Areas We Serve — Delaware County & the Main Line

This Is the Ride We Know Best — It's Home

Our cars are based in Prospect Park, which puts Delaware County outside our own front door and the Main Line a straight run up the Blue Route. This is not a territory we expanded into. It is the one we start every morning in, and it shows in the small things — knowing which estate drives a Sprinter can actually turn around in, which State Street loading zones are free on a Saturday, and how much earlier a Villanova pickup has to leave than a Swarthmore one to catch the same flight.

Towns we cover here

  • Media, PA
  • Swarthmore, PA
  • Springfield, PA
  • Newtown Square, PA
  • Prospect Park, PA
  • Bryn Mawr, PA
  • Villanova, PA
  • Radnor, PA
  • Haverford, PA
  • Wayne, PA
  • Ardmore, PA
  • Oaks, PA
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Where we pull up

Venues Across This Territory

A short list of the places our chauffeurs run to regularly. If yours isn't here, it almost certainly still is — call and ask.

Springfield Country Club

Springfield

Ballrooms and banquet rooms on an 18-hole public course, with a Courtyard Marriott on the property — so out-of-town guests are staying where the reception is.

Kings Mills

Media

A building dating to the early 1700s with Victorian interiors, set just off the center of town.

The Inn at Swarthmore

Swarthmore

Hotel and event space beside the college, with Broad Table Tavern on site.

The Ballroom at Ellis Preserve

Newtown Square

Built in 1932 on the former Ellis campus, with access off Route 3 and Route 476.

Anthony's at Paxon Hollow

Media

A country club venue on the Paxon Hollow course.

Radnor Valley Country Club

Villanova

A Georgian-style clubhouse dating to 1907, with a grand ballroom and marble lobby.

The Willows

Villanova

A mansion set high in a public park — the ceremony lawn and the parking are a walk apart, which matters for timing.

Appleford

Villanova

A historic estate with gardens and water features laid out by landscape architect Thomas Sears.

Merion Golf Club

Haverford Township

Host of five U.S. Opens, with a historic clubhouse and a narrow, well-guarded entrance.

The Radnor Hotel

on Lancaster Avenue

Grand Ballroom and Terrace Ballroom, with a covered entrance that fits a full-size vehicle.

Radnor Hunt

Malvern

Founded in 1883 as the oldest continuous fox hunt in the United States, on open countryside.

Greater Philadelphia Expo Center

Oaks

Five adjoining halls and over 240,000 square feet on one floor, with 5,000 parking spaces — the region's largest suburban trade show floor.

Getting out of here

The Roads We Actually Take

To PHL

I-476 — the Blue Route — is the spine of this whole territory. It runs from the Main Line exits at Villanova and Bryn Mawr straight down through Delaware County and hands off to I-95 within sight of the terminals. One highway, no city traffic. It is the reason a Bryn Mawr pickup and a Media pickup are closer in travel time than the map suggests, and why we quote both against the same flight without flinching.

To 30th Street Station

For Amtrak we usually take Lancaster Avenue or I-76 rather than the Schuylkill at rush hour. If you're travelling from the Main Line, the honest advice is sometimes that the Paoli/Thorndale line beats us there — we'll tell you when that's true and run you to the local station instead.

Between counties on a wedding day

Ceremonies in Delaware County with receptions on the Main Line — or the reverse — are common here, and the gap between them is where schedules break. We drive the actual route beforehand rather than trusting an app's estimate on a Saturday afternoon.

Local knowledge

Which Car Fits Which Street

The difference between a car that arrives and a car that arrives correctly.

01

Estate drives and porte-cochères

Main Line estates and country clubs were laid out for carriages, not 12-passenger vans. Most take the Sprinter without trouble, but a few have mature tree canopy over the drive and a turnaround that only works in one direction. Where that's the case we send the Escalade or the XTS instead, and we know which is which before the day.

02

State Street in Media

The trolley runs down the middle of State Street. That single fact changes where a car can legally stop, how long it can sit, and which side of the street a bride can step out on. We stage off the trolley line, not on it.

03

Lancaster Avenue through Bryn Mawr and Ardmore

On-street parking both sides, active rail crossings, and no shoulder to speak of. A sedan slots into a gap that a Sprinter has to circle the block for — worth knowing when a pickup is scheduled to the minute.

04

College campuses

Swarthmore, Villanova, Haverford and Bryn Mawr all restrict vehicle access on interior campus roads, and the rules tighten during commencement and move-in weekends. We arrange the pickup point in advance rather than discovering a closed gate with your luggage in the trunk.

05

Trade show runs to Oaks

The Expo Center is built for freight — wide loading doors, thousands of parking spaces, and staging room for full-size vehicles. This is the one place in the territory where the Sprinter is unambiguously the right answer: a team, their booth materials, and their luggage in one vehicle.

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Luxury SUV

Cadillac Escalade Premium Lux

Usually the right call here

Cadillac Escalade Premium Lux · Up to 6 passengers

For most of Delaware County and the Main Line, the Escalade is the vehicle that fits everywhere without compromise. It carries six with luggage, it clears the estate drives and club entrances a larger van has to negotiate, and it holds its own at a country club entrance. When the group is bigger — a wedding party, a corporate team headed to Oaks — we move up to the Sprinter and plan the approach accordingly.

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Good to Know

Questions, Answered

Do you cover the whole Main Line, or only Delaware County?

Both. Our cars are based in Prospect Park in Delaware County, and the Blue Route puts Bryn Mawr, Villanova, Radnor, Wayne and Ardmore within a straight run of the garage. We work across the county line constantly — it is one territory to us, not two.

Our ceremony is in Delaware County and the reception is on the Main Line. Can you handle both?

Yes, and it is one of the most common requests we get here. We plan the transfer as its own leg of the day, drive the route in advance rather than trusting a live traffic estimate, and build in buffer so the wedding party is never the reason the reception starts late.

How early should a Main Line pickup leave for PHL?

It depends on your terminal, your airline's cutoff, and the time of day — I-476 behaves very differently at 6am than at 4pm. Tell us the flight when you book and we'll set the pickup time against it rather than against a generic rule. If we think you are cutting it close, we will say so.

Do you run transportation for events at the Expo Center at Oaks?

Yes. Trade shows and expos at Oaks are a regular corporate run for us, whether that is a team arriving from PHL with booth materials or shuttle legs between the venue and hotels in King of Prussia and Valley Forge. The Sprinter is usually the right vehicle for it.

Can you provide transportation for a college weekend — commencement, move-in, family visits?

Yes. Swarthmore, Villanova, Haverford and Bryn Mawr are all inside our home territory. Campus vehicle access is restricted on the busiest weekends, so we agree the pickup point with you in advance instead of improvising at a closed gate.

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