Rolls-Royce Phantom
3 passengers · 2 large cases
Arrivals & Departures
Southampton Airport Chauffeur Service
Small, quick and unusually civilised, Southampton Airport also happens to lie a short drive from the cruise terminals, which is what brings a good many of our guests through it.
- Code
- SOU
- Region
- Hampshire
- By road
- Roughly 15–25 minutes from Southampton city centre, traffic depending
Quoted individually. Give us the outline and a written price comes back to you: no rate card, no obligation whatsoever.
- Airport
- Southampton Airport
- Code
- SOU
- By road
- Roughly 15–25 minutes from Southampton city centre, traffic depending
- Terminals
- 1
Beside the railway line at Eastleigh, minutes from junction 5 of the M27, the terminal measures the distance from set-down to check-in in steps rather than in corridors. Few airports anywhere in the country put you through less bother. Coming in from Winchester, the New Forest or the coast, the drive is short enough to be a genuine pleasure instead of something merely borne.
A name board in the arrivals hall marks where your chauffeur waits, and the cases go out to the car from there. Much of what we do at this airport joins a flight to the cruise terminals in Southampton itself: collecting someone who has just landed and running them to the ship, or the same thing in reverse on disembarkation morning. Give us the berth and the sailing time, and the day is planned around both.
Little lead time is needed for a departure, which is part of the appeal, though the M27 and the approach through Eastleigh both slow at rush hour and we make a proper allowance for that. Out of Winchester or Salisbury the drive takes longer than a map suggests. Your chauffeur collects from the house or the hotel, loads the luggage and sets you down at the terminal door, a few steps from check-in.
Regattas on the Solent account for a good number of arrivals, weddings across Hampshire for plenty more, and the ships for the rest. Where they go afterwards makes for some of the prettiest driving we do. Head into the New Forest. Turn west for Bournemouth and the Dorset coast, north to Winchester and Salisbury, or east as far as Portsmouth and Chichester. London stays a comfortable run whenever flight times make that the sensible answer.
Why Luxury Chauffeurs
Why Clients Choose Us for Southampton Airport
01
Ship and flight
Flight to cabin, or cabin to gate. With fixed times at both ends, it becomes obvious what the middle stretch is worth when somebody handles it properly.
02
Small airport advantage
Hardly any building stands between the door and the aircraft here, so the proportions shift: the driving becomes the long part and the terminal the brief one. We plan around that.
03
London when required
Hampshire does not fly every route. Take a private airport transfer up to Heathrow or Gatwick and you have a straightforward couple of hours, with one boot to load instead of three changes to make.
04
Discretion, quietly
Cars carry no markings, chauffeurs keep quiet unless you would rather they did not, and nothing in the arrangement draws a second glance at either end.
At a Glance
Southampton Airport
Steps to check-in
Set-down is right by the terminal door, so nothing here involves a walk, a shuttle or much standing about.
Cruise connections
Ship to flight, flight to ship: send over the berth along with the sailing time and the whole day gets planned around the pair of them.
New Forest onward
Short and lovely drives from the terminal reach Lyndhurst, Beaulieu and Brockenhurst.
Local Knowledge
Eastleigh, ships and the M27
Few airports in the country clear an arrival faster on a domestic or Channel Islands sector, where the gap between aircraft door and the front of the building sometimes runs to a few minutes. Your chauffeur waits inside holding a name board, and in a hall of this size that is impossible to miss. European services carrying hold baggage naturally take longer, so the pickup is planned around the published arrival together with the clearance we would ordinarily allow.
Directly outside, drop-off is meant for a short stop, and it never needs to be anything more. Getting there is what deserves thought. Junction 5 of the M27 is the usual approach, the M3 pours traffic down from Winchester and Basingstoke, and Eastleigh's streets seize up around school time. A cruise morning adds pressure of its own, with an entire ship's worth of passengers heading for the docks inside the same couple of hours.
Beyond the airport the geography treats you kindly. Winchester, Salisbury and the New Forest all sit comfortably within reach; Bournemouth and the Dorset coast lie a little further out; Portsmouth and the Chichester side wait to the east. Ferry ports count as well: Southampton for the Isle of Wight and the cruise berths, Portsmouth for the Channel crossings, each with a check-in deadline of its own that we work backwards from. First flights go early enough that a collection before five raises no eyebrows, and at that hour the M27 is empty.
Ways to Travel
Chauffeur Services
Every service is available on this page's journeys. Each has its own detail, timing and pricing basis.
Luxury Chauffeur Service
Chauffeur Services
Private Chauffeur
Private Travel
Personal Chauffeur
Regular Arrangements
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Executive Chauffeur
Executive Travel
Business Chauffeur
Business Travel
Airport Chauffeur
Airport Travel
Chauffeur by the Hour
Hourly Hire
Chauffeur for the Day
Full-Day Hire
Luxury Vehicles
Choose Your Chauffeur Driven Car
From an executive saloon to a Rolls-Royce. Model, colour and specification are subject to availability and booking confirmation.
Rolls-Royce Cullinan
4 passengers · 3 large cases
Rolls-Royce Ghost
3 passengers · 2 large cases
Mercedes-Benz V-Class
6 passengers · 6 large cases
Land Rover Defender
5 passengers · 4 large cases
Mercedes-Benz E-Class
3 passengers · 2 large cases
Mercedes-Maybach
3 passengers · 2 large cases
Mercedes-Benz S-Class
3 passengers · 2 large cases
Four Steps
How Booking Works
Chauffeur booking with us is a conversation rather than a checkout. Every journey is priced individually.
01
Tell us the journey
Message us on WhatsApp with your date, the addresses and roughly how the day looks, or fill in the journey planner instead. Nothing is owed either way, and getting a price asks for no card details at all.
02
We quote in writing
Back comes a written quotation setting out the vehicle, the timings and everything included. No estimate that shifts afterwards, and no surge pricing.
03
The car is held
Once you confirm, your date has a vehicle against it and a named professional chauffeur, with the terms set down in writing.
04
Your chauffeur arrives
Your chauffeur is briefed beforehand on the route, the access and where the waiting happens, so nothing gets decided at the kerb.
Included as Standard
What Every Southampton Airport Booking Includes
Quoted as one price. No hidden extras added at the end of the journey.
- You are met inside the terminal, name board up
- Cases taken from trolley to boot, in both directions
- Your cruise berth and boarding time built into the plan
- Waiting allowed around the landing time as published
- Charging points and still water in the rear cabin
- Child seats fitted ahead of collection, if requested
- Tolls, parking and drop-off charges sit in the quotation
- A single thread on WhatsApp or email, start to finish
Small, quick and unusually civilised, Southampton Airport also happens to lie a short drive from the cruise terminals, which is what brings a good many of our guests through it.
Corporate & Business
Corporate travel in Hampshire
Marine, defence and technology make up the business here, spread across Southampton, Fareham, Whiteley and Portsmouth, and a good deal of it involves visitors landing for a day and flying out the same evening. Meet the flight, hold the car through the meetings, return it to the terminal, and the two most irritating parts of such a day disappear: the parking, and the gap between appointments.
Given how limited the route map here is, a fair share of the corporate work turns out to be the road leg up to Heathrow or Gatwick instead. Those runs are long enough to deserve doing properly: a quiet cabin, a chauffeur who knows which terminal you actually want, and a written quotation settled beforehand. Company billing can be arranged, and the whole business stays with one contact by email or WhatsApp.
Who We Drive
Who Travels with Us for Southampton Airport
Cruise guests
Passengers joining a ship or coming off one, whose sailing time will not move an inch, and for whom disembarkation morning is a poor moment to go hunting for a taxi.
Channel Islands travellers
Regular flyers over to Jersey and Guernsey, who use this terminal much as they would a bus stop and want the ground half of the trip to be just as undramatic.
Solent sailing crowd
Owners and crews landing for Cowes Week or a couple of days out on the water, carrying kit bags that no small car is going to swallow.
Hampshire households
Families settled in Winchester, Romsey and the villages down the Test valley, for whom this counts as the local airport and a car is simply the way you get to it.
Events & Occasions
Regattas, ships and coast
Hampshire fills for Cowes Week, the boat show and the racing weekends, and everyone arriving has somewhere to be at a particular hour, generally with more luggage than was mentioned at the time of booking. Those days we time against the ferry rather than the road, since missing a sailing is a far worse result than turning up twenty minutes early at the terminal.
Weddings run right through the summer in the New Forest and along the coast, and plenty of the guests arrive by air. This is also a part of the country people prefer to see slowly: a few days at Beaulieu, a run down to Lymington, a cathedral city or two along the way. Keeping a car for the day, with one chauffeur throughout, suits that far better than a string of short hops.
Airports
Airport Chauffeur Connections
Met in arrivals with a name board, luggage carried, and departures planned around your check-in.
Popular Journeys
Long Distance and Intercity Journeys
Quoted door to door as a single movement, including the return leg and any waiting in between.
- 01London to ManchesterThe road takes 4 to 5 hours, according to traffic
- 02London to BirminghamBy road it runs 2 hours 30 to 3 hours 30, traffic permitting
- 03London to OxfordRoad time sits at 1 hour 30 to 2 hours, traffic allowing
- 04London to CambridgeCount on 1 hour 30 to 2 hours by road, traffic depending
- 05London to BathSomewhere between 2 hours 30 and 3 hours 30 behind the wheel, traffic notwithstanding
- 06London to BristolExpect 2 hours 30 to 3 hours 30 once you are on the road, traffic willing
- 07London to the CotswoldsReckon on 2 to 3 hours by road, traffic depending
- 08London to SouthamptonAround 2 to 2 hours 30 on the road, traffic depending
Timing & Availability
Cruise weeks and lead times
It is the cruise calendar, not the flight schedule, that shapes what we have free. Turnaround days take the larger vehicles first, summer Saturdays above all, because the luggage leaves no choice. Throw in the regatta weeks and the August holidays and the diary tightens fast. Outside all that, midweek travel is usually simple to arrange, occasionally at a day's notice.
Where a ship is involved, give us the berth and the boarding window from the start rather than the address, because that is what the timing is genuinely built on. Before an early flight we would sooner agree the collection the evening beforehand and have it settled. Dates and details by WhatsApp or email, and back will come a time with the reasoning attached.
Professional Chauffeur Standards
The Standard We Hold
What a premium chauffeur service should mean in practice, rather than in a brochure.
Vetted professional chauffeurs
Before anyone drives for us they are licensed, insured and vetted. Ahead of the day your chauffeur reads the journey through, and turns up dressed for the occasion.
Discretion by default
No branding appears on the cars. Your chauffeur speaks when spoken to, and whatever gets said behind the front seats goes no further.
Immaculate vehicles
Cars of the current generation, valeted ahead of each journey, still water and charging in the rear compartment.
One point of contact
One person takes your enquiry, writes the quotation and sees the booking through, so you never explain anything twice.
Where We Travel
Nationwide Chauffeur Service
London is where most of our work begins, but a chauffeur can be arranged to and from any address in the United Kingdom.
Arrivals
Inside the terminal, your chauffeur stands with a name board and takes the luggage as far as the car. Send us the flight number: the wait then gets planned around the published schedule, plus however long immigration and baggage reclaim usually take.
Departures
Give us the check-in time you mean to hit and we work backwards from it, allowing for the road, the hour of day and the walk in from the drop-off. Your cases go as far as the terminal doors, and your chauffeur stays until you are inside.
Terminals
- Main terminal
Luxury Chauffeurs operates independently and holds no official partnership with any airport, any terminal operator or any fixed base operator. Give us your flight number and the collection gets planned around the published schedule and the usual clearance times.
Onward
Where People Travel Next
Journeys we are most often asked to arrange from Southampton Airport.
- Southampton
- Winchester
- New Forest
- Portsmouth
- Bournemouth
- Salisbury
From the airport, long-distance runs get a door-to-door quotation that covers any waiting time as well. See long-distance journeys or name the destination you have in mind and we will price it.
Get a Quote
Request a Personalised Quotation
Every journey is priced individually against distance, duration, vehicle and timing. Send the outline and we will reply with a written quotation.
Frequently Asked
Southampton Airport chauffeur — your questions
We would, and few journeys here come round more often. The terminals in Southampton are only a short drive off. Give us the berth and the boarding window, and your chauffeur times the collection so none of it rests on chance.
Thirty to forty minutes in the ordinary way, and more through the morning peak on the M3 and in Eastleigh. Given how fast the airport itself moves you along, the driving is generally the longer half of it.
In the arrivals hall, holding a name board, and the building is small enough that it catches your eye at once. Your chauffeur takes the luggage from there and walks you the short distance out to the car.
Regularly, both of them. Lyndhurst, Beaulieu and Brockenhurst sit close at hand, with Bournemouth and the Dorset coast a comfortable drive further west. Send the address when you enquire and the timing is planned around your flight.
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