Chauffeur Services in Weston-super-Mare

Everything here connects through junction 21, and the A370 between it and the seafront is what actually decides how long a journey takes. On summer weekends and event days the queue runs inward from the motorway roundabout a considerable way, and the late afternoon return is worse still. For anything heading south, junction 22 at Burnham is the better bet. We choose between them by direction of travel, not by which one looks nearest on a map.

Proximity to Bristol Airport rewrites the sums here in a way it simply does not once you go further west. Through winter, a pick-up an hour and a half ahead of check-in is entirely realistic. Come a Saturday in summer and we would give it longer, since both the A370 and the airport approach thicken up. Whenever a seafront event, an air display or a beach race day shuts the front, published diversions apply, and the meeting point goes beyond them.

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.