Families Flying Home for Christmas

Christmas week sees more people travelling than an ordinary week, which makes booking your transfer in advance more useful than usual — not because of any surge in price, since there isn't one, but because it removes one more thing from a day that's already busier than most. There's no surge pricing here at any time of year, Christmas included; the price you see when you book is fixed regardless of how busy the date is.

Wrapped gifts can be a problem at security screening, since a wrapped item may need to be unwrapped for inspection — it's generally simpler to travel with gifts unwrapped, or to wrap them once you've arrived, if you're carrying them through an airport at all. That's an airport security matter rather than a transfer one, but it affects how much you're actually carrying and how bulky it is.

For the car itself, mention extra gift luggage in your booking notes if you're travelling with noticeably more than usual — a larger vehicle category has the luggage budget to handle a boot fuller than an ordinary trip.

Your driver's name, phone number and licence plate arrive before pickup, so even on a day when the whole household is trying to get out the door with extra bags and extra stress, there's nothing to negotiate or work out once you're at the kerb — just load up and go.

Over the holidays, give us the flight number for every airport pickup so the time follows your actual landing — delays are common when the whole of Europe is travelling at once. For departures we don't move the pickup automatically, because you chose that time; plan it around your airline's check-in and bag-drop deadlines, with extra margin for busy roads and queues.