Event & venue transfers
Enfield to Gatwick Airport runs to roughly 42.5 miles and 1h 10m off-peak. We quote £150 and that is the number you pay, whatever the traffic does.
A taxi from Enfield to Gatwick Airport is £150 in a saloon, £190 in a 6-seat MPV and £210 in an 8-seater. It is about 42.5 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 £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 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.
The route from Enfield is not complicated. The timing of it is. The run is the M25 anticlockwise from Junction 25 round the east and south to Junction 7, then the M23, which is about 42.5 miles and 1h 10m on a clear road.
What decides your journey time is the Dartford Crossing on the orbital route, and the A10 through Edmonton if the driver goes through town. 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 orbital route at night is the clear winner and the crossing flows.
Your driver watches the live picture and re-routes without being asked, and the fare does not move when they do.
The honest comparison, because you can look it up in a minute anyway. From Enfield the public transport route is Great Northern to Finsbury Park, then Thameslink direct to Gatwick, with one change, and it runs about 90 minutes station to terminal. The fare is about 21.00 pounds plus 2.90.
The car is 1h 10m off-peak and 1h 40m at its worst, door to door, from anywhere in EN1, EN2, EN3, N9, N13, N18, N21. 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 04:58 from Finsbury Park and the last is 23:25, 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 £150, or about £50 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.
Inbound, look for the car 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.
We cover the whole of Enfield for this route: EN1, EN2, EN3, N9, N13, N18, N21. 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.
Most of this route's traffic traces back to: Chase Farm and North Middlesex Hospitals, the Brimsdown industrial estate, Middlesex University students and a 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 Forty Hall, or anywhere else in EN1, EN2, EN3, N9, N13, N18, N21, it is the same fixed fare. One price across the borough, whatever the street looks like. London Borough of Enfield area, one price, quoted before you commit.
Gatwick Airport front-loads its day, and Enfield 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 at night is the clear winner and the crossing flows. 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 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.
The classes differ by boot space far more than by comfort. 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.
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.
£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 Enfield Town 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.
A 6-seat MPV is £190 and an 8-seater £210. Bigger parties travel in several vehicles routed together.
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.
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.
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 Enfield.
That is the off-peak figure for the 42.5-mile run and it holds outside the rush. In the peak the same road is 1h 40m, mostly because of the Dartford Crossing on the orbital route, and the A10 through Edmonton if the driver goes through town. 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 Enfield 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 Enfield 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.