Event & venue transfers
Fixed at £85 from Croydon to Gatwick Airport, about 21.4 miles and 45 min on a clear road. The price is locked when you book, not when you travel.
A taxi from Croydon to Gatwick Airport is £85 in a saloon, £105 in a 6-seat MPV and £120 in an 8-seater. It is about 21.4 miles and 45 min off-peak, or 1h 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 £85 |
| MPV | up to 6 passengers, 4 large cases | from £105 |
| 8-seater | up to 7 passengers, 7 large cases | from £120 |
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. Being dropped at the door and collected at an agreed point removes the whole problem.
There is one sensible way out of Croydon and the driver already knows it. The run is straight down the A23 through Purley, then the M23 from Junction 7 - barely any London traffic at all, which is about 21.4 miles and 45 min on a clear road.
The part worth planning around is Purley Cross and the A23 through Coulsdon in the morning. That is where 45 min turns into 1h, and it is why we publish a peak number instead of pretending every hour looks alike.
The shortest run to Gatwick of any London borough, and quicker still after midnight.
Your driver watches the live picture and re-routes without being asked, and the fare does not move when they do.
We would rather set this out than pretend the train does not exist. From Croydon the public transport route is Southern, Thameslink or the Gatwick Express from East Croydon, direct, with no change at all, and it runs about 17 minutes station to terminal. The fare is about 9.00 pounds off-peak.
The car is 45 min off-peak and 1h at its worst, door to door, from anywhere in CR0, CR2, CR7, SE25. On time alone the train is competitive, and if you are travelling light and alone it is a fair choice.
The timetable hides two things. The first train is 04:45 from East Croydon and the last is 00:45, 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.
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 £85, or about £28 each between three.
The departure leg barely needs explaining. 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.
Coming the other way, the driver meets you 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. That means the car is waiting when you walk out, not summoned once you do.
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.
What separates the three vehicles is luggage, not luxury. A Saloon at £85 takes four passengers and two large cases. An MPV at £105 takes six and four large cases. An eight-seater at £120 takes seven and seven large cases.
Four seats does not mean four suitcases. 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.
A large share of Gatwick Airport departures push people out of Croydon in the dark. A pre-dawn transfer behaves differently from the same trip at noon.
The roads are the easy part - The shortest run to Gatwick of any London borough, and quicker still after midnight. The complications are at your end, not on the road. 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.
We cover the whole of Croydon for this route: CR0, CR2, CR7, SE25. 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.
If there is a legal bay, that is where the car waits. 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.
The regulars on this run come from: the Croydon council and insurance offices, Croydon University Hospital, the Boxpark crowd and a very large commuter population. That mix gives the route three peaks: business before dawn, families through the morning in term breaks, and a steady evening run.
If you are collected near Boxpark Croydon, or anywhere else in CR0, CR2, CR7, SE25, it is the same fixed fare. One price across the borough, whatever the street looks like. London Borough of Croydon area, one price, quoted before you commit.
£85 in a saloon, £105 in a 6-seat MPV and £120 in an 8-seater. That is the fixed price, agreed at booking.
Door to door the car is about 45 min off-peak. The rail alternative is East Croydon 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.
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.
A 6-seat MPV is £105 and an 8-seater £120. Bigger parties travel in several vehicles routed together.
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.
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 Croydon go first, so a 04:00 pickup is worth locking the night before.
That is the off-peak figure for the 21.4-mile run and it holds outside the rush. In the peak the same road is 1h, mostly because of Purley Cross and the A23 through Coulsdon in the morning. 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 Croydon 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 £85 Saloon fare from Croydon 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.