Chauffeur Services in Tunbridge Wells

Westward, the A264 is the natural airport road, and it passes through East Grinstead, where both the town centre and the Felbridge junction slow at either peak. North, the A21 moves faster but commits you to junction five of the M25, unreliable in the morning. Going south, the A21 towards Hastings has improved since the Pembury dualling, though the hospital junction there stays busy. Which of the two we take is decided on the morning, not the week before.

Locally the tightest point is Mount Pleasant Road past the station, and it worsens whenever the Assembly Hall has something on. Events at the Pantiles, the summer festivals and the Christmas period all put restrictions on the lower town, while the common car parks fill early on a fine weekend. Before a morning flight from Gatwick our usual suggestion is leaving Tunbridge Wells about three hours ahead, and rather more during the school holidays.

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.