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 Lewisham to Stansted 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 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. Pre-booked both ways, none of that is your problem.
Ask three Lewisham drivers for the best line and you get one answer. The run is the A20 or A2 up to the Blackwall Tunnel, then the A12 and M11 Junction 4, which is about 38.5 miles and 1h 10m on a clear road.
The variable is not distance, it is Lewisham roundabout and the northbound Blackwall queue. 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 A2 to Blackwall after 23:00 is clean and the journey tightens right up.
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 Lewisham the public transport route is DLR or National Rail to Stratford, then Tottenham Hale and the Stansted Express, with 2 changes, and it runs about 100 minutes station to terminal. The fare is 20.70 pounds on the Express plus 3.60.
The car is 1h 10m off-peak and 1h 40m at its worst, door to door, from anywhere in SE4, SE6, SE8, SE12, SE13, SE23. Once you add the walk at both ends the car wins on time as well as comfort.
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.
The money crosses over at three passengers. Below that rail wins; at three the Saloon works out near enough the same each. The Saloon is a fixed fare of £145, or about £48 each between three.
Dropping off is the easy half. 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.
On the return the pickup is 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. 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. 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.
The demand here comes from a handful of places in Lewisham: University Hospital Lewisham, Goldsmiths in New Cross, the Deptford creative studios and Catford's commuter streets. 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 Goldsmiths, University of London, or anywhere else in SE4, SE6, SE8, SE12, SE13, SE23, it is the same fixed fare. There is no inner and outer rate here. London Borough of Lewisham area, one price, quoted before you commit.
The cheapest seats leave early, which makes this a night-time route. A pre-dawn transfer behaves differently from the same trip at noon.
The roads are the easy part - The A2 to Blackwall after 23:00 is clean and the journey tightens right up. 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 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.
We cover the whole of Lewisham for this route: SE4, SE6, SE8, SE12, SE13, SE23. 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.
The classes differ by boot space far more than by comfort. 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.
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.
£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 Lewisham 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 £180 and an 8-seater £200. 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.
Card, bank transfer or a business account, before or after the journey. A VAT receipt is issued either way.
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 Lewisham 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 Lewisham roundabout and the northbound Blackwall queue. 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 Lewisham 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 Lewisham 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.