We are a licensed private hire operator running fixed fares by vehicle class between Woking, Surrey and London Gatwick Airport. Fares shown are indicative, calculated on distance by vehicle class, and confirmed at booking via our fare calculator. Your final fixed price is locked in your booking confirmation — no surge, no airport surcharge, no late-night premium, no card fees.
Woking is a well-connected town with an oddly disconnected relationship to this particular airport: there is no direct train and no direct coach, which is unusual for a town on a main line about 23 miles from central London. What follows sets out exactly what we charge, how that figure is built, what the airport itself charges on top, and what we could and could not confirm about the alternatives.
Every figure below carries its unit and its source. Third-party figures were read on 5 August 2026. Fares are computed from our published rate card and fixed at the point of booking.
Woking (Surrey, GU21–GU24 and KT14) to Gatwick Airport (LGW, Crawley, West Sussex)
We run door-to-door transfers between any address in Woking and both Gatwick terminals, with a fixed fare agreed before you travel — no meter, no roadside surprises. We take bookings 24 hours a day, every day of the year, by phone, online or through our booking form, and every fare is quoted from your exact pickup address rather than a flat rate for the whole of Woking.
Every booking carries a named pickup point rather than a district, so the driver is told where to wait rather than left to work it out.
Saloon to 8-seater, with space for the luggage you tell us about. Tell us the case count as well as the head count.
Give us your flight number and a delayed arrival does not cost you the booking — the pickup time moves with the landing.
A saloon from Woking to Gatwick Airport is £62.18, fixed at booking, based on our 29.75-mile anchor distance read from a route planner on 5 August 2026. That figure moves with your exact pickup address — from £55.09 at the Ripley end of Woking to £64.45 at the Chobham end, a swing of £9.36 or 17.0 per cent across a single post town — which is why we ask for a full address rather than just the town name.
| Vehicle | Seats | Fare at anchorGBP | Per head at capacityGBP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saloon | 4 | £62.18 | £15.55 |
| Estate | 5 | £64.61 | £12.92 |
| MPV5 | 5 | £68.39 | £13.68 |
| MPV6 | 6 | £71.62 | £11.94 |
| MPV7 | 7 | £77.84 | £11.12 |
| MPV8 | 8 | £80.83 | £10.10 |
| Executive (E-Class) | 4 | £80.55 | £20.14 |
| Executive MPV | 6 | £93.97 | £15.66 |
Every fare here is built the same way: a minimum charge that covers the first five miles, plus a published rate for each mile after that, both fixed per vehicle class. At the anchor distance the minimum makes up 48 per cent of the saloon fare, so most of what you pay on this route is distance rather than a standing charge.
Because both the minimum and the per-mile rate are public, you can rebuild any fare here yourself, for any pickup address in Woking, without needing to ask us first. The fare you are quoted is fixed at the point of booking and does not change with traffic, time of day, or how the journey actually goes.
Get a fixed quote for your exact Woking address or call +44 20 3617 7825.
Because "Woking" is a post town, not a single point on a map, and treating it as one is where most published fares for this journey go wrong. Four postcode districts carry the WOKING post town — GU21, GU22, GU23 and GU24 — covering 49.17 square miles between them, plus KT14, whose post town is West Byfleet but which sits mostly inside Woking Borough. Together the WOKING-postal districts hold 3,189 postcodes and around 114,770 people, more than the 103,900 who live in Woking Borough itself, because the postal name and the civic boundary do not line up.
GU24 is the largest of the WOKING districts at 20.71 square miles, yet only around one in ten of its postcodes actually sit inside Woking Borough — most of it belongs to Surrey Heath instead.
KT14, which never writes the word "Woking" on an envelope at all, is the opposite case: the large majority of its postcodes sit inside Woking Borough. The name on the post and the authority on the ground point in different directions, which is exactly why a quote against "Woking" alone is not specific enough to be accurate.
Woking Station, on the South West Main Line, is a place a driver can be told to wait rather than a district as broad as "Woking" itself, and the single point in the borough most people can name. A taxi from Woking Station to Gatwick Airport prices at the 29.75-mile anchor fare, £62.18 in a saloon, with the same fixed-fare structure and vehicle options as any other Woking pickup.
If your address is elsewhere — Horsell, St Johns, Mayford, Old Woking, or further out towards Chobham or Ripley — tell us the full address at booking and we confirm the fare for that specific point rather than defaulting to the station rate. If you are being collected at the station rather than dropped off, give us your platform, entrance or a nearby landmark so your driver knows exactly where to wait.
| Origin | District | Distancemiles | Journey timeminutes | Saloon fareGBP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ripley | GU23 | 24.3 | 32 | £55.09 |
| West Byfleet | KT14 | 26.7 | 37 | £58.21 |
| Woking town and station | GU21 | 29.75 — anchor | 42 | £62.18 |
| Knaphill | GU21 | 30.3 | 50 | £62.89 |
| Chobham | GU24 | 31.5 | 41 | £64.45 |
Neither end of that range sits inside Woking Borough itself — Ripley is mostly in Guildford Borough, Chobham mostly in Surrey Heath. The borough's own heartland, GU21 and GU22, sits in the middle of the table. Every distance here carries the address it was measured from and the source it came from; a distance without both is not published here.
29.75 miles (47.9 km) by road, with a typical journey time of around 42 minutes. That figure is the mean of two directional measurements taken on the same route planner on the same day, and here is why we publish a mean rather than a single number.
We measured this route in both directions on the same day using the same route planner and got two different answers, 1.7 miles and three minutes apart on the same two points. That is not a measurement error — it is what one-way road systems and slip-road geometry do to a route that looks symmetrical on a map and is not on the ground. Rather than publish whichever figure looks better, we publish the mean, so the fare is built on a number we can explain and show our working for.
Eleven published figures were collected for this one route and they range from 19.9 to 37.0 miles — a spread of 17.1 miles for what should be a single number. The lowest, 19.9 miles, is a straight-line distance between two points rather than a road distance, and we rule it out for exactly that reason: our own road anchor is roughly half as long again as that straight line, which is what routing via the M25 and then the M23 does to a journey that looks direct from above.
Even with the straight-line figure excluded, the remaining road-distance sources still span well over 12 miles, and at least one publisher states two different distances for this same journey in its own body text and its own search listing, 2.0 miles apart. We name none of them — what matters is the inconsistency, not any single source. Figures also differ depending on the exact Woking pickup point used, and on whether the outbound or return direction was measured.
Journey time varies more by pickup point than distance alone would suggest. Chobham, at 31.5 miles, takes 41 minutes. Knaphill, 1.2 miles closer at 30.3 miles, takes 50 minutes — nine minutes slower despite being nearer, because one route joins the motorway quickly and the other spends its first stretch on cross-country road before it reaches motorway speed.
That inversion comes from the same route planner on the same day, so it is a fact about the roads themselves rather than a disagreement between sources. If you are leaving from the western side of Woking, plan on the longer figure rather than the shorter distance.
Dropping off costs £10.00 for the first 10 minutes and £1.00 for every minute after that, up to a maximum stay of 30 minutes and a maximum charge of £30.00 per visit. Against our saloon fare that is 16 per cent on the way in, rising to 48 per cent if the stop runs long. This is the airport's own charge and we do not add a penny of it to your quote.
The Short Stay car park charges £7.00 for 30 minutes, £13.00 for 60 minutes and £20.00 for 120 minutes, with a covered walk of around four minutes to the terminal. A drop-off plus a half-hour collection together come to £17.00 — 27 per cent of the saloon fare, and again, none of it goes to us.
The airport does publish it, if quietly: the Long Stay car park allows up to 120 minutes at no charge, with a shuttle running every 10 to 12 minutes to either terminal. For anyone with a little time to spare, that is £10.00 saved for a short shuttle ride.
Overstay or fail to pay and the penalty runs to £100.00, reduced to £60.00 if settled within 14 days — around 1.6 times our whole saloon fare for this journey, and the clearest reason, in the airport's own figures, to let a driver handle the forecourt rather than a private car.
Gatwick has two terminals, North Terminal and South Terminal, connected by a free shuttle train. Which one you need depends on your airline, and it is the first detail your fare needs, whether you are being dropped off for a flight or collected after landing.
We collect from and drop off at the North Terminal forecourt. Tell us your terminal at booking so your driver waits in the right place rather than the wrong one.
The rail station sits at South Terminal, and so does the Short Stay car park — a short covered walk from the terminal building, around four minutes. For pickups from the airport, give us your flight number and we track it, so your pickup time moves with your actual landing rather than your original booking time. Any specific waiting arrangement beyond the standard pickup is agreed directly with you at the time of booking rather than assumed to be included.
No to both. There is no direct train from Woking to Gatwick Airport — every route requires a change, and both available changes take over an hour, longer than the road journey at our anchor distance. And no coach and no bus runs from Woking to Gatwick Airport at all.
It is a genuinely unusual gap. Woking sits on the South West Main Line about 23 miles from central London and is one of the better-connected towns in Surrey — yet the national timetable's own page for services to Gatwick Airport names four other towns with a direct train, and Woking is not among them.
Being well connected to London is not the same as being connected to this particular airport, and it is the single most interesting fact about this journey that most guides leave out.
The airport's own transport page lists several places in Surrey with a coach service, and Woking is not one of them. The national coach operator's own page for Gatwick lists several routes, and none touch this part of the county — the network approaches Gatwick from the south and east, and Woking sits to the north-west of it.
There is one scheduled airport coach leaving Woking Station, and it serves a different airport entirely, in the opposite direction: the RA2 reaches Heathrow Terminals 2, 3 and 5 in under 40 minutes. Chaining that on to Gatwick would mean a change at Heathrow onto a second operator's service, which planners put at well over an hour and a half end to end — not a practical route for most travellers, and mentioned only because leaving it out would make this incomplete.
Since there is no direct train and we cannot confirm a current rail fare, this is not a straight price comparison — it is a comparison of what each option actually involves. A taxi is door-to-door: one vehicle, one fixed fare, no change of train, no walk between platforms with your luggage, and a driver waiting at the address you gave us rather than a station.
The rail alternative requires at least one change, adds roughly 25 to 30 minutes over the road journey time at our anchor distance, and starts and ends at a station rather than your door. If a verified current rail fare becomes available from a source we trust, we will add a direct cost comparison at that point rather than estimate one now.
We would rather tell you plainly what we could not establish, because if you have been comparing quotes and journey options for this route, you have probably already noticed the numbers do not agree with each other.
Several sources that would ordinarily carry a current rail fare for this route were unavailable when we checked. Some returned no result, one required information we could not supply, and the one planner that did answer priced the journey in a foreign currency. We did not attempt to work around any of these; that is a standing rule in how we source figures, not a shortcut taken here.
The only published description of this route we could confirm names the M25 and then the M23, without a junction number attached. So we do not invent one.
Published figures for this journey span 17.1 miles, and at least one page contradicts itself by 2.0 miles between its own body text and its own search listing.
We would rather publish the shape of what we do not know than a figure we cannot stand behind, and we recheck these gaps on a schedule rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
Choose your vehicle by passenger count and luggage together, not just seats — a full car of people and a full car of luggage are not the same booking. A fixed fare divides across a group, and it is the one piece of arithmetic on this route we can complete in full using only our own published figures.
Entirely because the fare is fixed per vehicle rather than charged per person. Tell us your case count as well as your passenger count when you book.
The saloon seats up to 4 with standard luggage — the vehicle most Woking to Gatwick bookings use, and the base fare shown throughout. The estate seats up to 5, with extra boot space for additional cases, golf bags or bulkier luggage than a saloon comfortably carries.
MPV5 to MPV8 seat 5 to 8 passengers, suited to families or groups travelling with more luggage than a saloon or estate can hold, right up to full minibus-style capacity for a large party.
The Executive (E-Class) and Executive MPV add a higher specification for business travel or a more comfortable airport transfer, seating 4 and 6 respectively, at a higher fare band than the standard saloon or MPV equivalents.
The return journey gets the same weight as the outbound one, because a large share of the demand on this route runs from the airport towards the town. Landing at Gatwick and heading to Woking is a different journey to plan around than leaving Woking for a flight — you are managing a landing time rather than a departure time, and it can move at short notice.
We meet you after you land, at whichever terminal you arrive into, with your driver waiting where waiting is legal rather than running up the airport's own forecourt charge.
Give us your flight number and we track it, so your pickup adjusts automatically if your flight is early, delayed, or your terminal changes. You do not need to update your booking manually.
We take you to any address in Woking, priced the same way as the outbound journey — by exact pickup point rather than a flat town rate.
Our measurements show the return leg from Gatwick to Woking runs slightly longer than the outbound journey — 30.6 miles against 28.9 miles outbound, on the same route planner and the same day. That puts a saloon at £63.28 on the return against £62.18 outbound, a difference of £1.10. We publish both directions rather than assume a round trip prices identically each way, because it does not quite on this route.
| Vehicle | Outbound at 29.75 miGBP | Return at 30.6 miGBP | DifferenceGBP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saloon | £62.18 | £63.28 | +£1.10 |
| Estate | £64.61 | £65.76 | +£1.15 |
| MPV5 | £68.39 | £69.61 | +£1.22 |
| MPV6 | £71.62 | £72.90 | +£1.28 |
| MPV7 | £77.84 | £79.23 | +£1.39 |
| MPV8 | £80.83 | £82.26 | +£1.43 |
| Executive (E-Class) | £80.55 | £82.08 | +£1.53 |
| Executive MPV | £93.97 | £95.76 | +£1.79 |
We take bookings around the clock, every day of the year, for early-morning departures and late-night arrivals alike — flights out of Gatwick run from the early hours, and inbound flights land at every hour of the night. Pre-book in advance where you can, or call for a same-day pickup. Where your flight is tracked, your pickup time adjusts automatically regardless of what time it lands, so a delayed late-night arrival does not leave you without a car.
We confirm your fixed fare and send a booking confirmation with your driver and vehicle details ahead of your journey.
Our fixed fare is published in full above and can be checked against your exact pickup address before you book — the minimum charge and per-mile rate for every vehicle class are both public, so nothing about the figure depends on trusting us.
We have not been able to confirm a current rail fare for this route from a source we trust, so we are not able to offer a direct cost comparison against the train at this time. Fares shown are indicative, calculated on distance by vehicle class, and confirmed at booking via our fare calculator. Your final fixed price is locked in your booking confirmation — no surge, no airport surcharge, no late-night premium, no card fees.
The thirteen questions we are asked most often about this journey.
£62.18 for a saloon carrying up to four passengers, based on our 29.75-mile anchor distance read on 5 August 2026. The fare is fixed at booking and varies by exact pickup address — £55.09 from Ripley to £64.45 from Chobham.
From £62.18 in a saloon up to £93.97 in an Executive MPV, depending on vehicle class and exact pickup point within Woking. Full fares for all eight vehicle classes are published above.
29.75 miles by road, the mean of two directional measurements taken on the same day. Published figures vary between sources from 19.9 to 37.0 miles — the lowest of those is a straight-line distance, not a road distance, and should not be used to plan a journey.
Around 42 minutes at our anchor distance, though it varies by pickup point — Chobham takes 41 minutes despite being further out, while Knaphill takes 50 minutes despite being closer, because of how each route joins the motorway.
Yes. A taxi from Woking Station is priced the same as any Woking town pickup — £62.18 in a saloon, around 42 minutes to Gatwick.
No. Every route requires at least one change and takes over an hour, longer than the road journey. Woking sits on a main line about 23 miles from central London, yet the national timetable names four other towns with a direct Gatwick service — Woking is not among them.
No. The airport's own coach network does not reach this part of Surrey, and the one scheduled airport coach from Woking Station serves Heathrow, in the opposite direction.
We cannot confirm a current rail fare for this route from a source we would stand behind, so we are not able to give a direct cost comparison at this time. What we can say is that a taxi is door-to-door with no change of train, while the rail options involve at least one change and roughly 25 to 30 minutes longer than the road journey.
Yes, with the same weight as the outbound journey. The return leg measures slightly longer than outbound — 30.6 miles against 28.9 — so a saloon prices at £63.28 coming back against £62.18 outbound.
Both North Terminal and South Terminal. Tell us your terminal at booking, or your flight number for an airport pickup, and we will confirm the details with your driver.
Yes. We take bookings 24 hours a day, every day of the year, for any time of day or night.
Yes — £10.00 for the first 10 minutes, rising to a £30.00 maximum, with a £100.00 penalty reduced to £60.00 within 14 days. This is the airport's own charge, not ours. The Long Stay car park offers 120 minutes free with a shuttle to either terminal.
Up to 8 passengers in our MPV8, which works out at £10.10 a head for a full group — against £62.18 for one passenger travelling alone in a saloon. Tell us your case count as well as passenger count so we can confirm the right vehicle.
A fixed fare from £62.18, quoted from your exact Woking address rather than a flat town rate, and locked in your booking confirmation. Both Gatwick terminals. Saloon to 8-seater. Bookings taken 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
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