Set-price routes
Drive the same ten runs for a decade and the guesswork goes out of them — which lane fills at four, where the 405 gives up, how long Malibu really takes on a Friday. Familiarity is why these ten can be priced before anyone gets in the car.
01 — The ten, priced
From-prices assume one pickup, one drop and the vehicle class listed beside the route. Drive times are the honest range for real traffic rather than the number a map gives you at three in the morning. Each route has its own page with the detail behind the number.
| Route | From | Typical drive | Usually booked in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beverly Hills → LAX | $125 | 35–70 min | S-Class sedan |
| LAX → Beverly Hills | $125 | 35–70 min | S-Class sedan |
| Santa Monica → LAX | $125 | 25–55 min | S-Class sedan |
| Hollywood → LAX | $125 | 40–75 min | S-Class or X5 |
| Malibu → LAX | $150 | 50–90 min | Escalade ESV |
| Newport Beach → LAX | $150 | 55–100 min | Escalade ESV |
| Irvine → LAX | $150 | 55–100 min | Yukon Denali |
| LAX → Orange County | $150 | 50–95 min | Escalade ESV |
| LAX → Disneyland / Anaheim | $150 | 45–85 min | Suburban |
| LAX → San Diego | $525 | 2 h 15 – 3 h 30 | Escalade ESV |
Scroll the table sideways for drive times and vehicle classes.
Prices are quoted before tolls, airport parking and gratuity, and they assume the vehicle class shown. A larger vehicle, a second stop or waiting time is quoted to you first and never added quietly afterwards. Anything outside these ten is priced individually or hourly from $85.
02 — Four corridors
Group the ten by the road they actually use and the list gets simpler. Each corridor has its own traffic behaviour, and that behaviour is what the price and the padding are built on.
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Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and Hollywood into LAX and back. Short in miles, unpredictable in minutes — La Cienega and Century behave differently at seven, at noon and at half four, and the padding changes with the hour rather than with the distance.
Beverly Hills to LAX Beverly Hills to LAX route02
Malibu to LAX along Pacific Coast Highway, where a single incident has no alternative for miles. Departures get a wider margin here than anywhere else on the list, and it is the one route where leaving early is genuinely cheaper than leaving late.
Malibu to LAX Malibu to LAX route03
Newport Beach, Irvine, Anaheim and the wider county, in both directions. Long enough that the 405 and the 5 decide the drive time, and the reason a full-size SUV is the usual choice — most of these are families or teams with real luggage.
LAX to Orange County LAX to Orange County route04
The longest run we price flat: LAX down the 5 to San Diego, two and a quarter hours on a clear morning and considerably more on a Friday. One chauffeur, one car, no handover halfway — which is the entire argument against three connecting bookings.
LAX to San Diego LAX to San Diego route
03 — What is in the number
The second list matters more than the first. Anything that can move a price should be visible before you book, not discovered on a statement afterwards.
Routes with more than two stops, or a car held between appointments, are better booked as hourly or as-directed from $85 per hour — usually cheaper than stringing point-to-point runs together.
04 — Booked most often
If you are choosing between the ten, these are the runs the office quotes several times a week — and the ones where our familiarity with the road is worth the most to you.
$125
The most requested run on the list. Timed backwards from the check-in cut-off, with the route chosen on the morning rather than the week before.
Route detail Beverly Hills to LAX route detail$125
The same corridor inbound, which is a different job: flight tracked, met at the kerb or the gate, and thirty complimentary minutes from wheels-down.
Route detail LAX to Beverly Hills route detail$150
Families, mostly, arriving tired with more luggage than they remember packing. Booked in a Suburban for the cargo space rather than the badge.
Route detail LAX to Disneyland route detail$525
Two and a quarter hours minimum, one chauffeur throughout, and a fixed figure instead of a meter running down the 5 in Friday traffic.
Route detail LAX to San Diego route detailSwipe for more
I priced the same four routes across three companies. Two of them would not commit to a figure without a phone call and a card on file; this one sent all four in writing inside twenty minutes.
The prices held when I actually booked two of them a month later.
05 — Flat, not metered
Los Angeles traffic is not a variable you control, so it should not be a variable you pay for. That is the whole reason these ten runs are priced flat: the risk of a bad afternoon on the 405 sits with the operator who chose the route, not with the passenger sitting in the back watching a number climb.
It also removes an incentive nobody talks about. When the fare rises with the minutes, a slow route is worth more than a fast one. When the fare is fixed, the only thing left to compete on is getting you there — which is the arrangement you would want if you were designing it from scratch.
Where a flat rate genuinely does not fit, we say so rather than forcing it. A day with five stops, an evening held open, or a schedule that changes while you are in the car is hourly work, and pretending otherwise would only produce a quote that had to be corrected later.
06 — Before you book
The figure on your written confirmation is the figure charged, and it does not move because the drive took longer than expected. What is listed on this page is a from-price rather than a confirmation: it assumes one pickup, one drop and the vehicle class named beside it. Tell the office the date, the addresses and how many of you there are and the exact number comes back in writing before anything is booked.
Not for the headcount itself — for the vehicle. Four passengers with four large cases need a full-size SUV rather than a sedan, and the SUV is priced differently. Up to three of you travelling light are quoted the sedan price on every route listed here. Tell us the luggage as well as the headcount and the right class is quoted the first time.
Yes, and it is quoted before it is added. A short stop — a second pickup on the same street, a hotel on the way to the airport — is usually a small addition to the route price. A stop that changes the shape of the journey, such as an office downtown on the way from Malibu to LAX, is quoted hourly instead, because at that point you are holding the car rather than travelling between two points.
Route prices are quoted before tolls, airport parking and any gratuity. Tolls and parking are passed through at cost and appear as themselves on the invoice rather than as a padded line. Gratuity is entirely yours to decide and is never added automatically, so nothing appears on your statement that you did not agree to.
Constantly. These ten are simply the runs frequent enough to price flat in advance. Pasadena, Burbank, Long Beach, Palm Springs, Santa Barbara and anywhere else in California are quoted individually, either as a point-to-point figure or hourly from $85 if the day has more than two stops in it.
07 — Next step
Send the pickup, the destination, the date and the headcount and the exact figure comes back in writing. If it is an airport run, add the flight number and we will track it.
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