Private Chauffeur to Mount Rainier and Seattle: Your Own Vehicle, Your Own Pace

Eight hours with a car and a chauffeur that belong to your group alone. The booking is never combined with other passengers or fitted around someone else's schedule. What that buys is control of the day. Pickup and drop-off are arranged where it suits the group, and the stops can take in Kerry Park, the Space Needle, Pike Place Market and the Ballard Locks alongside the drive up to Mount Rainier. How long you stay at each one is a conversation rather than a timetable. The operator is SUV Seattle Services, family run for more than ten years and among the first local limousine companies to put sightseeing and private transport in the same booking. The vehicle is matched to the size of the group: luxury SUVs, passenger vans, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans, minibuses, executive buses. Pickups work from Pier 91, Pier 66, Seattle hotels and SEA Airport, which is what makes the day practical for cruise passengers and for large parties. Airport drop-off and luggage storage cost nothing extra. The Henry M. Jackson Memorial Visitor Center is open all year. The Skyline Loop is the main trail out of Paradise, and it takes in the mountain, the lookouts, waterfalls and glaciers. Sunrise, at 6,400 feet, is the highest point in the park you can reach by car, with Emmons Glacier in view and almost 360 degrees from Sunrise Point, including Mount Adams across the range. The service runs year-round, subject to park access, roads and weather. Cancel at least 24 hours before departure for a full refund.