Classic & Luxury Car Hire Como
Classic & Luxury Car Hirein Como.
For the drive over the Ghisallo, or for the airport run.
Lake Como Province of Como
Everything the rest of the lake has to travel for is here: hospitals, schools including international options in the wider province, banks, notaries, surveyors, professional practices, builders' merchants and the boatyards and chandlery that serve the branch. When a villa two hours north needs a specialist, the specialist very often comes from Como.
For owners elsewhere on the lake that makes the city a practical anchor rather than only a destination. Renovation projects further up the shore are generally administered from here, and the trades that matter most on historic houses, among them stonemasons, restorers and joiners working to conservation standards, are concentrated in the province rather than in the villages. The constraint in the city itself is not finding people but working within a protected historic centre where access, permissions and hours are all regulated.
For how this trade works across the whole lake, what to ask for, how the firms are chosen and what goes wrong, read classic & luxury car hire on Lake Como. For the village itself, read our guide to Como.
Editorial note: we have not yet written up how this trade works in Como specifically, so this page is kept out of search until we have. The introduction itself is unaffected. Ask and we will make it.
On the network
Seasonal fleet
Held across the lake rather than in one village. We introduce the two we would use ourselves for the job in front of you.
01What they do
Delivery to the house
Bringing the car to the villa and collecting it afterwards, having first checked that it will get up the drive and fit where it has to stand.
Classic cars for a particular drive
A car held for a day or two for the Ghisallo, the passes or a run to Bergamo, rather than for a week of sitting behind coaches on the shore.
Everyday cars for a stay
Something comfortable that carries the family and the luggage, copes with a steep ramp, and can be left in a village car park without anxiety.
Airport collection and return
Handover at Malpensa, Linate or Bergamo, or a driver for the motorway leg with the car waiting at the house.
Questions
Do I need a car on Lake Como?
Not for moving around the lake itself, where boats and ferries are quicker and more pleasant. A car is worth having for the airport, for Milan and Bergamo, and for the drives up into the mountains.
Many houses have limited parking or none, and the village centres are closed to traffic. A common arrangement is no hire car at all, a driver for transfers, and one interesting car taken for a single day when the weather is right.
How is classic car hire priced?
By the day or by the weekend, with mileage limits, delivery and collection, and a security deposit held against the vehicle. We do not publish rates.
Ask specifically about mileage allowance and what happens beyond it, whether delivery to the house is included, and how damage is assessed on return. Photograph the car with the firm present at handover and again at collection; it takes five minutes and settles almost every dispute before it starts.
Can the car be delivered to the villa?
Usually yes, and it is the sensible arrangement, but send the firm photographs of the drive and the parking first.
Steep ramps, a lip at the road, a tight gate and a turning circle that does not exist are all common here, and they determine which car can actually come. A firm that asks for these details before confirming is doing its job.
Written by The Como Private Desk
For people who work on the lake
Are you the bestat what you do here?
The list we introduce from is short and grows slowly: by working with somebody, seeing how a job goes, and only then adding them. If that is the standard you hold yourself to, tell us who you are. We read every one. We check work before we introduce anybody, and no money passes in either direction.
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