Looking for a taxi transfer to a Cruise Ship Terminal from Helston? Why not start your cruise in style, we offer cost-effective travel from Helston to the following ports:

• Helston to the Port of Dover
• Helston to the Port of Greenock/Glasgow
• Helston to the Port of Harwich
• Helston to the Port of Hull
• Helston to the Port of Liverpool
• Helston to the Port of Portsmouth
• Helston to the Port of Southampton
• Helston to the Port of Leith/Edinburgh
• Helston to the Port of London Tilbury
• Helston to the Port of Felixstowe
• Helston to the Port of Newcastle

With many years of experience in insuring our customers arrive at their destination on time, Cars Exec offer the very best in service with our excellent chauffeurs.

Our chauffeur-driven taxi service provides comfort, style and luxury, all in one trip, to any of the major UK cruise ports from your home or airport. We will then be there on your return, ready to take care of you and your luggage, returning you home with the minimum of stress.

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Professional corporate travel

We provide a trusted, professional but discreet service to our business and corporate clients in Helston, with impeccable chauffeur-driven cars as well as luxury people carriers to Helston-based UK Companies, international businesses and discerning private clients, travelling to and from London.

Cars Exec offer cars to and from important meetings, a meet and greet service from major airports and train stations across the mainland UK. as well as a daily commute service locally, or long distance to London and other UK cities

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Want to make your special event even more stylish? We will sweep you off to a day at the races, a concert, a birthday treat or even a proposal in our comfortable, luxurious cars. Just sit back and relax as you ride in style in an executive chauffeur-driven hire,

• Wimbledon.
• Birthday Treat / Surprise.
• Ascot.
• Silverstone.
• Wembley / O2 Arena.
• Anniversary celebrations.

Our VIP car service is the perfect prestige car hire service for you if you want to make the right impression but at comparable taxi prices.

Helston​ in Cornwall

Helson is situated at the northern end of the Lizard Peninsula approximately 12 miles (19 km) east of Penzance and 9 miles (14 km) southwest of Falmouth. Helston is the most southerly town on the island of Great Britain and is around 1.5 miles (2.4 km) farther south than Penzance.

The name comes from the Cornish ‘hen lis’ or ‘old court’ and ‘ton’ added later to denote a Saxon manor; the Domesday Book refers to Henliston (which survives as the name of a road in the town).

The Floral Dance

Helston is perhaps most famous for the ‘Furry’ or Floral Dance held on the 8th May, unless this falls on a Sunday or Monday when it takes place on the preceding Saturday). On Flora Day the streets are thronged with thousands of visitors and there’s a carnival atmosphere all day and into the night. At 7.00 am and again at 8.30 am, there is the Hal-an-Tow, in which St George and St Michael slay the Dragon and the Devil, cheered on by a crowd in Elizabethan dress. The children’s dance is at 10.00 am. At midday is the main dance, with participants dressed in top hats, tails and ball gowns. The final dance is at 5.00 pm. Throughout the day, dancers weave in and out of shops, houses and gardens following the Helston Town Band playing the famous Floral Dance.

History of Helston

Helston was granted its charter in 1201 and was originally a thriving port. However, as the river silted up over the years, the port gradually ceased to be. Where the river joined the sea is now Cornwall’s largest freshwater lake, separated from the sea by Loe Bar, a long sand bar.

The bustling market town hosts a mixture of Georgian and Victorian architecture. An outstanding feature at the end of Coinagehall Street is The Monument, which was built in 1834 in memory of Humphry Millet Grylls, a local banker and solicitor whose actions kept open the local tin mine and saved 1200 jobs.

Daniel Defoe describes Helston (1725) in his tour around Great Britain thus, ″This town is large and populous, and has four spacious streets, a handsome church, and a good trade: this town also sends members to Parliament.’ He also mentions that the River Cober makes a tolerable good harbour and several ships are loaded with tin, although over one hundred years before Defoe,