Limo and chauffeur service across Yukon

What a chauffeur can do in the Yukon, honestly

The Yukon is served through vetted partner operators in Whitehorse - fixed fare, flight-tracked, chauffeur at the door - and by arrangement for Dawson City, Haines Junction and the highways between, with an SUV and an overnight quoted where the distance requires it. This page says plainly what is bookable: the Whitehorse airport transfer and the city's hourly service are ordinary reservations on the engine; the drives to Dawson, Kluane, Skagway and the Alaska border are itineraries the desk builds by hand with a partner who drives them; a stretch limousine is not available in the territory and the desk will say so. Whitehorse, Dawson City, Haines Junction, Watson Lake, Carmacks and Mayo are the addresses the engine knows.

The airport

Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International sits on the bluff above the city, five kilometres from downtown and ten minutes from any hotel in it, with the Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Yellowknife flights and the summer Frankfurt charter; Dawson City's airport handles the summer flights from Whitehorse and the Old Crow service; Watson Lake and Mayo serve the highway and the mines. The Whitehorse transfer is on the airports page and on the engine, with sixty minutes of waiting on the international charter and thirty on a domestic arrival, and the partner's car warm at the curb from October.

The highways and the corridors

The Alaska Highway runs through Whitehorse from the British Columbia border at Watson Lake to Haines Junction and the Alaska border at Beaver Creek; the Klondike Highway runs north to Dawson City and south to Carcross and Skagway, Alaska; the Haines Road runs from Haines Junction to Haines, Alaska; the Dempster runs from Dawson to the Arctic Circle and Inuvik. The desk prices each as a fixed fare with the return and the overnight built in where needed.

Figures are approximate and the drive times assume summer conditions; the desk prices the exact address and the season.

The northern winter and the aurora

Whitehorse's winter runs from October to April with a dry cold that holds at minus thirty for weeks, a sun that sets mid-afternoon in December, and roads that stay snow-packed; the Klondike and Alaska highways are open all year and closed by storms a few days a season. The partner's vehicles run winter tyres and block heaters, the car is warm at the curb, and Yukon 511 is what the desk reads before any highway itinerary. The aurora season from late August to April is the winter's booking: an evening by the hour to a viewing site outside the city's lights with the chauffeur waiting, and the hourly chauffeur page has the rate.

The summer, the Klondike and Kluane

From May to September the territory is the visitors': the midnight sun, Dawson City's gold-rush streets and the Discovery Days in August, Kluane's icefields and the flightseeing at Haines Junction, the Carcross Desert and the White Pass railway from Skagway, the cruise-ship passengers who cross from Skagway to Whitehorse for the day. The desk builds the Dawson and Kluane drives as city-to-city itineraries with the overnight quoted and the travel desk books the lodges.

The sectors that book the corporate account

The territorial government and the First Nations governments in Whitehorse, the mining companies and their exploration camps, Yukon University, the hospital, the tourism operators, the federal departments: the corporate account's one monthly invoice covers the YXY transfer, the Whitehorse day and the mine visitor's drive, through the same partner and the same standard.

The occasions

The Whitehorse weddings and the Kluane and Carcross destination weddings, the June graduations, the Yukon Quest's start in February and the Arctic Winter Games when the territory hosts, the Adäka Cultural Festival, the Frostbite Music Festival and Rendezvous in February, Dawson's Discovery Days: the wedding, prom and nights out pages cover the categories and the desk builds the northern versions by hand.

The rules a passenger might want to know

Chauffeurs hold the territory's Class 4 licence for taxis and small buses and the vehicles carry commercial passenger insurance; the City of Whitehorse licenses the operators. Winter tyres are not required by law but the partner's vehicles run them. Child restraints are required by the Motor Vehicles Act until the child is nine or 145 centimetres, and the seat is fitted at no charge when it is noted at booking. The drinking age is nineteen and alcohol in a vehicle is not permitted; there is no partitioned limousine in the territory.

What a chauffeured car costs in the Yukon

Fixed by the addresses and the vehicle class, shown before you book. YXY to downtown Whitehorse in a sedan or SUV is the territory's most-booked transfer; the aurora evening and the city day are priced by the hour with a minimum; the Dawson, Kluane and Skagway drives are quoted by the desk with the overnight and the return built in. No surge in the aurora season, no meter, no gratuity added. The fleet page has the classes available in the south; the territory's partner runs sedans, SUVs and vans.

Cross-border to Alaska

Skagway on the Klondike Highway and Haines on the Haines Road are the territory's crossings to Alaska, and the cross-border service runs them through the partner with the CBP wait times read before departure; every passenger needs a passport or NEXUS card, and the Skagway cruise-ship days are the summer's busiest.

Two questions Yukon travellers ask the desk

Is a stretch limousine available in Whitehorse? No; the partner runs sedans, SUVs and vans, and the desk will say so rather than promise one. Can we see the aurora from the airport transfer? Sometimes, in winter, on the bluff; the evening by the hour to a viewing site outside the lights is the reliable way. A third, asked every February: the Yukon Quest and Rendezvous weeks fill the partner's cars, and the desk books them in December.

The Yukon year, month by month

Booking notes by vehicle class in the Yukon

The partner runs sedans, SUVs and vans, and the desk books the class to the trip: a sedan for the airport transfer and the city day, an SUV for any highway itinerary and the winter, a van for a group or a family with the winter's luggage. There is no stretch limousine and no minicoach in the territory, and the fleet page describes the classes as they exist in the south; the booking page prices the Whitehorse transfers and the desk quotes the rest.

Three Yukon itineraries the desk builds most often

The aurora evening. Hotel pickup at nine, the Takhini road or a lodge outside the city's lights in thirty minutes, the chauffeur waiting in a warm vehicle through the two or three hours the show takes, and the return after midnight - the hourly rate with a minimum, and the hourly chauffeur page has the rate.

The Skagway cruise-day round trip. Whitehorse pickup at seven, the Klondike Highway south past Emerald Lake and the Carcross Desert to the Fraser crossing, Skagway by ten with the wait time read in advance, the afternoon at the ship's call, and Whitehorse by evening - one fixed fare with the return built in, and the cross-border page has the documents.

The Dawson City two-day. Whitehorse pickup, the Klondike Highway north past Carmacks and the Five Finger Rapids to Dawson in six hours in an SUV, the overnight at a Dawson inn quoted, Discovery Days or the Midnight Dome and the dredge the next morning, and the return or the Dawson flight - built by hand with the partner, and the travel desk books the inn.

The Yukon numbers a traveller might want

The Yukon is home to roughly forty-five thousand people, three-quarters of them in Whitehorse; Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International handled more than three hundred thousand passengers in its last full year and sits on a bluff five kilometres from downtown; the Alaska Highway runs two thousand two hundred kilometres from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Delta Junction, Alaska, with Whitehorse at its midpoint; and the territory's dark-sky winter gives Whitehorse an aurora season that runs from late August to April. Yukon 511, the Government of Yukon and Travel Yukon publish the figures.

The Whitehorse airport curb, explained

Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International has one terminal and a short curb, and the partner's chauffeur meets a domestic arrival at the curb with thirty minutes of waiting built into the fare and the summer's Frankfurt charter in the arrivals hall with a name board and sixty minutes. The drive down the bluff to Main Street takes ten minutes on the Alaska Highway and Two Mile Hill, the car is warm from October, and a delayed flight - the Vancouver and Calgary services are held by weather at either end a few times a season - is tracked and the chauffeur re-timed without charge. A passenger continuing to Dawson on the summer flight books the hotel-to-airport transfer the night before, and a passenger arriving for the aurora books the evening's vehicle at the same time as the transfer, so that the two are one confirmation.

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