Private chauffeur in La Rochelle

Driver & Butler, a private chauffeur company founded in Nantes and operating since 2017, provides chauffeur-driven journeys in La Rochelle and across Charente-Maritime. Our drivers pick you up at La Rochelle-Île de Ré Airport, the railway station, your hotel or your office, in a Mercedes sedan or van, day and night.

The price is fixed and known before you book: our engine calculates it as soon as you enter your journey. No surge pricing: night, weekend and public holiday surcharges are set in advance and shown in the quote; tolls are extra.

La Rochelle-Île de Ré Airport and La Rochelle railway station

La Rochelle-Île de Ré Airport (LRH) lies within La Rochelle, about 2.5 km north-west of the town centre, on rue du Jura. It offers scheduled and seasonal flights within France and Europe. Airport transfers to and from the Old Port are charged at a flat rate (see the sample prices above).

Give your flight number when you book: your chauffeur follows your actual arrival time. As an option, your driver meets you in the arrivals hall with a name sign.

La Rochelle railway station is on place Pierre-Sémard, near the Old Port. Paris-Montparnasse is about 2 hours 30 minutes away by TGV, and trains also run to Nantes, Bordeaux, Rochefort, Niort and Poitiers. Give your train number when you book. You can follow your flight or train live on our flight tracking and train tracking pages.

The commercial port of La Pallice, west of the town centre, receives cruise ships during the warmer months; you can follow ships on our ferry tracking page. Depending on the season, boats to Fort Boyard, Île d'Aix and Saint-Martin-de-Ré leave from the Old Port, cours des Dames.

Business travel, meetings and conferences (MICE)

In La Rochelle, the Espace Encan, quai Louis-Prunier, facing the Bassin des Chalutiers, hosts conferences and trade shows: a 782-seat auditorium, meeting rooms and exhibition halls. The new Halle Marie-Josèphe Guillou (1,650 m²) has just been inaugurated there. Note that the Grande Halle (2,900 m²) is closed for renovation from October 2026, with reopening planned for June 2027. Every September, the Grand Pavois, a boat show held afloat, takes place at the Port des Minimes.

For companies, agencies and event organisers:

• transfers between the airport, the station, hotels and event venues, in sedans and vans;
• chauffeur by the hour or by the day for a roadshow, site visits or back-to-back meetings;
• corporate account with monthly invoicing and negotiated rates;
• Factur-X (EN 16931) electronic invoices and the carbon footprint of every ride, calculated with the ADEME method.

For an event or regular volume, tell us what you need on our business and partners page.

Extend your business trip: bleisure around La Rochelle

A meeting on Friday, one more day in the area: with a chauffeur at your disposal, here are a few ideas starting from the Old Port.

• Île de Ré: the island is reached by a 2.9 km bridge opened in 1988 (non-residents pay a crossing fee). Saint-Martin-de-Ré and its Vauban fortifications, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2008, are about 23 km from the Old Port.
• Rochefort: about 37 km to the south-east, the Corderie Royale, built in 1666 on the orders of Louis XIV, and the former naval dockyard.
• Île d'Aix and Fort Boyard: Île d'Aix is served by boat all year round from Pointe de la Fumée in Fouras (a crossing of about twenty minutes). Fort Boyard, currently under restoration, can be seen on boat trips.
• The Marais Poitevin: the "Green Venice", with its canals and flat-bottomed boats, less than an hour's drive away; Coulon is home to the Maison du Marais poitevin.
• Cognac: about a hundred kilometres away, the Hennessy, Martell, Rémy Martin, Camus and Otard houses open their cellars to visitors.

The big summer event is Les Francofolies, a French-language music festival held in July.