Pearson Airport to Best Western Hotels in Ontario

Which Best Western hotels can a Pearson chauffeur take me to?

Best Western is a membership of independently owned hotels rather than a single chain, which is why the doors vary — a glass tower on the airport strip, a low-rise beside a highway exit, a converted inn in a small town — and why the chauffeur's knowledge of each one matters more than at a brand with a standard porte-cochère. Our chauffeurs know which Best Western in Niagara has the drop-off on the side street, which one in Brampton shares an entrance with a restaurant, and which airport-strip hotel's shuttle stops at 11 pm.

The airport Best Westerns

The Best Western Premier Toronto Airport Carlingview Hotel and the Best Western Plus Travel Hotel Toronto Airport on Dixon Road are the two guests ask for most: eight to twelve minutes from either terminal, with shuttles on a loop that serves the pre-arranged shuttle stops at Terminal 1 and Terminal 3. The airport-strip hotels route explains where those stops are and when the loops thin out; a chauffeur is booked for the family with a stroller and six bags, the 1 am arrival, the guest with a mobility aid, or the traveller whose evening is downtown rather than on Dixon Road.

Hotel names change as owners renovate and rebrand; the engine prices the address, so the current name on your Best Western Rewards confirmation is all the booking needs.

Midtown, the suburbs and the university towns

The Best Western Roehampton at Mount Pleasant and Eglinton is the midtown choice — thirty to forty minutes from Pearson via the 401 and Mount Pleasant, a quiet residential door, and a ten-minute walk to the Eglinton subway and the shops of Yonge and Eglinton. The Mississauga, Brampton, Oakville and Burlington properties are the corporate and contractor hotels along the 401 and the QEW; the Mississauga hotels route covers the closest of them. Hamilton's Best Westerns serve McMaster and the hospitals on the Pearson–Hamilton route; Kitchener-Waterloo's serve the universities and the technology campuses on the Kitchener-Waterloo route, and hockey tournaments fill them every winter weekend.

Niagara: Clifton Hill and the Falls

Best Western's Niagara hotels sit around Clifton Hill and the Fallsview district, a short walk from the Falls, the casino and the attractions; the Pearson-to-Niagara route is ninety minutes down the QEW and the chauffeur knows each hotel's drop-off — several are on side streets off the Hill, and the private Niagara tour picks up at the same door the next morning for the Parkway and the wineries.

From the hotel: attractions, stations and the working day

Attractions. From the airport strip: Woodbine racetrack ten minutes, Canada's Wonderland twenty-five, the CN Tower and the waterfront thirty. From the Roehampton: the ROM and Yorkville ten minutes south, the Ontario Science Centre fifteen east, the Toronto Zoo thirty-five. From Kitchener: the St. Jacobs market and the Stratford Festival, forty minutes west. From Niagara: the Falls at the door and Niagara-on-the-Lake twenty-five minutes down the Parkway.

Stations and the other airports. Union Station is thirty minutes from the airport-strip hotels and fifteen from the Roehampton for VIA and the UP Express; the GO stations at Mississauga, Brampton, Oakville and Burlington are ten minutes from their Best Westerns; Kitchener's VIA/GO station is ten minutes from its hotels. Billy Bishop is thirty to forty minutes from the strip and the midtown hotels; Hamilton airport is fifteen minutes from Hamilton's Best Westerns and forty-five from Burlington's; Buffalo is forty minutes from the Niagara hotels for a cheaper US fare.

City tours. A chauffeured half-day from any GTA Best Western covers the waterfront, the Distillery District, Yorkville and Casa Loma; from Niagara, the Parkway and the wineries; from Kitchener, St. Jacobs and the Mennonite country. Booked by the hour with the car at every stop.

Company meetings and contractor weeks. Best Western's corporate guests are the project engineers, sales reps and contractors working across the 401 and QEW corridors; a day of site visits from Brampton to Oakville is an hourly booking, and a standing weekly car to the airport goes on the corporate account.

Booking the transfer

Enter the hotel's name or address as the drop-off with the flight number, the date and the vehicle class; the fare is fixed for that door and shown before you pay. Sixty minutes of waiting are included on international arrivals, thirty on domestic. Add the return to the correct terminal on the same booking through the departures page.

Booking through the hotel or booking direct

Most Best Western hotels will call a local taxi for a guest and the airport-strip properties run shuttles; both are fine for the traveller who did not plan the airport. Booking direct before you fly gives a fixed fare on the confirmation, a pickup tracked against the airline's live arrival, curbside collection at the GTAA pre-arranged area included, and — for the contractor or the sales rep on a weekly rhythm — a standing booking that repeats without a call. The UP Express serves the downtown Best Westerns well enough for a solo traveller; for the suburban and out-of-town properties it is not an option, and the chauffeur's fixed fare to Brampton, Oakville or Kitchener is the comparison against a metered cab.

Tournament weekends and the hockey bag

Ontario's winter is hockey tournaments, and Best Western's mid-sized hotels in Kitchener, Guelph, Hamilton, Burlington and Brampton fill with families whose luggage is a hockey bag per child plus the sticks. The vehicle question is settled honestly on the fleet page: a family of four with two hockey bags needs the luxury SUV; two families travelling together need the Executive Sprinter; a whole team with equipment needs the mini coach, which the group shuttle arranges on a manifest from the Pearson curb to the hotel and the arena. The Kitchener-Waterloo route and the Pearson–Hamilton route have the winter timing for the 401 and the QEW, and the chauffeur checks Ontario 511 before a Friday-night departure in February.

The small-town Best Westerns

Beyond the GTA, Best Western's Ontario map is its most useful feature: Cobourg, Peterborough, Barrie, Orillia, Owen Sound, Collingwood, Belleville, Kingston, Brockville, Cornwall, Sarnia, Chatham, Windsor, North Bay, Sudbury. All are fixed-fare addresses from the Pearson curb, priced as long-distance transfers by distance; the Barrie route and the Muskoka route cover the Highway 400 corridor north, the London route the 401 west. A late international arrival with a room in Peterborough or Kingston is the classic use: the chauffeur meets the flight and the passenger sleeps.

The departure: from the strip and from the suburbs

From the airport-strip Best Westerns the departure is ten minutes and the question is only the hour: a 6 am flight means a 4 am pickup, when the hotel's shuttle may not be running, and the chauffeur is at the door at 3.55. From Mississauga, Brampton and Oakville the drive is fifteen to forty minutes and the chauffeur plans backwards from the check-in cut-off explained on the departures page, adding the 401's or the QEW's morning habits from the live traffic board. From Kitchener, Hamilton and Niagara the departure is the route fare in reverse, and the terminal finder settles the door at the far end.

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