Rolls-Royce chauffeur instructor Andi McCann (right) and the author practice the proper way to open a car door.
Photographer: Drake O’Konski/Rolls-Royce Motor CarsWhat I Learned About Luxury at the Rolls-Royce School for Chauffeurs
Brake like a ballerina. Keep the fizz in the cup.
It’s 9 a.m. on a Friday, and I’m in a mirrored suite on the 31st floor of the Wynn Encore Las Vegas, watching an Englishman named Andi McCann practically pirouette across the carpet.
“It’s like dancing, you move the head, and the body follows,” he says, turning his chest like a matador toward the November sun seeping through floor-to-ceiling windows. “Make it one smooth movement; it’s theater!”