Hourly chauffeur service in Montreal: YUL, downtown, Old Montreal, the festivals and the Laurentians on the Toronto standard

Montreal, on the Toronto account

Montreal is the city the desk's Toronto clients go to most often and know least well, and the one where a local chauffeur earns the rate most obviously: the one-way grid and the orange cones, the Décarie and the Métropolitaine at 5 pm, the Old Port's cobbled one-ways, the festival closures that shut the Quartier des Spectacles for weeks, the winter, and the French - which the network's vetted Montreal operator's chauffeurs speak, along with the English the Toronto client does. A client who keeps a chauffeur by the hour in Toronto lands at YUL and finds the same thing waiting through the LimousineWorldwide.Directory network: the same three-hour minimum, the same flat rate, the same meet, one invoice. The Montreal day-trip page covers the five-hour drive from Toronto and the one-way flat fare; this page is the hourly chauffeur once you are there, and the Canada hub explains the network.

YUL, and the meet

Montreal-Trudeau International in Dorval is twenty kilometres and thirty minutes from downtown by the 20 and the Ville-Marie, forty-five to an hour in the afternoon peak when the Décarie interchange's reconstruction backs everything up, and the local chauffeur meets a Toronto arrival at the domestic or international 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; YUL's pre-arranged ground-transport curb is the car's place. The Porter and Air Canada shuttles from Billy Bishop and Pearson land every hour and the Billy Bishop page covers the Toronto end.

The business day: René-Lévesque, the Old Port and the campuses

Downtown Montreal's towers along René-Lévesque, Sherbrooke and de Maisonneuve - Place Ville Marie, the banks' and the law firms' towers on René-Lévesque and McGill College, the 1000 de la Gauchetière, the Deloitte tower at the Bell Centre, the Bonaventure - the Old Port's converted warehouses where the technology and gaming companies and the advertising agencies sit, the Quartier de l'Innovation, McGill's and Concordia's downtown campuses, the Université de Montréal on the mountain's north slope, and the aerospace and pharmaceutical campuses of Saint-Laurent, Dorval and Laval: an as-directed day of six to nine hours with the chauffeur waiting on René-Lévesque or Saint-Jacques between meetings is the booking the desk's accounts make, and the roadshow page plans a day that adds Laval's pharma campus and the aerospace plants around YUL with the 15's and the 40's timing built in. The Palais des congrès' conferences and the Grand Prix's corporate week are the multi-day bookings.

Old Montreal, the hotels and the evening

Old Montreal's hotels on Rue Saint-Paul, Saint-Jacques and de la Commune - the Hôtel William Gray, the Hôtel Nelligan, the St. Paul, the Gault, the Place d'Armes - the Ritz-Carlton and the Four Seasons and the Sofitel on Sherbrooke, the Queen Elizabeth on René-Lévesque, the Marriott Château Champlain, the Humaniti; the restaurants of Saint-Paul and the Old Port, of the Plateau's Saint-Laurent and Saint-Denis, of Little Italy and Mile End, of Griffintown's Notre-Dame; the Place des Arts' opera and symphony: an evening booking of four to five hours covers dinner in the Old Port and a Place des Arts concert with the car on Saint-Urbain or de Maisonneuve, and the Old Port's one-way cobbles are the local chauffeur's knowledge.

The Bell Centre, the Canadiens and the Grand Prix

The Bell Centre on de la Gauchetière - the Canadiens, the concerts that play Montreal before Toronto, the Deloitte tower's offices above it - and Olympic Stadium's and Saputo Stadium's events in the east: an evening booking of four to five hours covers dinner and a Habs game with the car positioned on de la Montagne or Saint-Antoine before the third period ends, and the sports page's venue-exit rules apply with Montreal's own crowd. The Canadian Grand Prix on Île Notre-Dame in June - the Formula 1 weekend, the Crescent Street and Peel Street parties, the corporate hospitality suites, the hotels sold out a year ahead - is the multi-day booking the desk's accounts make in January, with the circuit's shuttle rules and the Pont de la Concorde's closures the local chauffeur's problem; the Grand Prix's dates are fixed by Formula 1 a year out.

The festivals, and the summer

The Montreal International Jazz Festival's ten days in late June and early July in the Quartier des Spectacles, the Just for Laughs comedy festival in July, Osheaga's weekend on Parc Jean-Drapeau in August, the Francofolies, the Fireworks competition's Saturdays over the river, the Formula 1 weekend, the Montreal Pride parade: the summer closes Sainte-Catherine and the Quartier des Spectacles for weeks 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 and where the Place des Arts' drop moves to. Tourisme Montréal has the calendar.

A visitor's Montreal, by the hour

Mont-Royal's Kondiaronk lookout and the Chalet, the Oratoire Saint-Joseph, the Plateau's Saint-Laurent and Saint-Denis and its outdoor staircases, Mile End's bagels at St-Viateur and Fairmount, Jean-Talon and Atwater markets, Old Montreal's Notre-Dame Basilica and the Pointe-à-Callière museum, the Musée des beaux-arts on Sherbrooke, the Olympic Park's tower and the Biodôme and the Botanical Garden in the east, Little Italy, Westmount's and Outremont's streets, and Île Notre-Dame's Casino de Montréal: an eight-hour tourist day in the SUV with the local chauffeur's order - the mountain at 9, the Plateau and Mile End at 10:30, Jean-Talon for lunch, the Old Port at 2, the Oratoire at 4, dinner in Griffintown - and the car waiting at each.

The Laurentians, Tremblant and the Townships

Mont-Tremblant is ninety minutes north of Montreal on the 15 and the 117 - the ski resort's pedestrian village, the Fairmont Tremblant, the lake and the golf in summer - and the Laurentians' villages of Saint-Sauveur, Sainte-Adèle and Val-David are on the way; the Eastern Townships - Bromont's ski hill and its outlets, Magog and Lake Memphremagog, North Hatley's inns, the wine route - are an hour east on the 10; and Quebec City is three hours north-east on the 20 or the 40. A Toronto family's Tremblant week is a one-way flat fare each way from YUL in the SUV with the ski gear, or a multi-day booking with the chauffeur staying, and Quebec's winter-tyre law - mandatory from December 1 to March 15 - is met by every vehicle from November; Québec 511 is the dispatcher's screen.

Where the car waits, in a table

A Montreal day, timed (book 9)

7:45 YUL, the S-Class, a Toronto bank's managing director off the 6:30 Porter from Billy Bishop; the meet at domestic arrivals. 8:30 the 20 and the Ville-Marie; the Ritz-Carlton for a shower. 9:15 a law firm in Place Ville Marie; the car on Cathcart. 11:00 a client on René-Lévesque. 12:30 lunch at the Ritz's Maison Boulud. 2:00 a technology company in the Old Port; the car on Saint-Jacques. 3:30 a pharma campus in Laval up the 15. 5:15 the Ritz. 7:00 dinner on Saint-Paul; the car circling the cobbles. 9:30 the hotel. Nine hours on the Toronto account's invoice, in two languages, and the Décarie avoided twice by a chauffeur who reads the cones.

The car

The network operator's fleet in the same classes: the Executive Sedan for the business day and the YUL run; the Mercedes S-Class for the managing director; the Luxury SUV for the family, Tremblant with the gear and the winter; the Executive Sprinter for the Grand Prix team, the Habs night and the conference delegation. The fleet page has the Toronto classes and the desk confirms the Montreal vehicle on the booking.

What it costs

The Montreal 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 Quebec's GST and QST and the gratuity you set; no surge, no meter, and the 30's and the 25's bridge tolls passed through at cost when the route uses them. The rates page explains the Toronto number; the corporate accounts page the one-invoice arrangement; a Tremblant or Quebec City one-way is a flat fare the desk quotes.

Booking Montreal

A call or an email to the Toronto desk with the flight, the hotel and the days - the travel desk handles the Toronto-Montreal-Quebec trip - or the booker with Montreal 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 in the language you booked in. A business day two days ahead; the Grand Prix in January; the Jazz Festival and Tremblant's Christmas week weeks ahead.

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