Chauffeur Services in Stratford-upon-Avon

Everything hangs on the A46, which runs north-east to the M40 at junction 15 and the M42 past that, then south-west towards Evesham. Quick it is, though its record at the Wildmoor and Bishopton roundabouts during the evening peak is poor. Towards Birmingham the A3400 through Henley-in-Arden is the prettier option and genuinely the slower one. We pick between them on the day and tell you which you are taking.

Nights with a performance on transform the centre entirely. Let the main house and the smaller theatre empty at the same moment, and Waterside and Southern Lane fill with people while the bridge crossings slow for twenty minutes or longer. Our answer is to hold the car clear of all that and collect as the crowd thins, which nearly always beats trying to reach the theatre door. Race days at the town's course put extra traffic on the Luddington Road.

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.