Event & venue transfers
Around 38.5 miles door to door, 1h 10m when the roads are behaving. From £145, locked at booking, with no meter running and no surge applied.
A taxi from Greenwich to London Luton Airport is £145 in a saloon, £180 in a 6-seat MPV and £200 in an 8-seater. It is about 38.5 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 £145 |
| MPV | up to 6 passengers, 4 large cases | from £180 |
| 8-seater | up to 7 passengers, 7 large cases | from £200 |
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 arrivals, or the mid-stay pickup area. Luton's drop-off arrangements change with the terminal works, so the driver confirms the exact point on 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: London Luton Airport, Bedfordshire, LU2 9LY.
Parking at London Luton Airport is limited and the surrounding streets are metered or permit-only, so self-driving usually costs more in time than the fare saves. Pre-booked both ways, none of that is your problem.
Ask three Greenwich drivers for the best line and you get one answer. The run is the Blackwall Tunnel and A12 to the A406, then west to the M1 at Junction 1, which is about 38.5 miles and 1h 10m on a clear road.
The variable is not distance, it is the Blackwall Tunnel northbound and the A406 at Brent Cross. 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.
Blackwall is free between 22:00 and 06:00, which takes a large bite out of this one.
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 Greenwich the public transport route is the Jubilee line to London Bridge, then Thameslink to Luton Airport Parkway and the DART, with one change, and it runs about 95 minutes station to terminal. The fare is about 20.00 pounds plus 4.90 on the DART.
The car is 1h 10m off-peak and 1h 40m at its worst, door to door, from anywhere in SE3, SE7, SE9, SE10, SE18. Add the connections and the platform walks and the car is ahead before comfort even enters it.
Two things the timetable will not tell you. The first train is 04:38 from London Bridge and the last is 23:50, which rules rail out for a large slice of what London Luton Airport actually flies - the early bank needs you airside before the network wakes up. The second is luggage: the rail route ends at Luton Airport Parkway and you still need the DART shuttle up to the terminal, which means two luggage transfers rather than one, and a further fare on top.
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 £145, or about £48 each between three.
Going out, there is little to get wrong. Luton's set-down is in the multi-storey opposite the terminal, and the airport charges for it - that charge is inside your fixed fare. The walk to check-in is about four minutes on the level.
Coming the other way, the driver meets you at the short-stay multi-storey directly opposite the terminal, in the bays reserved 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 touchdown, which Luton needs more than most airports because bag delivery here is not its strong point. The difference is leaving straight away instead of joining the queue that forms the moment a full flight empties.
We track the inbound flight number, so an early landing or a two-hour delay changes the driver's schedule and not your fare. Luton runs a heavy early-morning charter bank and arrivals stack up behind it, so we track the flight rather than the schedule.
The regulars on this run come from: The O2 and Greenwich Peninsula, the Old Royal Naval College, Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich and the Charlton estates. 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 The O2, or anywhere else in SE3, SE7, SE9, SE10, SE18, it is the same fixed fare. We do not zone the borough or add a surcharge because a street is awkward to reach. the Royal Borough of Greenwich area, one price, quoted before you commit.
A large share of London Luton Airport departures push people out of Greenwich in the dark. A pre-dawn transfer behaves differently from the same trip at noon.
The roads are the easy part - Blackwall is free between 22:00 and 06:00, which takes a large bite out of this one. The building is the problem, not the route. 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.
What separates the three vehicles is luggage, not luxury. A Saloon at £145 takes four passengers and two large cases. An MPV at £180 takes six and four large cases. An eight-seater at £200 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.
We cover the whole of Greenwich for this route: SE3, SE7, SE9, SE10, SE18. 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 London Luton Airport.
£145 in a saloon, £180 in a 6-seat MPV and £200 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 Greenwich to Luton Airport Parkway plus the walk, which is competitive going out and considerably slower coming back.
Meet and greet in arrivals, or the mid-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.
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 £180 and an 8-seater £200. 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 Greenwich go first, so a 04:00 pickup is worth locking the night before.
That is the off-peak figure for the 38.5-mile run and it holds outside the rush. In the peak the same road is 1h 40m, mostly because of the Blackwall Tunnel northbound and the A406 at Brent Cross. 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 Greenwich 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 £145 Saloon fare from Greenwich covers the driver, the vehicle, tolls on the route, the airport drop-off 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.