Event & venue transfers
Merton to Gatwick Airport runs to roughly 24.5 miles and 45 min off-peak. We quote £95 and that is the number you pay, whatever the traffic does.
A taxi from Merton to Gatwick Airport is £95 in a saloon, £120 in a 6-seat MPV and £135 in an 8-seater. It is about 24.5 miles and 45 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 £95 |
| MPV | up to 6 passengers, 4 large cases | from £120 |
| 8-seater | up to 7 passengers, 7 large cases | from £135 |
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. Pre-booked both ways, none of that is your problem.
Ask three Merton drivers for the best line and you get one answer. The run is the A24 south through Sutton to the A217 and Reigate, joining the M23 at Junction 8, which is about 24.5 miles and 45 min on a clear road.
The variable is not distance, it is Morden and the A24 through Sutton in the morning peak. That is where 45 min turns into 1h 10m, and it is why we publish a peak number instead of pretending every hour looks alike.
A short southerly run with no river crossing and no motorway queues.
If the road turns, the driver turns with it. The price you were quoted is the price either way.
Worth doing the sums rather than taking our word for it. From Merton the public transport route is Thameslink or Southern from Wimbledon via East Croydon to Gatwick, with one change, and it runs about 45 minutes station to terminal. The fare is about 13.00 pounds.
The car is 45 min off-peak and 1h 10m at its worst, door to door, from anywhere in SW19, SW20, CR4. On time alone the train is competitive, and if you are travelling light and alone it is a fair choice.
Two details matter more than the headline minutes. The first train is 04:50 from Wimbledon and the last is 23:45, 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 £95, or about £32 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. If you are heading back to Merton 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. 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 Merton for this route: SW19, SW20, CR4. 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 Gatwick Airport.
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 - A short southerly run with no river crossing and no motorway queues. It is the first hundred metres that goes wrong, not the next thirty miles. 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.
The fix is one line of detail at booking. 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.
Most of this route's traffic traces back to: the All England Club during Wimbledon fortnight, the St George's catchment in Tooting, Morden's commuter streets and Mitcham's industrial units. It makes for an unusually flat demand curve, and a lot of 04:00 work.
If you are collected near the All England Club, Wimbledon, or anywhere else in SW19, SW20, CR4, it is the same fixed fare. There is no inner and outer rate here. London Borough of Merton area, one price, quoted before you commit.
The three vehicle classes are not a sales ladder, they are three different amounts of boot. A Saloon at £95 takes four passengers and two large cases. An MPV at £120 takes six and four large cases. An eight-seater at £135 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.
£95 in a saloon, £120 in a 6-seat MPV and £135 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 Wimbledon 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.
Card, bank transfer or a business account, before or after the journey. A VAT receipt is issued either way.
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.
No. The fare is fixed when you book. Traffic, tolls and the hour are our problem, not a line on your bill.
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 Merton go first, so a 04:00 pickup is worth locking the night before.
That is the off-peak figure for the 24.5-mile run and it holds outside the rush. In the peak the same road is 1h 10m, mostly because of Morden and the A24 through Sutton in the morning peak. 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 Merton 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 £95 Saloon fare from Merton 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.