Monument is the City’s river edge — the column itself, the Eastcheap lanes, the old Billingsgate blocks — with three bridges to choose from and Gatwick due south. £120 fixed for a saloon, 50–85 minutes by road via a bridge south to the A23/M23, free cancellation to 24 hours — and the price you confirm is the price you pay.
| Taxi, fixed fare | from £120 · 50–85 min · door to door |
| Pickup | Any address or named corner in Monument |
| Airport drop | North or South Terminal |
| Cancellation | Free to 24 h · 50% to 12 h |
| Deposit | 30% now · balance on the day |
| Return together | Save 10% |
| Bookings | 24/7 · card, wallet or cash |
One figure for the whole journey, locked before you book. Vehicles by party size — the fare is per car, not per person, so groups split it.
| Vehicle | Passengers | Best for | Monument → Gatwick |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saloon | Up to 4 | Solo, couples, light luggage | from £120 |
| MPV | Up to 6 | Families, groups, heavy cases | from £149 |
| 8-seater | Up to 7 | Big groups and serious luggage | from £165 |
30% deposit secures the booking, balance on the day of travel; return journeys booked together save 10%. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before pickup, 50% refund up to 12 hours before. Pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay online, or cash to the driver. Any weekend-peak or late-night adjustment is applied before you see the final figure — the price you confirm is the price you pay, congestion-zone charges included.
~27 miles by road via a bridge south to the A23/M23. The honest number is a range — about 50 minutes when the roads are empty, up to 85 in the peaks — and the pickup time we agree is built on the slow end, not the brochure end.
Work backwards from the flight: bag-drop typically closes 40–60 minutes before departure — check your airline. Add the drive at 85 minutes plus a 15-minute buffer, and treat the result as a floor, not a dare — we sanity-check the pickup time against your flight when you confirm.
At the airport we drop at Gatwick North or South Terminal — your airline sets which.
Fixed means fixed: traffic, diversions and the driver’s route choice are our problem, not a surcharge. The figure you approved at booking is the figure you pay at the kerb.
London, Tower or Blackfriars — the driver takes whichever is moving to reach the A23 south. You will never be asked to pick; the fare does not care which bridge won.
Pudding Lane and Philpot Lane are no place to hold a car. We stage on the Eastcheap or Gracechurch Street corners and message the exact kerb.
Tower-bound visitors thicken Lower Thames Street on summer afternoons; the buffer for it is already inside the quote.
An 08:20 Gatwick departure: 05:40 pickup on Eastcheap, over London Bridge in the dark, South Terminal kerb about 06:30.
From £120 for a saloon (up to 4 passengers), £149 for an MPV (up to 6) and £165 for an 8-seater (up to 7) — fixed before you book. 30% deposit secures it, balance on the day; returns booked together save 10%, and cancellation is free to 24 hours before pickup.
50–85 minutes by road depending on the hour, via a bridge south to the A23/M23. Work back from your airline cutoff — bag-drop typically closes 40–60 minutes before departure — check your airline. Add the drive at the top of the range plus a 15-minute buffer, and treat the result as a floor, not a dare.
Name any — Eastcheap by the church, Gracechurch at Fenchurch Street — and the confirmation carries it. The driver messages five minutes out.
No. Weekend-peak or late-night adjustments are applied before you see the final figure; what you confirm is what you pay.
Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before pickup and 50%% refunded up to 12 hours before. Weekend-peak or late-night adjustments appear on the quote before you confirm — the figure you approve is final, congestion-zone charges included.
From £120, fixed before you book, free cancellation to 24 hours, and a pickup timed to your flight — not the other way round.