Our private hourly chauffeur takes you from Sunny Isles Beach to An Evening of Songs and Stories With Patti Smith on Friday, October 9, 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 Sunny Isles Beach, stays with you through the show, and brings everyone home. The rate is locked when you book and never surges.
Your hourly rate depends on the vehicle your group chooses, and every booking starts with a block of at least five hours.
Each rate is for the whole vehicle, not per seat, so friends sharing one car split a single hourly figure instead of each paying for themselves. The clock starts when your chauffeur meets you in Sunny Isles Beach and stops when the last guest is back home. That means the drive south, dinner, the show and the ride back up the coast are all part of one booking. For an evening like this, a five-hour block commonly covers a relaxed late-afternoon pickup, a meal on the way, the performance and the drive home without anyone checking the clock. Pick the tier that fits your group, and that line is your hourly price for the whole night. The next section explains the one possible late-evening add-on, so your final total holds no surprises.
Daytime hours run from 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM with no surcharge. Any trip outside that window carries the small add-on below.
The show starts at 7:00 PM on a Friday. It’s a compact evening of readings, stories and songs, not a marathon rock set. 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. In that case the surcharge applies: once per trip for an SUV, or as a percentage of the trip value for a Sprinter. Your chauffeur will mention the cutoff when you plan the evening over WhatsApp, so you can pick the schedule that suits your group and know your total in advance.
Patti Smith brings a close, personal mix of readings, stories and songs to Miami on Friday, October 9, 2026, at 7:00 PM.
The evening is built around her new memoir, Bread of Angels. She moves between readings, memories from a long life in music and art, and songs performed with her son Jackson Smith on guitar and her longtime bandmate Tony Shanahan. It falls somewhere between a rock concert and a book-festival headline appearance, which suits its presenters: the Arsht Center is staging An Evening of Songs and Stories With Patti Smith with Books & Books and the Miami Book Fair. The show is in the Ziff Ballet Opera House, the center’s largest hall, so anticipate a seated, attentive audience rather than a standing crowd. For riders coming from Sunny Isles Beach, that shapes the plan: dress for the theater, reach relaxed and leave time for a proper dinner. This is a night to enjoy slowly.
The crowd leans toward longtime fans who first heard Horses decades ago, along with readers who love Just Kids, her National Book Award-winning memoir. Expect poets, musicians, artists and couples making a date of it, plus younger listeners who found the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer later. It’s a thoughtful crowd that comes for the stories as much as the songs.
The center is downtown Miami’s main performing-arts campus. Its two main halls sit on either side of Biscayne Boulevard, with an open-air plaza where theatergoers gather before curtain. On a show night the surrounding streets fill with arriving audiences, nearby restaurants get busy, and the whole area takes on a dressed-up, expectant mood.
Your chauffeur picks you up at any address in Sunny Isles Beach, whether that’s a resort lobby, a condo tower’s front drive or a private home.
Sunny Isles Beach is lined with oceanfront towers and resort hotels along Collins Avenue, and many have a covered entrance or valet circle where a chauffeur can pull in effortlessly. Tell us the building or house when you book, and the driver comes to that door. Staying at Acqualina or one of the resort hotels near the Newport Fishing Pier? Your chauffeur meets you in the lobby. Hosting friends at a residence on the Intracoastal side, west of Collins? It works the same way: the car comes to you. If your group is spread across two neighboring buildings, the driver can collect everyone in turn before heading south, since you set the stops. WhatsApp keeps it simple: send the building name, the time and anyone joining along the way, and your pickup is set.
Sunny Isles Beach and neighboring Bal Harbour offer polished pre-show dining along Collins Avenue.
A pre-show dinner can start close to home. The restaurants at Acqualina Resort suit a dressed-up dinner without leaving Sunny Isles Beach, and the oceanfront stretch of Collins Avenue has quieter dining rooms for an early pre-theater meal. Just south, past Haulover Park, Bal Harbour Shops has well-known restaurants set along its garden walkways. It also has a Books & Books shop, which fits the night, since the bookseller is co-presenting this evening. Your chauffeur stays outside while you eat, so there’s no valet ticket to deal with and no rush to pay the check. When everyone is ready, the car heads south toward downtown with plenty of the evening still ahead. These are ideas, not bookings: your group chooses where to eat and makes its own reservations, and the driver follows your plan.
A short, easy detour works well after a compact evening like this one. Edgewater and the Miami Design District are just north of downtown, on the way home, with wine bars and late dinner spots. Wynwood has a livelier scene if your group still has energy. The same car takes you there and then home up the coast.
Your private chauffeur drives you south from Sunny Isles Beach, drops your group near the entrance and waits to take everyone home.
Sunny Isles Beach sits near the northern end of Miami-Dade’s coastline, so show night means a drive south into downtown during the Friday evening rush. Your chauffeur takes care of all of it: watching traffic, switching between the highway and the bayside boulevard as conditions change, and timing the arrival so everyone gets to their seats with time to spare. You step out of your Collins Avenue lobby and step back into the same car after the final song. That matters on this route, because downtown parking on a busy theater night is slow, and a long walk back to a far-off garage is a poor way to end the evening. With one vehicle reserved for the whole evening, your group travels together and the car is close by when the house lights come up. The only choice left is whether to stop anywhere on the way home.
Give yourself plenty of time. Leaving Sunny Isles Beach in the late afternoon typically gets you downtown with time to spare before the 7:00 PM start. The drive is usually manageable, but Friday rush hour on I-95 and Biscayne Boulevard can slow things down a lot. If you plan dinner first, start earlier still. Your chauffeur will suggest a pickup time when you book.
Most evenings the chauffeur heads west on the William Lehman Causeway or Sunny Isles Boulevard, then south on I-95 or Biscayne Boulevard straight into downtown. When the highway backs up, a scenic alternative is Collins Avenue south through Bal Harbour and Surfside, then across a causeway to the mainland. Your driver picks the route based on live traffic.
Your chauffeur drops your group as close to the Ziff Ballet Opera House entrance as traffic control and access allow on show night. Before you get out, you agree on a pickup spot. After the performance you walk a short way to the same car instead of looking for a garage or waiting at a crowded curb.
Yes. The same driver stays nearby for the whole performance and can be reached on WhatsApp. When the show ends, one quick message brings the car to your agreed pickup spot, and your group rides home to Sunny Isles Beach together. Because the evening is a single hourly booking, the waiting time is already part of what you reserved.
You reserve one vehicle and one driver for a block of hours, then plan the evening around your own stops.
First select the vehicle that fits your group. Then send us your start time, pickup address and the stops you’d like, such as dinner, the show or a nightcap. Pickup can be any Miami address agreed at booking: a hotel, a PortMiami cruise terminal on the day you leave the ship (going straight from the ship to the show works well), Miami International Airport, or a home. From then on the car and chauffeur are yours for the whole block. You can add a stop, skip one or stay longer without renegotiating anything. After the first five hours, every extra hour is simply added at the same hourly rate for your vehicle. Keep the car as long as the night calls for and settle the extra time after the day is over. You won’t pay a new fare or require a second booking.
We have four private vehicle types, from a couple’s night out to a book club traveling together.
Every vehicle comes with the same bilingual chauffeur and works the same way by the hour; only the space and the finish change. Couples and small groups may favor the Platinum SUV for a polished arrival on a theater night, while larger groups can stay together in one Sprinter instead of splitting across cars. There’s room for coats, a tote of books and anything you buy in the lobby. Tell us in advance if you’re bringing something big.
Fuel, tolls and parking are included in the hourly rate, along with the vehicle, your chauffeur and onboard WiFi.
WiFi comes from a mobile hotspot, which is handy for checking a dinner reservation or sharing photos on the way home. You can ask for a short comfort stop, such as a restroom break, a snack or a stretch, at any point, and it doesn’t change the rate. Only two things can add to your total, and both are clear in advance. One is the night surcharge for time outside daytime hours. The other is any hours you select to add beyond your booked block, each billed at your vehicle’s hourly rate, not included for free. Downtown parking is covered, so you won’t locate a garage charge on your bill after the show.
A private chauffeur makes the drive part of the evening, with a upscale service planned entirely around your group.
The vehicle is reserved for your group alone, and one dedicated driver stays with you from the first pickup in Sunny Isles Beach to the last drop-off. Your chauffeur is bilingual, so directions, requests and conversation are easy in English or Spanish. The hourly rate is flat and locked when you book. Traffic on I-95, a busy Friday downtown or a sudden rainstorm will never raise the price, and there’s no surge to worry about. You also have direct WhatsApp contact with your driver all evening, so changing plans is as simple as sending a message. The result is a better experience from start to finish: a clean upscale vehicle where you require it, a driver who knows the route, and a night that feels like an occasion instead of a logistics problem.
No. Every booking is private. The vehicle and chauffeur belong to your group alone for the whole block: no extra passengers, no added pickups and no seats sold to strangers. Whether it’s two friends in the Black SUV XL or a larger group in a Sprinter, the only people on board are the ones you invited.
You pay the full fare to reserve, all arranged over WhatsApp.
Yes. You can reserve a private car and bilingual chauffeur from Sunny Isles Beach for the whole show night.
The ride is planned around your evening, not a timetable. You decide when the car arrives in Sunny Isles Beach, who is riding, and whether the night includes dinner, a visit to a bookshop or a drink afterward. Your chauffeur turns that into a route and a pickup time. Booking early is easiest, because the pickup can then be timed around your dinner reservation and the 7:00 PM start. Booking takes a few WhatsApp messages: send your group size, a rough start time and the stops you have in mind, and we confirm the vehicle and the plan. The short answers below cover what Sunny Isles Beach riders commonly ask before an evening downtown: combining dinner with the show, bringing a pet, where the service goes, and booking at the last minute.
Yes. Dinner, the performance and the ride home all fit into one hourly booking. Your chauffeur takes you to the restaurant, heads downtown when you’re ready, and brings everyone home after the final song. Nothing needs to be rebooked between stops. You decide how long to stay at each one, and the evening runs on your schedule.
Pets are not accepted; certified service animals are welcome with advance notice.
This hourly service stays local, so your chauffeur is always close by and on call. It covers Miami, Miami Beach, Downtown Miami, Brickell, Coral Gables, Doral, Coconut Grove, Key Biscayne, Wynwood, Little Havana and the area around Miami International Airport, plus nearby areas up toward Fort Lauderdale, including Sunny Isles Beach. It doesn’t run to far destinations such as Naples, Orlando or West Palm Beach.
Short-notice bookings are welcome. For a service within the next 24 hours, your agreed date and time are locked in and held just for you, with a driver and vehicle already set aside. At that point we can’t guarantee a date change or a refund, and the evening goes ahead as agreed. You can still 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.
Yes. Reserve over WhatsApp, and your car for October 9 is confirmed as soon as your payment arrives.
Tell us your building in Sunny Isles Beach, how many people are coming and whether you desire dinner first, and we’ll match the right vehicle to your group. On the night, the plan is simple. Your chauffeur arrives at your door, everyone gets relaxing, and the drive south becomes the start of the evening. Then comes the reason for the trip: Patti Smith reading from Bread of Angels, telling stories from decades of music and poetry, and singing with Jackson Smith and Tony Shanahan beside her. Afterward, the same car takes everyone home up the coast while you’re still talking about the songs. Send us a message today to 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.
Vehículo impecable. Trayecto silencioso. Sin estrés.
Reservé fácil. Sin estrés. Sin drama. Servicio sólido.
Tal y como prometieron: la camioneta lucía nueva y bien mantenida, nos sentimos seguros todo el trayecto, trayecto tranquilo y sin vueltas.
Tranquilidade total. mais uma viagem tranquila, por isso ja reservo antes.
Highly recommended. kid-friendly setup, parents-friendly too, plus they confirmed by message the night before.