Luxury Chauffeur Service in Mayfair

Mayfair sits between Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Park Lane, and it changes character every few hundred metres. Grosvenor Square and Mount Street are stately and residential; Shepherd Market is village-scaled and slightly bohemian; Bond Street belongs to jewellery, art and tailoring. The people we drive here are usually doing several of those things in one day — a morning appointment, a fitting, lunch, and dinner somewhere that keeps its own hours. The common thread is a preference for arriving without ceremony.

Park Lane is a red route where stopping is not permitted, so we set down on the side streets instead — Upper Grosvenor Street, Culross Street or the hotel forecourts themselves, where the doorman directs. Berkeley Square is a one-way circuit and busiest at its north-west corner. The narrow mews behind Mount Street and Davies Street will take a saloon but rarely a long-wheelbase MPV. Mayfair sits inside the congestion charge zone; your chauffeur deals with that quietly and it never becomes your problem on the day.

Most Mayfair journeys are short and closely spaced. The auction rooms and galleries of New Bond Street and Cork Street run to viewing times rather than opening hours. The tailors of Savile Row work by appointment, and a fitting rarely finishes when it is supposed to. The restaurants of Mount Street and Curzon Street fill early and empty late. For days like these an hourly chauffeur is the sensible arrangement: the car waits nearby, the boot holds the shopping, and nobody watches the clock.

Heathrow is the usual departure point from Mayfair, typically 45 to 75 minutes via Hyde Park Corner and the A4, though the Cromwell Road can add a great deal at the wrong hour. Gatwick runs 60 to 100 minutes down the A23 and M23. London City is closer than people expect, usually 35 to 60 minutes east through the City. For a private departure from Farnborough or Luton we set off earlier and confirm the handling agent's gate before you leave the house.