City tours and excursions in Lyon, with a private chauffeur

You call or you write. You tell us where you start, how many of you there are and what you would like to see. We suggest a plan and a duration: three hours minimum, four hours for a half day, nine hours for a full day. The price is agreed before departure and given on request. An urgent request is set up in under an hour.

On the day, the chauffeur arrives at the address you gave, at the agreed time. He drives you from one place to the next and stays put during your stops: the car is there when you come back out, with your things still inside. Change your mind on the way, add a stop, head home early, and the programme follows. At the end of the day he takes you wherever you need to be, in Lyon or beyond.

A family passing through Lyon who want to see the city, the Halles and Vieux Lyon in a morning. A couple heading up into the Beaujolais or out to Pérouges for the day. A group finishing a conference with an afternoon among the vines. Foreign visitors who would rather be spoken to in English and have the driving taken off their hands. These are the requests we receive most often.

The vehicle follows the number of travellers. E-Class or GLE 400 for up to three, S-Class for two, V-Class for seven. Beyond that, the Sprinter VIP carries fifteen passengers plus a seat kept for a guide, should you have hired one. Wi-Fi and a bottle of water on board, one piece of luggage each. The area covered is all of France and Italy, departing from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

The chauffeur drives and waits. He does not give the tour: he will not comment on the monuments and he does not stand in for a qualified guide. If you want commentary, hire a guide; we are happy to carry both, and the Sprinter VIP has a seat set aside for exactly that. What the chauffeur brings is knowledge of the roads, the access points and the quiet hours, and the certainty that you will never be left waiting on a pavement.

The rest is a matter of manner. A clean car, a chauffeur in a suit, French and English, discretion throughout. One contact follows your day from the first call to the return, reachable around the clock. On private journeys the rate is a single one: no night, weekend or public holiday surcharge. Almost thirty years of the trade sit in those details.