Chauffeur Services in Andover

The A303 is fast and pleasant east of Andover and unpredictable west of it, where single carriageway sections towards Amesbury and Stonehenge back up on summer Fridays and bank holiday weekends. Heading for London we join the M3 at junction 8 near Micheldever, and that stretch is the one that decides an airport timing. On the worst holiday afternoons the northern route by the A343 and Newbury can be quicker, and we will take it rather than sit still on principle.

Military traffic from Tidworth, Bulford and Middle Wallop shapes the weekday roads around the town, and the A342 and A338 north west can be slow when exercises are moving. Andover holds a regular market that closes part of the town centre, and the Hawk Conservancy and the museums draw visitors along narrow lanes in summer. For weddings in the Test valley villages we look at the last half mile in advance, because passing places are few and reversing a large car down a flint lane pleases nobody.

Britain's weather does more to a long journey than its traffic does. Winter afternoons close in early, which matters when the last leg is a single-track road, and Highland and moorland routes can take substantially longer than a summer estimate suggests. We build that into the timings rather than discovering it together, and where a departure hour makes a schedule uncomfortable we will suggest a better one.

Demand follows the calendar. Bank holiday weekends, the weeks either side of Christmas, the summer wedding season and the university terms that begin and end together all fill quickly, and the further from London a journey runs, the earlier a car should be committed to it. Midweek travel in the shoulder months is the easiest thing in the world to arrange.