At a glance
Key facts
- iRide360 provides hourly, as-directed car service across all of Los Angeles County: one chauffeur and one vehicle reserved for a block of time rather than a single trip.
- The hourly rate is $75 per hour for an executive sedan and $100 per hour for a luxury SUV, read from the iRide360 booking form on October 14, 2026.
- The minimum booking is three hours and the maximum is eighteen hours in one day.
- Every booked hour includes twenty miles of driving, so a three-hour booking includes sixty miles and a six-hour booking includes one hundred and twenty.
- The rate is a flat rate fixed when you book, with no surge pricing at any hour or on any date.
- Tolls and taxes are included in the rate, and gratuity is optional and chosen at checkout.
- iRide360 operates two vehicle classes and no third: an executive sedan for up to three passengers and three bags, and a luxury SUV for up to five passengers and five bags.
- Airport pickups include sixty minutes of complimentary wait after the flight lands, then $1 per minute; every other pickup includes fifteen minutes.
- Complimentary Fiji bottled water, onboard Wi-Fi and phone charging are included on every hourly booking.
- Child seats are available from $25 each in booster, forward-facing and rear-facing; pets travel for a $25 fee, and service animals are never charged.
- Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the scheduled pickup time, and changes or cancellations can be made online up to 6 hours before pickup.
- iRide360 is a California CPUC charter-party carrier, TCP 43833-A, licensed and insured, with an office at 222 N Pacific Coast Hwy, Suite 2000, El Segundo, CA 90245 and 24-hour dispatch on (833) 743-3360.
- Chauffeurs are screened and background-checked.
Published rates
What hourly car service costs in Los Angeles
Most Los Angeles operators do not publish an hourly rate at all. Of the competing pages that could be read when this page was researched, one published a rate — and it arrived with a separate peak rate, a different minimum at weekends, a fuel surcharge and a charge for leaving the county. iRide360 publishes both rates, they are the rates the booking form itself returns, and there is one of each.
| Vehicle | Passengers · bags | Hourly rate | Minimum | Maximum | Included driving |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Executive sedan | 3 · 3 | $75/hour | 3 hours | 18 hours | 20 miles per hour |
| Luxury SUV | 5 · 5 | $100/hour | 3 hours | 18 hours | 20 miles per hour |
Because the rate is flat, the arithmetic is the whole story. A three-hour sedan booking is $225. Six hours is $450. A three-hour SUV booking is $300, and six hours is $600. The rate per hour does not change with the length of the booking, the day of the week, the hour of the night, or which part of Los Angeles County you are picked up in. There is no peak rate and no off-peak rate, because there is only one rate.
Three things are inside those figures that other operators add afterwards. Tolls and taxes are included — the number you are quoted is the number you are charged. There is no fuel surcharge and no out-of-area charge inside Los Angeles County. And gratuity is not baked in: it is offered at checkout at 15%, 18%, 20% or 25%, you can enter any custom amount including nothing at all, and it goes to your chauffeur.
What the published rate does not cover is the next section, because a published rate that quietly omits its limits is not much better than no rate at all.
See what your hours cost
Choose a vehicle and a number of hours, and the price appears before you commit to anything.
The whole picture
What the hourly rate includes, and what it does not
Twenty miles are included for every hour you book. A three-hour booking includes sixty miles of driving and a six-hour booking includes one hundred and twenty. Whether that is generous depends entirely on the shape of the day, and the arithmetic is easy to do in advance: an afternoon moving between Century City, Downtown and Beverly Hills covers well under sixty miles, because hourly time is spent waiting as much as driving. A booking that crosses the county and comes back does not.
The allowance matters on the itineraries that are genuinely long. A booking that runs Santa Monica to Pasadena to Claremont and back inside three hours is not really an hourly itinerary — it is a long drive on a clock — and the allowance is the signal that it should be priced differently. If your day looks like that, call iRide360 dispatch on (833) 743-3360 before you book and ask for it to be quoted as a point-to-point run or a longer booking instead. That is a cheaper conversation to have before the booking than after it.
Included, at no extra charge
- The vehicle and chauffeur, reserved for you alone for the whole booking and not shared with another passenger or sent to another job between your stops
- Twenty miles of driving per booked hour
- Complimentary Fiji bottled water
- Onboard Wi-Fi and phone charging
- Flight tracking, if the booking begins at an airport, with the pickup moving with the delay at no charge
- Sixty minutes of complimentary wait after an arriving flight lands, or fifteen minutes at any other pickup point
Priced separately
- Child seats, from $25 each — booster, forward-facing and rear-facing
- Pets, $25. Service animals are never charged.
- Wait beyond the complimentary hour after a landing, at $1 per minute
- Miles beyond the twenty-per-hour allowance, which iRide360 dispatch will quote for your itinerary before you book
Choosing the right booking
Hourly service or a point-to-point transfer?
Not every trip should be bought by the hour, and the honest answer is that a flat point-to-point fare is often the better buy. Here is how the two differ.
| Hourly, as-directed | Point-to-point transfer | |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy | A block of time, from 3 to 18 hours | One journey, from one address to another |
| What is priced | The hours, at $75 or $100 each | The trip, as one flat fare fixed at booking |
| Stops | As many as the hours allow | Extra stops priced for the added distance and time |
| The car between stops | Stays with you | Released at the drop-off |
| Driving included | 20 miles per booked hour | The whole route, however long |
| Suits | Several destinations, waiting time, a schedule that may move | A known trip with a known destination |
Book by the hour when your day has several destinations; when there is real waiting time between them; when you do not yet know when you will be ready to leave; when you want your belongings to stay in the car; or when the evening is dinner followed by something else.
Book a point-to-point transfer when you know where you are going and roughly how long it takes — an airport run, a single meeting, a one-way trip across town. Pay for the trip, not for the clock. iRide360's airport and route pages quote those fares directly, and for a long single run between cities, city-to-city pricing is usually the cheaper way to buy it — ask dispatch which applies to your trip.
One car, one chauffeur, your clock
How as-directed hourly car service works
As-directed service is built around time rather than a route. With iRide360 you choose an executive sedan or a luxury SUV, choose how many hours you want, and give a pickup address and time. From that moment the vehicle and the chauffeur belong to your reservation. They are not shared with another passenger, and they do not leave to run another job while you are inside a meeting or a restaurant.
That is the whole difference, and it changes what you can do with the car. You can make as many stops as the time allows. You can leave a coat, a case or shopping in the vehicle between stops instead of carrying it. You can arrive at a second address without having booked a second trip. And you can change your mind: the destination list does not have to be settled when you book, because you are buying the hours, not the route.
A practical note on stops, from iRide360's own terms: stops you already know about should be added when you book, so the chauffeur has the itinerary and dispatch can size the time correctly. Adding one on the day is normal and fine - you simply tell the chauffeur - but a planned five-stop afternoon runs better when all five are on the booking.
Booking takes three steps. Open the booking form, choose “By the hour”, and enter the pickup address. Choose the number of hours, from three up to eighteen. Choose the sedan or the SUV, and the price appears before you commit to anything.
A driver at your disposal
Hiring a private driver in Los Angeles
“Private driver” is what most people call this when they are not in the transportation business, and hourly service with iRide360 is what it means in practice: a professional chauffeur, in a vehicle you did not have to park, for as long as you have booked them.
What makes it a private driver rather than a ride is that the chauffeur stays. The car is not released at a drop-off and sent to another job; it waits, and it is at the door when you come out. On a day with several addresses that removes the parking, the circling and the garage you cannot get back into from the schedule entirely.
A single booking on the booking form is a complete transaction, made at the published rate, and the rate is the same on a first booking as on any other.
- Visitors: who want to see Los Angeles without driving it, and without being held to a tour route or a tour schedule.
- Several appointments: three or four in one afternoon, across different parts of the county.
- An evening out: when it has more than one destination in it.
- Families: who want the same car, with the same child seat already fitted, for a whole day out.
- Anyone on a clock: who does not want parking to be the reason they are late.
The length of the booking
Three hours to eighteen: booking a full day
An hourly booking with iRide360 runs from a three-hour minimum to an eighteen-hour maximum in a single day, and every whole number in between is available on the booking form - the Hours menu runs 3, 4, 5 and on up to 18.
Three hours is the common booking and the shortest one. It suits an evening out, a round of two or three appointments, or a single engagement with waiting time on both sides of it. At $225 for the sedan and $300 for the SUV, it buys three hours in which the car does not leave, plus sixty miles of driving.
Five to eight hours is a working day or a long evening - a morning of meetings that becomes lunch that becomes an afternoon, or a day of showings across the Westside. Ten hours and beyond is a full day with the car in attendance throughout, up to the eighteen-hour ceiling. Beyond that the booking becomes a second day rather than a longer one.
If the day runs long, the booking can be extended and the extra time is billed at the same hourly rate - $75 or $100 - with no surge and no penalty for extending. Whether the extension is possible on the day depends on the chauffeur's and vehicle's schedule after your booking, so if you suspect the day will overrun, booking the extra hour at the start is the surer route. Nothing about the rate changes either way.
Countywide, with one rate
Where hourly car service runs across Los Angeles County
iRide360's hourly service covers all of Los Angeles County, and this is the part worth stating plainly because it is the thing people search for and rarely get answered: there is no hourly service zone, no per-city hourly rate and no local radius to check. The rate is $75 or $100 an hour whether the pickup is in Santa Monica, Pasadena, Long Beach, Claremont or Whittier.
That is why there is one hourly page rather than fifty. For a service sold by the hour, a separate page for each city would state the same rate, the same minimum and the same allowance fifty times over, and would still tell a reader in Monrovia nothing a reader in Malibu did not already know. The areas served regularly include the Westside, the South Bay and harbour cities, Downtown and central Los Angeles, the San Gabriel Valley, the San Fernando Valley and the south-east of the county. Beyond the county line, iRide360 regularly serves Orange County, Ventura County and the Inland Empire; ask dispatch how an itinerary that leaves the county should be priced, because a long run out of the area is usually better bought as a transfer than by the hour.
An hourly booking can begin at an airport. All five Los Angeles airports are served — LAX, Hollywood Burbank (BUR), Long Beach (LGB), John Wayne (SNA) and Ontario (ONT) — plus Van Nuys (VNY) for private aviation. A booking that starts with an arriving flight gets the full sixty minutes of complimentary wait after the aircraft lands, and flight tracking moves the pickup with the delay at no charge.
If what you want is one trip rather than a block of time, these pages quote that fare directly:
- LAX airport car serviceFares and pickup instructions for Los Angeles International.
- Los Angeles airport transfersThe other four airports, each with its own page.
- LAX to Beverly Hills car serviceA worked example of a single point-to-point route and its flat fare.
- City-to-city ridesLong-distance runs beyond the county, priced as one trip.
- Corporate car service in Los AngelesBusiness travel arrangements.
- Event car service in Los AngelesVenue and event itineraries.
- Luxury car service in Los AngelesThe luxury and VIP framing of the same two vehicles.
Executive sedan and luxury SUV
The two vehicles, and what is not in the fleet
There are two vehicle classes and there is no third.
The executive sedan carries up to three passengers and three bags at $75 per hour. It is the right choice for one, two or three people and is the class most hourly bookings use.
The luxury SUV carries up to five passengers and five bags at $100 per hour. Choose it for four or five passengers, for luggage that will not fit a sedan boot, or for the extra room on a long day.
Both are black, both are chauffeur-driven, and the capacities above are the ones the booking engine itself quotes — three seats and three bags, five seats and five. When a page quotes a capacity it is worth knowing where the number came from.
There is nothing larger. iRide360 runs no vans, no buses and no stretched vehicles. Five passengers on one vehicle is the ceiling, so a group bigger than that is not a booking this operator can take on a single car — though several vehicles on one reservation is available if that suits the day. For “hourly limousine service”, the honest description is this: iRide360 provides the private, chauffeured limousine experience in black executive sedans and luxury SUVs. It is not a stretched vehicle.
Executive sedan
Up to 3 passengers · 3 bags
From $75/hour — flat rate fixed at booking, tolls and taxes included, gratuity optional.
Luxury SUV
Up to 5 passengers · 5 bags
From $100/hour — flat rate fixed at booking, tolls and taxes included, gratuity optional.
The policies in plain terms
Waiting, stops and extras
- Waiting
- Two separate things are worth keeping apart. Inside your booked hours, waiting is what the hours are for, and no separate waiting charge applies while the time you booked is running. At the pickup itself, an arriving flight carries sixty minutes of complimentary wait and then $1 per minute, and iRide360's terms state that an airport grace period begins at the actual landing time rather than the scheduled one. Any other pickup point carries fifteen minutes, which the booking form shows you before you reach a price.
- Stops
- As many as the hours allow. Put the ones you know about on the booking so dispatch can size the time; add others on the day by telling the chauffeur.
- Child seats
- From $25 each, in booster, forward-facing and rear-facing. Request the seat with the booking so it is fitted before pickup rather than after. For a family day out this is one of the better reasons to book by the hour: the seat is fitted once and stays fitted for the whole booking.
- Pets
- $25. Service animals are never charged and never counted as a pet.
- Requests
- Anything else — a particular pickup point, a sign at an airport, a route preference — is taken at booking. Ask.
If the plan moves
Changing, extending or cancelling an hourly booking
Plans move, and iRide360's terms for moving an hourly booking are published rather than discretionary.
Cancelling is free up to 24 hours before the scheduled pickup time. Changes and cancellations can be made online up to 6 hours before pickup; inside six hours, call dispatch on (833) 743-3360 and a person will handle it. A cancellation made less than 24 hours before pickup is reviewed and may not be refunded.
Changing the details — the pickup time, the pickup address, the vehicle class — can be done online or through dispatch, and the price adjusts to match. Moving from a sedan to an SUV moves the rate from $75 to $100 an hour; moving the start time does not change the rate at all.
Extending is billed at the same hourly rate, with no surge and no extension penalty, subject to the chauffeur and vehicle being free after your booking.
Confirmation arrives by email, and that email is what confirms the reservation. Chauffeur and vehicle details are typically sent about twelve hours before pickup.
A factual comparison
Hourly service, rideshare and renting a car
These are different products with different pricing models. What follows is what iRide360 can state about its own service; where another company's product is named, no claim is made about its current features or prices, because those change.
| iRide360 hourly | Hourly rideshare | Renting a car for the day | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who drives | A professional chauffeur, screened and background-checked | A rideshare driver | You |
| The vehicle | An executive sedan or luxury SUV, black, reserved for you | Whatever the driver owns | Whatever the counter has |
| Licensing | CPUC charter-party carrier, TCP 43833-A | Platform terms | Rental agreement |
| What you pay for | Hours, at a flat published rate | Platform pricing | The day, plus fuel, parking and tolls |
| Tolls and taxes | Inside the rate | Per the platform | On you |
| Gratuity | Optional at checkout, 15–25% or nothing | Per the platform | — |
| Parking | Not your problem | Not your problem | Your problem, repeatedly |
| Waiting between stops | What the hours are for | Per the platform | — |
The comparison that usually matters for a multi-stop Los Angeles day is the last column rather than the middle one. A rental hands you the car and also hands you the parking structures, the valet queues, the fuel, the tolls and the stretch of Wilshire you will drive four times. An hourly booking is the other trade: you do none of that, the chauffeur does, and the price is fixed before you start.
Last updated: 2026-10-14.
Verified Google reviews
What guests say about iRide360
iRide360 is rated 5.0 on Google from 22 five-star reviews. The four below are quoted exactly as written.
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Answers before you travel
Hourly car service in Los Angeles: frequently asked questions
Reserve hourly car service in Los Angeles
Choose an executive sedan at $75 an hour or a luxury SUV at $100 an hour, pick anything from three to eighteen hours, and the price appears before you commit to anything. Tolls and taxes are in it, twenty miles are included for every hour, gratuity is yours to decide at checkout, and cancellation is free up to 24 hours before pickup. Dispatch is on (833) 743-3360, 24 hours a day.
Book your hours
The rate is fixed when you book, with tolls and taxes included and gratuity optional.
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