Event & venue transfers
Around 27.5 miles door to door, 50 min when the roads are behaving. From £100, locked at booking, with no meter running and no surge applied.
A taxi from Havering to Stansted Airport is £100 in a saloon, £125 in a 6-seat MPV and £140 in an 8-seater. It is about 27.5 miles and 50 min off-peak, or 1h 10m 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 £100 |
| MPV | up to 6 passengers, 4 large cases | from £125 |
| 8-seater | up to 7 passengers, 7 large cases | from £140 |
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.
Ask three Havering drivers for the best line and you get one answer. The run is the M25 anticlockwise from Junction 28 or 29 round to Junction 27, then north on the M11, which is about 27.5 miles and 50 min on a clear road.
What decides your journey time is M25 Junction 27 where the M11 splits, which tails back at 07:00 and 17:00. That is where 50 min turns into 1h 10m, and it is why we publish a peak number instead of pretending every hour looks alike.
Probably the quickest run to Stansted of any London borough once the M25 is quiet.
If the road turns, the driver turns with it. The price you were quoted is the price either way.
We would rather set this out than pretend the train does not exist. From Havering the public transport route is Elizabeth line to Stratford, Overground to Tottenham Hale, then the Stansted Express, with 2 changes, and it runs about 85 minutes station to terminal. The fare is 20.70 pounds on the Express plus 4.10.
The car is 50 min off-peak and 1h 10m at its worst, door to door, from anywhere in RM1, RM2, RM3, RM11, RM12, RM13, RM14. Add the connections and the platform walks and the car is ahead before comfort even enters 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 £100, or about £33 each between three.
Outbound is simple. 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 Havering 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.
We cover the whole of Havering for this route: RM1, RM2, RM3, RM11, RM12, RM13, RM14. 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.
Most of this route's traffic traces back to: Queen's Hospital Romford, the Romford market trade, Upminster and Hornchurch commuters and the Rainham logistics parks. 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 Romford Market, or anywhere else in RM1, RM2, RM3, RM11, RM12, RM13, RM14, it is the same fixed fare. There is no inner and outer rate here. London Borough of Havering area, one price, quoted before you commit.
Stansted Airport front-loads its day, and Havering 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 - Probably the quickest run to Stansted of any London borough once the M25 is quiet. 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.
Which is why the booking form asks where exactly, not just where. 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 £100 takes four passengers and two large cases. An MPV at £125 takes six and four large cases. An eight-seater at £140 takes seven and seven large cases.
Seats are the easy number; luggage is the one that catches people. 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.
£100 in a saloon, £125 in a 6-seat MPV and £140 in an 8-seater. That is the fixed price, agreed at booking.
Door to door the car is about 50 min off-peak. The rail alternative is Romford 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.
A 6-seat MPV is £125 and an 8-seater £140. Bigger parties travel in several vehicles routed together.
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.
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 Havering.
That is the off-peak figure for the 27.5-mile run and it holds outside the rush. In the peak the same road is 1h 10m, mostly because of M25 Junction 27 where the M11 splits, which tails back at 07:00 and 17:00. 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 Havering 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 £100 Saloon fare from Havering 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.