01 — Six bands, not one map

Distance is the only thing on a coverage map that changes the job.

Drive times below are measured from Beverly Hills, because that is where more of our work starts than anywhere else, and they describe real traffic rather than an empty freeway at four in the morning. The right-hand column is how each band is usually priced — not a rule, just what most people end up choosing.

Six distance bands within the RG Black Limo service area, with the areas each covers, typical drive time from Beverly Hills and how bookings in that band are usually priced
Band	Areas covered	Typical drive	Usually booked as
The core	Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Hollywood, Century City, Brentwood, Culver City	10–30 min	Hourly, from $85
The coast	Santa Monica, Marina del Rey, Malibu, Long Beach	20–75 min	Hourly or point-to-point
Over the hill	Van Nuys, Burbank, Studio City, Sherman Oaks	20–45 min	Point-to-point
Downtown and east	Downtown Los Angeles, Pasadena	20–50 min	Hourly on multi-stop days
Orange County	Anaheim, Irvine, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa	45–100 min	Set price, one way
The long runs	Palm Springs, Indio and the Coachella Valley, San Diego	2 h – 3 h 30	Set price or a day rate

Scroll the table sideways for drive times and how each band is priced.

02 — Working outward

Nine parts of the region, each with its own habits.

Figures are approximate road miles from Beverly Hills — a rough sense of scale, not a quotation. Each card leads somewhere with more detail, whether that is a set-price route, an airport or the service the area tends to ask for.

5 mi

Hollywood & West Hollywood

Late finishes, mostly. The Sunset corridor moves in bursts, so pickups here are timed to the door rather than to the clock, and the car waits out of the way until you actually leave.

Hollywood to LAX Hollywood to LAX route detail

9 mi

Santa Monica & the beach cities

Close enough to feel simple, and often isn't — the 10 westbound at five undoes any schedule. Airport runs from here are timed backwards from the check-in cut-off rather than forwards from the hotel.

Santa Monica to LAX Santa Monica to LAX route detail

12 mi

Downtown Los Angeles

Meetings stacked three deep and a car that has to be at the kerb between each one. Downtown days are usually held hourly, because the value is in the vehicle waiting rather than in the driving.

Corporate travel Corporate travel service detail

14 mi

The San Fernando Valley

Studio calls, Burbank departures and the private terminals at Van Nuys. Over the hill is a short distance and an unreliable one, so the canyon route gets chosen on the morning, not the week before.

Van Nuys transfers Van Nuys airport transfers

20 mi

Pasadena & the San Gabriel Valley

Weddings, family dinners and the Rose Bowl in season. Far enough from the westside that sending the car back and forth costs more than simply holding it, so most of these are booked as-directed.

Hourly & as-directed Hourly and as-directed chauffeur service

22 mi

Malibu & the coast highway

One road in, one road out, and no way to make up lost time on it. Malibu pickups leave earlier than the map suggests, and the quote already has that padding built into it.

Malibu to LAX Malibu to LAX route detail

45 mi

Orange County

Anaheim, Irvine, Newport Beach and whatever the convention centre is holding that week. Long enough that the figure is settled before the day rather than counted up during it.

LAX to Orange County LAX to Orange County route detail

110 mi

Palm Springs & the Coachella Valley

Two hours of desert each way, which makes the return leg the real question rather than the outbound one. Valley work is either a same-day round trip or a vehicle that stays out there with you.

Coachella transport Coachella and Coachella Valley transportation

125 mi

San Diego

The longest run we price flat. Booked as one figure with one driver for the whole journey, rather than handed off to somebody else at a county line you never see.

LAX to San Diego LAX to San Diego route detail

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Black Chevrolet Suburban crossing downtown Los Angeles at night between pickups — From Malibu to Anaheim, one operator

03 — The one with its own page

Beverly Hills is not the whole business, but it is the centre of it.

More of our work begins inside those few square miles than anywhere else on this page — hotel forecourts on Wilshire, houses north of Sunset, the offices on Little Santa Monica. Enough of it that the routines are different: which entrance a particular hotel prefers, where a car is allowed to wait and where it is not, and which side street gets you out at half past four when Rodeo has stopped moving altogether.

That accumulated knowledge is worth its own page rather than a line in a list, so Beverly Hills has one. Everywhere else in this region we cover just as seriously; we simply have less to say about kerbside etiquette in Irvine.

Beverly Hills car service Beverly Hills to LAX

Hotel forecourts. Drivers know which properties want the car on the ramp and which want it on the street, so nobody gets moved on while you are still loading.
Residential pickups. No horn, no phone call from the kerb. The car arrives early, parks where it will not block a neighbour, and waits.
The four-thirty problem. Leaving for LAX in the afternoon rush is a route decision made that morning, not a fixed line on a map.
Short hops, properly. A ten-minute drive to dinner in Century City gets the same vehicle and the same standard as a three-hour run to San Diego.
Held, not chased. Evenings out are usually booked hourly so the car is outside when you decide to leave rather than fifteen minutes away.

04 — Beyond the six bands

The map has an edge. It is further out than most people expect.

Six bands cover the overwhelming majority of what we drive. They are not a fence. Below is what happens when the destination sits outside them — including the cases where the honest answer is that somebody else is better placed.

Elsewhere in California

Santa Barbara, Temecula, Big Bear, the central coast. These are quoted as a day rather than as a distance, because once the drive passes two hours each way the cost is the driver's time and not the mileage. Tell the office where and when, and the figure comes back with the return leg already in it.

The other airports

LAX and Van Nuys have pages of their own because they account for most arrivals. Burbank, John Wayne, Long Beach and Ontario are driven regularly and priced individually — different terminals, different waiting rules, and in one or two cases a short walk that is faster than a loop of the access road.

Multi-day and out of state

Runs that cross a state line, or keep a vehicle away for several days, are looked at one at a time rather than promised in advance. Sometimes the answer is that a local operator at the other end will serve you better, and we would rather say so than take the booking and improvise.

Every distance and drive time on this page is indicative. Road mileage varies with the route taken, and Los Angeles traffic makes a mockery of averages. Nothing here is a quotation — the figure you are charged is the one confirmed to you in writing before the booking is accepted.

05 — What distance changes

Six things move as the miles add up.

None of this is policy invented for a website. It is simply what a decade of driving the same region teaches you about which bookings need more notice and which vehicle survives the journey.

Notice we need: Inside the core, an hour is often enough and a car can sometimes be with you sooner than that. Orange County wants the same morning. The desert or San Diego wants the day before, because the vehicle is committed for most of a working day and the driver has to be scheduled around it.
Which vehicle makes sense: A twenty-minute run to dinner is comfortable in an S-Class. Three hours to San Diego with luggage is not the same question — that is a full-size SUV or a Sprinter, chosen for legroom and cargo space rather than for the badge on the grille.
How it is priced: Close in, hourly wins, because the car spends more time waiting than driving. Further out, a flat figure wins, because the drive is the whole job. The office will tell you which is cheaper for what you have described, including when that is the option we earn less on.
Whether the driver stays: Short local transfers end when you get out. On anything past about ninety minutes the same driver usually remains with you for the return, since sending a second vehicle two hours each way costs more than keeping the first one there.
Tolls, parking and fuel: Passed through at what they cost and itemised as themselves. Long runs collect more of them — a toll road through Orange County, airport parking, a stop for fuel on the way back — and none of it turns into a vague surcharge on the invoice.
The return leg: Within the region a return is simply a second reservation and can be arranged separately. Beyond two hours out it is nearly always one booking with a wait in the middle, which is both cheaper for you and easier for us to keep on time.

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06 — What does not change

Six things are the same at five miles and at a hundred and twenty-five.

A coverage map is only worth something if the standard travels with it. These do not vary by postcode, by distance or by how much the booking is worth.

The same fleet. Ninety-nine vehicles across six classes, maintained to one standard. The car that pulls up in Irvine came out of the same yard as the one in Beverly Hills.
Our own chauffeurs. RG Black Limo is a direct operator, not a broker. Your booking is not sold on to a stranger in a car we have never inspected because the destination was inconvenient.
Confidentiality by default. Drivers sign non-disclosure agreements. What is said in the cabin, and who was in it, does not leave the vehicle.
One number, answered. The same line reaches dispatch whether you are ten minutes away or in the desert, at nine in the morning or at three the following one.
The quoted figure. Confirmed in writing before the booking is accepted, and unchanged afterwards. No peak-hour multiplier, no meter, no adjustment because the traffic was worse than expected.
Arriving early. The car is at the address before the time on your confirmation, in every band on this page. Waiting quietly outside is part of the job, not an extra.

07 — The full list

Named plainly, without the padding.

Every place we are asked about often enough to name. It is a list rather than a landing page for each one, because twenty near-identical pages would help a search engine and nobody else.

Areas covered

Beverly Hills Los Angeles Santa Monica Hollywood West Hollywood Downtown Los Angeles Century City Brentwood Culver City Marina del Rey Malibu Pacific Palisades Van Nuys Studio City Sherman Oaks Burbank Pasadena Long Beach Anaheim Irvine Newport Beach Costa Mesa Orange County Palm Springs Indio Coachella Valley San Diego

Where to go from here

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08 — Next step

Send us the address. We will tell you which band it is in.

If it is on this page, the answer is yes and the only question is the price. If it is somewhere we have not named, ask anyway — most of California is a shorter conversation than you would think.

(323) 799-3190

Or start with the area we know best: Beverly Hills car service.

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Where we drive, and how far out.