Annapolis to Washington, DC car service

From Annapolis, US-50 runs west past Bowie and Cheverly and crosses into DC as New York Avenue, which leads straight downtown toward Mount Vernon Square and the convention center. For Capitol Hill, the Navy Yard and the Wharf, your chauffeur will usually leave US-50 for DC-295 and the I-695 freeway, which come in along the Anacostia River.

Traffic mostly runs one way at a time: inbound on weekday mornings, outbound on weekday evenings, and worst of all on summer Friday evenings, when Bay Bridge traffic piles onto eastbound US-50. For a 9 a.m. meeting on Capitol Hill, we'd suggest a pickup in Annapolis around 7:30.

A one-way ride or round trip suits a single meeting, a dinner or a train. Stops you list when you book are included in the quote; stops added on the day are charged when you ask for them. Within the DC area, a stop in a different zone is charged as two zone rates, and more than two extra stops can turn the ride into a minimum of 2 hours by sedan or 3 hours by SUV, at hourly rates.

For a day of meetings, booking by the hour is simpler. The car and chauffeur stay with you for the booked time, unplanned stops within that time are included, and your chauffeur is on call between appointments. The hourly rate covers the vehicle, fuel and chauffeur; tolls and parking are extra. Time starts at the scheduled pickup, or when the pickup begins if that's earlier.

Street parking downtown and on Capitol Hill is metered and hard to find, many main streets ban parking in rush hours, and garages near the arenas fill on game and concert nights. With a chauffeur you step out at the door of the office, hotel or embassy, and get picked up at the same curb.

On an hourly booking, your chauffeur waits nearby and comes back when you call. If waiting means paying for a garage, that parking is billed on top of the hourly rate, so it helps to tell us where you'll be.

We pick up and drop off at Union Station, and we check train times, so a late Amtrak train moves the pickup with it. Coming off the train, walk out through the main doors to the third curb and call your chauffeur.

Other trips people book into the city: Embassy Row along Massachusetts Avenue NW, hotels downtown and in Georgetown, the Kennedy Center, Capital One Arena and Nationals Park. For a show or a game, a round trip or a few hours by the hour means nobody is hunting for a ride home late at night.

For a family day at the Smithsonian museums on the National Mall, or a loop past the monuments with stops along the way, booking by the hour keeps the car close. See city tours for sightseeing days in DC, Baltimore and Annapolis.