Event & venue transfers
Fixed at £150 from Barnet to Gatwick Airport, about 41.5 miles and 1h 10m on a clear road. The price is locked when you book, not when you travel.
A taxi from Barnet to Gatwick Airport is £150 in a saloon, £185 in a 6-seat MPV and £210 in an 8-seater. It is about 41.5 miles and 1h 10m off-peak, or 1h 40m in traffic. The fare is fixed at the moment you book and covers tolls, the driver's waiting time and your luggage.
| Vehicle | Capacity | Fixed fare |
|---|---|---|
| Saloon | up to 4 passengers, 2 large cases | from £150 |
| MPV | up to 6 passengers, 4 large cases | from £185 |
| 8-seater | up to 7 passengers, 7 large cases | from £210 |
Per vehicle, not per person. Tolls, congestion and crossing charges are already inside the price, and it does not change on the day.
Meet and greet in the North or South Terminal arrivals hall. North and South terminals are a shuttle apart, so we confirm which one you land at before the day. Your driver sends the exact standing point and the registration before they set off, so you are not circling a car park looking for a number plate.
Address: Gatwick Airport, Crawley, RH6 0NP.
Parking at Gatwick Airport is limited and the surrounding streets are metered or permit-only, so self-driving usually costs more in time than the fare saves. A drop-off and a booked return sidesteps it entirely.
There is one sensible way out of Barnet and the driver already knows it. The run is the A1 or A41 south to the A406, then across to the A23 and the M23, or the M25 anticlockwise from Junction 23 to Junction 7, which is about 41.5 miles and 1h 10m on a clear road.
What decides your journey time is the M25 western arc past Heathrow if the driver goes orbital. That is where 1h 10m turns into 1h 40m, and it is why we publish a peak number instead of pretending every hour looks alike.
The M25 route is the night line here and it avoids London entirely.
Re-routing is the driver's job, not your cost. A fixed fare means the traffic is our risk.
Worth doing the sums rather than taking our word for it. From Barnet the public transport route is Thameslink direct from Mill Hill Broadway to Gatwick Airport, with no change at all, and it runs about 85 minutes station to terminal. The fare is about 22.00 pounds off-peak.
The car is 1h 10m off-peak and 1h 40m at its worst, door to door, from anywhere in EN4, EN5, N2, N3, N11, N12, N20, NW4, NW7. Add the connections and the platform walks and the car is ahead before comfort even enters it.
There are two catches the journey planner does not show. The first train is 05:05 from Mill Hill Broadway and the last is 23:15, which rules rail out for a large slice of what Gatwick Airport actually flies - the early bank needs you airside before the network wakes up. The second is luggage: the Gatwick Express is comfortable but Victoria is a long walk with cases at both ends, and the Thameslink alternative involves stairs at several central stations.
The money crosses over at three passengers. Below that rail wins; at three the Saloon works out near enough the same each. The Saloon is a fixed fare of £150, or about £50 each between three.
Going out, there is little to get wrong. Gatwick has two terminals and they are not walkable from each other, so the airline decides your door - North for easyJet and most of the leisure carriers, South for BA and the long-haul operators. Tell us the airline and the driver goes to the right one. Set-down is in the short-stay car park at each terminal and the airport charges for it; that charge is inside your fare.
Landing back, your driver waits at the short-stay car park at your terminal, in the bays marked for pre-booked cars, about three minutes from the check-in hall. The exact bay and the registration reach you by text before you land, so there is no hunting along a rank and no call to a switchboard.
Sixty minutes of free waiting are included from touchdown, which Gatwick needs because the walk from the far end of the North Terminal pier plus border control eats most of an hour on a busy morning. You walk out to a car, which is the whole reason people book the return leg too.
We track the inbound flight number, so an early landing or a two-hour delay changes the driver's schedule and not your fare. Gatwick runs Europe's busiest single runway and arrivals stack up behind any disruption, so we track the flight rather than trusting the schedule.
Most of this route's traffic traces back to: Barnet Hospital, Middlesex University in Hendon, the Brent Cross retail trade and a very large family population. Between them they set the shape of the day - an early business bank before 06:00, a family bulge mid-morning in the school holidays, and a long tail of evening departures.
If you are collected near Brent Cross, or anywhere else in EN4, EN5, N2, N3, N11, N12, N20, NW4, NW7, it is the same fixed fare. No zone splits, no awkward-address premium. London Borough of Barnet area, one price, quoted before you commit.
Pick the car by the bags, not by the badge. A Saloon at £150 takes four passengers and two large cases. An MPV at £185 takes six and four large cases. An eight-seater at £210 takes seven and seven large cases.
The mistake is counting seats and forgetting the boot. Four adults with four large cases are an MPV booking whatever the seat count says. Tell us the bag count and we size it properly rather than sending a car that cannot close.
Child seats and boosters are free but need naming in advance, with the child's age, because the seat has to be fitted before the car leaves. Skis, bikes, instruments and wheelchairs all travel if you say so at booking. Parties over seven go in several vehicles routed together, so everyone reaches the same kerb within a minute of each other.
We cover the whole of Barnet for this route: EN4, EN5, N2, N3, N11, N12, N20, NW4, NW7. Homes, hotels, offices, hospitals and station forecourts all work as pickup points, and the fare from any of them is the one you were quoted.
Buildings with their own set-down are straightforward. Where there is not, the driver names a spot a few steps away that a car can legally stop in and messages you with it, rather than parking on a red route and hoping. It is a small thing, and it removes most of the stress from the first five minutes of a journey to Gatwick Airport.
Gatwick Airport front-loads its day, and Barnet feels that at four in the morning. A pre-dawn transfer behaves differently from the same trip at noon.
The roads are the easy part - The M25 route is the night line here and it avoids London entirely. It is the first hundred metres that goes wrong, not the next thirty miles. Night entrances replace main doors, barriers that are open by day are down, and a driver who has not been told which side of the block you are on will circle.
So we ask for the door, not just the postcode. The side entrance, the service road, the one with the step - that goes to the driver with the job. They message rather than ring a bell at four in the morning, and the free waiting time runs from the booked hour, not from whenever they happen to arrive.
£150 in a saloon, £185 in a 6-seat MPV and £210 in an 8-seater. That is the fixed price, agreed at booking.
Door to door the car is about 1h 10m off-peak. The rail alternative is High Barnet to Gatwick Airport plus the walk, which is competitive going out and considerably slower coming back.
Meet and greet in the North or South Terminal arrivals hall. You get the exact point and the registration by text beforehand.
Card, bank transfer or a business account, before or after the journey. A VAT receipt is issued either way.
The driver waits. We watch venue finish times rather than working to a fixed clock, so a late curtain does not leave you stranded or cost you extra.
Yes, and it is the leg worth booking. The driver is in position before you come out instead of you joining the queue that forms the moment it ends.
A 6-seat MPV is £185 and an 8-seater £210. Bigger parties travel in several vehicles routed together.
Twenty-four hours is comfortable and gets you the vehicle you asked for. Same-day works when a car is free, but the early slots out of Barnet go first, so a 04:00 pickup is worth locking the night before.
That is the off-peak figure for the 41.5-mile run and it holds outside the rush. In the peak the same road is 1h 40m, mostly because of the M25 western arc past Heathrow if the driver goes orbital. We set the airport cutoff from the worse of the two, not the better one.
Nothing happens to the fare - it was fixed when you booked. If the road goes badly wrong the driver re-routes, and on an airport run we would rather you left Barnet half an hour early than argue about whose fault the A-road was. Give us the flight time and we set the pickup from it.
Card, bank transfer or cash, and nothing is added at the end. The £150 Saloon fare from Barnet covers the driver, the vehicle, tolls on the route, the terminal set-down charge, and the free waiting time. No meter, no booking fee at checkout, no surge at any hour.
Fares are fixed at booking and shown per vehicle. Distances and journey times are approximate and vary with traffic and the exact pickup address. Page reviewed 14 September 2026.