Our private hourly chauffeur takes your group from Coral Gables to Common with Nu Deco Ensemble at the Adrienne Arsht Center on November 12, 2026, in a Black SUV XL at a flat rate from $100 per hour, with a 5-hour minimum. Your bilingual driver picks you up at any address in Coral Gables, waits through the 6:30 PM show, and drives everyone home. The rate is locked at booking, with no surge.
You pay per vehicle, per hour, and every booking covers at least five hours. That is enough for dinner, the concert and the ride home.
The hourly rate covers both the vehicle and the chauffeur. There is no separate driver fee and no meter running between stops. Your cost depends on just two choices: the vehicle that fits your group and how many hours you keep it. If you start in the late afternoon or early evening in Coral Gables, your hours cover a relaxed dinner before the show, the concert and the drive home, so nobody has to watch the clock. Two couples can share one SUV and split the cost, and a larger group can ride together in one Sprinter on a single bill.
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. When it does, the surcharge below applies based on your vehicle.
The show starts at 6:30 PM. Between the encore, walking out with the crowd and the drive back to Coral Gables, a Thursday booking commonly runs into the later evening. When you book, we tell you over WhatsApp whether your timing goes past the daytime window, so you know the full cost before you pay. Nothing else changes after dark. The same car and chauffeur take you home, whether the night ends with the last song or continues to a nightcap.
Common with Nu Deco Ensemble is a one-night-only concert that brings together hip-hop and a symphony orchestra. It takes place on Thursday, November 12, 2026, and starts at 6:30 PM.
Common is a Chicago rapper who is also an actor, author and activist, and he has won Grammy, Emmy and Oscar awards. He performs his songs with Nu Deco Ensemble, Miami’s genre-crossing orchestra, in the Knight Concert Hall as part of the Arsht’s Live at Knight series. Expect a grown, well-dressed crowd: longtime fans of conscious and golden-era hip-hop who grew up on Like Water for Chocolate and Be, along with creatives, professionals and couples making a Thursday into a date night. That audience shapes how people travel. Groups want to reach together and looking sharp, avoid the parking garage in dress shoes, and keep the night going after the last song. A reserved chauffeur suits that kind of evening. You can find the full show details on the Common with Nu Deco Ensemble event page.
The easiest way is a reserved chauffeur: one car and one driver from your door in Coral Gables to the concert hall and back.
The drive heads northeast from the Gables toward downtown, where Biscayne Boulevard runs along the bay past the performing arts campus. On a Thursday evening, that road is shared with commuters leaving Brickell and downtown offices, plus a full audience arriving for the same show, so timing matters far more than distance. Your chauffeur plans the departure around that traffic and handles the drop-off while you relax in the back seat. After the show, you ride home in the same vehicle that brought you, and your jackets and merch are still on the seats. You don’t have to find a garage or pay at a parking machine, and nobody in the group has to stay sober to drive.
Leave with plenty of time before the 6:30 PM start, and allow extra because weeknight rush hour toward downtown can be slow. If your group wants a drink in the lobby and time to find seats without rushing, leave well before the show. When you book, we suggest a departure time based on your exact pickup address in Coral Gables.
The driver drops you as close to the Knight Concert Hall entrance as access allows on show night. The performing arts campus is on both sides of Biscayne Boulevard, and the concert hall is the building on the bay side. Your chauffeur heads for that side, so everyone steps out right at the hall without a long walk.
Yes. Your chauffeur stays nearby with the vehicle for the whole concert, because the car is reserved for your group for all your booked hours. You won’t have to look for a ride when everyone leaves at once. Send a quick WhatsApp message as you leave your seats, and the car comes to the pickup point you agreed with your driver.
Your chauffeur picks you up at any address in Coral Gables, and you agree on the exact spot when you book.
Common pickup points include the lobby of the Biltmore Hotel, a home on one of the Gables’ tree-lined residential streets, a condo near the Shops at Merrick Park, or an office in the downtown Gables business district if you’re coming straight from work. When the car is out front, the driver sends you a WhatsApp message, so nobody waits on the curb in their concert clothes. You can also make several pickups: collect one couple near the Granada golf course and another on Miracle Mile, then head to dinner. Because you select the stops, picking up friends from two or three Gables addresses is part of your booked hours, not a separate fare. Send us every address when you book, and your driver will plan a sensible order so the first person picked up isn’t driving around while the last one gets ready.
Miracle Mile and Giralda Plaza are the obvious places for dinner before the show, and both are close to most pickups in the Gables.
Giralda Plaza is a pedestrian-only block with cafe tables under string lights. It suits a group that wants a long dinner and a glass of wine before heading downtown. Miracle Mile, next door, has steakhouses, Italian restaurants and wine bars within a few steps of each other. Some groups favor to eat closer to the show and stop in Brickell for dinner on the way, which keeps the last part of the drive short. After the concert, Edgewater and Midtown are nearby for a nightcap, and Wynwood stays open late if you’re still buzzing from the encore. Because you book by the hour, the same driver waits outside each stop and takes the group to the next one, so nobody looks for parking or watches the time. These are just ideas: you book the tables, and we handle the driving.
Drivers commonly select between US-1 and the Dolphin Expressway, based on which one is moving top that evening.
The first route takes US-1, known locally as South Dixie Highway, northeast from the Gables toward Brickell. From there it joins I-95 north and then I-395 east, which comes out on Biscayne Boulevard right next to the concert hall. The second route goes north on LeJeune Road to the Dolphin Expressway and heads east, joining the same I-395 approach toward the bay. If both highways are jammed, surface streets through Little Havana or up Brickell Avenue are slower but steadier. Some riders favor that choice anyway, because Brickell’s glass towers and the bridge over the Miami River make a good start to a night downtown. The same choices apply on the way home, and traffic is commonly lighter later in the evening.
The drive is usually short in light traffic, but Thursday evening rush hour can make it much longer, so leave plenty of extra time. Your chauffeur checks live traffic before leaving instead of committing to one road in advance, and will message you if leaving a little earlier makes sense that day.
Public rail can get you downtown from near Coral Gables, but it means a transfer and a walk. A private car skips both.
Route planners commonly show the journey as a northbound train from a station near the Gables, a change to a downtown connector, and then a walk to the concert hall. For a dressed-up group on concert night, the downsides add up. You have to get from a home or hotel in the Gables to the platform, wait for connections, keep everyone together through the transfer, and walk the last stretch in evening shoes. A private chauffeur replaces all of that with one door-to-door ride. The top choice depends on what the evening is for. If you just need to get there, any route will do. If you want to enjoy the whole night, from the first toast to the last song, one reserved car and driver keeps the group moving on your schedule instead of a timetable.
The ride home is when a reserved chauffeur matters most. You don’t have to walk back to a station late on a weeknight and rely on the evening schedule and a transfer. Your group gets into the waiting car and goes straight back to Coral Gables, whether that’s a hotel lobby or your own front door.
Four private vehicle options cover everything from a date night for two to a large group of friends.
Select by group size first, then by comfort. A couple celebrating an anniversary, or two couples sharing the evening, fit easily in the Black SUV XL. Once the group is bigger than that, the Sprinter keeps everyone in one vehicle, which matters on a night when talking before the show is half the fun. If anyone is bringing something bulky, like a garment bag for a change of clothes after the show, tell us in advance so we reserve the right vehicle.
For many riders, yes. The Platinum SUV gives a more polished arrival for an evening with a live orchestra, and its luxury cabin suits dressed-up guests, milestone birthdays and client entertaining. It seats fewer people than a Sprinter, so it works best for a small group on a special occasion.
A dedicated chauffeur turns a great concert into a complete evening, with upscale service from the first pickup to the last drop-off.
Your group gets a private vehicle reserved only for you and never shared with strangers. You also get one bilingual driver for the whole evening instead of a new face at every stop. The flat hourly rate is locked when you book, so there is no surge when the show ends and everyone else is looking for a ride at the same moment. The driver waits through the performance, so getting home doesn’t depend on luck at the curb. You can also message your driver directly on WhatsApp, which makes changes easy, whether that’s an extra pickup, a later dinner or a nightcap in Edgewater. That is what we mean by a better experience: fewer things to organize, more time enjoying the music, and a calm, clean ride at both ends of a night you’ve been looking forward to.
You pay the full fare in one simple step, and everything is arranged over WhatsApp.
You reserve one vehicle and one driver for a block of hours, then plan the evening however you like.
First, select the vehicle that fits your group and tell us when you want to start. The driver can pick you up at any Miami address: a hotel, a PortMiami cruise terminal (if you reach on a cruise that day, you can go straight to the concert), Miami International Airport, or a home. You agree on the pickup spot when you book. From then on, the chauffeur stays with you for the whole block and waits at every stop, while you decide the order and the pace. Five hours is the minimum, not the maximum. After the 5-hour block, each extra hour is merely added at the same per-hour rate for your vehicle, so if you decide to stay out for a late dessert after the show, you just keep the car. There is no new fare to agree and nothing to pay on the spot, because the extra time is settled after the day.
Yes. The plan is never fixed, so you can add a stop, skip one or stay longer at dinner, as long as the schedule allows. Tell the driver in the car or send a WhatsApp message, and the plan changes right away with no new fare to agree. Your hourly booking simply keeps running.
Fuel, tolls and parking are all included, so these driving costs never show up as separate charges.
One rate covers the chauffeur, the vehicle and all the running costs of the evening: fuel for the drive downtown and back, any tolls on the highway route your driver takes, and parking wherever the car waits for you. You never need a card ready at a garage exit or a toll plaza, and the driver never asks the group to chip in for gas. Two extras can apply. Everything else about the evening is up to you, including the route, the order of stops and how long you stay at dinner.
Yes. One short comfort stop for a restroom, a snack or a stretch is easy to fit in. Just ask your driver. It doesn’t change the price, and on concert night it’s a handy way to grab some water before the show without throwing off your timing.
Yes. Our private hourly chauffeur is made for exactly this journey: a reserved car and a bilingual driver from Coral Gables to the concert and home again.
Every ride is private, so only your group rides in the vehicle and nobody else joins along the way. Whether you call it a private car, a car service or a driver for the night, it’s the same thing: a dedicated chauffeur hired by the hour, not a seat on someone else’s schedule. Privacy matters on a night like this. You can play Common’s early records before the show, talk freely about the setlist and change plans without checking with strangers. The short answers below cover where we operate, traveling with a pet, booking close to the date and adding dinner to the same booking, so you can plan the whole evening from Coral Gables in one conversation.
The hourly service stays within the local Miami area: Coral Gables, Miami, Miami Beach, Downtown Miami, Brickell, Doral, Coconut Grove, Key Biscayne, Wynwood, Little Havana and the area around Miami International Airport, plus nearby areas up toward Fort Lauderdale. It’s a local, on-call service that stays around the city, so far-off places like Naples, Orlando or West Palm Beach aren’t part of these hourly bookings.
Pets are not accepted; certified service animals are welcome with advance notice. A quick WhatsApp message when you reserve is all we need.
Once confirmed, a last-minute booking is locked in and held just for you. In the final 24 hours, a driver and vehicle are already set aside for your group, so the booking goes ahead on the date and time you agreed, and a change or refund can’t be guaranteed. On the plus side, you can always add hours on the day.
Yes, that’s exactly what the hourly booking is for. Start in Coral Gables, have dinner on Miracle Mile or in Brickell, ride to the concert and go home afterward in the same car, all in one booking. Just send us the restaurant address and your reservation time so your booked hours start in time for your table.
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.
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To book, send us a WhatsApp message with your group size, a rough start time and the stops you’d like on concert night.
A good first message covers four things: how many people are riding, the Coral Gables address where the evening starts, the restaurant or bar you have in mind, and whether anyone needs a separate drop-off at the end of the night. We then confirm the right vehicle, set out the hours and send the payment link to secure your date. If plans change before the concert, such as a friend joining, the dinner reservation moving or the group wanting a late stop in Wynwood, send another message and we’ll check availability and update the plan. One chat covers the whole evening, from the first pickup in the Gables to the final drop-off at your door. Email or call us using the details below, or message the same number on WhatsApp to confirm your booking for Common’s Miami night.
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.
Spot on. calm pace, easy on the kids
Exactly what we needed. the car was in great condition, clean seats.
Cumplieron al 100%. ningún cargo extra inesperado.
Sin queja alguna. el monto se mantuvo igual al inicial, lo mejor nos confirmaron por mensaje la noche anterior.
Our group of six, very respectful and patient with us. they confirmed by message the night before.