Our private hourly chauffeur takes your group from Bal Harbour to An Evening of Songs and Stories With Patti Smith at the Adrienne Arsht Center on Friday, October 9, 2026, in a Black SUV XL at a flat rate from $100 per hour, locked at booking, with a 5-hour minimum. Your bilingual driver collects you anywhere in Bal Harbour, stays with you through the 7:00 PM show, and drives you home.
Each vehicle has its own hourly rate, and every booking covers at least five hours.
Your total comes down to two choices: the vehicle that fits your party and how long you keep it. With a 7:00 PM start, your hours need to cover the drive south, the show itself, and the ride back up the coast, plus dinner if you desire it. Couples and small groups usually select the Black SUV XL, while a book club or a group of longtime fans frequently fills a Sprinter. Each rate is for the whole vehicle, not per guest, so a fuller car spreads the cost further. Show tickets are separate and are bought through the venue.
Prices start with the Black SUV XL at the entry rate and go up to the Platinum SUV and the larger Sprinter at the top of the list. Your cost for the evening is your vehicle’s hourly rate times the hours you keep it, plus the night surcharge for any trip outside daytime hours.
Fuel, tolls, and parking are included in the hourly rate for the whole evening.
That includes any causeway toll on the way across the bay and the cost of parking the car near the venue during the show, so neither turns up later as a surprise charge. Your chauffeur also handles the practical side of the drive: watching Friday traffic, picking the easiest way into the arts district, and handling every lane change while your group talks about favorite songs and stories. Two things can raise the total. The first is any time you add past your booked hours, explained in the booking walkthrough below. The second is the night surcharge for trips outside daytime hours, which has its own section.
Your group gets a private vehicle reserved only for you, from pickup to drop-off.
No one else rides with you, and no one else’s schedule shapes your night. Your price is fixed the moment you book, and there’s no surge if Friday traffic builds on the causeways or the arts district fills up before the show. One chauffeur is assigned to your group for all your booked hours, so the person who greets you in the Bal Harbour lobby is the same person who brings you home. Every driver speaks English and Spanish, which helps when visiting family or friends join the evening. You can reach the team, and your driver, directly on WhatsApp if plans change. Together, that makes this a genuinely premium service and a better experience from the first mile to the last: a calm cabin, the same driver all night, and an evening that stays about the music.
Daytime hours run from 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM and carry no surcharge. Trips outside that window add the amount below, depending on your vehicle.
For this show, the timing is close. The night fee depends only on the pickup time: for pickups between 6:00 PM and 7:00 AM the SUV adds $50 (vans +10% of the hourly total), once per booking. For an SUV it’s one fixed amount per trip; for a Sprinter it’s a percentage of the trip value. Whether it applies to your evening depends on when your hours start and how long you stay out after the last song. If you desire a late bite after the show, factor it in when you plan. The team on WhatsApp will tell you which trips, if any, fall into that window before you book.
You reserve one vehicle and one driver for a block of hours, then plan the evening your way.
Start by choosing the vehicle that fits your group, then send the team your group size, a rough start time, and the stops you have in mind on WhatsApp. The driver can pick you up at any Miami address: a hotel, a PortMiami cruise terminal if your group comes off a ship that day and wants to go straight to the show, Miami International Airport, or a private home. You agree on the exact pickup spot when you book. Once your hours start, the car and chauffeur are yours alone, and your plans can change as you go: add a stop, drop one, or stay longer at dinner. After the first five hours, every extra hour is simply added at the same per-hour rate, with no renegotiated fare, so you can keep the car as long as you require it.
The show mixes a concert with a literary evening built around Patti Smith’s new memoir.
The Arsht Center presents the show with Books & Books and the Miami Book Fair. It takes place on Friday, October 9, 2026, in the Ziff Ballet Opera House, the center’s largest hall, and starts at 7:00 PM. Patti Smith reads from Bread of Angels, tells stories from a life that runs from the downtown New York punk scene to a National Book Award for Just Kids, and sings, backed by her son Jackson Smith on guitar and longtime bandmate Tony Shanahan. Anticipate a crowd of devoted, grown-up fans: people who wore out their copies of Horses, readers who pressed Just Kids on every friend, and musicians who still call her the Godmother of Punk. The mood falls between a rock show and a book-festival headline event: attentive, emotional, and dressed for a night out. See the event page for An Evening of Songs and Stories With Patti Smith.
The show is a focused set of readings, stories, and songs, not a marathon rock concert. Check your ticket or the venue listing for the exact running time, and share it with us when you book so your hours cover everything through the final bow and the ride back to Bal Harbour.
The evening is aimed at grown-up fans of her music and writing, so check the venue’s age guidance on your ticket before bringing children.
Your chauffeur drives from Bal Harbour across Biscayne Bay to the arts district.
The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County is on Biscayne Boulevard in Miami’s Arts & Entertainment District, close to Edgewater, so the trip is a run across the bay and along the mainland shore. Friday evening is the part to plan around: commuter traffic, dinner crowds along the beach, and fans arriving for the show all build up in the hours before a 7:00 PM start. A private car with a local driver takes that off your plate. Nobody in your group circles for a garage space, checks a map, or has to be the designated driver after a glass of wine at dinner. You step out close to the entrance, walk into the Ziff Ballet Opera House with time to locate your seats, and your chauffeur handles everything outside. The questions below cover the roads, the timing, the drop-off, and the ride home.
Most evenings the driver heads west over the Broad Causeway through Bay Harbor Islands, then south on Biscayne Boulevard toward the venue. If that route backs up, the alternative is Collins Avenue south through Miami Beach and across the Julia Tuttle Causeway, or onto I-95. Your chauffeur decides based on that evening’s traffic.
Leave Bal Harbour in the late afternoon or early evening, and allow plenty of extra time, because Friday rush hour typically slows the causeways and Biscayne Boulevard. Arriving early lets your group find your seats without rushing. If dinner comes first, the driver plans the departure around your reservation.
The driver brings you as close to the Ziff Ballet Opera House entrance as access allows that evening, using the venue’s designated drop-off point when there is one. You step out a short walk from the doors while the chauffeur moves the car to a nearby spot to wait until the show ends.
Yes. Your driver stays close by for the whole show, so the car is always just a message away. When the last song ends, send a WhatsApp message, walk to the pickup point you agreed on, and the same chauffeur takes your group home to Bal Harbour or on to a late stop.
Bal Harbour Shops is the neighborhood’s classic spot for an early dinner before the show.
The open-air center across Collins Avenue from the oceanfront hotels mixes designer boutiques with restaurants that suit an early dinner, from Italian food at Carpaccio to Japanese plates at Makoto. Its garden walkways create an easy meeting spot for friends coming from distinct buildings. Next door in Surfside, the Four Seasons Hotel at The Surf Club offers a more glamorous, old-Miami setting for a drink before the drive. Guests at The St. Regis Bal Harbour or The Ritz-Carlton Bal Harbour can keep it simple with a glass of wine at the hotel bar while the chauffeur pulls up out front. After the show, the Design District and Midtown are close to the venue if anyone wants a late bite, and the same car can stop there before heading back north. These are just ideas for your evening; you create your own table reservations.
Yes, one booking covers both. The chauffeur picks you up, waits while you eat at Bal Harbour Shops or wherever you’ve booked, then drives the group south to the show and home again afterward. Your hours run continuously, so there’s no second car to arrange and no rush to reach the entrance before 7:00 PM.
The hourly service stays local, covering Miami and the nearby coast.
Think of it as an on-call car with a driver who knows the city, not a long-distance run. In a single booking, your chauffeur moves easily between Miami, Miami Beach, Downtown Miami, Brickell, Coral Gables, Doral, Coconut Grove, Key Biscayne, Wynwood, Little Havana, and the region around Miami International Airport, and north through Bal Harbour toward Fort Lauderdale. That region suits a night like this one: a pickup on Collins Avenue, dinner in Bal Harbour, the show on Biscayne Boulevard, maybe a late stop in Wynwood, and home again. This hourly service doesn’t go out to farther cities such as Naples, Orlando, or West Palm Beach, which keeps our chauffeurs close, unhurried, and available here in the city. If friends are staying elsewhere in town, the driver can pick them up on the way as an extra stop.
You pay the full fare when you book.
If you book within 24 hours of the show, your date and time are locked in and held just for you, with a driver and vehicle already set aside. On that short notice, we can’t guarantee a date change or a refund, so the evening goes ahead as agreed. You can still add more hours on the day.
Four private vehicle types cover everything from a couple to a large group of friends.
Every vehicle comes with its chauffeur and is reserved for your group alone.
If you plan to bring something large home, such as a tote full of new books or a garment bag for the evening, tell us in advance so the right vehicle is ready.
Yes. A private chauffeur hired by the hour takes your group from Bal Harbour to the show and back.
Bal Harbour sits at the northern tip of the barrier island, so getting to a mainland venue on a Friday night means crossing the bay at a hectic hour. A chauffeur takes that off your mind, whether you live in a condo along Collins Avenue, are staying at a hotel for the weekend, or are meeting old friends to see an artist whose music has been part of your lives for years. There’s no fixed schedule and nobody else on board; the car runs on your plan alone. That privacy suits a show this personal. On the ride home, your group can talk over favorite moments from the readings, debate which song hit hardest, or simply sit quietly and take it in. It’s the same polished ride whether you’re two longtime fans or a whole row of friends.
The driver picks you up at any address in Bal Harbour, agreed when you book. That can be the lobby of The St. Regis or The Ritz-Carlton, the entrance of an oceanfront condo on Collins Avenue, a home west of Collins, or Bal Harbour Shops. Your chauffeur sends a WhatsApp message when the car arrives.
Pets are not accepted; certified service animals are welcome with advance notice.
Yes. A private Mercedes-Benz Sprinter takes larger groups to the show together, with the same chauffeur all evening. Only your guests ride in it. Pick the Sprinter size that matches your headcount from the vehicle list above, and everyone arrives together and leaves together at the end of the night.
Reserving one premium service by the hour is a different thing from opening an app every time you move. You hold a single vehicle and a single bilingual chauffeur for the whole block, the price is fixed before you start, and the car simply waits while you eat, shop, or take photos — no re-requesting, no surge, no stranger learning where you are headed each time.
| By the hour with us | App rides (Uber / Lyft) |
|---|---|
| One flat hourly rate, locked before you start | A fresh fare every ride, surging 1.5×–4× at peak |
| The same vehicle and driver stay with you all day | A different car and a stranger at every pickup |
| Your driver waits between each stop — nothing to re-book | Re-request and wait at the curb after each stop |
| A vetted, professional bilingual chauffeur | Whoever happens to accept the ping |
Across a full day of stops, one reserved chauffeur usually lands below a string of Uber Black or Lyft Lux surges — and it stays a calmer, more premium service from the first pickup to the last drop-off.
Uber, Uber Black, Lyft, and Lyft Lux are trademarks of their respective owners. We are not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by them. Comparison reflects publicly available pricing as of 2026.
Send us your plan on WhatsApp to confirm your chauffeur for Friday, October 9.
Send us four things and we’ll handle the rest: how many guests are coming, your pickup address in Bal Harbour, the time you’d like to leave, and whether dinner or a late stop is part of the evening. Mention anything bulky at the same time so we match the right vehicle from the start. The team will reply with your vehicle, the plan for the night, and how to pay the fare that secures the date. From then on, the car and chauffeur are set aside for your group, ready to take you from the oceanfront to an evening of poetry, memory, and rock and roll, and back home again. Booking early gives you the widest choice of vehicles.
Email: [email protected] | Phone/WhatsApp: +1 (786) 682-8748
We recommend booking at least 24 hours in advance, and online bookings need at least 12 hours’ notice. For holidays and busier weekends, please book ahead to ensure better availability.
Yes, we accept bookings from anywhere in the world. We accept international payments and keep travelers updated via WhatsApp and email.
No. We only work with reservations made in advance: online bookings need at least 12 hours’ notice. For anything sooner, message us on WhatsApp and we will check availability — same-day service is subject to availability and is not guaranteed.
You pay the full fare when you book, by card or Apple Pay through the secure checkout on the site, or a Stripe payment link we send on WhatsApp. The same applies to every pickup area and to hourly chauffeur bookings.
No. The full fare is paid in advance by card or Apple Pay, through the secure checkout on the site or a Stripe payment link we send on WhatsApp; online payments carry a 4% processing fee.
No. In addition to the airport, we also serve hotels, ports, train stations, restaurants, and private addresses.
We work with a black SUV for up to 5 passengers, a van for 6 to 9 passengers and a larger van for 10 to 14.
Yes. We serve weddings, corporate conferences, VIP events, and other special occasions — as a direct ride to the venue, or with the chauffeur staying with you for the whole celebration on our hourly service (5-hour minimum). Contact us with the date, head count and schedule and we will set it up.
Some vehicles in our fleet are equipped with Wi-Fi and USB ports. Let us know in advance if this is essential, and we’ll book a vehicle that meets your needs.
No. We only work with private transfers. The vehicle is reserved exclusively for you and your party, with no shared seating.
No problem. We track your flight in real time and adjust the pickup time when needed, at no extra charge.
Send us the updated information as soon as possible, and we’ll adjust your booking while monitoring the new flight status.
We primarily work with curbside pickup. Just send a message with your exit gate and the driver will arrive in a few minutes — usually faster than the traditional sign-holding service.
If you prefer the driver to wait inside the terminal with a sign bearing your name, add the Meet & Greet for US$ 40 when you book — available for airport pickups only.
The day before your trip, we’ll send you a message with the driver’s name, vehicle model, and license plate, along with detailed instructions for curbside pickup.
Don’t worry. We’ll send you a message as soon as your flight lands. If we don’t receive a quick reply, the driver will automatically head to the international arrivals hall. Wait there and we’ll find you.
For domestic flights, we offer up to 60 minutes of wait time after arrival.
For international flights, the courtesy time is up to 120 minutes.
For hotel pickups, there’s a 15-minute grace period.
For port pickups, we wait up to 60 minutes past the agreed time.
Two hours is the free wait for international flights. When your free waiting time ends, extra waiting is not automatic: your driver may text you an offer to keep waiting, but is not required to. If the offer is sent, the driver waits up to 10 minutes for your reply; if you don’t accept in that time, the driver may leave. If no offer is sent, the driver may leave once your free waiting time is over.
Yes. Our drivers help load and unload your bags.
The standard allowance includes one large suitcase and one carry-on per person.
Traveling with larger or additional items — extra suitcases, musical instruments, mobility equipment, or strollers? Contact us in advance so we can arrange the necessary space. An additional fee may apply.
We’re sorry — pets are not accepted on any of our services. Certified service animals are welcome: please tell us in advance and we’ll assign a van for the ride.
We ask that you don’t eat during the trip. Only water in sealed bottles is allowed on board.
With by-the-hour service, stops are included: the vehicle is yours for the hours you book.
Yes. The pickup time and other details (an extra passenger) can be changed until 24 hours before the ride, depending on availability. Within 24 hours of the ride there are no changes and no refunds — message us on WhatsApp and we’ll see what we can do. The travel date itself is fixed once booked.
No hidden fees: the quoted price includes the driver, fuel and tolls. Only optional extras add to it — the night-hours fee shown in your quote before you book, the optional Meet & Greet at Miami International Airport and the 4% processing fee on card payments made through the payment link. Driver gratuity is optional and at your discretion; it’s always welcome.
You get a full refund if you cancel more than 24 hours before your scheduled pickup. Within 24 hours of the ride, the booking is non-refundable.
Note: any refund claim — including a driver no-show or another service issue — must reach us within 30 days of your scheduled pickup. Requests made more than a month after the ride date are no longer eligible for review or refund.
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