Hourly chauffeur service in Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown packs very different stops into a few square miles, and its curbs are strict. In the City of Los Angeles, white curbs allow passenger loading for no more than 5 minutes, red curbs mean no stopping at any time, and yellow curbs are for commercial loading from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday. With an hourly booking, the chauffeur stays with the vehicle nearby and returns to the curb when you are ready, instead of circling the block between stops.

Distances between Downtown districts are short: Grand Central Market to the Arts District is about 1 mile, Walt Disney Concert Hall to Union Station about 1 mile, and Disney Hall to Crypto.com Arena under 2 miles. The time goes into finding a place to stop, which is exactly what a waiting chauffeur removes.

Grand Avenue on Bunker Hill holds Walt Disney Concert Hall, part of The Music Center and home to the LA Phil, along with The Broad, which offers free general admission, and MOCA. At Disney Hall, 111 S. Grand Avenue, rideshare and drop-off vehicles unload on Grand Avenue in front of the hall, where loading zone signs mark the preferred spot. Parking is beneath the hall, entered from Second Street or Lower Grand Avenue, and valet operates at the Hope Street entrance before concerts.

A concert night works well as a short block: dinner nearby, the performance and a pickup on Grand Avenue afterward without searching for the car. If the evening starts on the Westside, Disney Hall is about 13 miles from the Beverly Hills Golden Triangle, so allow for the cross-town drive. See our Walt Disney Concert Hall page for timing around performances.

East of Bunker Hill, Downtown turns into neighborhoods worth a slow afternoon. Grand Central Market has operated since 1917 and is the city's largest and oldest public market. Little Tokyo, with roots in the 1880s, is one of three official Japantowns in the United States, and the Arts District beyond it is known for galleries, breweries and restaurants. An hourly block lets you move between all three, each about a mile apart, with the car waiting instead of a parking search at every stop.

Olvera Street, opened in 1930 and home to the Ávila Adobe, described as the city's oldest standing residence, sits across Alameda Street from Union Station. The Fashion District, about 100 blocks with more than 2,000 apparel, footwear and fabric shops, makes a long shopping stop where having the car close for bags helps.

Union Station, the largest railroad passenger terminal in the western United States, serves Metro Rail, Metrolink and Amtrak, which makes it a common start or end point for a Downtown day. Meeting arriving travelers at the station and starting the hourly block there keeps a group together for the rest of the day.

LAX is about 19 miles from Downtown, usually 30 to 75 minutes depending on traffic, and Hollywood Burbank Airport about 15 miles. On airport pickups, the chauffeur monitors the flight and arrives based on the actual landing time. For the arrival leg itself, see LAX to Downtown LA.

Crypto.com Arena, L.A. LIVE and the Los Angeles Convention Center share the same few blocks of South Park, so an arena night and a convention day can crowd the same streets. For arena concerts and other major events, hourly service of typically 5 to 8 hours is strongly recommended over a one-way pickup, because exits are staggered and post-event traffic makes pickup times hard to predict. See the Crypto.com Arena and Los Angeles Convention Center pages for drop-off zones.

Court dates and depositions are another Downtown standby pattern: the start time is set, but the end rarely is. Booking a larger block and keeping the phone on your reservation reachable lets the chauffeur come back as soon as you are released. For meeting-heavy days, see our Downtown corporate page.

Hourly bookings start at a 3-hour minimum online. A concert with dinner fits 3 to 4 hours, and an afternoon across Little Tokyo, the Arts District and the Fashion District usually needs 4 or 5. Time past the booked hours is billed at the hourly rate of the vehicle booked. A sedan carries up to 3 passengers and 3 bags, a Luxury SUV up to 7 passengers and 6 bags, and the Mercedes Sprinter Van up to 16 passengers and 18 bags for a group.