Land anywhere, keep a chauffeur: the Toronto hourly standard in fifty-nine countries through the network

The idea

A Toronto client who keeps a chauffeur by the hour here - the pillar page's product, the three-hour minimum, the flat rate, the car that waits - lands at JFK, Heathrow, Charles de Gaulle, Frankfurt, Dubai, Delhi, Changi, Haneda or Sydney and finds the same thing waiting: a vetted local operator from the LimousineWorldwide.Directory network, booked by the Toronto desk on the client's account, with the same minimums, the same flat-rate promise, the same meet-and-greet with the plate and the name, the local operator's and the chauffeur's names confirmed the day before, and the hours on the same monthly invoice as the Toronto and the Canadian bookings. The Canada hub explains the sixteen Canadian cities; the network page explains the vetting; this page is the world beyond, by region, with the airport the meet happens at.

How a booking abroad works

The client gives the desk the city, the flight, the hotel and the days - the travel desk has often booked the flight and the hotel already - and the vehicle class; the desk books the network operator it has used in that city, or the one the directory's Toronto members vouch for, confirms the minimum, the hourly rate for the class and the date, the meet and the waiting rules with the operator in writing, quotes the rate to the client before the client confirms, and sends the operator's name, the vehicle's class and plate and the chauffeur's name and phone the day before with the time in both zones; the plate text arrives at the meet; the desk is reachable through the day; and the far-end hours go on the monthly invoice. The network page's table has the seven steps, and the corporate page the account they run on. A city not on the list below is a call to the desk; the directory usually has it.

What travels with the booking, and what does not

The minimums travel - three hours for a sedan or an SUV, five for a Sprinter or a van - and so do the flat-rate promise, the waiting rules, the meet and the chauffeur's conduct to the Limousine Association International's standard; the desk confirms them with the operator in writing and answers for the booking. The hourly rate does not - it is the local operator's for the class and the date, quoted by the desk before you confirm and, in London, Zurich or Tokyo, different from Toronto's - and the car is the same class from the local fleet, not the same make, as the fleet page's "or similar" says. Local law travels too: the chauffeur drives on the side the country drives on, the vehicle meets the country's licensing, and the client's passport and visa are the client's.

The countries, by region

Each flag below is a country the network serves, with the capital or the hub city the desk books most and the airport the meet usually happens at; the links open the directory, where the operators are listed. The Americas first, because New York, Mexico City and the Caribbean are where the Toronto account travels most; then Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

Americas · 13 countries

United StatesNew York · JFKMexicoMexico City · MEXBrazilSao Paulo · GRUArgentinaBuenos Aires · EZEChileSantiago · SCLColombiaBogota · BOGPeruLima · LIMPanamaPanama City · PTYCosta RicaSan Jose · SJODominican RepublicPunta Cana · PUJJamaicaMontego Bay · MBJBahamasNassau · NASBarbadosBridgetown · BGI

Europe · 21 countries

United KingdomLondon · LHRIrelandDublin · DUBFranceParis · CDGGermanyFrankfurt · FRANetherlandsAmsterdam · AMSBelgiumBrussels · BRUSwitzerlandZurich · ZRHAustriaVienna · VIEItalyRome · FCOSpainMadrid · MADPortugalLisbon · LISGreeceAthens · ATHTurkeyIstanbul · ISTDenmarkCopenhagen · CPHSwedenStockholm · ARNNorwayOslo · OSLFinlandHelsinki · HELPolandWarsaw · WAWCzech RepublicPrague · PRGHungaryBudapest · BUDIcelandReykjavik · KEF

Middle East · 4 countries

United Arab EmiratesDubai · DXBQatarDoha · DOHSaudi ArabiaRiyadh · RUHIsraelTel Aviv · TLV

Africa · 5 countries

EgyptCairo · CAIMoroccoCasablanca · CMNSouth AfricaJohannesburg · JNBKenyaNairobi · NBONigeriaLagos · LOS

Asia · 14 countries

IndiaDelhi · DELPakistanLahore · LHESri LankaColombo · CMBSingaporeSingapore · SINMalaysiaKuala Lumpur · KULThailandBangkok · BKKVietnamHo Chi Minh City · SGNPhilippinesManila · MNLIndonesiaJakarta · CGKHong KongHong Kong · HKGChinaShanghai · PVGTaiwanTaipei · TPEJapanTokyo · HNDSouth KoreaSeoul · ICN

Oceania · 2 countries

AustraliaSydney · SYDNew ZealandAuckland · AKL

The Americas

New York's JFK, Newark and LaGuardia with the meet at the terminal's arrivals and the Manhattan day by the hour across Midtown's and the Financial District's towers; Mexico City's and Cancún's airports for the business day and the resort transfer; São Paulo's Guarulhos and Buenos Aires's Ezeiza for the executive's week; Santiago, Bogotá, Lima and Panama City for the mining and the banking accounts; San José for Costa Rica's resorts; Punta Cana, Montego Bay, Nassau and Bridgetown for the Caribbean's winter, where the airport-to-resort transfer with the family and the bags is the booking and the network's operator meets the Toronto charter. The cross-border page covers the drive to the United States; the flight and the far-end chauffeur are this page.

Europe

London's Heathrow with the meet at Terminal 2, 3 or 5 and the City and Mayfair day by the hour; Dublin; Paris's Charles de Gaulle and the day across La Défense and the 8th; Frankfurt for the banks and the fair, Amsterdam's Schiphol, Brussels for the institutions, Zurich and Vienna for the private banks and the conferences; Rome, Madrid, Lisbon and Athens for the business day and the holiday's transfer; Istanbul; Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki for the Nordic accounts; Warsaw, Prague and Budapest; Reykjavik for the stopover. A European roadshow - London Monday, Frankfurt Tuesday, Zurich Wednesday - is the roadshow page's sheet with the network's operator in each city and one invoice, and the desk books it as it books Toronto-Montreal.

The Middle East, and Africa

Dubai's DXB with the meet at Terminal 3 and the day by the hour across DIFC, Downtown and the Marina - the network's busiest city outside North America for the Toronto account; Doha's Hamad, Riyadh's King Khalid and Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion for the business day; Cairo, Casablanca, Johannesburg, Nairobi and Lagos for the executive's week where a vetted chauffeur is not a luxury but the sensible way to move. The local operator's knowledge - the Sheikh Zayed Road's hours, Cairo's ring road, Johannesburg's routes - is the point, and the desk's vetting is the reason to book it through Toronto rather than at the hotel's desk.

Asia, and Oceania

Delhi's Indira Gandhi and the day across Gurugram's and Noida's campuses, and Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai through the same operators; Lahore and Colombo; Singapore's Changi and the day across the CBD and Marina Bay; Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Manila and Jakarta; Hong Kong's and Shanghai's Pudong and Taipei's airports for the finance and the manufacturing accounts; Tokyo's Haneda and Narita with the meet at arrivals and the day across Marunouchi and Roppongi, and Seoul's Incheon; Sydney's Kingsford Smith and Auckland for the Toronto account's antipodean offices. The time zones are the desk's problem - a Tokyo meet is confirmed in both zones, as the Canada pages do for Vancouver.

The meet, wherever you land

The chauffeur at the arrivals exit with the client's name on a board and the plate text already on the client's phone; thirty minutes' waiting on a domestic flight and forty-five on an international one included, the flight tracked; the bags to the car; the hotel's porte-cochère; and the day by the hour from there. It is the Pearson page's meet reproduced at fifty-nine airports, and the operator who does it is one the desk has used or the directory's Toronto members vouch for - never a first-time operator for a first-time client, as the network page says.

The car, and the classes

The network's operators run the same classes the fleet page describes - the Executive Sedan, the flagship sedan the S-Class stands for, the Luxury SUV, the executive van the Sprinter stands for - from the local fleet: a Mercedes E-Class in Frankfurt, a Toyota Alphard van in Tokyo, a Range Rover in Dubai, a Lexus in Singapore, a Cadillac in New York. The desk confirms the vehicle's class and, where the client asks, the make, on the booking; the minimum for the class travels with it.

What it costs

The local operator's class hourly rate times the hours, from the class's minimum, quoted by the Toronto desk before you confirm and billed with the Toronto and Canadian bookings on the account's monthly invoice, in Canadian dollars at the rate the desk states on the confirmation, plus the local taxes the operator charges and the gratuity you set, which the desk will tell you the local custom for; no surge, no meter. The rates page explains the Toronto number; a Toronto client who has paid a hotel's car desk in London or Dubai will recognise the difference.

Booking the world

A call or an email to the desk - (833) 931-6688, support@torontoblackcarservice.net - with the city, the flight, the hotel, the days and the class; the desk quotes the local rate, confirms the operator and the chauffeur the day before, and sends the plate text at the meet. A week ahead for a city the desk books often - New York, London, Dubai - and two for one it has not booked recently; the travel desk builds the flights and the hotels around it.

The airports, in a table

The International Air Transport Association's airport codes are the ones the desk uses on every confirmation, and the terminal is confirmed with the operator from the flight number the day before.

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