Event & venue transfers
Fixed at £115 from Barnet to Stansted Airport, about 31.0 miles and 55 min on a clear road. The price is locked when you book, not when you travel.
A taxi from Barnet to Stansted Airport is £115 in a saloon, £145 in a 6-seat MPV and £160 in an 8-seater. It is about 31.0 miles and 55 min off-peak, or 1h 20m 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 £115 |
| MPV | up to 6 passengers, 4 large cases | from £145 |
| 8-seater | up to 7 passengers, 7 large cases | from £160 |
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 arrivals hall, or the short-stay pickup area. Stansted's drop-off charge and the airport approach fee are already inside the fixed fare. 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: London Stansted Airport, Essex, CM24 1QW.
Parking at Stansted 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 and A406 east to the M11 at Junction 4, or the M25 from Junction 23 to Junction 27, which is about 31.0 miles and 55 min on a clear road.
The part worth planning around is the A406 at Bounds Green and the M25 at Potters Bar. That is where 55 min turns into 1h 20m, and it is why we publish a peak number instead of pretending every hour looks alike.
The orbital route is clean at night and there is no London traffic at all.
If the road turns, the driver turns with it. The price you were quoted is the price either way.
Worth doing the sums rather than taking our word for it. From Barnet the public transport route is the Northern line to Tottenham Hale via a change, then the Express, with 2 changes, and it runs about 75 minutes station to terminal. The fare is 20.70 pounds on the Express plus 3.40.
The car is 55 min off-peak and 1h 20m at its worst, door to door, from anywhere in EN4, EN5, N2, N3, N11, N12, N20, NW4, NW7. Once you add the walk at both ends the car wins on time as well as comfort.
Two things the timetable will not tell you. The first train is 04:56 from Tottenham Hale and the last is 00:45, which rules rail out for a large slice of what Stansted Airport actually flies - the early bank needs you airside before the network wakes up. The second is luggage: the Stansted Express has luggage racks but they fill by Tottenham Hale, and the walk from the platform up into the terminal is longer than the signage suggests with two cases in hand.
On money the break-even is about three people. At two the train is cheaper; at three the Saloon splits to rouhly a third each and the car is level or better. The Saloon is a fixed fare of £115, or about £38 each between three.
The departure leg barely needs explaining. Stansted has one terminal, so there is no wrong door - the set-down bay sits directly in front of departures and the walk to check-in is under three minutes. Set-down is charged by the airport and that charge is inside your fare, not added at the barrier.
Coming the other way, the driver meets you at the short-stay car park opposite the terminal, bays signed for pre-booked cars. 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 the moment the flight lands, which is the realistic figure for a full A320 clearing the hall. If you are heading back to Barnet the driver is in position before you clear the hall.
We track the inbound flight number, so an early landing or a two-hour delay changes the driver's schedule and not your fare. Stansted bunches its arrivals, so a plane that lands on time can still take fifty minutes to reach the concourse. We build that in rather than start a clock the second the wheels touch.
The demand here comes from a handful of places in Barnet: Barnet Hospital, Middlesex University in Hendon, the Brent Cross retail trade and a very large family population. It makes for an unusually flat demand curve, and a lot of 04:00 work.
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.
Stansted 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 orbital route is clean at night and there is no London traffic at all. 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.
The fix is one line of detail at booking. 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.
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.
Where a building has a proper set-down bay, we use it. 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 Stansted Airport.
What separates the three vehicles is luggage, not luxury. A Saloon at £115 takes four passengers and two large cases. An MPV at £145 takes six and four large cases. An eight-seater at £160 takes seven and seven large cases.
Almost every mis-booking comes from counting people only. 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.
£115 in a saloon, £145 in a 6-seat MPV and £160 in an 8-seater. That is the fixed price, agreed at booking.
Door to door the car is about 55 min off-peak. The rail alternative is High Barnet to Stansted Airport plus the walk, which is competitive going out and considerably slower coming back.
Meet and greet in the arrivals hall, or the short-stay pickup area. You get the exact point and the registration by text beforehand.
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.
Card, bank transfer or a business account, before or after the journey. A VAT receipt is issued either way.
No. The fare is fixed when you book. Traffic, tolls and the hour are our problem, not a line on your bill.
A 6-seat MPV is £145 and an 8-seater £160. Bigger parties travel in several vehicles routed together.
A day ahead is plenty for a Saloon. Book earlier for an eight-seater or anything before 05:00, because those go first out of Barnet.
That is the off-peak figure for the 31.0-mile run and it holds outside the rush. In the peak the same road is 1h 20m, mostly because of the A406 at Bounds Green and the M25 at Potters Bar. 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 £115 Saloon fare from Barnet covers the driver, the vehicle, tolls on the route, the airport 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.