Event & venue transfers
Around 46.0 miles door to door, 1h 15m when the roads are behaving. From £165, locked at booking, with no meter running and no surge applied.
A taxi from Richmond upon Thames to Stansted Airport is £165 in a saloon, £210 in a 6-seat MPV and £230 in an 8-seater. It is about 46.0 miles and 1h 15m off-peak, or 1h 50m 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 £165 |
| MPV | up to 6 passengers, 4 large cases | from £210 |
| 8-seater | up to 7 passengers, 7 large cases | from £230 |
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.
There is one sensible way out of Richmond upon Thames and the driver already knows it. The run is the A316 and A205 east, then the Blackwall Tunnel, A12 and M11, which is about 46.0 miles and 1h 15m on a clear road.
What decides your journey time is the South Circular through Wandsworth and Blackwall northbound. That is where 1h 15m turns into 1h 50m, and it is why we publish a peak number instead of pretending every hour looks alike.
A genuinely long crossing that runs without interruption after midnight.
Your driver watches the live picture and re-routes without being asked, and the fare does not move when they do.
Here is the alternative, with its real numbers. From Richmond upon Thames the public transport route is the District line or South Western into town, then Liverpool Street, with 2 changes, and it runs about 95 minutes station to terminal. The fare is 24.50 pounds on the Express plus 4.20.
The car is 1h 15m off-peak and 1h 50m at its worst, door to door, from anywhere in TW9, TW10, TW11, SW13, SW14. 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 04:40 from Liverpool Street and the last is 00:30, 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 £165, or about £55 each between three.
The departure leg barely needs explaining. 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.
Landing back, your driver waits 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. 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 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 genuinely long crossing that runs without interruption after midnight. What changes is everything around them. 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.
We cover the whole of Richmond upon Thames for this route: TW9, TW10, TW11, SW13, SW14. 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 £165 takes four passengers and two large cases. An MPV at £210 takes six and four large cases. An eight-seater at £230 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.
The demand here comes from a handful of places in Richmond upon Thames: Richmond Park visitors, the Twickenham rugby crowd, the riverside restaurant trade and a strong business-travel base. 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 Richmond Park, or anywhere else in TW9, TW10, TW11, SW13, SW14, it is the same fixed fare. There is no inner and outer rate here. the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames area, one price, quoted before you commit.
£165 in a saloon, £210 in a 6-seat MPV and £230 in an 8-seater. That is the fixed price, agreed at booking.
Door to door the car is about 1h 15m off-peak. The rail alternative is Richmond 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.
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.
Card, bank transfer or a business account, before or after the journey. A VAT receipt is issued either way.
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 Richmond upon Thames.
That is the off-peak figure for the 46.0-mile run and it holds outside the rush. In the peak the same road is 1h 50m, mostly because of the South Circular through Wandsworth and Blackwall northbound. 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 Richmond upon Thames 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 £165 Saloon fare from Richmond upon Thames 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.