Renting a driver in Dubai is for the times you don't need our car — you have a perfectly good one of your own. After a long flight, after a business dinner, on the day of your wedding, for the morning school run, for the elderly parent who shouldn't be driving themselves to the hospital. We send a professional, DED licensed and RTA regulated, English-speaking chauffeur to your address, they drive your vehicle, you arrive where you need to be, and the car comes home with you.
Every Chauffeurr driver holds a UAE driving licence with five-plus years on the road, is background-checked, and is briefed before every job. Our company carries third-party liability cover that activates the moment they take the wheel of your vehicle — and we confirm your own policy permits a professional driver before we accept the booking. The same dispatch and the same SLA that runs our luxury fleet runs this service.
Most regular clients move from one-off hourly bookings to a monthly retainer: a dedicated driver, the same face every day, who knows the school drop-off lane and the side-street to your office. From AED 4,500 a month for 180 hours, often less than the cost of a full-time household driver once licensing, visa, accommodation and insurance are factored in.
| Plan | Includes | Fixed fare |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly · sedan/SUV | 3-hour minimum | AED 90/hr |
| Half day (5h) | Up to 5 hours | AED 450 |
| Full day (10h) | Up to 10 hours | AED 700 |
| Evening / night | After-dinner, designated driver | from AED 250 |
| Monthly retainer | 180 hr/mo · dedicated driver | AED 4,500 |
| School run package | Mon-Fri AM + PM · monthly | from AED 2,500 |
Plenty of Dubai residents already own the car they want to travel in. What they lack is the time, the licence status or the appetite to drive it — during a long working day, after an evening event, while a family member recovers from surgery, or in the weeks after arriving before a UAE licence comes through. Hiring the driver rather than the vehicle solves precisely that, and it is materially cheaper than hiring both.
The service is simple in shape: a vetted, UAE-licensed professional driver comes to you and drives your vehicle, for a block of hours, a set of days, or a recurring monthly schedule. Your car stays your car — your seat position, your child seats already fitted, your Salik tag, your parking permits. Nothing has to be transferred, and nothing about the arrangement is visible to a client or a neighbour beyond the fact that someone else is behind the wheel.
Typical use cases cluster into four groups. Residents with a demanding calendar who want to work or take calls between meetings. Families needing a reliable school run and an afternoon activity loop without a full-time employed driver on the payroll. Visitors and new arrivals whose home licence is not yet convertible. And anyone in a temporary situation — a medical procedure, an eye appointment, a broken wrist, a long night out — where driving is simply not an option that week.
Every driver is screened before they are assigned: UAE licence verification, clean traffic record, documented professional experience, and an assessment drive in city and highway conditions. Drivers are briefed on defensive driving, on the specific handling differences between saloons, large SUVs and electric vehicles, and on discretion — they do not discuss passengers, addresses or conversations, which matters more than clients often expect when the same person drives them daily.
Booking structures follow the need. Hourly hire with a three-hour minimum covers evenings, events and one-off days. Weekly and monthly packages fit a fixed schedule and are the right structure for a school run or a standing commute, with the same driver assigned so routines, gate codes and preferences do not have to be re-explained. A dedicated monthly driver typically works out well below the cost of employing one directly once visa, insurance, accommodation and end-of-service liabilities are counted.
The insurance question comes up on nearly every enquiry, so it is worth stating clearly: your vehicle's own comprehensive policy must permit any-licensed-driver use, which most UAE comprehensive policies do. We supply the driver's licence details in advance so the position can be confirmed with your insurer before the first day, and our drivers carry their own professional liability cover. We do not ask clients to proceed on assumption.
Practicalities that make the arrangement work: give the driver a fifteen-minute buffer on the first day to adjust to your car, tell us in advance if the vehicle is a large SUV or a high-performance model so we assign someone who drives that class regularly, and confirm whether fuel and Salik are billed to you directly or reimbursed. Schedules can be adjusted with a day's notice, and cover is arranged if your assigned driver is unavailable, so a monthly arrangement never leaves you without transport.
This page covers dubai · chauffeur only. The operating model behind it is the same everywhere we work in the Emirates, and it is the reason international travel programmes route their UAE legs to us.
Chauffeurr made a deliberate choice not to become another worldwide chauffeur directory. Depth in one market beats a thin presence in fifty, and the United Arab Emirates rewards depth: multiple emirates with different licensing regimes, airports spread across three of them, building access rules that differ tower by tower, and traffic patterns that change with the season and the working week.
Because we run our own RTA and DCT-licensed fleet with permanently employed chauffeurs, the standard does not change between a hotel guest transfer, a board-level roadshow and a monthly corporate assignment. That consistency is what makes us the UAE partner of choice for global networks, properties, travel management companies and in-house travel teams who need the local leg handled without supervision.
Practically, every booking carries the same commitments: a fixed quoted fare inclusive of tolls, parking and fuel; flight-tracked airport pickups with sixty minutes of complimentary waiting; passenger-insured vehicles; NDA-bound chauffeurs; and consolidated VAT invoicing with cost-centre tagging for corporate accounts.
Placing UAE ground transport for a network, property or corporate programme? Read how partner accounts work or message the operations desk on +971 (50) 239 0670.
Hourly driver hire starts at AED 90/hr (3-hour minimum) for sedan or SUV, automatic or manual. Half-day from AED 450, full-day (10h) AED 700. Monthly retainers from AED 4,500 for a dedicated driver — 180 hours over the month, same person every day. Your fuel; everything else (parking, complimentary water, DED licensed and RTA regulated chauffeur) is on us.
Renting a driver means you keep your own car and we send a professional, DED licensed and RTA regulated chauffeur to drive it. A chauffeur service usually means we bring both the car and the driver — a Mercedes S-Class with a uniformed chauffeur. Chauffeurr offers both: 'Chauffeur Only' for your own car, 'Car with Chauffeur' when you want our fleet.
Yes. Every Chauffeurr driver carries a UAE driving licence (5+ years), is background-checked, and our company carries third-party liability cover that activates the moment they take the wheel of your vehicle. We also confirm your own policy permits a professional driver before the job starts.
Yes — this is one of the most-requested monthly products. Fixed daily morning drop-offs and afternoon pick-ups in your own car, with a dedicated chauffeur your family knows by name. Monthly retainers cover all major Dubai schools (GEMS, Repton, Brighton, JESS, Dubai College) and the standard office commute pattern from Arabian Ranches, Emirates Hills, the Palm and Downtown.
On-demand bookings inside Dubai are typically met within 30–45 minutes, 24/7. Outside Dubai (Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Northern Emirates) we recommend 2-hour notice. Scheduled bookings — school runs, dinners, recurring airport drops — lock in the same driver every time.
Yes. Every driver holds a UAE chauffeur permit. Chauffeurr is operated by Al Rwad Limousine LLC under DED trade licence 578599 — a regulated operator, not a freelance marketplace. We run our own dispatch, our own SLA and our own insurance.