Chauffeur Service in Los Angeles
Somebody else parks it.
Hiring a car and hiring a driver are two different bookings with two different sums. This one is sold by the hour, and it ends at a kerb you never have to go looking for.
The best car in Los Angeles is the one you get out of.
Being driven is not an upgrade on a rental. It is a different product with different arithmetic: priced by the hour rather than the day, supplied with a driver whose job description includes the 405, and finished the moment you step out. Below — what the service actually costs, which cars carry seven, and why six different phrases all reach the same booking.
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.
When seven of you are going
Ask for a seven seater with a chauffeur and the honest answer is usually that you want nine. 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 for a fraction of the money. The Chevrolet Traverse seats seven across three rows with a boot still behind the third; the Volkswagen Atlas does the same; the Lexus TX takes six in individual chairs and is the quietest of them. Those ordinarily go out self-drive. Say you want a driver when you enquire and we quote the car and the driver together, which is the only way the number means anything.
The car is the easy half.
The driver is the product.
What chauffeur hire costs
Two numbers, and most of the confusion in this market comes from quoting them as one. The car carries its daily rate — from $125 across the fleet, and whatever is printed on that car's own page is what it costs. The driver is quoted by the hour on top. When somebody asks what a personal chauffeur costs in Los Angeles, the hourly figure is the one they mean.
Two things move it, and we would rather name them than dress them up. Which car, because a driver for a Cullinan is not a driver for a Traverse. 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. Anything else is its own line too and is named as such — a second vehicle, or delivery to an address rather than to one of the Beverly Hills hotels we already serve.
We do not print an hourly rate because there is not an hourly rate, and a number on a page that does not survive contact with your schedule is worse than no number. What you get instead is the rate in writing, with the car and the hours named, before you commit to any of it. 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 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.
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.
Private driver, personal chauffeur, car with a driver
People reach this page having typed seven different things. Private driver services. Personal chauffeur. Luxury car hire with a driver. Chauffeur-driven cars. Executive 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 arrangement around it — one invoice, a billing contact, a certificate of insurance sent to your risk team before the first journey rather than after somebody chases it.
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. Delivery is complimentary to our partner Beverly Hills hotels and quoted anywhere else 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.
Cars that come with a driver
The chauffeured cars, in the order we are asked for them. Where a card shows a date, that date is the live calendar and you can hold it now; the rest are prepared for the dates you name and confirmed the same day you ask. Ask for any of these hire cars with a driver and we arrange the driver with the vehicle.
Chauffeur questions
- How much does chauffeur hire cost in Los Angeles?
- There are two numbers and they are worth keeping apart. The car carries its own daily rate — from $125 across the fleet, and the figure printed on each car's page is the one that applies. The driver is quoted separately, by the hour, and that hourly rate is what people usually mean when they ask what a chauffeur costs. It moves with the car and with the hours you are asking for, because the driver's hours are their own line on the quote. We do not publish a single rate because there is not a single rate, but you get yours in writing — with the car and the hours named — before you commit to anything.
- Can I hire a 7 seater with a chauffeur?
- Yes, and the vehicle most people actually want for it is the Mercedes Sprinter, which seats nine in individual quilted chairs with the luggage still going in behind them. It is the one thing in the fleet built around being driven rather than driving. If a seven seater is literally what you need — a family, not a wedding party — the Chevrolet Traverse and Volkswagen Atlas both seat seven across three rows and the Lexus TX takes six in individual chairs. Those ordinarily go out self-drive; say you want a driver when you enquire and we quote the two together.
- Is a private driver the same thing as a chauffeur?
- For what we do, yes. Private driver, personal chauffeur, executive car service, a car with a driver, chauffeur-driven hire — they are five names for one booking, and nobody should have to guess which word gets them the right answer. The distinction that does matter is duration, not vocabulary: a single evening and a driver held across a week are quoted as different things, so say which of the two you mean.
- Can I have a driver for only part of the booking?
- That is a common arrangement. Take the keys for the days you want to drive and put a chauffeur on the evening you do not — the premiere, the client dinner, the night with a bar tab. Tell us which legs need a driver when you book rather than after, because the two halves are arranged and priced differently and retrofitting one onto the other mid-booking is the slow way round.
- Is there a chauffeur service near me in Los Angeles?
- The car and the driver come to you, which is what makes this an odd thing to search for: there is no depot to be near. Name the address — a house, a hotel, an office, a stage door — and that is where the booking starts, so a chauffeur service near me in Santa Monica and one in Pasadena are the same arrangement with a different first pickup. Delivery is complimentary to our partner Beverly Hills hotels and quoted anywhere else across greater LA.
- Do you do airport pickups with a driver?
- Yes, at LAX, Burbank, Van Nuys and Santa Monica. The car is staged for the flight rather than the booking time, so a delay does not cost you the pickup, and the driver meets the arrival. For a group landing together the Sprinter does in one vehicle what three cars do badly, and it keeps the group on one schedule instead of three.