When you hire a driver in Bucharest, most of the work happens before the car moves. What you see is a clean car and a man who opens a door. What decides whether the day goes well was settled the evening before.
Three questions, asked before quoting
The flight number, not the time you think you land. The number of bags, not only the number of people. The shape of the day, if there is more than one stop in it.
The third one is the one clients find odd. We ask because with more than two stops a car at disposal usually costs less than separate transfers, and we would rather say so before invoicing than after.
Choosing the car
An E-Class is the everyday car: up to two passengers with luggage, three if the bags are light, for a meeting or the airport. An S-Class is for when the arrival itself matters — and it has less boot space than people expect, so four passengers with four large cases is a V-Class job, not an S-Class one. Above that, a minibus.
Capacity and comfort are two different numbers, and the second is usually two lower. That single rule prevents more problems than anything else we do, and it is why we ask about luggage even for luxury car rental with driver, where people assume the car is big enough because it is expensive.
The hour before
The driver leaves the base earlier than the calculation requires. Not much, twenty minutes or so. It is the cheapest insurance in this business: a road closed on Calea Victoriei, a protest, rain at five in the afternoon.
The client sees a car that is already there. That is all they should see.
What we don’t do
We don’t guide. We don’t get anyone priority entry anywhere. We don’t promise a journey time we cannot influence. What we control is departure time, vehicle, driver and the flow of information, and that is what a chauffeur service in Bucharest should be judged on.
Punctuality isn’t a value. It’s proof that somebody left earlier.