The Cheshire Golden Triangle. Our own cars, our own chauffeurs.

The triangle drawn between Alderley Edge, Wilmslow and Prestbury has a particular geography behind its reputation. It is close enough to Manchester Airport that you can be on an aircraft twenty five minutes after leaving the house, close enough to central Manchester for a morning of meetings, and far enough into open Cheshire countryside that the houses have gates and trees and long drives. Hale, Knutsford, Mottram St Andrew and Nether Alderley sit around the edges and belong to the same world.

It also means the traffic is local rather than urban. What slows a journey here is the A34 at Handforth, the level crossings at Wilmslow and Alderley Edge, the school run between eight and nine, and the airport approach roads at the peak departure banks. A chauffeur who knows which of those to avoid at which hour saves you more time than any route on a map.

Odyssey owns and operates its chauffeur fleet in two places: London and Manchester. Cheshire is served from the Manchester base, which means the Mercedes-Benz S-Class or V-Class that arrives is our vehicle, the chauffeur is our employee, and if something changes at half past five in the morning you are speaking to the same operations team that arranged it.

That matters more here than it might elsewhere, because a great deal of the work in this part of Cheshire is repeat, domestic and personal: the same school run, the same Thursday flight, the same journey to a training ground or a studio. It is work that depends on knowing the household, the gate code and the dog, and it does not survive a different driver every week. See Manchester chauffeur service, dedicated chauffeur and our fleet.

Manchester Airport is the practical centre of gravity for the whole triangle. For scheduled flights it is fifteen to twenty five minutes from most addresses, which is the reason so many people who could live anywhere live here. For private flights there is a business aviation centre on the field where our partner Signature Aviation handles, and the arrangement is the familiar one: the car is on stand or at the terminal door rather than in the drop-off, luggage goes straight across, and the chauffeur coordinates with the handling agent rather than with you.

Liverpool John Lennon, Leeds Bradford and Birmingham are all within reach for a particular aircraft or a particular slot, and for a longer range departure people do sometimes go south to Luton or Farnborough by road. See Manchester Airport, Signature Manchester, private jet transfers and London to Manchester.

The same base covers the wider county without any change in how it works. Knutsford and Tatton to the west, Macclesfield and the edge of the Peak District to the east, Chester and the Wirral an hour away, and the whole run of country house hotels and wedding venues in between. The Peak District begins ten minutes from Prestbury, which is why so many Saturday jobs here end on a single-track road with no phone signal, and why we ask for a what3words or a pin rather than a postcode when the destination is rural.

For longer journeys, Cheshire is an unusually good base: the M6 is close, the M56 runs west to Chester and north to the motorway network, and the A34 and M40 give a straight run south. See long distance chauffeur, multi day tours and Harrogate and Yorkshire.