IAH Airport Car Service to Houston & The Woodlands

Roughly 23 miles and typically 30 to 50 minutes. Weekday evening peak on I-45 can push it past an hour. Bush Intercontinental sits well north of the city, which makes this one of the longer major-airport-to-downtown runs in the United States, and one where the route decision genuinely changes the outcome rather than shaving a minute or two.

You choose. With meet-and-greet, your chauffeur parks, comes inside, and waits in the baggage claim hall of your terminal holding a sign with your name, then walks you to the vehicle. With curbside, your chauffeur waits in the airport's designated commercial vehicle area and pulls forward when you text or call from the kerb outside baggage claim. Pre-arranged chauffeured vehicles do not use the general rideshare zones. Your exact meeting point is confirmed in your booking message the day before travel.

All five, A, B, C, D and E. Give us your airline and flight number rather than a terminal. Terminal assignments change, and the terminal printed on a booking made months earlier is not always where you land. United operates across most of the airport, and Terminals D and E handle the majority of international arrivals.

It varies widely and is not predictable from your flight time alone. Clearance can take a few minutes or well over an hour depending on which arrival bank you land in and how many wide-body aircraft are processing at once. This is precisely why we include a longer complimentary wait window on international arrivals than domestic ones, and why we recommend meet-and-greet rather than curbside for these flights, your chauffeur waits inside rather than circling outside while you queue.

Provide the flight number and local arrival date so reservations can coordinate pickup around flight updates. Contact reservations if you are rebooked or diverted. Your confirmed waiting and cancellation terms apply.

Your route, travel date, vehicle, stops and reserved time determine the quote. Review the total, including 20% gratuity and applicable quoted tax, and confirm waiting, changes and cancellation terms before booking. Any additional service must be agreed separately.

They are different products for different trips. A shared shuttle is cheaper and makes multiple stops, so your journey depends on where the other passengers are going. A private car service is a vehicle reserved for you alone, direct to your destination, at a fixed rate. Given the distances involved at Bush Intercontinental, a shared shuttle to a far-side destination like the Energy Corridor or Sugar Land can add a great deal of time. If cost is the priority, take the shuttle. If arrival time matters, do not.

Yes, and it is one of the more common bookings we handle in Houston. The two airports sit roughly 30 miles apart on opposite sides of the city, typically 40 to 60 minutes, and materially longer at peak. Passengers connect between them when a United routing lands at Bush Intercontinental and a Southwest routing departs from Hobby, or vice versa. These journeys benefit particularly from flight tracking, because a delay at one end compresses the entire connection.

More than the drive time suggests. Allow the 40 to 60 minutes of road time, plus check-in and security at Hobby, plus a genuine buffer for I-45 or Beltway 8 behaving badly. If your two flights are on separate tickets you have no protection if you miss the second one, so the buffer is not optional. Tell us your departure time from Hobby rather than a pickup time at Bush Intercontinental, and we will work backwards from it.

Yes, and it is a shorter run than IAH to downtown, roughly 20 miles and typically 25 to 40 minutes. This surprises people who assume The Woodlands is further out. Bush Intercontinental sits north of the city, which puts the northern suburbs closer to it than the central business district.

Yes. It is one of our most common corporate routes and also one of the longest, roughly 35 miles and 45 to 70 minutes, more at peak. The Energy Corridor sits on the far western side of the city along I-10, which means a Bush Intercontinental arrival crosses most of Houston to reach it. We schedule this journey against your meeting time rather than a nominal drive time, because best-case estimates fail on this route more often than any other in the city.

Yes. It is roughly 70 miles and typically 80 to 110 minutes, longer on cruise-turnaround Saturdays when both the port and the causeway back up. Most cruise passengers fly into Bush Intercontinental or Hobby and transfer directly. Tell us your sailing time rather than your landing time and we will schedule against the boarding deadline.

Hobby, by a considerable margin. Hobby sits about 11 miles southeast of downtown against roughly 23 miles for Bush Intercontinental. If your flight options are similar, Hobby usually gets you into the city faster. Bush Intercontinental is the better choice for international travel, for connections, and for anywhere in the northern half of the metropolitan area.

As a working guide: an executive sedan takes one to three passengers with two to three suitcases; a luxury SUV takes four to six with four to six cases; an executive Sprinter takes seven to fourteen with full group luggage. Give us bag count as well as passenger count at booking. Houston journeys are long enough that discovering a luggage problem at the kerb is a genuine failure, not a minor inconvenience.

Your booking confirmation states the included waiting allowance, when it starts and the rate for additional waiting. Tell your chauffeur or reservations if baggage collection, immigration or another delay affects pickup.

Yes, and it is worth doing. Booking both directions locks the rates, guarantees vehicle availability for the return, and lets us build your departure pickup around your actual check-in requirement, earlier for international departures, and earlier again during the morning and late-afternoon departure banks when security queues at Bush Intercontinental build quickly.

Yes, with advance notice. Infant, convertible and booster seats must be requested at booking so the correct seat is fitted before your chauffeur departs for the airport. This cannot be arranged on arrival. Texas law requires children under eight to be in an appropriate restraint unless they are taller than four feet nine inches.

Yes. Corporate accounts replace per-trip card payments with centralised monthly invoicing, authorised traveller lists, cost-centre coding and a named contact. Bush Intercontinental generates a particular pattern for Houston's energy sector, visiting international delegations, recurring executive travel, and roadshow programmes, and accounts are structured around whatever pattern applies to you.

Yes. Multi-vehicle arrivals are coordinated from a single point of contact rather than leaving your organiser to manage several chauffeurs independently. For groups clearing customs together at Terminal D or E, we hold the vehicles and release them as one movement, because a group that splits across a long customs queue causes more problems than it solves.

Yes. Every chauffeur operating on our behalf is commercially licensed, background-checked and drug-tested, and carries commercial liability insurance appropriate to airport ground transportation. Vehicles run on a scheduled maintenance and inspection programme. Certificates of insurance are available on request for corporate travel policies.

Message us as soon as you know and there is no charge. Because we track your flight we will often see the cancellation before you can call, but a message removes any ambiguity about whether you have rebooked onto a later flight or abandoned the trip. Rebooking onto your new flight is straightforward and does not require starting the reservation again.

Twenty-four hours is comfortable for a sedan on an ordinary weekday. Book further ahead for SUVs and Sprinters, for international arrivals where you want meet-and-greet guaranteed, during major conventions at the George R. Brown, on cruise-turnaround weekends, and during peak travel periods. Same-day requests are often possible but availability is not guaranteed.