Monaco

Monaco is not a city, it is a balcony. Two square kilometres cut sharply into the Mediterranean, where luxury is lived in height and discretion is measured in the silence of the motorcars.

The Principality holds only four districts — Monte-Carlo, La Condamine, Monaco-Ville, Fontvieille — but it concentrates, in this pocket-handkerchief, more palaces and yachts than any other commune in the world. It is here that Maison Vehira most regularly serves its guests, at the door of the Hôtel de Paris, the entrance to the Hermitage, the foot of the Métropole, on the quayside of the Port Hercule where the longest yachts moor for a few weeks each year.

The Maison knows the place of the Casino at the hours when it awakens, the Tête de Chien at the hours when it lights up, and Roquebrune-Cap-Martin via the corniches that follow one another from the Tunnel. It conveys with the same measure a Geneva banker and a private guest returning from a soirée at the Opéra Garnier. This measure is Monaco's signature: a place where one does not show oneself, because one already has everything.

Vehira has operated in Monaco from the start. Its chauffeurs know the particular protocols of the Principality — the parking zones, the palace accesses, the helipad schedules, the traffic windows around the Casino on event evenings. They know how to wait, sometimes for long, without weight, in immediate proximity without imposing themselves in the field.

The Maison habitually serves at the exit of the Monégasque palaces for transfers to Nice Airport or the Monaco Heliport, in by-the-hour service during the great events (Grand Prix, Yacht Show, Rolex Masters), and for the conveyance of families residing year-round in the Principality. Among its regular missions are seasonal commitments to apartments of Monte-Carlo and villas of Cap-d'Ail.

Its motorcars are Mercedes S-Class or E-Class, all dark in colour, all irreproachably maintained. For families with children, the Maison fits the motorcar with child seats suited to the family's composition. It is an attention that lies in the manner.

Vehira regularly serves the guests of the great palaces of the Principality, without permitting itself to name them. It is known to several concierges, to the yacht clubs, and to the private counsels residing year-round in Monaco. The Maison also attends private residences, in Monte-Carlo, Fontvieille and Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, on prior instruction.

For guests of the Port Hercule, the Maison has a particular by-the-hour protocol at the quayside, with waiting on the car park reserved for service vehicles or in the immediate vicinity. Several commanders and owners entrust to it their crews and their guests during the Mediterranean seasons.