Shopping Limo
Chicago

The Magnificent Mile — North Michigan Avenue from the river to Oak Street — is the flagship run: Nordstrom and the shops at the old Water Tower Place, Bloomingdale's, and the avenue's anchor stores. It's also where parking is most punishing and most expensive. A chauffeur drops you at each store's door, holds your bags in the car, and returns when you text, so the day is spent shopping rather than walking blocks back to a garage.

Oak Street, the short luxury block off Michigan, is the boutique stretch — the designer storefronts where you don't want to be carrying earlier purchases around. For the higher-end day, we pair Oak Street with the Gold Coast and a lunch stop. Groups doing a girls' day out take the Escalade for the trunk space, and it doubles as a private spot to regroup between stores.

For value shopping, the suburban outlets are the destination: Chicago Premium Outlets in Aurora to the west, Fashion Outlets of Chicago in Rosemont near O'Hare, and Oakbrook Center and Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg. These are 40-60 minutes out and impractical without a car; the Sprinter van handles a group plus a full day's haul of bags and boxes.

The driver loads your bags, waits curbside, and moves you door-to-door between stores so you're never carrying a day's purchases through a parking garage or onto a train. Every trip includes large trunk space — the Escalade alone fits more than twenty shopping bags — flexible multi-stop routing you can change on the fly, and a final drop at your home or hotel with everything carried in. Bottled water and mints are stocked, and the same chauffeur stays with you all day.

It works for a few different days out: a three-hour Magnificent Mile sedan run, a four-hour girls' day SUV through the Oak Street boutiques with a lunch stop, or a five-hour Sprinter trip to the outlets. Many clients pair shopping with a spa visit or dinner and keep the car for the whole stretch.

Royal Carriage has served Chicago shoppers and visitors since 2018, holds a 4.9 rating across 512 reviews, and has completed more than 8,000 trips. Rates are flat and quoted at booking — sedan $98/hr, generic SUV $125/hr, Escalade ESV $144/hr — with no peak pricing between stores.