How is the Maybach different from an S-Class?

It is longer, with substantially more rear legroom, a fully reclining rear seat, additional sound insulation and a more elaborately trimmed cabin. On journeys over two hours the difference is considerable.

How many passengers can travel?

Three, though the car is designed around two. With two passengers the reclining seat and rear console are fully usable.

Is the Maybach available at short notice?

Often, but not always. It is a small part of the available supply nationally, so we recommend confirming as early as you can.

A long-wheelbase saloon waiting outside a corporate entrance

Prestige

Mercedes-Maybach

The Maybach takes the finest saloon Mercedes builds, extends it, and rebuilds the rear compartment around a single idea: that you should arrive better than you left.

Passengers: 3
Large luggage: 2
Cabin bags: 2
Marque: Mercedes-Benz

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Passengers: Up to 3
Large luggage: 2
Category: Prestige
Hourly rate: £180 guide rate

Published Rates

What the Mercedes-Maybach Costs

Guide rates for the Mercedes-Maybach, so you can weigh the marque before you enquire. Tolls and congestion charges along the route are covered, and your written quotation confirms the final price, what it includes, and any tax that applies.

Hourly rate, as directed: £180
Half day (minimum 4 hours): £720
Heathrow ↔ Central London: £500
Gatwick ↔ Central London: £750

Guide rates. Your written quotation confirms the final price, what it includes, and any tax that applies.

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The extra length goes entirely to the rear passengers. The offside seat reclines with a powered calf rest and a folding footrest on the seat in front — as close to lying down as any car offers. Rear seats heat, cool, massage and remember your preference.

Sound insulation goes a step beyond the S-Class, with additional acoustic treatment and thicker glazing. On a long journey the effect is genuinely restorative: many clients simply sleep from London to the Cotswolds and wake at the gate.

We arrange the Maybach for VIP travel, private aviation transfers, significant business days and any journey where the interval between two appointments needs to do real work for you.

Interior

Extended wheelbase with executive rear seating
Reclining offside seat with powered calf rest
Heated, ventilated and massaging rear seats
Additional acoustic glazing throughout
Rear tables and refrigerated compartment

Best suited to

VIP chauffeur
Private aviation
Long distance
Significant occasions

Specific model, colour and specification are subject to availability and booking confirmation. Vehicles are sourced from our own cars and a vetted network of professional chauffeur operators.

Recline and rest
The nearest thing to a private cabin on the road.
Beyond quiet
Acoustic treatment a clear step above the standard flagship.
Arrive restored
Chosen when the journey has to leave you sharper than it found you.

The rear compartment, reading light on and everything to hand

A long black saloon at a hotel entrance in the rain

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Why Luxury Chauffeurs

Why Clients Choose the Mercedes-Maybach

01
Rest, not just comfort
Comfort keeps you from aching. This car lets you genuinely sleep, which is a different proposition entirely when the meeting follows the journey immediately.
02
Discreet at the top
It carries far less recognition than a Rolls-Royce while offering much of the same isolation, which suits clients who would rather not be photographed arriving.
03
Understood by staff
Private terminals, embassies and the doormen of the best hotels handle this car constantly. Arrivals happen around you rather than being explained at the gate.
04
Serious sound isolation
The additional acoustic work is the feature clients mention afterwards. Calls sound like an office, and a conversation never has to be repeated.

Choosing This Car

Is the Maybach worth the step

Below it sits the S-Class, above it the Rolls-Royce Ghost, and the useful test is what you intend to do in the back. For a short transfer where you will be on the phone throughout, the Mercedes flagship gives you everything you will actually use and we will happily say so. The step up earns itself on long journeys, on days with no gap between arriving and performing, and whenever a passenger needs to lie back rather than sit back.

Against the Ghost, the trade is presence for practicality. The Rolls-Royce is an occasion; this is a working machine that happens to be exquisite. If the destination involves photographers or a ceremony, choose the motor car. If it involves three cities, a laptop and an early start, choose this one. Where clients book both across a week, it is usually for exactly those two different purposes.

Luggage is where expectations need managing. Despite the extra length, capacity matches the standard flagship at two large cases and two cabin bags, because every additional centimetre went into the rear compartment rather than the boot. In practice the car is also long, so tight mews, sloping underground ramps and short kerb bays need planning, and the reclining seat sits on one particular side depending on specification. Your chauffeur will confirm which before you travel.

Ways to Travel

Chauffeur Services Available with the Mercedes-Maybach

Every service below can be arranged with this vehicle, subject to availability on your date.

All Chauffeur Services

Four Steps

How Booking Works

Chauffeur booking with us is a conversation rather than a checkout. Every journey is priced individually.

01
Tell us the journey
Send the date, the addresses and the shape of the day on WhatsApp, or use the journey planner. There is no obligation and no card details are taken to get a price.
02
We quote in writing
You receive a written quotation covering the vehicle, the timings and everything included — no estimates that move later, and no surge pricing.
03
The car is held
On confirmation a vehicle and a named professional chauffeur are assigned to your date, and the terms are put in writing.
04
Your chauffeur arrives
Briefed on the route, the access and the waiting arrangements before the day, so nothing is decided at the kerb.

Included as Standard

What Every Mercedes-Maybach Booking Includes

Quoted as one price. No hidden extras added at the end of the journey.

Rear seat set to your preferred position before collection
Refreshments in the rear compartment chilled in advance
Chauffeur briefed on entrances, security and protocol
Private terminal and FBO collections coordinated directly
Quiet cabin protocol observed unless you invite conversation
Multi-city itineraries planned as a single continuous booking
Discreet, unbranded presentation at every address
Amendments handled through one named contact

Where the S-Class stops, the Maybach begins
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A flagship saloon waiting outside an office in the City

Corporate & Business

Executive days that matter

For a board meeting reached by road, a regulatory hearing, or a day where a principal presents twice in two cities, this VIP chauffeur arrangement is bought for one reason: the condition you are in when the door opens. Rear tables, a refrigerated compartment and a cabin quiet enough for legally sensitive calls turn the interval between commitments into preparation rather than dead time.

On multi-vehicle days it usually leads, with saloons or an MPV following for the wider team. We brief the chauffeur on entrances, security procedure and where the car may legally wait, and where a corporate account is in place nobody in the party ever handles payment. Itineraries, amendments and running updates go through a single named contact by WhatsApp or email.

Who We Drive

Who Books the Mercedes-Maybach

Principals and their teams
Chairs, founders and heads of state functions travelling with an assistant, where the rear compartment has to work as an office and a place to rest.
Private aviation passengers
Travellers connecting from Farnborough, Luton or Biggin Hill who have just spent hours in a cabin and want the standard to continue on the ground.
International visitors
Guests arriving in Britain for a short, dense schedule, for whom the car is effectively a mobile base between appointments across two or three cities.
Special anniversaries
Couples marking something significant who want extraordinary comfort for the evening without the attention a ceremonial motor car inevitably attracts.

Events & Occasions

Landmark evenings and arrivals

Some occasions want the arrival noticed and some want the evening perfect. For the second kind, this car is the answer: charity galas, significant birthdays, a proposal dinner, a night at the opera followed by a long run home. The cabin is beautiful in the dark, the ride is unhurried, and there is no expectation on anyone to perform for the kerb.

The day after a celebration matters as much as the celebration itself. Couples frequently take a ceremonial motor car for the wedding and this one for the journey to the airport the following morning, when what they actually want is to fall asleep. For guests of honour who dislike attention, it is often the only luxury chauffeur option they will accept.

Airports

Airport Transfers in the Mercedes-Maybach

Met in arrivals with a name board, luggage carried, and departures planned around your check-in.

Popular Journeys

Long-Distance Journeys in the Mercedes-Maybach

Quoted door to door as a single movement, including the return leg and any waiting in between.

Timing & Availability

Reserving a Maybach

This is a small pool nationally, and considerably smaller outside London, so notice matters more than for any Mercedes chauffeur car. A week is comfortable in the capital; for regional collections, or for a date with a fixed arrival time, allow longer. Short notice does sometimes work, particularly midweek, but we would rather set expectations honestly than promise a car we cannot confirm.

The periods that fill first are the major diplomatic and financial calendar weeks, the summer sporting season, and the run-up to Christmas. Award ceremonies and film festival dates take whatever remains. Model, colour, wheelbase and interior specification are always subject to availability and written confirmation, as our vehicles come from our own fleet and from a vetted network of professional chauffeur operators.

Professional Chauffeur Standards

The Standard We Hold

What a premium chauffeur service should mean in practice, rather than in a brochure.

Vetted professional chauffeurs
Every chauffeur is licensed, insured and vetted before they drive for us. They are briefed on your journey in advance and dressed for the occasion.
Discretion by default
Vehicles carry no branding. Your chauffeur speaks when spoken to, and what is discussed in the back of the car stays there.
Immaculate vehicles
Current-generation cars, valeted before every journey, with still water and charging in the rear compartment.
One point of contact
The same person handles your enquiry, your quotation and your booking, so nothing is explained twice.

A chauffeur checking tyre pressures before the first collection of the day

Where We Travel

Nationwide Chauffeur Service

London is where most of our work begins, but a chauffeur can be arranged to and from any address in the United Kingdom.

Luxury London

Across the UK

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