Hourly chauffeur service in Edmonton: YEG, the Ice District, the Legislature, the industrial heartland and the QEII on the Toronto standard

Edmonton, on the Toronto account

Edmonton is the capital the desk's Toronto accounts book for the province's government, for the energy-services industry that supplies the oil sands from Nisku and the industrial heartland, for the University of Alberta and its hospital, and - since Rogers Place opened and the Ice District rose around it - for the Oilers. A client who keeps a chauffeur by the hour in Toronto lands at YEG and finds the same thing waiting through the LimousineWorldwide.Directory network's vetted Edmonton operator: the same three-hour minimum, the same flat rate, the same meet, one invoice. The Canada hub explains the network; the pillar page the hourly product; this page is Edmonton, and the Calgary page is the other end of the QEII three hours south.

YEG, and the meet

Edmonton International is at Leduc, twenty-eight kilometres and thirty minutes south of downtown on the QEII and Gateway Boulevard - the farthest major airport from its city centre in Canada, and forty-five minutes in the afternoon peak or a January snowfall - and the local chauffeur meets a Toronto arrival at the arrivals hall with the plate and the name, thirty minutes' waiting on a domestic flight and forty-five on an international one included, as the Pearson page describes; YEG's pre-arranged ground-transport curb is the car's place. Nisku's energy-services yards are beside the airport, and a Toronto supplier's day that starts at Nisku and ends downtown is the shape the desk sees most.

The Ice District, the Legislature and the business day

Downtown Edmonton's business is in the Ice District's new towers around Rogers Place - the Stantec tower, the JW Marriott's tower, the Edmonton tower - and the older towers along Jasper Avenue and 101st and 102nd Streets - the banks, the law firms, the energy and utility head offices, Manulife Place, Commerce Place, Canadian Western Bank Place; the Alberta Legislature and its grounds on the river's north bank and the government's departments in the Federal Building and along 108th Street; the University of Alberta's campus and its hospital across the High Level Bridge; and the industrial heartland's refineries and upgraders in Strathcona County and Fort Saskatchewan to the north-east. An as-directed day of six to nine hours with the chauffeur waiting on 104th or Jasper between meetings, or a government-relations day at the Legislature and the departments, is the booking the desk's accounts make, and the roadshow page plans a day across downtown, Nisku and the heartland with the Anthony Henday ring road's timing built in.

Rogers Place, the Oilers and the evening

Rogers Place in the Ice District - the Oilers, the Oil Kings, the concerts that play the arena circuit - with the Ice District's plaza, its restaurants and the JW Marriott's and the Fairmont Macdonald's bars around it; the Winspear Centre's symphony and the Citadel Theatre a block east; Whyte Avenue's and Old Strathcona's restaurants and bars across the river; 104th Street's restaurants downtown: an evening booking of four to five hours covers dinner and an Oilers game with the car positioned on 104th Avenue or 101st Street before the third period ends, the sports page's venue-exit rules apply with an Oilers playoff crowd, and a Toronto account's client night at Rogers Place is the Sprinter.

The University of Alberta, and the hospital

The University of Alberta's campus on the river's south bank - the residences, the Butterdome, the Jubilee Auditorium beside it for convocation - and the University of Alberta Hospital, the Stollery Children's Hospital and the Cross Cancer Institute on the campus, the Mazankowski heart institute, and the Royal Alexandra downtown: a Toronto family's move-in or convocation is the campus routine with the local operator's SUV and Sprinter, and a patient referred west for a specialty or a family's visits are the medical chauffeur page's product with the local chauffeur waiting at the hospital's entrance. MacEwan University downtown and NAIT to the north are the same booking.

West Edmonton Mall, Whyte Avenue and a visitor's day

West Edmonton Mall - the largest mall in North America, its water park and its indoor amusement park and its eight hundred stores - Whyte Avenue's and Old Strathcona's shops and the Saturday farmers' market, the river valley's hundred and sixty kilometres of trails and its Muttart Conservatory pyramids, the Art Gallery of Alberta and the Royal Alberta Museum downtown, Fort Edmonton Park's historical village, the Legislature's grounds and its summer fountains, and the Elk Island bison an hour east: an eight-hour tourist day in the SUV with the local chauffeur's order and the car waiting at each, and a shopping afternoon at West Edmonton Mall is four hours with the car at the entrance nearest the store. Explore Edmonton has the seasons.

The Fringe, and the summer festivals

The Edmonton Fringe in August - the largest fringe theatre festival in North America, its ten days in Old Strathcona - the Folk Festival's weekend in Gallagher Park, the Heritage Festival's food pavilions in Hawrelak Park on the August long weekend, K-Days' midway in July, the Interstellar Rodeo, the Taste of Edmonton on Churchill Square: the summer closes Whyte Avenue and fills the hotels, and a Toronto client's festival week is a multi-day booking with the same local chauffeur, who knows which streets are closed on which night.

Nisku, the heartland and the road north

Nisku's energy-services yards beside the airport - the drilling contractors, the pipe and equipment suppliers, the camps' logistics companies - the industrial heartland's refineries and upgraders and petrochemical plants in Strathcona County and Fort Saskatchewan, and Highway 63 north to Fort McMurray and the oil sands four and a half hours away: a Toronto supplier's or investor's Alberta week is the multi-day booking with the same local chauffeur, and a Fort McMurray one-way is a flat fare the desk quotes with the city-to-city page's rules; the local chauffeur has the winter road and 511 Alberta is the dispatcher's screen.

Where the car waits, in a table

An Edmonton day, timed (book 9)

8:30 YEG, the SUV, a Toronto energy-services company's vice-president off the 6:30 from Pearson; the meet at arrivals. 9:00 Nisku, two yards beside the airport; the car at each gate. 11:30 the QEII north; the Ice District by 12:00. 12:15 lunch at the JW Marriott. 1:30 a client in the Stantec tower; the car on 104th Avenue. 3:00 the Legislature, a department on 108th Street. 4:30 the Fairmont Macdonald. 6:30 dinner on 104th Street. 7:30 Rogers Place, the Oilers; the SUV positioned on 104th Avenue at the second intermission. 10:15 the hotel. Nine hours and forty-five minutes on the Toronto account's invoice, Nisku to the arena on one booking.

The car

The network operator's fleet in the same classes: the Executive Sedan for the business day and the YEG run; the Mercedes S-Class for the vice-president; the Luxury SUV for the family, the heartland's roads and the winter, which in Edmonton is six months; the Executive Sprinter for the supplier's team, the Oilers night and the convocation family. Every vehicle has winter tyres from October. The fleet page has the Toronto classes and the desk confirms the Edmonton vehicle on the booking.

What it costs

The Edmonton operator's class hourly rate times the hours, from three (five for a Sprinter), quoted by the Toronto desk at booking and billed with the Toronto bookings on the account's monthly invoice, plus Alberta's GST - no sales tax - and the gratuity you set; no surge, no meter, no tolls. The rates page explains the Toronto number; the corporate accounts page the one-invoice arrangement; a Calgary or Fort McMurray one-way is a flat fare the desk quotes.

Booking Edmonton

A call or an email to the Toronto desk with the flight, the hotel and the days - the travel desk handles the Toronto-Edmonton-Calgary trip - or the booker with Edmonton as the pick-up city; the desk confirms the local operator, the vehicle and the chauffeur's name the day before, and the plate text arrives at the meet. A business day two days ahead; the Oilers' playoff nights and the Fringe weeks ahead.

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