Your Driver
A Driver for the Day
Four hours is one thing done properly. Eight is the whole island with lunch.
What the blocks mean
Four hours. One destination, done properly. Orient Bay and back. Marigot market and lunch. A morning at Mullet Bay. Enough for one good thing, not two.
Six hours. Two areas without hurrying. Marigot, Grand Case for lunch, Orient Bay for the afternoon. This is the block most people should pick and the one we suggest most often.
Eight hours. The full day, with a long lunch and the freedom to stay somewhere because it turned out to be better than expected.
The clock starts when we collect you and stops when we drop you back. Waiting is part of it — the driver stays with you rather than leaving and being re-summoned.
What it is good for
A beach day where you want to be dropped somewhere good and collected without standing in a rank. On a heavy port day this is worth the whole cost on its own.
An island day with stops you choose. See private island day for three routes that work.
Errands and appointments — a supermarket run, the pharmacy, a bank, three places in a morning that would otherwise be three separate fares and a lot of waiting.
A day when the rental car is not worth it. Some days you want to drive and some days you want to look out of the window. Booking one day of driver in a week of rental is a perfectly sensible thing to do and people do it more than you would think.
What is included
Fuel, parking, waiting, child seats, cold water in the car, and a driver who knows the island rather than a phone that knows the roads.
Not included: lunch, entrance fees, loungers. We will tell you what those cost before you commit.
Against the meter
The official tariff charges per trip for one or two passengers and per person above that. A family of five doing three separate journeys in a day pays three per-person fares.
A day block is one number for the vehicle, whatever the party size and however many stops. For four or more people it is usually cheaper by a clear margin, and it includes the part the meter never covers — the car being there when you want to leave.
Longer than a day
If you are doing this on more than two days of a week, the stay package is cheaper and gives you the same driver throughout, which is the part that actually changes the trip.
Questions people actually ask
How many hours do I actually need?
Four hours does one thing well — a beach, or Marigot and lunch. Six covers two sides of the island without rushing. Eight is a genuine full day with a long lunch and time to stop where you feel like it. Most people who pick four wish they had picked six.
Does the clock run while we are at the beach?
Yes — the block is the driver's day, not driving time. What it buys you is that they are there when you come back, rather than you standing at a rank at four in the afternoon on a port day.
Can we change the plan halfway through?
Of course. That is most of the reason to do it this way rather than book a coach seat.
Is it per person?
No. Per vehicle. Six people pay what two people pay, which is where this stops being comparable to a metered fare.
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Checked and updated 4 September 2026.