Toronto International Film Festival
Chauffeured ground transport through the Toronto Film Festival for studio executives, producers, talent and the assistants who move them. Private jet arrivals tracked from wheels-up, discretion by default, and one invoice at the end of the week.
Now booking for September 2026
Built for the Booker
The person who rides is rarely the person who books. Executive assistants, personal assistants, corporate secretaries, production coordinators and talent handlers arrange nearly all of our festival transport, and they are judged on whether it goes quietly. Our entire process is built around that reality.
You should never have to explain yourself twice, chase a chauffeur, or apologise to your principal for something a ground-transport company did. Send the itinerary once and it is handled — and when it changes, which during the festival it will, tell dispatch once.
Book under your own name and list the passenger separately. Confirmations, chauffeur details, delay notices and changes all come to you — never to your principal. Nothing lands on their phone that you have not seen first.
Festival work runs on invoice or a corporate account arranged before the first pickup. No card is presented in front of guests, no chauffeur discusses money with your passenger, and you receive one itemised invoice for the week.
Chauffeurs brief by passenger reference rather than name where you prefer it, carry signage only if you ask, and never photograph, post about or discuss who is in the vehicle. NDAs are executed on request before dispatch.
Screenings run over, carpets shift, parties move across town, aircraft arrive late. One message to dispatch is enough — chasing a chauffeur is never your job, and no change during the festival counts as an imposition.
Private Aviation
Festival week is the densest private-aviation window Toronto sees all year. Ramps fill, FBO handling slows, and arrival times drift by the hour as departures slip in New York and Los Angeles. A car booked against a printed schedule is a car in the wrong place.
Give us the tail number instead of a time. Dispatch tracks the aircraft from the moment the flight plan is filed, calls the FBO ahead to confirm whether the vehicle may come planeside that day, and stages the car before the aircraft is on blocks. If weather pushes an arrival to Hamilton, we reposition rather than cancel. The full routine is written up in our note on tracking private jets and FBO coordination.
Through the festival we deliberately hold vehicles back from the schedule so that a late aircraft, an added passenger or a second pickup does not become your problem to solve at eleven at night.
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Roy Thomson Hall, Princess of Wales Theatre, the Royal Alexandra and the Scotiabank complex — with drop-off points chosen for the entrance your party is actually using, not the one on the map.
The Ritz-Carlton, Four Seasons Yorkville, Shangri-La, the Hazelton, the St. Regis and Park Hyatt sit within a few blocks of each other. We stage vehicles by hotel rather than by trip so a car is close when a schedule moves.
Pearson (YYZ) via Skyservice and Signature, Billy Bishop (YTZ) via Stolport, plus Hamilton, London and Waterloo when Toronto ramps fill during peak festival days.
Vehicles
A Cadillac Escalade ESV carries a principal and up to five others with privacy glass and room for luggage that came off an aircraft rather than a carousel. The 14-passenger luxury Sprinter moves publicists, security details, glam teams and crew together, which during festival week matters more than it sounds: a party that arrives as one unit walks in composed, while three cars trickling in across twenty minutes turns a controlled arrival into a scene.
As-directed service is the sensible default for festival days: a vehicle and chauffeur assigned to you for a block of hours, waiting between movements instead of being re-dispatched. For peak evenings we draw additional capacity from Toronto Noir Limo, our subsidiary limousine operation, running to the same dispatch standards.
Questions Assistants Ask
That is how most of our festival work is booked. Put your own name and email in the reservation and list the passenger separately — every confirmation, driver detail and change notice goes to you, not to your principal. You stay the single point of contact from first request to final invoice.
Send the tail number and the FBO. Dispatch tracks the aircraft from the moment the flight plan is filed and stages the vehicle before it is on blocks, so the car is waiting rather than the passenger. During the festival we hold additional vehicles on standby for the Pearson and Billy Bishop FBO windows, because arrival times move constantly in that week.
Always. Festival transfers run on invoice or a corporate account arranged before the first pickup. Nothing is settled at the kerb, no card is presented in front of guests, and no chauffeur discusses money with your principal. You receive one itemised invoice covering the full week.
Chauffeurs are briefed by passenger reference rather than name where you prefer it, carry no signage unless you ask for it, and never photograph, post about or discuss passengers. We sign non-disclosure agreements on request — send yours with the booking and it is executed before the assignment is dispatched.
Yes. As-directed service assigns a vehicle and chauffeur to you for a set block of hours, which is the sensible arrangement during the festival: screenings run long, red carpets shift, and after-parties are decided late. The car waits between movements rather than being re-dispatched.
A Cadillac Escalade ESV carries the principal and up to five others in privacy; the 14-passenger luxury Sprinter moves publicists, security, glam teams and crew in one vehicle. Where a party needs both, we stage them together under one dispatch so the whole group arrives and departs as a unit instead of trickling in.
As early as you have dates. TIFF week is the tightest ground-transport window in Toronto and preferred vehicles commit quickly. That said, we run 24/7 and hold capacity back deliberately for late changes — a same-day request during the festival is normal, not an imposition.
You message dispatch and we absorb it. Delayed aircraft, a screening that runs over, a party moved across town, an extra passenger — these are the ordinary conditions of festival week, not exceptions. Reaching the chauffeur directly is never your responsibility; one message to dispatch is enough.
Dates, passenger count, tail number if there is one, and anything that must stay quiet. Dispatch replies within the hour with a firm all-in figure — and once the week is confirmed, you should not need to think about ground transport again.