Call time is 06:15 at Pinewood. The cast car leaves the hotel at 05:10, whatever the traffic is doing.

Name: Odyssey Connections
Address: Office 32, Hangar 7-8, Percival Way, Luton, LU2 9LX, GB
Telephone: +44 2030 048300

We work to the call sheet. Cast cars, producer and executive movements, airport and private terminal runs, and unit moves between studio, location and hotel, booked by the coordinator and billed against a production account.

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20+years in private travel
Ownedchauffeur fleet in London and Manchester, a trusted global network beyond
24/7operations desk, one contact
3services on one itinerary: car, jet and yacht

In partnership with Harrods Aviation · Signature Aviation · SW Global

What usually goes wrong

The problems a production office knows well

A call sheet that moves at nine in the evening, with pickups already confirmed for a dozen people the following morning
Drivers who have never been to the unit base, cannot find the gate, and phone the coordinator from a roundabout at half past five
Cast who will not share a car, and cast who must not be seen arriving anywhere
Wrap that lands two hours late, and a supplier whose cars have gone home
Invoices with no purchase order number, no episode or production code, and no way of allocating them before the cost report
A studio hour away from the hotel, and a company move the following week to a location nobody has driven to

How we work with productions

Booked against the call sheet

The coordinator or the travel and accommodation lead sends the movements and we work backwards from the call time, not from the pickup the passenger asked for. Journey times to the studios west and north of London are known quantities at five in the morning and very different ones at eight, and the schedule is built around the hour it actually happens.

For the cast

Cast cars

Cast cars are usually the same chauffeur for the length of the block, because an actor who is in make-up at six does not want a new person and a new conversation every day. The chauffeur knows the gate, the security procedure, where to park at the unit base, and whom to call when the day overruns. Nobody photographs anybody, nobody discusses the script, the schedule or who was in the car, and nobody talks to press.

The rear cabin with a printed schedule and a laptop

For producers, executives and financiers

Producers and executives

For producers, executives and financiers there is a separate pattern: airport and private terminal collections, studio visits, screenings and press. Those movements are kept apart from cast movements so that a busy day does not become one shared diary that nobody can read.

Our own cars and chauffeurs are in London and Manchester, with a trusted global network everywhere else. The London fleet covers the studio belt around the capital and the locations around it. For a shoot in another city or another country we arrange cars through operators we know, and your coordinator keeps the same contact here rather than starting again with a local supplier.

What we are asked for

Through a production

The studio belt

The runs we do most often

West of LondonPinewood, Iver Heath and Shepperton, SurreyEarly call times mean leaving central London well before the motorway fills.
North of LondonLeavesden and Borehamwood, HertfordshireDifferent approach, different traffic, and a different sensible departure time.
Central London locationsUnit bases and street closuresWhere the car waits matters as much as when it arrives.
Manchester and the North WestOur second baseOwn cars and chauffeurs, not a subcontracted arrangement.

Journey times are quoted for the hour of travel when we confirm. We do not publish a single number, because a run that takes fifty minutes at five in the morning is not the same run at eight.

The commercial side

Billed the way production accounting works

AccountIn the production company's nameOpened per production or per slate, with the entity you actually invoice.
Purchase ordersOn every journeyYour PO number, production code and episode or block carried through to the invoice.
CodingBy department or cost centreCast, production, art department and post, separated so the cost report can be read.
BookersNamed by youCoordinators, travel and accommodation, the production manager, unit drivers' supervisor.

What the office gets

The things coordinators care about

Confirmations in writing that can be pasted straight into a movement order
Vehicle registration, chauffeur name and mobile number supplied ahead of the day for the sheet and the gate
A desk that answers at five in the morning and at midnight, because those are the hours the job happens in
Chauffeurs who wait where the location manager tells them and move immediately when asked
No cards handed to talent, no photographs, no social media, nothing repeated afterwards
One statement at the end of the period, coded so it reconciles against the PO log without a week of chasing

For the production office

Tell us about the production

Shoot dates, where the base and the studio are, roughly how many cast cars and how many daily movements, and who in the office will be booking. If you are still budgeting, tell us that too and we will come back with something you can put in the schedule.

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Questions people ask

From production offices

Can you invoice against a purchase order?

Yes. Give us the PO number, the production code and any department coding at the time of booking and it appears on the journey and on the invoice.

Can the same chauffeur stay with one member of cast?

Yes, and for a block of any length it is worth doing. See dedicated chauffeur.

Do you provide unit drivers or minibuses for crew?

We provide chauffeur driven cars and people carriers for passenger movements. Crew shuttles and production vehicles are a different trade and we will say so rather than pretend.

How do you handle a call sheet that changes overnight?

Message or call the desk at any hour. The change is made and confirmed back in writing so the movement order and the cars agree.

Can you cover a shoot outside London and Manchester?

Yes, through our trusted global network of operators we know, arranged by us and coordinated here. Our own cars and chauffeurs run in London and Manchester.

Will your chauffeurs sign a non-disclosure agreement?

Yes, and we expect to be asked. Unannounced titles, cast attachments and locations stay inside the company.

One contact, wherever you are

Outside the hotel
before the call

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Call time is 06:15 at Pinewood. The cast car leaves the hotel at 05:10, whatever the traffic is doing.

The problems a production office knows well

Booked against the call sheet

Cast cars

Producers and executives

Through a production

Cast cars

Unit and company moves

Airport and rail arrivals

Executives and financiers

Private terminals

Press days and premieres

The runs we do most often

Billed the way production accounting works

The things coordinators care about

Tell us about the production

From production offices

Outside the hotel
before the call

Call time is 06:15 at Pinewood. The cast car leaves the hotel at 05:10, whatever the traffic is doing.

The problems a production office knows well

Booked against the call sheet

Cast cars

Producers and executives

Through a production

Cast cars

Unit and company moves

Airport and rail arrivals

Executives and financiers

Private terminals

Press days and premieres

The runs we do most often

Billed the way production accounting works

The things coordinators care about

Tell us about the production

From production offices

Outside the hotelbefore the call

Outside the hotel
before the call