flat fare for the airport run or a Toronto-to-Hamilton one-way, or the class hourly rate times the hours, from three (five for a Sprinter), plus HST and the gratuity you set; a wedding's vehicles priced per vehicle on one confirmation; no surge, no meter, no tolls on the QEW or the 403, and the escarpment's accesses are the chauffeur's problem. The rates page explains the hourly number and the city-to-city page when a Toronto-to-Hamilton flat fare beats the hourly block.

Booking Hamilton

Route for the airport with the flight number, or for a Toronto-to-Hamilton one-way; By the hour, three to nine, for the Juravinski or McMaster, a corporate day, a game night or the waterfall day; a call to the desk for a wedding, planned weeks ahead and booked months ahead, or a McMaster move-in in September.

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