College Campus Visit Car Service LA: 3-Hr Min, From $75/Hr

At a glance

Key facts

A campus day holds more than one hard start. Each admissions office hands you a check-in time and none of them hands you a finish time, so every gap in the day is a guess. College campus visit car service buys the gaps rather than the journeys.
An executive sedan is from $75 the hour. A luxury SUV is from $100.
The shortest booking anybody can place is 3 hours — from $225 by executive sedan, from $300 by luxury SUV. The longest single booking runs 18 hours.
One chauffeur drives the whole booking, 3 hours or 18, so the car outside the last tour is the car that was outside the first and the day is briefed once.
Nothing inside the booked hours is metered. A tour that lets out 40 minutes late while booked hours remain costs nothing extra: an iRide360 hourly booking carries no per-minute waiting charge anywhere in it, at any stop.
Overrunning the block itself is a separate rule and works the other way. Further time sells in half-hour steps that always round upward: a 5-hour tour day coming back at 5 hours 10 minutes is billed at 5 hours 30, and one coming back at 5 hours 50 is billed at 6. Only the time past the block rounds; everything inside it stays free.
20 miles per booked hour ride along with the booking. That phrase is the whole of what iRide360 publishes about the allowance, and nothing here adds to it. Each mile beyond the allowance is a fixed $1 in the executive sedan and a fixed $2.50 in the luxury SUV.
Your pickup address opens the hours, not the garage door, and the final stop of the day closes them. An LAX start opens them at the moment the aircraft is genuinely down — the inbound is watched for you — so a late arrival pushes the whole day back rather than eating the front of it.
Parking is iRide360's to settle at every stop, along with the tolls and the taxes: garage, street meter or valet, none of it reaches the invoice. One kind does not qualify, and that is the parking pass a stadium or an arena sells next to its own tickets.
Nothing is tipped on your behalf. The checkout offers 15, 18, 20 and 25 percent beside a blank box and a $0, you choose among them, and the chauffeur who drove receives it.
Rates for special events and holidays may be different from the standard hourly rate, and where that applies the date is priced in full in front of you. Outside it the figure is immovable: no surge, no peak, no evening loading, no weekend loading.
Hourly rides are meant to start and end in the same city. If a day runs outside it, additional charges apply — and a shortlist of campuses that crosses a city boundary is precisely the day that rule was written for. It is billed, never declined.
The executive sedan is rated for 3 passengers and 3 bags, the luxury SUV for 5 and 5. Those are the only two classes iRide360 runs — no vans, no buses, no stretched vehicles.
A chauffeur drives, parks, waits and handles the bags. Nobody narrates anything: each university runs its own tour, and what is being booked here is the travel in between.
Fiji bottled water, onboard Wi-Fi and phone chargers come with every booking and cost nothing. Anything else you need, ask for it as you book.
Behind the whole arrangement sits California CPUC charter-party carrier permit TCP 43833-A, an El Segundo base minutes from LAX, and a dispatch line on (833) 743-3360 that is answered at any hour of any day. Rated 5.0★ on Google from 26 reviews.
Every passenger must be 18 or over, or traveling with an adult who is. A campus visit is one of the few bookings where that is worth checking first, because the person being driven is often 17: iRide360 does not carry an unaccompanied minor, so a parent or guardian rides along.
Campuses are the hardest places in this list to park, so the chauffeur does not try. The car is left somewhere safe and legal within reach of the building you are in, and comes when you text. A tour that runs long, or an information session that starts late, changes nothing about where the car is.
Admissions moves tour dates, and a visit booked weeks out often shifts. Changing it is free: online up to 6 hours before pickup, or by phone to dispatch inside 6 hours, and the price moves to match the new trip. Cancelling is free with a full refund 24 hours or more before pickup; inside 24 hours it is non-refundable.

At a glance

Campus-day facts

Ten lines that between them answer most of what a family rings up to ask about a tour day: where the money goes, where the clock goes, and what nobody should expect of the chauffeur.

What the hours cover	One car and one chauffeur held while a family works down a shortlist of campuses. The running order may change during the day; what was reserved does not
The two rates	An executive sedan from $75 hourly, a luxury SUV from $100. Rates for special events and holidays may be different from the standard hourly rate, and such a date is priced in front of you
Shortest and longest	3 hours is the least anyone can reserve, at from $225 and from $300; 18 hours is the most on one reservation, one chauffeur throughout
Driving that rides along	20 miles carried by each booked hour, which is all iRide360 publishes about the allowance. Each mile past it is a fixed $1 in the sedan, a fixed $2.50 in the SUV
A tour that overruns	Free, while reserved hours remain. Nothing in an hourly booking runs on a minute meter, wherever the car happens to be standing
Past the block	Half-hour steps, always rounded upward. 10 minutes over buys half an hour; 50 minutes over buys a whole one
Settled out of the rate	Garage, meter, valet, toll, tax. The one thing outside it is the parking pass a venue sells next to its own tickets
When the hours open and close	Your pickup address opens them, the day's last stop closes them. From LAX, the aircraft's actual landing
Campuses in two cities	Hourly rides are meant to start and end in the same city. If a day runs outside it, additional charges apply — both the miles and the clock
What a chauffeur does	Drives, parks, waits, carries the bags. Not a guide, not a narrator, nothing to do with the tour itself

Published rates

How much a day of campus visits costs in Los Angeles

College campus visit car service is priced exactly as every other hourly booking is: from $75 the hour in an executive sedan and from $100 the hour in a luxury SUV. No campus-day rate exists, and nothing is loaded on for an evening, a Saturday or a busy week: no surge, no peak rate, no night rate, no weekend rate. One published exception stands against all of that — rates for special events and holidays may be different from the standard hourly rate — and where it applies, the date's own figure is shown in full before you commit.

Booking length	Executive sedan · from $75/hr	Luxury SUV · from $100/hr	Driving with the hours
One campus, the tour and the information session after it — 3 hours, the floor	from $225	from $300	20 miles carried by each booked hour
Two campuses with lunch between them — 5 hours	from $375	from $500	20 miles carried by each booked hour
Three campuses, first check-in to last drop-off — 8 hours	from $600	from $800	20 miles carried by each booked hour
A tour day with a long drive inside it — 10 hours	from $750	from $1,000	20 miles carried by each booked hour

Every row is one multiplication and nothing else: the hourly figure times the hours booked, so five sedan hours come to from $375 and eight SUV hours to from $800. The mileage column is not an arithmetic at all — it repeats the published allowance, which iRide360 states as 20 miles per booked hour and states no further. Tolls, taxes and parking are already inside the figures; gratuity is not. 3 hours is the shortest booking sold and 18 hours the longest on a single reservation.

Which block fits which list of campuses

One campus. A tour and the information session that follows it is a 3-hour booking, which is also the floor. From $225 by executive sedan and from $300 by luxury SUV, and most single-campus mornings never reach the end of it.

Two campuses. 5 hours is the honest figure for most families: two check-ins, the drive between them, and somewhere to eat that is not a vending machine. From $375 and from $500.

Three campuses. This is a day, not a morning. 8 hours is from $600 by executive sedan and from $800 by luxury SUV, and it is the block that stops the third campus from being the one quietly dropped at two o'clock because the first two overran.

Booking roughly right is calmer than booking tight. Time past the block is charged in 30-minute increments and always rounded up, so an 8-hour day finishing 50 minutes late buys a whole extra hour — where booking 10 hours in the first place would have cost two hours at the published rate and no surprises.

What the hourly rate includes

One car and one chauffeur for every booked hour, the hours spent standing outside a tour included.
20 miles carried by each booked hour.
Parking at every stop — garage, street meter or valet — along with the tolls and the taxes.
Flight tracking where the day opens at an airport, so a delayed arrival slides the booking later rather than eating the front of it.
Fiji bottled water, onboard Wi-Fi and phone chargers, in either car and at no charge.

What is not included

Gratuity — chosen by you at checkout from 15, 18, 20 and 25 percent, a figure of your own, or $0, and the chauffeur who drove the day receives it.
Time past the block — sold in half-hour steps that always round upward: 10 minutes over buys half an hour, 50 minutes over buys a whole one.
Miles past the allowance — a fixed $1 in the executive sedan and a fixed $2.50 in the luxury SUV.
The parking pass a venue sells next to its own tickets — bought by the guest, not by iRide360.
Child seats — $25 each, requested when you book rather than on the day.

Two schedules, one of them unwritten

A day with three starting guns and no finishing line

Two schedules run at once on a tour day. One is published and immovable: the admissions office says the session begins at ten, and at ten it begins whether or not you are standing there. The other is unwritten. Nobody can tell you when the group will finish filing out of the lecture room, how long the questions at the end will run, whether the student will want twenty more minutes in the quad, or whether lunch takes forty minutes or ninety.

Book the day as separate rides and you have bought the first schedule and ignored the second. Three transfers is three fixed pickup times set in advance for three moments nobody can predict — and the one that goes wrong is always the car that was ordered for 12:30 when the tour let out at 12:55.

College campus visit car service turns the problem the other way up. You reserve hours rather than trips. The car is already outside when the group comes out, early or late, and the day's running order can be rewritten at lunchtime without a single thing being re-booked or re-quoted.

Searches for a car service for college tours, or for college visit transportation, land on the same thing: hourly car service in Los Angeles, bought as a block rather than leg by leg.

Why the second tour is the one at risk

The cost of a late finish is rarely the late finish itself. It is the hard start waiting on the other side of it. A morning tour that runs 25 minutes long does not matter on its own; it matters because the afternoon check-in does not move, and the minutes have to come out of the drive, the lunch or the visit itself.

An hourly booking does not fix traffic and does not invent time. What it fixes is the part that is in your control: the car is outside, the bags are already in it, the chauffeur knows the next address, and nothing has to be arranged while you are walking to the curb. The day loses its negotiation step.

What to send ahead, and what can wait

Three things are worth giving dispatch when you book, and a finished itinerary is not among them: the campuses in the order you plan to see them, the check-in time each admissions office gave you, and how many people are riding. Everything after that can change by text while the day is running.

A day with three starting guns and no finishing line

Two rules, kept apart on purpose

Waiting through a tour, and what happens when the block runs out

These are two different rules and a family planning a day needs both of them straight.

Inside the block, nothing is metered

An iRide360 hourly booking has no per-minute waiting charge anywhere in it. Not at the first pickup, not while you are inside a tour, not between two stops, not while lunch runs long. The tour is usually the longest single stand of the day and it costs exactly nothing extra, because the hours were bought in advance and standing is what they were bought for.

Coats, bags, the folder of printouts and the half-empty water bottles stay in the car. Nobody is on a curb with a phone trying to summon a vehicle while the rest of the group waits.

Why a transfer behaves differently, and why none of that reaches you here

Buy the day as separate rides and the picture changes, because a transfer hands the chauffeur back at the drop-off. Standing then has to go on a meter — a 60-minute allowance after a landing and $1 for every minute after that. Those figures price transfers. None of them crosses into an hourly booking, which carries no minute meter of any kind.

Once the reserved hours are gone: the rounding rule

Past the block, time is sold in half-hour steps and every step rounds upward. Worked on this page's own two-campus block: come back at 5 hours 10 minutes against a 5-hour booking and the charge is 5 hours 30; come back at 5 hours 50 and the charge is 6 hours. There is no part-step — a minute into a half hour buys the half hour.

Hold the two rules apart while you plan. Up to the last reserved minute an overrunning tour costs nothing; from that minute on, the next half hour is bought whole. Say so to the chauffeur as soon as the day starts to look long, or ring (833) 743-3360, and the time goes onto the reservation already in hand — no fresh booking, no change of car.

The question a campus day turns on

The mileage allowance is the figure a tour day actually tests

This is the question a campus day turns on, and it is the one most families work out afterwards rather than before. Los Angeles campuses are not clustered. A list that sounds like one city can be a morning on one side of the county and an afternoon well away from it, and the drive between them is real distance, twice, plus whatever lunch and a wrong turn add.

Two figures are published and both are plain. The allowance is 20 miles carried by each booked hour. Past the allowance, a mile is a fixed $1 in the executive sedan and a fixed $2.50 in the luxury SUV — fixed charges rather than rates that move, which is why neither of them reads “from”.

The mileage rule that shapes a multi-campus day

How a day's miles are counted against an hourly allowance is published: they are reckoned across the booking as a whole. That is what makes a long leg affordable on a tour day: the half-hour outside the admissions office is paying for the drive to the next campus.

It is still worth a call before you book. Ring (833) 743-3360 with your shortlist and the hours you have in mind, and dispatch will tell you whether that route fits inside the day's allowance or runs past it. A tour of three campuses on opposite sides of the county is the shape that does.

What does not depend on the answer is the price of a mile past the allowance. That is fixed, it is printed above, and it applies only once the day as a whole has passed its allowance.

Cost the overage, not the allowance

There is still a five-minute job worth doing before you call, and it produces the one number nobody else can work out for you: how far your own day actually goes. Write the campuses down in the order you mean to see them. Measure the legs between them on whatever map you already use. Add the run out to the first check-in and the run home at the end.

Take that figure to dispatch with the hours you are considering. Whatever the counting rule turns out to be, everything after it is one multiplication, and the sums are small.

10 miles past the allowance: $10 by executive sedan, $25 by luxury SUV.
25 miles past it: $25 and $62.50.
50 miles past it: $50 and $125.

That is the whole of the mileage exposure, and it is the reason the per-mile figure is printed at all: a mileage charge on a tour day is a two-figure sum you can see coming rather than a shock on an invoice. Time past the block is a separate charge and is set out further up.

The mileage allowance is the figure a tour day actually tests

The last of them is the one that costs money

Six answers to settle before you hand over a tour day

Any chauffeur company can be asked these six. iRide360's answers are below in full, with the one that costs real money last.

1. Does the car cost anything while we are inside a tour?

No, not a cent, anywhere inside the block. There is no per-stop fee, no cap on how many addresses a day holds, and no minute counter in an hourly booking at all. The chauffeur stands by for as long as the tour takes. Standing is not an interruption to the service; it is most of what the hours were bought for.

2. How far does the booking drive before a mile costs extra?

20 miles carried by each booked hour, printed as a figure rather than described as generous. Go beyond the allowance and a sedan mile costs $1, an SUV mile $2.50, both fixed. The counting is published too: a day's miles run against the booking's whole allowance, which is why the section above can total a tour day rather than guessing at it.

3. Is a gratuity attached before we see the total?

Never. The figure is yours and the moment is checkout: 15, 18, 20 and 25 percent sit there with a $0 and an empty box, you pick one, and the chauffeur who drove the day receives it. It is worth asking about anywhere you book: on a day of this length a fifth attached without being asked for is a three-figure line nobody mentioned, and here there is no such line.

4. Who settles the garage, the meter and the toll?

iRide360, from the hourly figure, at every stop, with nothing recharged afterwards. A single category falls outside: the parking pass a venue sells next to its own tickets, which the guest buys.

A different question sits next to this one and it belongs with dispatch. Where a car may stand at a particular university is not something iRide360 publishes, and it holds out no arrangement with any institution. Ring (833) 743-3360 with your shortlist and work it through before you book rather than on the morning.

5. Which minute does the first booked hour start on?

Yours, at the address you named. Getting the car out to you is iRide360's cost and sits outside the reservation, which closes at the day's final stop. Open the day at an airport and the reservation opens on the aircraft's real touchdown rather than the printed arrival time, the inbound being watched for you, so an hour's delay moves the whole day an hour later instead of consuming an hour of it.

Two classes, and no third

Which car, and how many of you it takes

Executive sedan — from $75 the hour: Black, carrying 3 passengers and 3 bags. The right booking for two adults and a student, or one adult and two.
Luxury SUV — from $100 the hour: Black, full-size, carrying 5 passengers and 5 bags. The right booking for a family of four or five, and for a day where coats, a camera bag and three folders of printouts live in the car between campuses.
That is the whole choice; a third class does not exist: no vans, no buses, no stretched vehicles — written down plainly because a family of six will otherwise ring to ask, and the honest answer is better had here. A party larger than five travels in more than one car on one reservation, every car at its own hourly rate.
In either car, every booking: Fiji bottled water, onboard Wi-Fi and phone chargers, at no charge. Child seats are $25 each and are requested when you book rather than on the day.

Three things a family might reasonably assume

What this booking is not

Three things, said plainly, because each of them is the sort of thing a family might reasonably assume and none of them is true.

It is not a guided tour. The chauffeur drives, parks, waits and handles the bags. iRide360 chauffeurs do not narrate a campus, a neighborhood or a route, and nobody in the car is delivering commentary between stops. The universities run their own tours and that is where the talking happens.

It is not a drive-time estimate service. iRide360 publishes no travel time between any two campuses, here or anywhere else. The honest answer is that it depends on the day, the hour and the direction, and nobody can know which of those a given morning will hand you. Give dispatch the check-in times you were handed and the block is sized against them rather than against a guess.

It is not a relationship with any university. iRide360 names UCLA, USC and Pepperdine here only as examples of campuses families visit. It publishes no campus's rules, holds out no permit or arrangement with any of them, and makes no claim about what happens on any university's own property.

The permit, the cover, the people

What stands behind the booking

Who operates the ride: Your ride is operated by iRide360 or a vetted, licensed affiliate partner.
Chauffeurs: Every chauffeur, including our affiliate partners', is screened and background-checked.
Partner vetting: Before any partner goes live, we run a background check, verify the driver's license with the DMV, confirm insurance, and review a vehicle inspection report.
Insurance: Every iRide360 vehicle carries at least $750,000 in liability insurance.
Permit: California CPUC charter-party carrier permit TCP 43833-A.
Nothing held back for the quote: six figures a family needs to cost a day — the rate, the floor, the allowance, the mileage overage, the rounding rule and the waiting rule — are all printed on this page instead of waiting behind a form.
Where the cars start from: El Segundo, which puts LAX minutes away rather than across the county, and a dispatch desk that picks up on (833) 743-3360 whatever the hour.

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Where to start

Reserve a campus visit day in Los Angeles

Get your price: Book an hourly car.
Call dispatch: (833) 743-3360, 24 hours a day.
Permit: California CPUC charter-party carrier permit TCP 43833-A.
Office: 222 N Pacific Coast Hwy, Suite 2000, El Segundo, CA 90245.
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The sixth answer, and the one that costs money

What if one of the campuses is in another city?

Hourly rides are meant to start and end in the same city. If a day runs outside it, additional charges apply.

A Los Angeles shortlist does not necessarily stay inside the city of Los Angeles — one campus out along the coast, another well east in the county — which makes this the check most likely to cost a campus-day buyer money they had not planned for.

Billed, not declined, and it bills twice over. Once on the miles past the allowance, at $1 an executive-sedan mile or $2.50 a luxury-SUV mile. Once on the clock, since driving is reserved time and a long leg takes it at both ends of the day. With a run like that on the plan, ring (833) 743-3360 before booking anything: dispatch will cost that leg as a transfer, say whether it comes out cheaper, and in most cases it does.

Run the numbers on a spread-out tour day

Say a day finishes 50 miles past whatever the allowance works out to. On the executive sedan that is 50 miles at $1, so $50 on top of a block that started from $375. In the luxury SUV the same 50 miles are $2.50 apiece — $125.

Then the second meter, which is the one families miss. A day built around a long drive spends hours on the road as well as miles, so a block sized for tours and not for freeway tends to overrun as well — and that time rounds up to the next half hour on top of the mileage. Two charges, one cause, and the mileage is usually the smaller of them.

A day of that shape earns a call to dispatch before it is booked, for the counting rule as much as for the price. One long leg out and back is often quoted better as a transfer than as hours, and dispatch will say so.

Answers before you travel

College campus visit car service: frequently asked questions

What is college campus visit car service?

An hourly chauffeur booking used for a day of campus tours. You reserve a run of hours instead of a set of trips, and one car and one chauffeur stay with the family for all of it, driving between campuses and standing by at each one.

What does a day of college tours in Los Angeles cost with a chauffeur?

A two-campus day of 5 hours is from $375 by executive sedan and from $500 by luxury SUV. Three campuses at 8 hours is from $600 and from $800. The floor is 3 hours, from $225 and from $300, with tolls, taxes and parking inside the figure.

How many hours does a two-campus day need?

5 hours suits most of them — from $375 by executive sedan, from $500 by luxury SUV. That covers two check-ins, the drive between them and lunch. A third campus turns it into a day: book 8 hours, from $600 and from $800.

Does the car stay while we are inside the tour and the information session?

Yes, and the standing costs nothing extra. An iRide360 hourly booking has no per-minute waiting charge anywhere in it, so a 90-minute tour and a session afterwards are priced exactly like a quick one. Your coats and bags stay in the car.

What happens when one tour overruns and the next check-in will not move?

Nothing is re-booked. The car is already outside, the chauffeur has the next address, and the minutes come out of hours you already own rather than out of a new arrangement made on a curb. Nothing inside the block is metered.

The day came back later than the hours we booked. What is added?

Half-hour steps, rounded upward every time. Against a 5-hour reservation, a 5-hour-10-minute finish is billed at 5 hours 30 and a 5-hour-50-minute finish at a full 6. Tell the chauffeur, or ring (833) 743-3360.

Which car do we need for two adults, a student and a younger sibling?

The luxury SUV, from $100 the hour, carrying 5 passengers and 5 bags. The executive sedan is from $75 and carries 3 passengers and 3 bags. A party larger than five travels in more than one car on one reservation.

Will the included miles reach campuses on opposite sides of the county?

The published allowance is 20 miles carried by each booked hour, and past it a mile costs $1 in the sedan or $2.50 in the SUV. The allowance is counted across the whole booking, not hour by hour, so a six-hour tour day carries 120 miles and a quiet hour on campus pays for the drive to the next one.

One campus on our list is outside Los Angeles. Is that still one booking?

Yes, and it is charged rather than refused. Hourly rides are meant to start and end in the same city. If a day runs outside it, additional charges apply — the miles past the allowance and the extra hours, since driving is booked time.

Does the parking at each stop come back to us afterwards?

No. iRide360 settles the garage, the meter, the valet, the tolls and the taxes out of the hourly figure at every stop. An event venue's own parking pass is the lone exception. Where a car may stand at a university is a dispatch question.

Does the student meet a different driver at each campus?

No. One chauffeur drives the whole booking, 3 hours or 18, so whoever set the family down at the first campus is outside at the last. The day gets briefed once and nobody repeats the plan at two o'clock.

Who decides the gratuity, and at what point?

You do, at checkout, and nothing is attached beforehand. The presets are 15, 18, 20 and 25 percent, with $0 and a box for your own figure alongside them, and whatever you choose goes to the chauffeur who drove the day.

We land at LAX the morning of the first tour. When do the hours begin?

At the aircraft's actual landing, not the time printed on the ticket, with the inbound flight tracked at no charge. A delayed arrival slides the booking later rather than eating the front of it, and the run out to meet you is not billed.

Does the chauffeur come on the tour or talk about the campuses?

No. A chauffeur drives, parks, waits and handles the bags. iRide360 chauffeurs are not guides and do not narrate a campus, a neighborhood or a route. Every university runs its own tour and that is where the talking belongs.

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