How Luxury Private Transfers Work Worldwide — Cars, Jets and Seamless Arrivals

One advisor arranges every transfer on your itinerary through a global network of vetted chauffeurs, meet-and-assist teams and private-aviation partners. From the first airport to the last, each leg is booked, briefed and monitored centrally, so your ground and air moves connect seamlessly in every country — with a single point of contact if anything changes.

A private transfer ranges from a chauffeur in a premium vehicle tracking your flight, to a full VIP arrival: a fast-track team that meets you planeside, escorts you through immigration and customs, handles luggage, and walks you to the waiting car. The service is tailored to the airport and to how much discretion and speed you want.

Yes. Where scheduled flights waste a day or don't exist, we arrange private jets between cities, and helicopters or crewed tenders to reach islands, lodges and remote coastlines. It is planned as part of one continuous door-to-door itinerary, with timings built around your other reservations.

Private ground transfers typically start from a few hundred US dollars per journey, depending on the city, vehicle and duration. VIP airport meet-and-assist is added per airport, and private aviation is quoted by route and aircraft. Your advisor prices each element transparently as part of the wider itinerary.

Yes — private transfers are arranged worldwide across the 120+ countries Forest Travel covers, from major hubs to remote destinations. In places where reliable private ground or air options are limited, your advisor secures the best available and briefs you in advance, so every arrival is handled to the same standard.

Book it as one cross-border movement through a single advisor rather than as two local hires, because the licensing and the pricing both change at the border. The operator needs to be authorised for cross-border work in both countries — many excellent local firms are not — and a one-way international transfer is normally quoted with the empty return leg included, which is why a Nice-to-Portofino run costs more than its distance suggests. Ask for the driver to be confirmed by name and for the vehicle class in writing. Beyond roughly four hours of driving, ask your advisor to price rail or a light jet against it before committing.

Compare on four things, in this order: the aircraft category against the leg (a light jet suits under two hours, a midsize beyond), which airport the quote uses (a city's convenient field can save an hour that a cheaper quote into the main hub gives back), whether the price is a one-way or includes repositioning, and the operator's safety auditing. Then set the total against first class plus private transfers on the same pairing — on a London-to-Rome or Paris-to-Geneva leg the scheduled option is sometimes genuinely faster door to door. Your advisor should show you both numbers rather than only the one you asked for.

Three things. First, the city pair: rail wins door to door wherever the journey is under about four hours, because you board in the centre and arrive in the centre. Second, what 'privately' means to you — first class on a scheduled service with a car meeting you at each end is a different product from a private carriage or one of the historic luxury trains, which are priced per journey and released a year or more ahead. Third, the luggage, which no one mentions: on scheduled European trains you carry your own, so a porter arranged at both stations is what keeps the journey civilised.

They sit with your advisor, not in a form you refill. Vehicle class, whether you want conversation or silence, the child seats and their sizes, the bottled water you actually drink, which side of the aircraft you prefer, the airports you refuse — all of it is held against your file and applied to the next trip without being asked for again. That is the practical difference between an advisory relationship and a booking platform: the second trip is easier than the first, and the tenth takes one message.