Chauffeur Service & Private Driver in Los Angeles

What you are actually buying

A car rental gives you keys and a daily rate. A chauffeur service gives you a back seat and an hourly one, and the difference is not luxury — it is the list of things that stop being your problem. Traffic on the 10. The structure under the hotel with the 6'2" clearance. The valet queue at the moment you most want to already be inside. Somebody is still solving all of it; they are simply not you.

That is why the booking is shaped differently. Car rentals are sold by the day: a period of time in which the car belongs to you. A chauffeured day is a schedule — addresses, hours, a first pickup and a last drop — and it is priced against the schedule rather than the calendar. Send us the day rather than the dates and the quote comes back in the shape you actually need.

A chauffeur, Uber Black, or a black-car service

Three ways to be driven across Los Angeles tonight short of booking a limousine, and they are not three prices for one thing. They are three different things, and the difference is what you can point at before the car arrives.

Chauffeur rates by car

Two lines, added, and both of them readable: the driver from $100 an hour on a two-hour minimum, and the car at the daily rate printed on its own page. Read across for an evening — the four-hour block most nights arrive in — or for a full day, and the last column is the driver's line by itself. Nothing here is “or similar”; the car in the row is the car at the kerb.

The waiting inside the block and the fuel are in the driver's line. Longer than the day is the same hourly line, agreed by text. Several days in town are several driven days, the same driver throughout — $3,090 for three in the BMW 7 Series; out-of-town itineraries are arranged on request. Every car in the fleet, priced the same way, is on the full rate page.

Popular runs, priced

The bookings this page is asked for most, each as one figure: the driver for the block, the car at its daily rate, the waiting and the fuel inside it. None of these is a one-way fare. The car stays for the block, which is the point of it.

• An evening in Beverly Hills $630 · 4 hours in the BMW 7 Series — driver $400, car $230 Dinner on Canon with the driver held through it, and the same car home.
• A Malibu day $1,086 · 8 hours in the Range Rover Sport — driver $800, car $286 PCH both ways, lunch, the beach, the car waiting wherever you left it.
• The LAX arrival block $486 · 2 hours in the Range Rover Sport — driver $200, car $286 The driver at arrivals with your name, the bags in the boot, then the hotel and the first meeting, in the same car.
• A Sprinter night for nine $2,400 · 4 hours in the Mercedes Sprinter — driver $400, car $2,000 Nine seats, one schedule, and nobody in the group parking anything.
• Three business days of meetings, the same driver $3,090 · 3 days × 8 hours in the BMW 7 Series — driver $2,400, car $230 × 3 Staged at the hotel each morning, the car outside between meetings, one invoice to the company.

For the runs: Van Nuys Airport, arriving at the Hollywood Bowl and the Santa Monica Mountains, for the Malibu day.

When seven of you are going

For seven with a driver, the answer is the nine-seat van. The Mercedes Sprinter is the one vehicle here designed around being driven rather than driving: nine individual quilted chairs, a starlight headliner, screens, lighting you set by colour, a refrigerated drawer — and the luggage still going in behind everybody rather than on their knees. One vehicle replaces a convoy, and it keeps a group on one schedule instead of three.

If a seven seater is literally what you mean — a family and a week of cases, not a wedding party — the three-row cars do it. The Chevrolet Traverse seats seven across three rows with a boot still behind the third, at $114 a day; the Volkswagen Atlas does the same for $114; the Lexus TX takes six in individual chairs and is the quietest of them, at $159. The Sprinter is $2,000. Those are the cars' own daily rates, with the driver's hours their own line on top of whichever you pick. Say you want a driver when you enquire and the car and the driver come back as one total. The group vehicles, priced with the driver, are on the seven-seater chauffeur page.

What chauffeur hire costs

Two numbers, and most of the confusion in this market comes from quoting them as one. The driver is $100 an hour, from, on a two-hour minimum booking — when somebody asks what a personal chauffeur costs in Los Angeles, that is the figure they mean. The car carries its own daily rate alongside it, from $114 across the fleet, and whatever is printed on that car's own page is what it costs. The chauffeur hire cost, car by car, is on the rates page.

Two things decide where your evening sits above that floor. Which car, because the car carries its own day rate. And how many hours you are asking for, because the driver's hours are their own line on the quote rather than something folded into the car. The waiting inside the block and the fuel are in the driver's line, and that is the whole of what the hourly figure has to cover.

Worked through: an eight-hour day — a driver from mid-morning until after dinner — in the BMW 7 Series is eight hours of driver at $100 and the car's own $230 for the day: $1,030, both lines named. The same eight hours behind the Cullinan moves the second half of that sum and not the first, and longer is the same hourly line.

The shortest booking we take is two hours — an airport arrival, a dinner across town and back. Most evenings arrive as four: dinner, a premiere, a night out with the car waiting. Longer nights and multi-day arrangements are quoted the same way, by the hour, and the whole figure reaches you in writing with the car and the hours named before you commit to any of it. Same day is ordinary: an hour from payment, confirmed on the phone in minutes, on +1 (424) 303-6496. Compare it against the day rates on the price list if you want to see where the two products separate.

The cars people ask for by name

Rolls-Royce with a chauffeur

Rolls-Royce is the name that comes up first. The Cullinan is the one most of these bookings end on: a back seat with room to arrive in, and a boot that takes everybody else's luggage as well. The Wraith is the coupé, and a driver suits it rather than wastes it — coach doors that open backwards, a kerb and an audience are a combination best handled by somebody who has done it before. Ask to rent a Rolls-Royce with a driver and it comes back as the two numbers above: the car's day rate, and the driver's hours — the whole bill, line by line, is worked through in a Rolls-Royce rental bill, explained, and which of the three back seats to choose in Cullinan vs Bentayga vs Maybach GLS.

A Maybach with a chauffeur

The Maybach is the other name, and it is asked for by a different person. A Rolls-Royce is a car you are seen getting out of; the Maybach GLS 600 is one you are not seen in at all, which for some of these bookings is the entire brief. Two reclining captain's chairs in the back with a console between them rather than a bench, the quietest cabin we hold, and the height to get in and out of in a dress or a suit without a performance. It is $1,799 a day for the car, with the driver's hours alongside it as ever.

Ask for a Maybach with a driver and you have asked for the thing this car was built to be — reclining rear chairs and the quietest cabin of the evening; what the badge means and what the GLS 600 actually is, in what is a Maybach.

An exotic car with a chauffeur

An exotic car with a chauffeur works the same way, with one thing worth knowing first. A chauffeured Lamborghini here means the Urus — the super-SUV, with a back seat that is worth sitting in — rather than a Huracán, which is built around the wheel and puts its passenger beside the driver. Say chauffeur when you enquire rather than afterwards, and the car and the driver are quoted as one thing.

BMW, Mercedes and Bentley with a chauffeur

The BMW 7 Series is the quiet one for a day of meetings: $1,030 for an 8-hour day, driver and car. The Mercedes-AMG G 63 is the arrival that should be seen, $1,499 for a four-hour evening. The Mercedes Sprinter takes the whole party in nine chairs with the luggage behind them, $2,400 for the evening. The Bentley Bentayga is the Bentley to be driven in, five real seats and a quiet cabin, $1,699 for the evening.

Your rental, our driver

There is a kind of service in this city that sends a driver to drive your own car home. Ours is the mirror of it. Take the BMW 7 Series or the Cullinan for the week at its daily rate, and on the evening that should be driven — the premiere, the client dinner, the night with a bar tab — a driver is added to the car you already have, from $100 an hour on a two-hour minimum. Same booking, same invoice, same car. The only thing that changes is which seat you are in. For a team it runs both ways at once: the executives who want a driver get one, and the ones who would rather drive take the same kind of car with the keys, all on one invoice.

Nobody in the black-car business can offer this, and not because they would rather not: they have no car to hand you the keys to. A chauffeur service owns a driver's diary; a rental owns a fleet. We are the second thing with the first added, which is why a driver for one evening of a five-day rental is an ordinary line on the quote here rather than a second company to call. Say which legs need the driver when you book — the two halves are arranged differently — or ring +1 (424) 303-6496 once you have the keys — an hour from payment, confirmed on the phone in minutes.

Private driver, personal chauffeur, car with a driver

People reach this page having typed nine different things. Private driver services. Personal chauffeur. A personal driver. Luxury car hire with a driver. Chauffeur-driven cars. Executive car service. A luxury car service. An LA chauffeur service. A car and a chauffeur. In Los Angeles these all describe one booking, and nobody should have to guess the magic word to get a straight answer. If the sentence in your head is "I want the car but I do not want to drive it", you are in the right place regardless of which of those you searched for.

The distinction that does matter is not vocabulary but duration. A single evening — a dinner, a premiere, a wedding exit — is arranged as one block with a set start and finish. A driver held across a week of meetings, a production, or a visiting principal's whole stay is a standing arrangement rather than a single booking. Both are ordinary here and the two are quoted differently, so say which one you are asking about.

For a company the standing version usually comes with the corporate car service account around it — one invoice, a billing contact, a certificate of insurance sent to your risk team before the first journey.

Beverly Hills, and the four kerbs we already know

Most of what is sold as a Beverly Hills chauffeur service is a car dispatched into Beverly Hills. The difference here is where it starts from and what that costs: the car and the driver arrive at the Beverly Wilshire, the Four Seasons at Doheny, L’Ermitage and the Maybourne with no delivery charge on the booking, because those are our partner hotels rather than addresses we happen to drive to. The doorman knows the arrangement, the car is staged before your time rather than dispatched at it, and nobody is standing on Wilshire with a phone out.

Anywhere else in Beverly Hills — a house above Sunset, an office on Canon, a restaurant with a valet queue you would rather skip — is a named delivery on the quote. The cars this postcode asks for are the Cullinan for the arrival and the Maybach for privacy, with the BMW 7 Series for the dinner that is about the table.

Driven both ways, with the middle included

An evening that ends somewhere is not two journeys. Malibu to a dinner in Beverly Hills and back is one block with a start and a finish, and the driver is held through the dinner rather than released and re-dispatched — which is the arrangement most of this field quotes and the reason their second leg arrives late, or as somebody else. The car waits where you left it. The same driver takes you home.

It matters most on the runs where the two halves are far apart. Malibu to Beverly Hills is an hour each way in the wrong traffic; a wedding in Santa Barbara is two. Booked as one block those hours are known before you commit, and the whole thing — car, driver, the waiting — reaches you as one figure rather than as a fare that grows. Booked as two transfers, the wait is the part nobody priced, and it is the part that goes wrong.

Who is driving, and how you would know

The car is the easy half to check; the driver decides the evening. The number we hold that speaks to it is 5.0 from 67 Google reviews on our Google Business Profile, where every review can be read. The people behind it: Nizo Luxury, 2022 S Robertson Blvd, Los Angeles — +1 (424) 303-6496, contact@nizoluxury.com, 8am–7pm PT; the same people who stage the car answer the phone. The chauffeured service is commercially insured. No security deposit is taken on a chauffeured booking — the driver has the keys — and gratuity is at your discretion: nothing is added to the bill.

What a rating does not tell you is who arrives. The same driver stays with the booking from the first pickup to the last drop rather than the job being passed to whoever is nearest, and across a multi-day arrangement it is the same person each day. That is the part this field replaces with a dispatch app, and it is the part people call back about.

Chauffeur by district

The same driver and the same cars, priced the same way, with the runs each district actually books — and their own pages for the airports and for the group vehicle.

• Beverly Hills — hotel guests who would rather not valet, a client dinner where arriving matters, a wedding at a Beverly Hills hotel.
• West Hollywood — a night out with drinks, a bachelorette or a birthday for a group, a premiere on the Strip.
• Santa Monica — a day up the coast, offsite days at the beach hotels, a group landing at LAX for a Santa Monica stay.
• Hollywood — premieres and awards-week evenings, the Bowl without the parking, a studio day that ends at a screening.
• Downtown Los Angeles — a day of meetings across the Financial District, conference days at the Convention Center, event nights at LA Live.
• Pasadena — an evening in Old Town, Rose Bowl days, a visiting speaker at Caltech or JPL.
• Malibu — a day on the coast with lunch at Nobu, a sunset drive, a wedding at a bluff estate.
• Orange County — a wedding at a coastal venue, a client roadshow across the county, a night in Newport or Laguna.
• Westwood — the Wilshire corridor towers, a UCLA graduation or a Royce Hall evening, hospital visits at the medical centre.
• Palm Springs — a festival weekend, an estate wedding, a golf week in Rancho Mirage — the drive out in the back seat, arranged on request.
• Santa Barbara — a Santa Ynez wine day, a Montecito wedding, a weekend at the Miramar with the driver staying — arranged on request.
• Airports — the arrival block at LAX, Burbank and Van Nuys: the driver at arrivals with the name, then the hotel and the first meeting in the same car.
• Seven seats and more — the Sprinter and the three-row cars with a driver, for a group that should arrive together.
• Weddings — the day rather than a slot, the driver staged through it; productions — a driver for the rolling shots, the COI to the production office.

Where the car starts

Whichever part of the city you are in, the question is where the car starts rather than where the office is — and ours start with you. At our partner Beverly Hills hotels the car is under the porte-cochère with no delivery line; anywhere else the quote names the first pickup, one figure before the day, across greater Los Angeles — Santa Monica, Malibu, Downtown, the Valley, the Westside, Pasadena and La Canada Flintridge in the north-east, Rolling Hills Estates down on the peninsula. Airports are the same: LAX, Burbank, Van Nuys and Santa Monica, with the car staged against the flight rather than the booking time so a delay does not cost you the pickup.

The driver starts where you are, which is the whole answer to a chauffeur service near me — an awkward search in this city, because what it wants back is a branch and what you actually need is an address and an hour. Give us those two and there is nothing left to be near.

See the whole Nizo fleet if you want to pick the car first, or send the day — the hours, the addresses, how many of you — and we will come back with a car, a driver and one number. For today, ring +1 (424) 303-6496: an hour from payment, confirmed on the phone in minutes, and the person who answers is the one who stages the car.