Hold a vehicle and a chauffeur for a block of time instead of buying one trip at a time. Woodinville wine days, multi-stop business afternoons, and event nights where the car waits between legs.
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A point-to-point transfer is a contract about two addresses. An hourly booking is a contract about time, which is why the itinerary can move underneath it. That is the whole difference, and it is the reason a day with six soft stops costs less trouble than six separate reservations.
Between the tasting room and lunch, between the meeting and the next meeting, between the first pitch and the ninth inning, the vehicle is parked and yours. Coats, cases of wine, sample bags and camera gear stay in it. Nobody re-books anything.
Six stops priced as six separate transfers means six prices, six confirmations and six chances for the gap in between to go wrong. An hourly booking is a single number times a single block of time, plus the published surcharges. Far easier to budget and to check.
Dispatch is staffed 24 hours, so if the group is still at the third winery at four o’clock you call and ask. Whether the block can be extended depends on what is booked behind your vehicle, and you will be told straight either way rather than left guessing.
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Most of what Kamo Limo does is A to B. Hourly work is the other thing: days where the schedule is a sketch, where the third stop depends on how long the second one runs, where the point of hiring a car is that you do not have to decide yet.
Ten years of running those days in this region teaches you where the time actually goes. It is not the driving. It is the twenty minutes finding a group in a warehouse-district tasting room, the meeting that overruns by half an hour, the 520 bridge at 4:40 on a Thursday, the fifteen minutes it takes eleven people to get their coats on.
So this page is built around the arithmetic rather than the adjectives: what the hour costs, what a minimum is for, how the clock is counted, and the cases where hourly is honestly the wrong choice and two separate transfers would serve you better.
Alex G
Manager of Kamo Limo
Hourly limo service in Seattle books a vehicle and chauffeur for a block of time rather than a single route. Estimated rates run about $75 to $95 an hour for a sedan and $125 to $165 for a 14-passenger Sprinter, with a two to four hour minimum. Estimate – final price confirmed in writing before you book.
On a transfer you buy a journey: one pickup, one drop-off, one price. On an hourly booking, sometimes called as directed or charter, you buy the vehicle’s time. Where it goes inside that block is up to you, decided on the day, changed on the day if you want.
It is the right structure when any of these are true:
It is the wrong structure when your day is two trips with a five-hour hole in the middle. In that case two separate transfers almost always cost less, and we will tell you so when you ask for a quote.
The table below is built from published Seattle-area operator pricing, not from a Kamo rate card. Treat every number in it as a planning range for what this market charges, then get your own figure in writing.
| Vehicle class | Fleet | Seats | Estimated hourly rate | Typical minimum booking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Executive sedan | Mercedes-Benz S560, Lexus LS, Cadillac XTS, Lincoln Continental | Up to 3 | $75 – $95 per hour | 2 – 3 hours |
| Luxury SUV | Chevrolet Suburban (black), Cadillac Escalade, GMC Yukon | Up to 6 | $85 – $110 per hour | 2 – 3 hours |
| Stretch limousine | Chrysler 300C stretch | Up to 10 | $105 – $150 per hour | 3 – 4 hours |
| Executive van | Mercedes-Benz Sprinter high-roof | Up to 14 | $125 – $165 per hour | 3 – 4 hours |
Estimate – final price confirmed in writing before you book. The rates and the minimums above are competitor-derived. They are not Kamo Limo policy and no minimum shown here is a commitment by us.
| Line item | Where it stands |
|---|---|
| Midnight to 5:00 AM, and certain public holidays | Published surcharge of $66. If your block touches those hours, ask for it shown as its own line on the written quote. |
| Gratuity | Not included in the rate. 20% is the recommendation and it is entirely at your discretion. |
| Military | 5% off base fares of $75 or more. |
| Parking, venue access and tolls | Varies stop by stop. Ask for these to be quoted with everything else rather than settled afterwards. |
| Hours beyond the booked block | Get the extension rate confirmed in writing at the same time as the base rate, before the day, not during it. |
These are worked examples of how a block of time gets consumed. Timings are realistic for this region, not best-case.
| Time | What is happening | Hours used |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | Pickup, downtown Seattle hotel. Group of eight, Sprinter. | 0:00 |
| 11:00 – 11:40 | Drive to Woodinville via 520 and 405. Thirty minutes on a clear run, closer to fifty on a Saturday. | 0:40 |
| 11:45 – 13:00 | Hollywood District tasting room. Reservation, seated flight. | 1:55 |
| 13:10 – 14:20 | Lunch. Ten minutes to move, seventy at the table. | 3:15 |
| 14:30 – 15:40 | Warehouse District. Two rooms within walking distance, so the vehicle parks once. | 4:35 |
| 15:50 – 16:50 | Third district, final room. Cases loaded into the van. | 5:35 |
| 16:50 – 17:30 | Return to the hotel. | 6:15 |
Six hours is the honest number for three tasting rooms and a sit-down lunch, and it runs to seven if anyone lingers. Four hours buys you two rooms and no lunch.
| Time | What is happening | Hours used |
|---|---|---|
| 12:30 | Pickup, South Lake Union. Two executives, sedan. | 0:00 |
| 12:45 – 13:45 | First meeting, downtown. Vehicle parked, bags left in it. | 1:15 |
| 14:05 – 15:15 | Second meeting, Bellevue. Twenty minutes across the bridge before the afternoon build-up. | 2:45 |
| 15:35 – 16:15 | Third meeting, Bellevue. Short hop, no re-parking hassle. | 3:45 |
| 16:15 – 16:45 | Back across 520 into Seattle. Leave at 16:45 instead and this leg doubles. | 4:15 |
The reason this is hourly and not three transfers is the twenty-minute gaps. There is no version of separate bookings where a vehicle leaves, does something useful, and comes back inside twenty minutes on a Thursday afternoon in Bellevue.
| Time | What is happening | Hours used |
|---|---|---|
| 17:00 | Pickup, Eastside residential. Party of five, Suburban. | 0:00 |
| 17:40 – 19:15 | Dinner, Belltown. Vehicle holds nearby. | 2:15 |
| 19:25 | Drop at the venue. Climate Pledge Arena works best from the Thomas Street side rather than fighting Mercer. | 2:25 |
| 19:25 – 22:15 | Standby through the event. The chauffeur is positioned before the crowd moves. | 5:15 |
| 22:15 – 23:00 | Home. Departing before the surface streets seize up is the entire product here. | 6:00 |
Note that this one ran an hour over the booked five. That is normal on event nights and it is exactly why the extension rate belongs on the written quote before the day.
Not always, and anyone who tells you it always is has not done the arithmetic. Hourly wins on density and uncertainty. Separate transfers win on two clean legs with a long gap between them.
| Your day | Legs | Gaps between legs | Usually cheaper | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Out in the morning, back in the evening, both times known | 2 | 6+ hours | Two separate transfers | You would be paying for six hours of a parked vehicle to save nothing. |
| Dinner, then a show, then home, all times fixed | 3 | 2 – 3 hours | Close call — price both | The middle gap is just long enough to release the vehicle, but you lose the guaranteed exit after the show. |
| Woodinville, three tasting rooms plus lunch | 6 – 8 | 10 – 75 minutes | Hourly | Stops that move cannot be priced as fixed transfers, and the gaps are far too short to re-dispatch. |
| Four meetings across downtown and Bellevue | 5 | 20 – 60 minutes | Hourly | Cross-lake timings are unreliable enough that a released vehicle may not make it back. |
| Photo or content day with wardrobe and gear aboard | Many | Varies | Hourly | The vehicle is a changing room and a store cupboard as well as transport. |
| Game or concert with a held standby between legs | 2 | 3+ hours | Hourly, if leaving on time matters | You are buying the exit, not the mileage. |
Estimate – final price confirmed in writing before you book. If your day sits in the middle of that table, ask for both prices. We would rather quote you the cheaper structure than sell you hours you do not need.
This is the part almost no operator in Seattle writes down, which is why buyers keep getting surprised by it.
There is no single industry standard, and that is the honest answer. Some operators bill portal to portal, from your pickup to your final drop-off. Others bill garage to garage, which includes the vehicle’s travel from its base and back, and produces a noticeably bigger number for a booking that starts in Woodinville rather than downtown. Both are legitimate; they are simply different products at different prices.
What matters is that you know which one you have bought. Ask for the start point and the end point of the clock to be stated on your written quote, in words, before you confirm. If a quote does not say, it is not a quote yet. Ours will say.
A minimum is not an upsell. A vehicle and chauffeur committed to your three-hour block cannot be sold in fragments to anyone else, and the day around your booking — positioning before, returning after — is real time that nobody else is paying for.
Minimums in this market typically run from around two hours for a sedan up to three or four for a Sprinter or a stretch, and they tend to rise on Fridays, Saturdays and holiday weekends. Those figures are competitor-derived estimates, not Kamo Limo policy. Ask for your minimum in writing.
Overruns are ordinary. Dinners run late, a tasting room seats you twenty minutes behind schedule, a meeting goes well. The mechanism is simple: call dispatch, which is staffed 24 hours, and ask to extend.
Two honest caveats. First, extension is not automatic — it depends on whether that vehicle and chauffeur have another booking behind yours. Second, the earlier you call, the better the answer tends to be.
It does not mean unlimited. The block you booked is the block you booked, and time past it is billable time. It does not mean unlimited distance either — an hourly day is priced around normal Seattle-area movement.
It also does not mean the vehicle changes. If your group grows from six to nine at lunchtime, a Suburban does not become a Sprinter. Size for the largest the group will ever be that day.
Seat counts are the easy part. What catches people out is volume. Six adults in winter coats in a Suburban is comfortable; six adults with a case of wine each is not — a twelve-bottle case is roughly a carry-on bag lying flat, and six of them will fill an SUV’s cargo area on their own. Groups over about eight, or any group that expects to buy, should be in the Sprinter, which has floor space rather than a boot.
If your day is a fixed transfer rather than a block of held time, one of these pages will price it better.
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Quoted before you book and confirmed in writing. What we quote is what you pay, barring changes you ask for on the day.
Every booking is matched to your flight number and monitored from three hours out, so a delay moves the car, not your fare.
Red-eye landings and 5am departures are normal here. Someone always answers.
Published Seattle-area rates suggest roughly $75 to $95 an hour for an executive sedan, $85 to $110 for a luxury SUV, $105 to $150 for a stretch limousine and $125 to $165 for a 14-passenger Mercedes-Benz Sprinter. Those are competitor-derived figures for planning, not a Kamo Limo rate card. Estimate – final price confirmed in writing before you book.
Minimums in this market typically run from about two hours for a sedan up to three or four hours for a Sprinter or a stretch, and they often increase on Friday and Saturday nights and holiday weekends. That range is a competitor-derived estimate and not Kamo Limo policy. Your own minimum will be stated on your written quote before you commit.
As directed means the vehicle and chauffeur are yours for a set number of hours and you decide the route on the day. There is no fixed destination on the reservation and no per-stop charge. You can add a stop, drop one, or sit somewhere longer than planned without renegotiating a price. What it does not mean is unlimited time or unlimited distance: the booked block is the block, and hours past it are billable.
It depends on the shape of your day, and often it is not. If you have two legs with a long gap between them, two separate transfers are almost always cheaper because you avoid paying for hours of a parked vehicle. Hourly wins when you have four or more legs, when the gaps between them are under about ninety minutes, or when the itinerary is not fixed. Ask for both prices and take the cheaper one.
Ask, because practice varies across operators. Some bill portal to portal, from your pickup to your final drop-off. Others bill garage to garage, which includes the vehicle’s run from its base and back, and produces a bigger number when the booking starts a long way from that base. Both are legitimate. Get the clock’s start and end points written into your quote in plain words before you confirm.
Yes, subject to availability. Call dispatch, which is staffed 24 hours, and ask. Whether the block can be extended depends on whether that vehicle and chauffeur have another reservation behind yours, so the earlier in the day you call the better the answer usually is. Extra time is charged at the extension rate, which is why that rate should already be on your written quote.
Six hours is the realistic figure for three tasting rooms plus a sit-down lunch, starting and finishing in Seattle. Budget thirty to fifty minutes each way depending on traffic, sixty to seventy-five minutes per tasting room, and around seventy minutes for lunch. Four hours buys two rooms and no lunch. Groups regularly run seven.
Published policy is a $66 surcharge for the hours between midnight and 5:00 AM, and for certain public holidays. If your block runs into that window, ask for the surcharge to be shown as its own line on the written quote rather than folded into the hourly rate, so you can see exactly what you are paying.
No. Gratuity is not included. Twenty percent is the recommended figure and it is entirely at the customer’s discretion. Some operators in this market add gratuity automatically to hourly bookings, so if you are comparing quotes, check whether the number you are looking at already has it built in. Two rates that look similar can be twenty percent apart.
Yes. Military customers receive 5% off base fares of $75 or more. On an hourly booking the discount applies to the base fare, not to gratuity or to the $66 late-night and holiday surcharge. Mention it when you request the quote so it appears on the written price rather than being applied afterwards.
Nine passengers means the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter high-roof van, which seats up to fourteen. The Chrysler 300C stretch seats up to ten, but it is built around the cabin rather than cargo space, so it suits an evening out better than a day where people are carrying things. If your nine are heading to Woodinville and expect to buy wine, the Sprinter is the only sensible answer.
Yes, and on an hourly booking there is nothing extra to pay for it. The clock is already running, so standby time is simply part of the block you have reserved. That is the main structural reason people choose hourly over separate transfers for event nights: the vehicle is already positioned when the event ends rather than being dispatched into the congestion afterwards.
Nothing on the price side, in most cases. You have reserved a block of time rather than a set of destinations, so dropping a stop simply means the vehicle is used differently inside the same block. Finishing early does not usually reduce hours already reserved, particularly where a minimum applies. If early finishes matter to your budget, ask how they are treated.
For a weekday sedan or SUV, a few days is usually enough. For a Sprinter or the stretch on a Saturday, for Woodinville in summer, or for any block that overlaps a major event at Lumen Field, T-Mobile Park or Climate Pledge Arena, book several weeks out. Larger vehicles are the constraint, not chauffeurs. Dispatch is staffed 24 hours.
Send your start time, expected duration, stop list and group size through the form on this page, or call (206) 333-9605. Dispatch is staffed 24 hours. You will get an hourly rate, the number of hours, the rate for anything beyond that, and any surcharge that applies — all in writing, before you commit to anything. If two separate transfers would cost you less, we will say so.
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