Chauffeur Service in Southampton and the Cruise Terminals

The cruise terminals along the water send ships out to the Mediterranean, the Caribbean and a good deal further, the Boat Show fills the town every September, and the New Forest begins a few minutes down the road. Add a maritime history that shaped the city and the ferries running across to Cowes, and you have a place most visitors pass through on their way to something they have been looking forward to for months.

Cruise transfers are the bulk of what we do here, and they come down to luggage and timing. We collect from home with enough boot space for a fortnight of cases, deliver to the correct terminal — Ocean, Mayflower, Horizon and QEII are not close together — and meet the ship again on the return morning. Hotels, the station and the hospital runs make up most of the remainder.

The New Forest begins at Ashurst and rewards a slow drive through Lyndhurst, Brockenhurst and Beaulieu. Winchester and its cathedral sit twenty minutes north, with Salisbury and the plain a little beyond. Lymington and the Solent villages are lovely on a clear day, and Bournemouth and the Jurassic Coast stretch west for anyone with a full day to give them.

Southampton Airport is unusually convenient at around fifteen to twenty-five minutes from the docks. Heathrow is typically an hour and a half to two hours by the M3 and M25, with Gatwick a similar distance east. From central London the M3 usually takes two to two and a half hours, though sailing days and half term add to that, so margin is built in rather than hoped for.