Lake Ida is the Delray that residents quietly consider the best-kept part of town: a neighborhood of 1950s ranches, restored cottages and new builds under genuinely old trees, wrapped around the freshwater lake that gives it its name, just northwest of downtown. There is no gate and no scene - the flex here is a banyan canopy and a backyard dock. Lake Ida Park draws water-skiers at dawn and hosts one of the best dog parks in Palm Beach County, and the whole neighborhood sits five minutes from Atlantic Avenue without ever feeling like a tourist district.
The people we drive here are mostly homeowners, their guests, and families visiting for the season - which shapes the service. This is a door-to-door residential run: about 55 miles from MIA, an hour of driving, a fixed fare from $129, and a chauffeur who meets your party inside arrivals rather than idling in a cell phone lot. Grandparents arriving for a month get help to the front step with every bag. Kids get their car seats installed before the plane lands, not negotiated at the curb.
Lake Ida is also a common second leg: guests spend a first night near the beach, then move to the house. We handle those short local hops from $75, and the reverse airport run works the same way in either direction. If the visit revolves around the lake itself - a birthday on a pontoon boat, a morning at the dog park before an evening flight - build the pickup around it. The point of a fixed fare and a tracked flight is that the schedule bends to the day, not the other way around.
What to expect
- Door-to-door residential drop anywhere in the Lake Ida neighborhood
- Child seats and booster seats installed on request, no curb fumbling
- About an hour from MIA on a fixed fare from $129
- Local hops between Lake Ida, the beach and downtown from $75
- Meet and greet at MIA arrivals for visiting family and guests