In Dallas the address tells the chauffeur almost everything

A pickup at a Uptown hotel, a drop at the Winspear before an eight o'clock curtain, and a collection out of Deep Ellum at midnight are three completely different jobs. They need different routes, different timing and different pickup points, and none of them go well if the driver is reading directions off a phone for the first time.

We have been driving this city since 1998. Our chauffeurs know the Arts District load zones, the Victory Park pattern on a game night, and which downtown blocks close for events before the barricades go up. That is not something an app supplies.

Love Field is the quiet advantage

Ten to fifteen minutes from most of central Dallas, which makes it the faster real world trip for a great many departures even when DFW has the schedule you wanted. We will tell you which field actually suits your flight rather than simply quoting the one you named.

Conventions & groups

Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center

Most of our convention work starts here, and a group arriving for a convention is not a taxi problem, it is a scheduling problem. Attendees are spread across downtown and Uptown hotels, everyone needs to move within the same half hour, and the streets around the center are one way and frequently closed.

Solved with shuttle loops running on a set schedule rather than a stack of individual fares. One booking, one point of contact, one invoice, and a headcount that actually arrives together.

• Scheduled loops between the hotel block and the venue, sized to the headcount
• Sprinters, minibuses and coaches up to 56, synchronized where the group needs several vehicles moving at once
• Hotel side pickup points confirmed in advance, because the vehicle entrance is rarely the door your delegates walked out of
• Airport collection across multiple arriving flights, consolidated rather than one fare per person
• Priced hourly and by vehicle rather than per person

Group and conference transport

Venues

Where we drop off in Dallas

• The Arts District: Winspear Opera House, Meyerson Symphony Center and Klyde Warren Park. Curtain times are unforgiving and the load zones are specific. We plan for the curtain, not the postcode.
• American Airlines Center and Victory Park: Mavericks, Stars and concerts. Pickup arranged clear of the lot exit before you go in, because that garage does not empty quickly.
• Deep Ellum and Bishop Arts: Late evenings out where nobody in the group should be driving home.
• Fair Park: State Fair through late September and October, Cotton Bowl events and concerts. Event nights are booked hourly so the vehicle waits rather than fighting its way back in.
• Uptown and Knox Henderson: Dinner, client entertaining and the Saturday night crowd.
• Highland Park and Preston Hollow: Residential pickups, weddings and private events.
• Downtown and the Main Street district: Corporate work and hotel transfers, with drop points agreed around whatever is closed that week.

Event trips are booked as a block of time rather than a one way fare. The roads around any Dallas venue are gridlocked for an hour after it ends. Reserving the block keeps the same vehicle and chauffeur with you, somewhere secure for coats and bags, and a guaranteed ride home at the hour you choose.

Sporting event transportation

Hotels

Dallas hotel transfers and room blocks

Standing pickups for guests, conference blocks and wedding room blocks across downtown and Uptown.

• The Adolphus and The Statler
• The Joule and Fairmont Dallas
• Omni Dallas Hotel, connected to the Convention Center
• Hotel Crescent Court and the Ritz Carlton Dallas
• Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek
• Hotel ZaZa and the Uptown cluster
• The Victory Park hotels

For multi day events we run loops between the hotel and the venue on a set schedule. One booking, one point of contact, one invoice.

Airport transfers

Dallas to Love Field and DFW

Love Field is close to almost everything in central Dallas and is usually the faster trip in practice. DFW is roughly 20 miles west and is the better call when your flight options require it.

• Flight tracking on every booking. We adjust to your actual landing time, not the schedule
• Complimentary wait time: 30 minutes on domestic arrivals, 45 on international, 15 on departures. A rideshare driver waits about five
• Curbside is standard. Meet and greet inside at baggage claim with a name sign is a $25 add on chosen at booking
• Airport transfers are always point to point. No hourly minimum, any day, any hour
• Standing accounts for regular flyers, with preferences on file and monthly billing

Airport transfers

Private aviation

FBO arrivals in Dallas

Dallas is served by more business aviation capacity than anywhere else in Texas, and each field behaves differently on arrival. We work all of them.

How we handle an FBO arrival

• Tail number tracking where the aircraft is trackable. Where it is not, we confirm arrival directly with the FBO front desk
• Meet and greet is complimentary at FBOs, planeside where the operator allows vehicles on the ramp, otherwise inside the terminal
• Arrivals are billed hourly with a two hour minimum, because private schedules move. A ninety minute slip should not turn into a dispute over a point to point fare
• Departures are standard point to point unless wait time runs past 30 minutes, which converts the trip to hourly, at your call and subject to schedule
• Unmarked sedans and SUVs, NDAs on request. Standard for crew moves, client entertaining, and anyone whose movements are the point

Private jet and FBO service

Corporate

Executive travel for Dallas businesses

• Consolidated monthly billing with detailed trip reports, so expenses reconcile without chasing receipts
• Net 30 terms with approved credit and a purchase order
• One point of contact who knows your account, not a call center reading a script
• Standing arrangements for recurring runs: airport pickups, client entertaining, employee shuttles
• Traveler notes on file. Temperature, music or quiet, the door they prefer at the office. Book a second time and nobody repeats it
• Convention and conference shuttles from a single Sprinter up to a synchronized multi vehicle fleet
• Roadshow days held hourly, with the vehicle staying with you across every stop rather than being rebooked between meetings

Corporate travel

Fleet

Your whole group, one vehicle

Sedans for the airport run, Escalades for a small team with luggage, Sprinters for convention shuttles and group evenings, and motorcoaches up to fifty six for conventions and team travel. Whatever the headcount, your group travels in one vehicle rather than splitting across several and arriving in pieces.

Sedans and SUVs are unmarked, and we sign nondisclosure agreements on request. Vehicles are assigned by what is closest and available for your date and time.

Seating and luggage capacity for the full fleet

Statewide

Long distance from Dallas

For a group with luggage, driving to another Texas city is often faster door to door than flying, and frequently cheaper once you count four airfares, bag fees and a rental car at the other end.

The door to door arithmetic

A flight to Austin is about an hour. It is also 30 minutes to the airport, two hours before departure, a wait for bags and a rental counter on arrival. Realistically four to five hours door to door, and you still do not have a car at your hotel. One traveller on a cheap fare should still fly and we will tell you so. The maths flips at four or more people, or anyone carrying golf clubs, trade show materials or equipment that costs extra at the counter.

Quoted garage to garage including the empty legs, so the number you see is the number you pay. Larger vehicles are quoted on a mileage rate that moves with fuel, and overnight trips add the chauffeur's hotel and per diem. Cross country motorcoach charter is available on request.

Why Dallas books Goodman

• Twenty eight years on these streets: Arts District load zones, Victory Park on a game night, and which downtown blocks close for events. Not something you learn from an app.
• A person answers: Live dispatch, 24 hours a day. Not an answering service, not a callback queue. When a flight slips to 1 a.m. someone picks up and moves a vehicle.
• Written before you ride: Vehicle, rate and terms confirmed in writing before your trip. No surge pricing, no surprises on the invoice.
• Vetted chauffeurs: Background checked and drug screened before their first trip, driving records pulled and monitored on an ongoing basis, defensive driving completed, and supervised trips before driving a client alone.
• One vehicle, whole group: Sedans through 56 passenger motorcoaches, so a group of forty does not get split across three vehicles.
• Discreet by default: Sedans and SUVs are unmarked and we sign nondisclosure agreements on request.
• Since 1998: Family owned and operated, same name the whole time. Most operators serving this city are under ten years old or dispatch from another state.

Dallas questions

Hourly minimums, deposits and cancellation windows are set out in full on our service terms, and the exact terms for your booking are listed on your signed confirmation.

Nearby

Other cities we serve

See every city and town we cover on our service areas page.

Dallas and the Park Cities

University Park Highland Park Mesquite Rockwall Carrollton

North Dallas and Collin County

Frisco Plano McKinney Allen Prosper Celina The Colony Lewisville Denton

Fort Worth and the airport corridor

Fort Worth Irving Grapevine Southlake Keller Flower Mound

Statewide and long distance

Houston Austin San Antonio Galveston (cruise transfers)

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