Hourly chauffeur service in Kelowna: YLW, the Okanagan wineries, Big White and the lake on the Toronto standard

Kelowna, on the Toronto account

Kelowna is the Okanagan's city and the Toronto account's western holiday: the wineries on the benches above the lake, the lake itself and its resorts, Big White's and SilverStar's snow ninety minutes away, and, increasingly, a business day at the technology companies of the Innovation Centre and UBC Okanagan's campus, or a client's retirement house in the Mission or on the West Kelowna shore. A client who keeps a chauffeur by the hour in Toronto lands at YLW and finds the same thing waiting through the LimousineWorldwide.Directory network's vetted Kelowna 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 the Okanagan, and the Niagara wine-tour page is the Ontario version of the day the visitor came for.

YLW, and the meet

Kelowna International on Highway 97 in the city's north is twelve kilometres and twenty minutes from the downtown waterfront, thirty in the summer's Highway 97 traffic, and the local chauffeur meets a Toronto arrival - the direct Air Canada and WestJet flights from Pearson, five hours, or the connection through Vancouver or Calgary - at the arrivals hall with the plate and the name, thirty minutes' waiting on a domestic flight included, as the Pearson page describes; YLW's pre-arranged ground-transport curb is the car's place, and Lake Country's wineries are ten minutes from the terminal for a day that starts with a tasting.

The wine day, on the benches

The Okanagan is Canada's second wine region after Niagara and its most dramatic - the vineyards on the benches above a lake a hundred and thirty-five kilometres long, the desert at its southern end - and the wine day is the Kelowna booking: the Niagara wine-tour page's routine with the local chauffeur as the designated driver and the cases in the boot, eight hours in the SUV or the Sprinter, four or five wineries with a lunch, and the local knowledge of which tasting rooms need a reservation and which terrace has the view. West Kelowna's Mission Hill with its bell tower and its terrace restaurant, Quails' Gate below it, Frind on the lake; Kelowna's East Kelowna bench with CedarCreek and Tantalus and SpearHead; Lake Country's Scenic Sip route with 50th Parallel, Ex Nihilo and Arrowleaf; Naramata's bench an hour south with its thirty small wineries above Penticton; and the south's Oliver and Osoyoos - the Black Sage bench, Burrowing Owl, Nk'Mip - two hours down the 97: the Wines of British Columbia map is the planning tool and the desk builds the day with the client.

The lake, the resorts and the summer

Okanagan Lake's waterfront in Kelowna - City Park's beach and the sails sculpture, the boardwalk, the Delta Grand and the Eldorado and the Hotel Eldorado's marina, Bernard Avenue's restaurants, the cultural district's Rotary Centre - the resorts along the lake at Lake Country's Predator Ridge and Sparkling Hill's crystal spa, West Kelowna's Cove Lakeside, and the Mission's beaches; the Kelowna Yacht Club and the boat rentals; Knox Mountain's lookout; Myra Canyon's trestles on the Kettle Valley rail trail; the Okanagan's peach and cherry stands in July: a summer visitor's day is a six- to eight-hour full-day booking in the SUV, and a Toronto family's resort week at Predator Ridge or Sparkling Hill is a one-way flat fare each way from YLW, or a multi-day booking with the chauffeur staying for the wine days between the pool days. Tourism Kelowna has the seasons.

Big White, SilverStar and the winter

Big White's village and its champagne powder fifty-five kilometres south-east of the city up Highway 33 - an hour in good weather, ninety minutes in a snowfall - and SilverStar's above Vernon an hour north, with Apex above Penticton: a Toronto family's ski week is a one-way flat fare each way from YLW in the SUV with the gear, or a multi-day booking with the chauffeur staying for the wine day the parents take while the children ski; the Blue Mountain page's gear rules apply, the local chauffeur has the Highway 33's winter - chains carried, the SUV on winter tyres from October - and DriveBC is the dispatcher's screen. Big White's Christmas week books in September.

The business day: the Innovation Centre, UBCO and the hospital

Kelowna's technology cluster - the Innovation Centre on Doyle Avenue, the companies that grew out of it and Accelerate Okanagan, the aerospace firms at the airport, the Kelowna Yacht Club's and the Mission's professional offices - UBC Okanagan's campus beside the airport with its residences and its convocation, Okanagan College downtown, Kelowna General Hospital on Pandosy and the Interior Health Authority's headquarters, and the wineries' own head offices: a Toronto investor's or a client's business day is the as-directed block of six to nine hours with the chauffeur waiting on Doyle or Water Street between meetings, a Toronto family's UBCO move-in or convocation is the campus routine with the local operator's SUV and Sprinter, and a patient's referral or a family's visits are the medical chauffeur page's product at Kelowna General's entrance.

Penticton, Osoyoos and the road south

Highway 97 south along the lake - Peachland's and Summerland's benches, Penticton between its two lakes with its Naramata Bench wineries and its Skaha beach, Okanagan Falls, Oliver's wine capital and the Black Sage bench, Osoyoos's desert and Spirit Ridge and the Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre and the American border beyond - is a two-hour drive that a Toronto visitor does as a one-way flat fare to a Naramata or Osoyoos resort, or as a two-day multi-day booking with a night in Penticton and the south's wineries on the second day; the cross-border page covers a trip that continues to Washington's wine country. The Okanagan Connector to the Coquihalla and Vancouver, four hours west, is the flat fare the desk quotes for a client who wants the Vancouver page's city after the lake.

Where the car waits, in a table

An Okanagan wine day, timed (book 8)

9:30 the Delta Grand, the SUV, two Toronto couples. 10:00 the bridge to West Kelowna; Quails' Gate for the first tasting, the chauffeur in the lot. 11:15 Mission Hill, the tower and the terrace; a case in the boot. 12:30 lunch at Mission Hill's terrace restaurant, booked by the desk. 2:15 the bridge back; the East Kelowna bench, CedarCreek and Tantalus; two more cases. 4:15 Knox Mountain's lookout for the photograph. 4:45 the Delta Grand; the cases carried to the rooms. Seven hours and a quarter; eight billed; nobody drove, and the Niagara page's rule that the tasting is the point held on the second lake as on the first.

The car

The network operator's fleet in the same classes: the Luxury SUV for the wine day with the cases, the ski week with the gear and the Highway 33 winter; the Executive Sedan for the business day and the YLW run; the Mercedes S-Class for the couple and the investor; the Executive Sprinter for the wine group of eight to twelve, the ski family and the UBCO convocation. The fleet page has the Toronto classes and the desk confirms the Kelowna vehicle on the booking.

What it costs

The Kelowna 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 British Columbia's taxes and the gratuity you set; the wineries' tasting fees are the visitor's; no surge, no meter, no tolls. The rates page explains the Toronto number and the corporate accounts page the one-invoice arrangement; a Big White, Penticton or Osoyoos one-way is a flat fare the desk quotes.

Booking Kelowna

A call or an email to the Toronto desk with the flight, the resort and the days - the travel desk builds the wine days and the reservations - or the booker with Kelowna 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 wine day a week ahead in summer for the tasting reservations; Big White's Christmas week in September; the July and August lake weeks weeks ahead.

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