Chauffeur Services in Maidstone

For the town the M20 is a great asset and its single real weakness. Disrupt cross-Channel traffic and contraflow arrangements can appear on the coastbound carriageway, at which point journey times through junctions seven and eight become very hard to predict indeed. On days like that we head for London by the A20 and M26, or drop south to the A21 instead. The other dependable delay is junction six at the Coldharbour roundabout, particularly going north onto the A229 towards the M2.

Sitting directly off junction eight, Leeds Castle empties its concert and firework evenings onto a single roundabout, which is worth an extra half hour on the return. On their days the town market and the riverside events close roads around Fairmeadow and Barker Road. July brings the county show at Detling, and the A249 feels the pressure of it for the duration. For a morning flight out of Gatwick, we generally suggest leaving Maidstone about three and a half hours ahead.

On a long journey, Britain's weather does more damage than its traffic ever will. Winter afternoons close in early, and that matters a great deal when the final leg is a single-track road. Highland and moorland routes can run substantially longer than any summer estimate suggests. Those allowances go into the timings from the start, rather than being discovered together halfway up a glen. Where a departure hour makes the schedule uncomfortable, we propose a better one.

Demand tracks the calendar closely. Bank holiday weekends fill fast, so do the weeks either side of Christmas, the summer wedding season and those university terms that all begin and end together. The further from London a journey runs, the sooner a car wants committing to it. Midweek travel in the shoulder months, by contrast, is the easiest thing in the world to arrange.