Private car service
Every operator in this market promises a fixed price. Very few explain how theirs is calculated, or why they are legally able to offer one when the taxi at the rank outside cannot. This page does both.
All 19 airports on this site, plus any address in Germany.
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The fare is the road distance of your specific journey multiplied by a published per-kilometre rate for the class, plus a fixed base fare, with a floor underneath it so a very short journey still covers sending a car. That is the entire calculation. It runs before you book, it includes tolls, airport access charges, VAT and the driver, and nothing is added afterwards.
The rate card below is the operator’s own, and it is the same one the checkout uses — the figures on this page are read from it rather than typed beside it, so the page and the price you are quoted cannot drift apart. There is no night tariff, no weekend rate, no airport surcharge and no surge in trade-fair weeks.
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German transport law separates two things that look identical from the pavement. A taxi may be hailed or taken from a rank, and it operates under a duty to carry, a duty to be available and — crucially — a fixed municipal tariff. It charges what the tariff says, metered, and it is not free to agree a price with you in advance.
A private hire car under § 49 of the Personenbeförderungsgesetz works the other way round. It may only accept journeys booked in advance at the operator’s place of business, it is not obliged to accept every job, and after each one it must return to base unless a further booking has already come in. In exchange it is not bound to the taxi tariff — which is precisely why it can agree a price with you before you travel and keep to it.
So the fixed price is not a marketing device layered on top of a taxi. It is a consequence of the licence the vehicle runs under. The operating company here is a registered hire-car business, and the pre-booking requirement is why this site sells journeys rather than a phone number to wave at a kerb.
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A ride-hailing app prices at the moment you open it, which means the number moves with demand — the fare for the same journey is not the same at eight in the morning as at midnight, and it is at its worst exactly when a city is busiest and you have a flight to catch.
A booking here is priced when it is made and does not move afterwards. Nor is it an auction for whichever driver is nearest: a named driver is assigned to the job in advance, with your flight number if there is one. That is a different product with a different failure mode — it cannot surge, and it also cannot appear in four minutes because you tapped a button.
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Five classes, from a clean current saloon up to the flagship, plus a seven-seat van and a minibus for groups. Every one comes with the same driver standard, the same flight tracking and the same waiting allowance — the class changes the vehicle, not the service around it.
The calculation
The operator’s own card, read straight from it. Every fare on this site is this arithmetic and nothing else.
| Class | Per km | Base fare | Minimum | What that comes to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economy | €1.60 | €25 | €45 | €195 |
| Business Class | €1.70 | €25 | €50 | €205 |
| First Class | €3.00 | €25 | €100 | €343 |
| Business Van | €1.90 | €25 | €60 | €226 |
A journey of 106 km. Prices shown are the starting fare for this route and include tolls and airport access charges. Your exact price is confirmed before you book.
Fleet
Every class includes the same service — flight tracking, meet and greet, waiting time and a fixed price. What changes is the space.
From €343
Top of the range
3 passengers / 2 bags
Mercedes-Benz S-Class or similar
A flagship saloon — the long-wheelbase, rear-seat-first kind. Booked for board-level guests, client collection and the journeys where the car is part of the impression.
From €205
The default for work travel
3 passengers / 2 bags
Mercedes-Benz E-Class or similar
An executive saloon with room to work, quiet enough to take a call, and a boot built for checked luggage rather than weekend bags. The class most corporate accounts book by default.
From €195
The sensible one
3 passengers / 2 bags
Toyota Corolla Hybrid or similar
A clean, current saloon with a professional driver. Everything that matters — flight tracking, meet and greet, a fixed price — is included; you are simply not paying for a badge.
From €226
Groups and real luggage
7 passengers / 7 bags
Mercedes-Benz V-Class or similar
Seven seats, a boot that takes seven cases, and a sliding door that makes loading at the kerb straightforward. The class families and small teams actually need.
Price on request
Up to sixteen
16 passengers / 16 bags
For conference groups, wedding parties and trade-fair teams moving together. Quoted as one fixed price for the whole group rather than per seat.
What is included
Agreed in full before you book. Traffic, tolls and airport charges are already in it — the meter does not exist.
We watch the flight number you give us. Land early or three hours late and the pickup moves with you, at no extra cost.
Your driver waits inside arrivals holding a name sign, helps with the luggage and walks you to the car.
Free waiting time after touchdown — enough for passport control and baggage reclaim without anyone watching a clock.
From the exact address to the exact address. Not to the nearest station, and not to a rank at the end of the road.
Infant, child and booster seats specified at booking. They are not charged as an extra.
Cancel up to 24 hours before pickup at no charge. Plans change; that is not something to be fined for.
Licensed, insured, English- and German-speaking, and briefed on your journey before they set off.
Fixed price
For a short hop inside a city centre, the taxi on the rank is quicker and usually cheaper. Pre-booking exists to remove uncertainty over a longer distance or an awkward hour; across two kilometres of the same district there is not much uncertainty to remove.
Between major cities, the ICE beats us on both time and money for a single traveller with a small bag — every route page on this site says so, and names the train. Where a private car wins is luggage, groups, doors that are nowhere near a station, and hours when the timetable has stopped.
FAQ
Services
Chauffeur service
A chauffeur for the hour, or for the journey
Most transfer sites sell you a line between two addresses. A chauffeur service sells you the driver — and the difference shows up on the days when you do not know yet where you are going next.
Limousine service
A limousine service that tells you which car
The complaint about this category is always the same: you book a "luxury vehicle" and something else turns up. So this page starts with what the cars actually are.
Meet & greet
Met in the arrivals hall, not phoned from a car park
Two people who have never met have to find each other in a building designed to move thousands of strangers past one another. Meet and greet is the answer to that problem, and the difference between operators is mostly what they mean by the phrase.
Get a price
Point to point takes two addresses; by the hour takes a pickup and a block of time. The form does both.
The price is agreed before you book. No meter, no surge pricing.
Ready when you are
Two addresses, a date, and how many of you there are. You will see the price for every vehicle class before you commit to anything.
