Toronto to Niagara Falls by private chauffeur

Toronto and Niagara Falls are about 128 km apart by road. Destination Ontario points visitors towards the Queen Elizabeth Way for the Niagara Parks attractions, and that is the corridor the trip follows.

It is the single most-requested intercity run on our book, and it comes in two quite different shapes: the day trip out and back, which is usually booked by the hour so that the falls, a winery and lunch can happen in whatever order the day decides, and the one-way transfer, which is a fixed fare from door to door.

Both ends are in Ontario, so this route books online in full. You see the fare in Canadian dollars, with HST as its own line, and pay before you travel. There is no surge pricing and no short-notice surcharge, so a booking made on the morning costs the same as one made a fortnight out.

Airports at either end make this route more useful than the distance suggests. Toronto Pearson and Billy Bishop serve the Toronto end. At the Niagara end, Niagara District is about 13 km from the falls and Niagara Central about 25 km, while across the river Niagara Falls International is about 11 km and Buffalo Niagara about 35 km. A great many visitors fly into the American pair and cross, which we can do on the same booking - with a valid passport for every traveller, and border wait time not billed as waiting time.

The same page covers the return. A trip from Niagara Falls back to Toronto is booked exactly the same way, at the same fixed-fare structure, with the pickup and drop-off simply the other way round.

Typical drive time: about 1 h 30 min, traffic permitting. The fare does not change with the traffic.

Going on to Buffalo, to Niagara Falls, New York or to one of the two New York airports? That is a cross-border trip, booked in advance with a chauffeur authorised to cross.