Toronto to Montréal

Toronto to Montréal by private chauffeur

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This is the longest route we publish: about 540 km by road, and a full day's work either way. People choose it over flying for a small number of very specific reasons, and it is worth being honest about them rather than dressing the trip up.

Luggage is the usual one - equipment, samples, instruments, anything that makes an airline a fight. Privacy is the second: the car is a place to work or talk without an audience, for the whole journey rather than for the forty minutes between seatbelt signs. And schedule control is the third, when the meeting time is fixed and the flight times are not.

Toronto to Montréal in brief

Road distance and drive time

About 540 km

Typically 5 h 45 min, traffic permitting.

Booking

Bookable online

One end of the trip is in Ontario.

Because Toronto is in Ontario, the route books online in both directions, with a fixed fare in Canadian dollars confirmed before you pay, with HST (13%) shown as its own line.

Four airports touch this route. Toronto Pearson and Billy Bishop at one end; Montréal-Trudeau and MET at the other. For anyone comparing, this is genuinely a case where the aeroplane wins on time - our own pages for those airports will tell you so. What a car wins on is everything that happens either side of the flight.

A journey of this length is priced as a fixed fare rather than by the hour, which is deliberate: an hourly meter on a five-hundred-kilometre drive puts the risk of a bad day on you rather than on us. There is no surge pricing and no short-notice surcharge, so the number you are quoted is the number you pay.

Typical drive time: about 5 h 45 min, traffic permitting.

Questions about this route

How long does the drive take?

Typically about 5 h 45 min, traffic permitting. The two cities are about 540 km apart by road; the journey depends on weather, roadworks and departure time, and your chauffeur will plan the day around the time you need to arrive.

Why drive rather than fly?

Luggage you cannot check comfortably, privacy for the whole journey rather than part of it, and a schedule you control. For pure speed, the flight wins, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.

Can I book this online?

Yes, in both directions, because the Toronto end is in Ontario. The fare is fixed in Canadian dollars and confirmed before you pay.

Is it priced by the hour?

No. A journey this long is a fixed fare, so a slow day does not become your problem. Hourly hire, with its two-hour minimum, is for as-directed work within a city rather than for intercity transfers.

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