Chauffeur Services in Ashford

The M20 is the artery and also the complication. When freight management schemes are in force between junctions eight and nine the coastbound carriageway can run under a contraflow with reduced speeds, and that turns a predictable run into an unpredictable one. We check the arrangement before setting out and, if the motorway is compromised, use the A20 through Charing and Lenham instead. Any Channel disruption at Dover is felt in Ashford within the hour, so we build margin into airport departures rather than trusting the map.

Locally, the A28 towards Canterbury and the A2070 towards the marsh are the two roads that carry most of our journeys, and the ring road roundabouts around the outlet centre are slow on Saturdays and through December. Market days and events at the county showground bring their own traffic on the north side of town. For the vineyards and country house hotels towards Tenterden and Biddenden, the lanes narrow considerably after dark and we plan the approach in advance.

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.