Point-to-point to Windsor from £45; hourly £55/h (3h min, from £165); half day £250; full day £400; +20% night rate 23:00-06:00; up to 3 passengers, 1 EQE.
A chauffeur-driven trip from London to Windsor Castle is quoted point-to-point from £45 one-way, or as hourly, half-day (£250) or full-day (£400) hire so the same car and driver wait while you visit the castle, Eton or Windsor Great Park.
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| Option | Best for | Main tradeoff | Typical cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Point-to-point (one-way) | A single drop at Windsor Castle, no stop | Car doesn't wait; the return is a separate booking | From £45 |
| Hourly hire (3h min) | A castle visit with the car waiting nearby | 3-hour minimum applies even for a shorter visit | £55/h, from £165 |
| Half day hire | Windsor Castle plus Eton or Windsor Great Park | Booked as a half day up front | £250 |
| Full day hire | Windsor combined with other stops or a Heathrow leg | Full-day commitment even if you finish early | £400 |
| Night return (23:00-06:00) | An evening visit or event that runs late | +20% surcharge applies to that leg | +20% on the above |
A one-way run from London to Windsor Castle is quoted point-to-point, from £45. A there-and-wait visit is priced as hourly hire at £55 an hour with a 3-hour minimum (so from £165), or as a fixed £250 half day or £400 full day if you want longer at the castle or want to add Eton or Windsor Great Park.
Windsor sits close enough to London that a straight drop-off doesn't need an hourly rate — the point-to-point fare, from £45, covers getting you there in one black electric Mercedes-Benz EQE with up to three passengers and your luggage. That fare is a drop-off only: the car doesn't wait, and the return leg is a separate point-to-point booking, quoted the same way.
Most visitors want longer than a drop-off allows, since the castle, the State Apartments and St George's Chapel take a few hours to see properly. For that, hourly hire at £55/h with a 3-hour minimum (from £165) keeps the same chauffeur and car waiting nearby for the whole visit, so there's no second booking to make and no gap waiting for a second car to arrive. A half day at a fixed £250 or a full day at £400 suits a longer itinerary — Windsor Castle in the morning, Eton or Windsor Great Park in the afternoon, or a run back via Heathrow to catch a flight.
Every price is agreed in writing before you set off, with no meter running and no charge for the chauffeur waiting while you're inside.
Point-to-point, from £45, is right for a single drop-off or pickup with no stop. Hourly hire, from £165 for the 3-hour minimum, is right whenever you want the same car and chauffeur to wait while you're inside the castle grounds.
The difference comes down to whether the car needs to wait. A point-to-point fare moves you from A to B and nothing more — it's the cheaper option if you're being dropped at Windsor Castle by one chauffeur in the morning and collected by road, rail or another arranged journey later in the day. It isn't designed to cover waiting time, so if your chauffeur sat outside for two hours while you toured the State Apartments, that time isn't included in the £45 fare.
Hourly hire solves that. The 3-hour minimum at £55/h (from £165) is usually enough for a castle visit on its own; a half day (£250) gives room for Windsor Castle plus a walk along the Long Walk or a stop in Eton; a full day (£400) suits a longer Thames Valley itinerary or a Windsor visit either side of a Heathrow flight. Whichever you choose, it's the same driver throughout, in the same car, with the price fixed before you leave London rather than ticking over on a meter.
If you want a car and driver for longer than a single transfer, see day hire and day trips.
Yes, on hourly, half-day or full-day hire the car and chauffeur stay with you rather than you having to call for a second pickup. The driver would rather wait for you than have you wait for the car.
This is one of the plainer advantages of booking one driver and one car rather than an app-based service: there's no second booking to make, no new driver to brief, and no risk of being left outside the castle gates waiting for a car that's circling fifteen minutes away. Once you're on hourly, half-day or full-day hire, the chauffeur parks up, waits, and is ready the moment you're back outside.
That matters most at Windsor Castle because the visit itself takes a few hours and there's no single exit point. Rather than fix one meeting point and hope it still works two hours later, you agree the pickup by message once you're close to leaving, the same way bookings work anywhere else in London. If the plan is to add Eton or a stretch of Windsor Great Park afterwards, the same car and the same price keeps going rather than starting a new fare.
Windsor sits in the same direction out of London as the Heathrow corridor, and that route is heaviest on weekday evenings as commuters leave the city. A weekday afternoon departure is best quoted as a range rather than a single figure; weekends are comparatively clear.
The driver's experience on this corridor is consistent: weekday mornings are heavier coming into London, and weekday evenings are heavier going the other way, out towards Heathrow and the routes beyond it towards Windsor and Slough, as people finish work and the roads fill up. A midweek pickup from central London at 4pm or 5pm bound for Windsor should be planned with that in mind rather than assuming the fastest possible run.
Saturdays and Sundays don't carry the same commuter traffic, so a weekend trip out to Windsor Castle is generally more predictable than a weekday one. If timing matters — a fixed entry slot at the castle, a train to catch back from Windsor & Eton Riverside, a lunch booking — it's worth building in some margin on a weekday and mentioning the time pressure when you book, so the fare and the plan both account for it rather than promising a single number that a Tuesday evening won't keep.
Yes — Windsor sits within the standard coverage area that already includes Slough and Heathrow, so a Windsor-to-Heathrow or Heathrow-to-Windsor leg is priced as a normal airport fare: £80 within around 12 miles of a non-central pickup, or £115 otherwise.
Windsor is close enough to Heathrow that combining the two in one trip is routine rather than a special request. If you're landing at Heathrow and heading straight to Windsor Castle, or finishing a Windsor visit and heading to a flight, that leg is quoted as the fixed Heathrow fare — £80 if the pickup or drop-off falls within roughly 12 miles of a non-central point, £115 otherwise — with flight tracking, meet and greet, and 60 minutes' waiting included at the airport end.
The Windsor portion of the trip is then quoted separately, either as the point-to-point fare (from £45) or as hourly, half-day or full-day hire if the car needs to wait while you're at the castle. Booking both legs together on WhatsApp means the whole day — airport, castle, and the journey home — is confirmed in writing before you travel, rather than being pieced together from separate bookings with separate drivers.
A card machine travels in the car and takes Visa, Mastercard and American Express by contactless, chip and PIN, Apple Pay or Google Pay. You settle at the end of the journey; no deposit is taken and no card is held on file.
Payment happens the same way whichever Windsor option you book. There's no deposit to pay in advance and no card held on file beforehand — the fare, agreed in writing when you book on WhatsApp, is settled once the journey is finished.
One practical point worth knowing in advance: UK contactless payments cap at £100, so a £165 hourly booking, a £250 half day or a £400 full day to Windsor can't be tapped through in one go. The card machine still takes the payment — you just use chip and PIN, Apple Pay or Google Pay instead of a contactless tap, both of which work above the £100 limit. A £45 point-to-point fare is small enough to tap as normal. Whichever option you book, the amount is agreed in writing before you travel, so there's no surprise figure to settle at the end — only the method of payment changes once the fare passes £100.
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Weekday traffic runs the other way in the evening. Weekday evenings are heavier heading out of London towards the Heathrow corridor and beyond it towards Windsor and Slough, as commuters leave the city, while weekday mornings are heavier coming in. A weekday Windsor booking is quoted as a range rather than a single time for that reason.
The card machine carried in the car takes Visa, Mastercard and American Express, but UK contactless payments cap at £100 — so an hourly, half-day or full-day Windsor fare needs chip and PIN, Apple Pay or Google Pay rather than a tap.
Source: Crest rate cardIf a Windsor Castle evening visit overruns and the return journey starts between 23:00 and 06:00, the standard night rate of +20% applies to that leg.
Source: Crest rate cardYou need to move more than three people. The car is a single electric Mercedes-Benz EQE with room for three passengers and their luggage; a bigger group needs more than one vehicle, which this service doesn't provide.
Expect a fixed price agreed before you travel, one chauffeur and car for the whole trip, and a choice between a one-way point-to-point fare or hourly/half-day/full-day hire if you want the car to wait while you visit the castle.
From £45 one-way, point-to-point. If you want the car to wait, it's hourly hire at £55/h with a 3-hour minimum (from £165), or a fixed £250 half day or £400 full day.
Yes, on hourly, half-day or full-day hire the same chauffeur and car wait nearby and come back to collect you when you're ready, rather than you booking a separate return journey.
Yes. The card machine in the car takes Visa, Mastercard and American Express, but UK contactless payments cap at £100, so fares above that are paid by chip and PIN, Apple Pay or Google Pay instead of a tap.
Yes. Windsor falls within the normal coverage area that already includes Heathrow and Slough, so the airport leg is quoted as the usual fixed Heathrow fare — £80 within about 12 miles of a non-central pickup, or £115 otherwise — alongside the separate Windsor fare.
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