A private hourly chauffeur from Coral Gables to An Evening of Songs and Stories With Patti Smith at Adrienne Arsht Center on October 9, 2026, gives your group a Black SUV XL and a bilingual driver at a flat rate from $100 per hour, with a 5-hour minimum. Your driver picks you up anywhere in Coral Gables, gets you Downtown before the 7:00 PM start, and waits through the show to take everyone home.
Each vehicle has one hourly rate, and every booking includes at least five hours of chauffeured time.
You pay the rate per vehicle, not per passenger. Friends sharing a Sprinter pay the same hourly figure whether every seat is full or a few are empty. The show starts at 7:00 PM, so most bookings begin in Coral Gables in the late afternoon and cover dinner, the performance, and the ride home. That means the minimum matches a normal show night and doesn’t add hours you won’t use. Pick the tier that fits your headcount. The rate shown here is the rate you confirm on WhatsApp, and it covers the whole evening, not just one leg of it.
The vehicle is reserved only for your group, and the same upscale service runs from the first pickup to the last drop-off.
Your chauffeur speaks English and Spanish, so directions, an added stop, or a swift question are easy to handle. Your hourly rate is locked when you book. It doesn’t surge on a hectic Friday night, and it doesn’t change for traffic or weather. One driver handles the whole evening and waits through the performance, so nobody has to circle a garage or keep checking an app for a car that may not show up. You message your driver directly on WhatsApp, which keeps any change of plan swift and personal. Numerous fans have followed Patti Smith for decades, and for a night like this a peaceful arrival matters. You step out relaxed, walk in with time to find your seats, and leave the traffic to someone who drives Miami every day. We build every booking around giving you that better experience.
Payment is simple, and it doesn’t change on show night.
You reserve one vehicle and one driver for a block of hours, and the evening runs on your schedule.
First, select the vehicle that fits your group. Then send us a rough start time and the stops you have in mind. The driver can pick you up at any Miami address: a hotel, a home, Miami International Airport, or a PortMiami cruise terminal if you’re coming off a ship and heading straight to the show. For most riders on this page, pickup is a spot in Coral Gables that we agree on when you book. Your booking starts with a five-hour block. From the first pickup, the same chauffeur and the same car stay with you. You set the stops, decide how long to stay at dinner, and head Downtown when you’re ready. When the block ends, you can keep going: each extra hour is added at the same per-hour rate, so you can keep the car as long as you require.
Yes. Tell your driver you’d like more time and the evening just continues. You don’t negotiate a new fare, and you don’t pay on the spot. You settle the extra hours with your driver or over WhatsApp after the night is over, so a late dinner or an unplanned detour takes just one message.
A surcharge applies only to trips outside daytime hours, which run from 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM. 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. Here are the figures:
The SUV surcharge is a single amount per journey. The Sprinter surcharge is a percentage of the journey value, so it grows with the larger tiers. Nothing else changes for a late finish. Your hourly rate stays the same whether the crowd leaves quickly or stays in the lobby after the last song. Include the surcharge when you compare tiers, and tell us your expected finish time when you book so the driver can plan the evening around the daytime window.
We have four private vehicle tiers, from a couple’s night out up to a full book club.
Every tier is reserved for your party alone and never shared with other riders. Select by headcount first, then by the kind of night you desire. The Platinum SUV suits an anniversary or a milestone birthday, and the Sprinters keep a larger group together from pickup to drop-off. There’s room for a garment bag or merch from the lobby. If you’re bringing something large, just tell us in advance.
Yes, if you mean a private ride for your group. We offer a private Mercedes-Benz Sprinter with your own chauffeur, booked by the hour for your group only. It never carries other riders and doesn’t run on a timetable. It leaves Coral Gables when your group is ready and stays with you until the last friend is home.
It’s a concert and a literary evening in one, on Friday, October 9, 2026, at 7:00 PM.
Patti Smith reads, tells stories from her life, and sings, drawing on her new memoir, Bread of Angels. Her son Jackson Smith plays guitar, and her longtime bandmate Tony Shanahan joins them. It feels more like an intimate songwriter’s session than a full rock show. The show is in the Ziff Ballet Opera House, the Arsht Center’s largest hall. The Arsht presents it together with Books & Books and the Miami Book Fair, a natural fit for the author of the National Book Award–winning Just Kids. Expect a seated, attentive audience, a hectic lobby before the doors open, and lots of conversation on the way out. The official An Evening of Songs and Stories With Patti Smith event page posts announcements and updates. For a Coral Gables group, the booking covers the whole night: an easy ride in, the performance, and a ride home that’s ready when you are.
The audience is mostly longtime fans, many of whom found her through Horses and the CBGB-era New York punk scene. There are also readers who discovered her through Just Kids and younger listeners hearing her for the first time. Many groups make it a dinner-and-show night, which is when having a car that stays with you helps most.
Your chauffeur drives your group from Coral Gables into Downtown Miami and drops everyone near the entrance.
The venue is on Biscayne Boulevard where Downtown meets Edgewater. The Arsht Center’s two halls sit on opposite sides of the boulevard, so your driver heads for the side with the Ziff Ballet Opera House. On a Friday evening, the drive from Coral Gables runs into rush-hour traffic and commonly takes noticeably longer than it would on a quiet weekend morning. That’s why we plan the departure time around the show. Your driver follows live traffic and chooses the top approach that night. You don’t wait in a garage line or walk in from a far-off lot, so your group arrives with time to settle in. The questions below cover the route, timing, the drop-off point, and what the driver does during the show.
Most evenings, the driver takes LeJeune Road north to the Dolphin Expressway (SR 836), then I-395 toward Biscayne Boulevard. The other option is US-1 (South Dixie Highway) up to I-95 and into Downtown. The driver decides based on live traffic that night. Since the car is yours alone, the route can change with conditions instead of following a fixed schedule.
Leave plenty of time. Friday rush hour between Coral Gables and Downtown can make the drive much longer than usual. Most groups either leave Coral Gables in the late afternoon and have dinner near the venue, or eat in Coral Gables and leave well before 7:00 PM. Your driver will suggest a departure time when you book.
The driver stops at the drop-off point closest to the Ziff Ballet Opera House entrance that access allows that evening, so your group only has a short walk in. Before you go inside, you agree on a pickup spot for after the show, and the driver confirms it on WhatsApp so nobody has to search the curb in the crowd.
Yes. That’s what an hourly booking is for: your driver stays nearby with the vehicle for the whole performance. After the last song, send a WhatsApp message and walk to the agreed spot. The same car and driver will be there to take your group back to Coral Gables or on to a late dinner.
Your driver can pick you up at any address in Coral Gables, and you agree on the exact spot when you book.
If you’re staying at The Biltmore, the driver meets you at the hotel’s front entrance. Guests at hotels along Ponce de Leon Boulevard or near Miracle Mile get the same pickup at the lobby door. Residents are picked up at home, whether that’s a Mediterranean Revival house on a street shaded by banyan trees, a condo near the Shops at Merrick Park, or a townhouse near the University of Miami. If you’re coming straight from work on a Friday, the driver can meet you outside your office in the Gables business district. When you book, add anything the driver should know, like a concierge desk, a side entrance, or a preferred corner. It all goes into your WhatsApp confirmation. If someone in your group would rather not walk far, the driver can pick them up right at the door.
Yes. You set the stops, so the driver can pick up one friend near Alhambra Circle, another by the Shops at Merrick Park, and a third in Coconut Grove on the way Downtown. When you book, list each address and the order you want, and leave some extra time in the plan so the evening doesn’t feel rushed.
Yes. A pre-show dinner and the performance fit effortlessly into one hourly booking with the same driver.
Coral Gables has lots of options for dinner before a 7:00 PM show. Giralda Plaza, the pedestrian street off Ponce de Leon Boulevard, has plenty of patios for an early table, and Miracle Mile has a mix of steakhouses, bistros, and wine bars. Book lovers can start by browsing Books & Books on Aragon Avenue, since the shop co-presents the evening. If your group would rather eat near the venue, you can ride to Brickell or Downtown first and head into the show right after dinner. Either way, the car waits while you eat and takes you on as soon as you’re done, with no valet line. We don’t book restaurant tables, but the driver will gladly plan the drive around your reservation.
Brickell is on the way back to Coral Gables and has plenty of cocktail bars. Wynwood, with its murals, suits a group that wants a later night. You can also keep it local and end with a nightcap back on Giralda or Miracle Mile. Just tell the driver where you want to go next.
Fuel, tolls, and parking are included in the hourly rate, so the drive Downtown has no extra driving costs.
That includes the expressway tolls between Coral Gables and Downtown and parking while your driver waits during the show. None of it gets added to your bill at the end of the night. Changing the order of your stops or adding one never means a new fare; the hourly rate just keeps running. The main extra cost to plan for is the night surcharge described above, which applies to trips outside daytime hours. On a 7:00 PM show night, that commonly means the ride home. Apart from those two items, your total only changes if you decide to keep the car longer.
Yes. This is a local, on-call service that stays around Miami.
The hourly chauffeur covers the local Miami area: Coral Gables, Miami, Miami Beach, Downtown Miami, Brickell, Doral, Coconut Grove, Key Biscayne, Wynwood, Little Havana, and the neighborhoods around Miami International Airport, plus nearby areas up toward Fort Lauderdale. That covers everything a show night might require, from a Coral Gables pickup and the Downtown show to a late drink in Brickell or dropping a friend off on Key Biscayne. Staying close to the city lets the driver stay on call for the whole evening without rushing. Trips out to places like Naples, Orlando, or West Palm Beach aren’t part of this hourly service, and a local night like this one doesn’t require them. The questions below cover what else Coral Gables riders ask before booking: private rides to the show, traveling with a pet, and booking on short notice.
Yes. Reserve a private SUV or Sprinter by the hour on WhatsApp, and the car and driver are yours alone from the Coral Gables pickup to the last drop-off. Send your group size, a rough start time, and any dinner plans, and we’ll confirm the vehicle and the evening’s timing in the same conversation.
Pets are not accepted; certified service animals are welcome with advance notice.
Your time slot is locked in and held just for you. For a service within the next 24 hours, a driver and vehicle are already set aside, so the date and time stay as agreed. On such short notice, we can’t guarantee a date change or a refund. You can always add more hours on the day.
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.
Reserve as soon as you have your tickets, so the vehicle your group needs is held for the evening.
Booking takes one WhatsApp conversation. Send us your group size, your Coral Gables pickup address, a rough start time, and the stops you’d like. That might be browsing on Aragon Avenue, dinner on Giralda, picking up a friend in Coconut Grove, or a nightcap after the last song. We’ll reply with the right vehicle and confirm the plan, and your payment holds your evening. Families, book clubs, and old friends meeting up for the show all book the same way, and one bilingual chauffeur takes care of every detail from the first pickup to the last drop-off. After that, all you have to decide is what to wear to see a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame poet read and sing in Downtown Miami. Message us today to check availability and confirm your booking.
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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