Limo service in Toronto: the stretch, the S-Class and the word

What Toronto means by 'limo'

Toronto says limo for any pre-booked black car with a professional driver - the airport limo, the corporate limo, the limo to dinner - and searches for limo service Toronto more than for any other phrase in the trade. Most of those searches want a sedan or an SUV at a flat fare, which is the black car on every page of this site. Some want the long one: the stretch limousine with the bar console, the fibre-optic ceiling and the partition, for the wedding, the prom, the fortieth, the bachelorette. This page covers both, says which is right for which night, and explains how each is priced by the hour.

The stretch limousine - a Lincoln or Cadillac stretch, eight passengers, three-hour minimum, prom and wedding minimums per your confirmation - is the occasion vehicle. The Mercedes S-Class, the Executive Sedan and the Luxury SUV are the limos for everything else, and the Executive Sprinter is the limo for a party of up to twelve. The fleet page has the detail; each class is 'or similar' per our terms.

When the stretch is the right car

When the arrival is the point. A wedding where the couple want the photograph of the door opening; a prom where six friends want to arrive together and be seen; a sweet sixteen; a bachelor or bachelorette night where the party is in the car as much as at the venue; a milestone birthday where the drive to dinner is part of the gift; a night out where the bar console and the champagne (for guests of legal age, in a vehicle licensed for it) are the evening's first act. The stretch is not the car for the airport, for a working day or for a day trip with luggage: the trunk is small because the cabin is long, and the wedding-day page explains when the S-Class is the better wedding car.

When the S-Class or the SUV is the right limo

For the anniversary dinner at Canoe and the drive along the lake after; for the client you are hosting; for the couple who want a black car in the photographs rather than a white stretch; for the evening at the opera; for anything where the car should be quiet and beautiful rather than long. The Luxury SUV for four to six to a game or a concert, and for a winter wedding with a gravel drive. The evening page and the sports and concerts page plan the nights.

How a limo is priced in Toronto

By the hour. Each class has an hourly rate for the date - a Saturday in June carries the peak-date layer the rates page explains - and a minimum: three hours for the stretch, the S-Class, the sedan and the SUV; five for the Sprinter. Prom and wedding minimums may vary and are stated on the confirmation. Overtime rounds to the next hour at the same rate. HST and the gratuity you set are shown at booking; tolls only if you choose the 407; parking only where a venue charges it. Stops and waiting are included, which for a limo night is the whole product: the car is outside the restaurant, the venue and the after-party, and the ride home at 1 am costs what the ride there did. The stretch is also available as a flat-fare Route for a single ceremony-to-reception transfer where that is all that is needed.

Weddings

The stretch for the couple and the party from the getting-ready address to the ceremony, the photographs and the reception; the S-Class for the couple who want the modern car; Sprinters for the party and shuttles for the guests; the whole day on the clock with one dispatcher. The wedding-day page plans the running order, the venues from the Distillery to Casa Loma to the Niagara vineyards, and the plan B for rain. Book Saturdays from May to October months ahead; the stretch and the S-Class go first.

Proms and graduations

A group of six to eight in a stretch, or up to twelve in a Sprinter, from the pre-party house to the school and the after-party, with a chauffeur who does not open the bar console for anyone under nineteen, does not stop where the parents said not to, and texts the parents at each leg if asked. Prom minimums are per the terms and on the confirmation; May and June Saturdays are booked in March. Convocation at Convocation Hall, the Sony Centre or the Rogers Centre for the big universities is an S-Class or SUV day for the family with the graduate, and the evening page covers the dinner after.

Birthdays, anniversaries and the night out

The fortieth: a stretch for eight from Leaside to dinner on King West to a rooftop bar to home, five hours, the champagne in the console for the drive. The anniversary: the S-Class to Scaramouche or Canoe and a slow drive along the lake, four hours. The bachelorette: the Sprinter for twelve from a Yorkville hotel to dinner, a show and two bars, six hours, one vehicle, everyone home. The evening page has the venue exits - where the car waits when the theatre or the club lets out - and the limo-and-party-bus question is answered on the Sprinter page: for more than eight, the Sprinter is the better vehicle and a party bus is a different licence.

Alcohol, the bar console and the law

Alcohol may be consumed only in a vehicle licensed for it under Ontario's Liquor Licence and Control Act, by passengers of legal drinking age (nineteen in Ontario), with the partition closed; the stretch limousine's bar console exists for that. A sedan, an SUV and a Sprinter are motor vehicles under the Act and no alcohol may be open in them. The chauffeur enforces both without discussion, and a violation ends the booking under our terms. Ontario's impaired-driving penalties are the reason the limo exists at all: nobody in the party drives.

The stretch, in detail

Eight passengers on two facing bench seats, a bar console with glassware and ice, a fibre-optic ceiling, a privacy partition, a sound system with your phone connected, tinted glass, and a trunk that takes an overnight bag and not much more. Black or white as available; the desk says which. A ribbon and flowers for a wedding arranged with your florist. The stretch is a Lincoln or a Cadillac stretch 'or similar'; a stretch SUV limousine, where wanted, is a five-hour minimum per our terms. Vehicles pictured on any site are for advertising, as our terms say; the actual vehicle is of the class booked.

Corporate limo service

For a company, limo service means the black car account: sedans and S-Classes for airport runs and executive days, Sprinters for teams, on account with rates on file. The stretch appears on corporate bookings for the holiday party and the awards night, and the events page covers those.

Limo service across the GTA and out of the city

The same hourly rate from downtown to Vaughan, Mississauga, Markham, Oakville and Hamilton, where most of the GTA's banquet halls and wedding estates are; garage travel shown at booking where a 2 am finish is far from the yard. A limo night to Niagara - the casino, the Falls, a vineyard wedding - or Casino Rama is an hourly booking with the drive in the block, and the day-trip board gives the hours.

Which limo, in a table

Booking a limo

Choose By the hour, the class, the start address, the date, the start time and the hours; put the occasion and the venues in the notes; confirm the rate. For a wedding or a prom, call the desk with the date first - the stretch and the S-Class are reserved months ahead for spring and summer Saturdays and a deposit per the terms holds the vehicle. For a night out, a week ahead for a Saturday; the same day is often possible for a sedan or SUV on a weekday.

Sixteen and nineteen: the ages that matter

A sweet sixteen or a prom group under nineteen travels in a stretch with the bar console locked and a chauffeur who is, in effect, a chaperone on wheels; parents can ask for a text at each leg and a route that avoids the after-party address they did not approve. A bachelorette of twenty-nine-year-olds travels with the console open and the partition closed. The chauffeur asks for identification when there is doubt, and Ontario's liquor inspectors do check limousines outside prom venues in June; the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario publishes the rules for licensed limousines.

The limo photograph

Every stretch booking for a wedding, a prom or a milestone includes the minute at the door for the photograph: the chauffeur positions the car where the light is, opens the door, and steps out of the frame or into it as asked. For a wedding, the desk asks which car the photographer wants at the ceremony and at the reception, and it is that car - clean that morning, ribboned as arranged.

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