Aldgate is where the Square Mile shades into the East End — a reworked gyratory, glass towers over old street names, and Petticoat Lane’s Sunday sprawl at its feet. Stansted is the airport its geography argues for. £131 fixed for a saloon, 45–80 minutes by road via Commercial Road to the A12/M11, free cancellation to 24 hours — and the price you confirm is the price you pay.
| Taxi, fixed fare | from £131 · 45–80 min · door to door |
| Pickup | Any address or named corner in Aldgate |
| Airport drop | Single terminal |
| Cancellation | Free to 24 h · 50% to 12 h |
| Deposit | 30% now · balance on the day |
| Return together | Save 10% |
| Bookings | 24/7 · card, wallet or cash |
One figure for the whole journey, locked before you book. Vehicles by party size — the fare is per car, not per person, so groups split it.
| Vehicle | Passengers | Best for | Aldgate → Stansted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saloon | Up to 4 | Solo, couples, light luggage | from £131 |
| MPV | Up to 6 | Families, groups, heavy cases | from £160 |
| 8-seater | Up to 7 | Big groups and serious luggage | from £176 |
30% deposit secures the booking, balance on the day of travel; return journeys booked together save 10%. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before pickup, 50% refund up to 12 hours before. Pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay online, or cash to the driver. Any weekend-peak or late-night adjustment is applied before you see the final figure — the price you confirm is the price you pay, congestion-zone charges included.
~31 miles by road via Commercial Road to the A12/M11. The honest number is a range — about 45 minutes when the roads are empty, up to 80 in the peaks — and the pickup time we agree is built on the slow end, not the brochure end.
Work backwards from the flight: low-cost bag-drop is strict — often a hard 40-minute cutoff. Check your airline. Add the drive at 80 minutes plus a 15-minute buffer, and treat the result as a floor, not a dare — we sanity-check the pickup time against your flight when you confirm.
At the airport we drop at the single Stansted terminal.
Fixed means fixed: traffic, diversions and the driver’s route choice are our problem, not a surcharge. The figure you approved at booking is the figure you pay at the kerb.
Middlesex Street and its neighbours close for Petticoat Lane market on Sunday mornings. Pickups shift to the Aldgate High Street side; the notes plus our message find you fast.
Commercial Road to the A12 and M11 — Stansted without touching the West End. Peak-hour Bow adds the minutes the fare already carries.
The newer towers have loading bays the satnav ignores. Building name and bay in the notes gets the car to the right ramp first time.
A Sunday 09:40 Stansted departure: 07:00 pickup on Aldgate High Street while the market builds a block away, M11 clear, kerb about 07:50.
From £131 for a saloon (up to 4 passengers), £160 for an MPV (up to 6) and £176 for an 8-seater (up to 7) — fixed before you book. 30% deposit secures it, balance on the day; returns booked together save 10%, and cancellation is free to 24 hours before pickup.
45–80 minutes by road depending on the hour, via Commercial Road to the A12/M11. Work back from your airline cutoff — low-cost bag-drop is strict — often a hard 40-minute cutoff. Check your airline. Add the drive at the top of the range plus a 15-minute buffer, and treat the result as a floor, not a dare.
Weekdays, anywhere kerbside works with the message flow; Sundays we pre-agree a spot clear of the market streets and put it on the confirmation.
Right — a single terminal, so no drop-point ambiguity. The strict part is the bag-drop clock, and our pickup-time advice is built around it.
Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before pickup and 50%% refunded up to 12 hours before. Weekend-peak or late-night adjustments appear on the quote before you confirm — the figure you approve is final, congestion-zone charges included.
From £131, fixed before you book, free cancellation to 24 hours, and a pickup timed to your flight — not the other way round.