Limo service in Niagara Falls

The day trip that became a destination

Niagara Falls is the most-visited place in Canada and the most-booked chauffeured day trip on this site, and the two facts are related: the falls are ninety minutes from Toronto on a highway that everyone else is also on, the town's parking is expensive and far from anything, and the day that starts at the falls usually ends at a winery, a theatre or a casino that is nowhere near the car. A chauffeur solves all of it - the drive, the parking, the wine, the drive home - and a fixed fare makes the day's cost known before it starts. Beyond the day trip, the region books chauffeurs for the reasons a resort town does: the Fallsview hotels' airport transfers from Pearson and Buffalo, the vineyard weddings that fill the summer Saturdays, the Shaw Festival, the casino's players, and the cross-border shopping across the Rainbow Bridge. We run the full service across Niagara Falls, Niagara-on-the-Lake, St. Catharines, Welland and the wine country: the airport transfers, the wine tours, the weddings and the cross-border runs.

Getting here: Pearson, Buffalo and the QEW

From Toronto and Pearson, the QEW is the road: a hundred and thirty kilometres and ninety minutes off-peak from Pearson, longer on a summer Saturday when the Burlington Skyway and the St. Catharines stretch slow to a crawl. The Pearson page covers the pickup; the Niagara point is that the chauffeur leaves early on a Saturday and that the fare is fixed whatever the QEW does. From Buffalo, the airport is forty minutes across the Peace Bridge or the Rainbow Bridge, and Americans flying into BUF for a Niagara weekend book the cross-border service with the flight number, the chauffeur crossing to collect them. From Hamilton, forty-five minutes east; the Hamilton page covers it. There is no scheduled airport in the region itself.

The falls day, worked through

A Toronto pickup at 8:30 in a Luxury SUV, the QEW to the falls by 10, the Hornblower boat at 10:30 with the chauffeur waiting on the parkway, the Journey Behind the Falls, lunch at a Fallsview restaurant at 12:30, the Niagara Parkway north along the river - the whirlpool, the floral clock, the Queenston Heights - to Niagara-on-the-Lake by 2:30, two wineries by 4:30, the Shaw Festival's evening performance or dinner on Queen Street, and home to Toronto by 10:30 with the wine in the back. Booked as an hourly chauffeur for the day; the chauffeur suggests the order and knows the parkway's stops. The same day from Pearson starts with a landing and ends at a Fallsview hotel.

Wine country

Niagara-on-the-Lake's wineries along the Niagara Parkway and the Niagara Stone Road - the estates that made Canadian icewine famous - and the Twenty Valley's along the escarpment bench at Jordan, Vineland and Beamsville are the two districts, forty minutes apart, and a wine day usually picks one. Harvest is September and October and the icewine harvest is January, when the vineyards at minus ten are the region's best-kept secret. The chauffeur drives, waits and does not taste; the SUV takes the cases; the hourly page covers the pricing. The Wine Country Ontario map lists the estates.

The Fallsview hotels, the casino and the town

The Fallsview district on the escarpment above the falls holds the tower hotels - the Marriott, the Hilton, the Sheraton, the Embassy Suites - and the Fallsview Casino, which books its players' airport transfers from Pearson and Buffalo on a standing arrangement; Clifton Hill below is the arcade street and the Casino Niagara; Lundy's Lane the motel strip; the Niagara Parkway the quiet drive. The town's own streets close for the fireworks over the falls on summer nights and the winter Festival of Lights from November to January, and the chauffeurs know the pickup points inside them.

Vineyard weddings

Niagara-on-the-Lake's vineyard estates and the escarpment's are the destination-wedding venues of Ontario, and the summer Saturdays are booked a year ahead. The plan is the wedding page's: the couple's stretch, the guests' Sprinter or coach from the Toronto hotel block or the local inns to the vineyard and back, the SUV for the photographer, and the airport transfers for the family flying in through Pearson or Buffalo. The falls themselves are the photograph run, and the chauffeurs know where a stretch may stop on the parkway.

The Shaw Festival, the theatre and the nights

The Shaw Festival's three theatres in Niagara-on-the-Lake run from April to December and the matinee-and-dinner day is a city-to-city booking from Toronto with the chauffeur waiting through the performance; the Fallsview Casino's concert hall books the touring acts; the falls' fireworks and the illumination are the evening's finish. The nights out page covers the approach.

Cross-border: the Rainbow Bridge and beyond

The Rainbow Bridge in the middle of the falls is the shortest hop to the United States on the continent - Niagara Falls, New York, and its outlet mall are ten minutes across - and the Peace Bridge at Fort Erie and the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge are the alternatives the chauffeur picks on the live wait times. Buffalo's airport is forty minutes, the Bills' stadium fifty, Rochester ninety. Every passenger needs a passport or a NEXUS card; the cross-border page covers the documents, and the CBSA the exemptions on the way home.

Traffic, weather and the honest drive times

The QEW is the only road that matters and it is slow on summer Saturdays from the Skyway to St. Catharines; the Niagara Parkway is never fast and never meant to be. Winter brings lake-effect snow off Lake Erie that closes the QEW at Fort Erie some days and the icewine harvest that the wineries celebrate; Ontario 511 is what dispatch reads. The honest figures: Pearson to the falls in ninety minutes at 8 am on a weekday and two and a half hours at 2 pm on a July Saturday; the falls to Niagara-on-the-Lake in twenty-five minutes on the parkway.

What a limo costs in Niagara Falls

Fixed by the addresses and the vehicle class, shown before you book. Toronto or Pearson to the falls is a single fixed fare each way; the day with the wineries is priced by the hour with a minimum; Buffalo's airport is a cross-border fixed fare with the bridge toll included. No surge on a fireworks night, no meter, no gratuity added. The fleet page has the capacities.

St. Catharines, Welland and the region

St. Catharines, the region's largest city, with Brock University and the Meridian Centre; Welland and the canal; Fort Erie and the racetrack; Grimsby and the Twenty Valley; Port Colborne on Lake Erie: every address prices on the engine, and Brock's convocations and the region's June proms book the prom page's Sprinters.

A Fallsview hotel arrival from Pearson, worked through

A Friday 3 pm landing at Terminal 1 from Chicago, a couple for a Niagara weekend, two cases. The Executive Sedan was booked with the flight number and the Fallsview Marriott as the drop-off; US pre-clearance means the flight arrives as a domestic one and the bags come quickly. At 3:30 the couple is at Terminal 1's pre-arranged curb, on the 427 south and the QEW west by 3:40, past the Skyway by 4:15 before the Friday crawl, and at the hotel's forecourt above the falls by 5:05. The fare is the one on the confirmation. Sunday's return books with the flight number and the chauffeur collects from the same forecourt; the Pearson page covers the terminals.

The icewine harvest and the winter

Niagara in winter is a different place: the falls half-frozen and lit for the Festival of Lights, the vineyards harvesting icewine at minus ten in January, the Fallsview hotels at their lowest rates, the Shaw Festival dark until April. The wine day in January - the icewine festival's tastings, the frozen falls at dusk - is the region's best-kept secret, and the hourly chauffeur with the SUV's winter tyres is the way to do it. The lake-effect snow off Lake Erie that closes the QEW at Fort Erie some days is the chauffeur's business.

Brock, St. Catharines and the Meridian Centre

St. Catharines is the region's largest city and its working downtown: Brock University on the escarpment above it books the September move-in and the convocations, the Meridian Centre downtown books the Niagara IceDogs and the concerts, the Performing Arts Centre beside it the theatre, and the corporate account books the manufacturers along the QEW and the canal. The prom and graduation page covers the region's June season.

Fort Erie, the racetrack and the Peace Bridge

Fort Erie at the Peace Bridge is the region's other border town: the racetrack's summer meet, the Crystal Beach lakefront, and the crossing itself, which the chauffeur chooses over the Rainbow Bridge when the falls' summer traffic backs the latter up. Buffalo's airport is forty minutes from Fort Erie, thirty-five from the falls on a good day; the Bills' stadium in Orchard Park fifty. The cross-border page covers the trip and the documents; the Niagara Parks site covers the parkway's stops on the Canadian side.

Two questions Niagara visitors ask the desk

Can we do the falls from Pearson between flights? With a six-hour connection, yes: ninety minutes each way, an hour at the falls, and the chauffeur waiting - a city-to-city round trip with the return timed to the departure. Which bridge to Buffalo? The chauffeur decides on the live wait times: the Peace Bridge from Fort Erie for the airport, the Rainbow Bridge for the outlet mall, the Lewiston-Queenston for the drive north to Rochester. A third, asked every autumn: harvest weekends in Niagara-on-the-Lake fill the wineries' tastings by noon, and the chauffeur books the tasting slots when asked to.

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