Event & venue transfers
Battersea to Stansted Airport runs to roughly 41.0 miles and 1h 10m off-peak. We quote £150 and that is the number you pay, whatever the traffic does.
A taxi from Battersea to Stansted Airport is £150 in a saloon, £190 in a 6-seat MPV and £210 in an 8-seater. It is about 41.0 miles and 1h 10m off-peak, or 1h 45m 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 £190 |
| 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 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. Being dropped at the door and collected at an agreed point removes the whole problem.
The route from Battersea is not complicated. The timing of it is. The run is the A3 and A202 east to Tower Bridge, then the A12 and M11, which is about 41.0 miles and 1h 10m on a clear road.
The part worth planning around is Vauxhall Cross and the Old Kent Road. That is where 1h 10m turns into 1h 45m, and it is why we publish a peak number instead of pretending every hour looks alike.
Crossing the river and the City at night is straightforward.
If the road turns, the driver turns with it. The price you were quoted is the price either way.
Here is the alternative, with its real numbers. From Battersea the public transport route is Southern to Victoria, the Victoria line to Tottenham Hale, 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 1h 10m off-peak and 1h 45m at its worst, door to door, from anywhere in SW8, SW11. That makes the train genuinely quick here - one bag, one person, take it.
There are two catches the journey planner does not show. 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.
Split three ways the car matches the train, and that is before the bags you did not carry up a staircase. The Saloon is a fixed fare of £150, or about £50 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.
Landing back, your driver waits 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 Battersea 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.
Look at who books it and Battersea explains itself: Battersea Power Station and its retail floors, the Nine Elms embassies, the Clapham Junction commuter belt and the riverside apartment blocks. It makes for an unusually flat demand curve, and a lot of 04:00 work.
If you are collected near Battersea Power Station, or anywhere else in SW8, SW11, it is the same fixed fare. One price across the borough, whatever the street looks like. London Borough of Wandsworth area, one price, quoted before you commit.
Stansted Airport front-loads its day, and Battersea 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 - Crossing the river and the City at night is straightforward. What changes is everything around them. 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 tell us the entrance when you book. 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.
What separates the three vehicles is luggage, not luxury. A Saloon at £150 takes four passengers and two large cases. An MPV at £190 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 Battersea for this route: SW8, SW11. 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.
Some addresses have a bay; most do not. 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.
£150 in a saloon, £190 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 Battersea Power Station 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.
No. The fare is fixed when you book. Traffic, tolls and the hour are our problem, not a line on your bill.
Card, bank transfer or a business account, before or after the journey. A VAT receipt is issued either way.
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 £190 and an 8-seater £210. 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 Battersea.
That is the off-peak figure for the 41.0-mile run and it holds outside the rush. In the peak the same road is 1h 45m, mostly because of Vauxhall Cross and the Old Kent Road. 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 Battersea 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 Battersea 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.