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Brighton is the closest major UK city to Gatwick — twenty-five miles via M23 J11, thirty to forty-five minutes door-to-terminal. Our pre-booked airport taxi service is built around two distinct Brighton traveller profiles: the short-hop Gatwick run for residents, students, Royal Pavilion-area tourists and Brighton Centre conference delegates, and the longer Heathrow long-haul run for inbound international visitors heading down to the coast. Both at fixed door-to-terminal fares, no meter ticking down the A23.
"From" prices apply to the nearest postcode in our service area. Your live quote depends on actual pickup & vehicle — get an exact quote.
Most people landing on this page want quick answers on price, coverage, airport charges and the right vehicle. These points are here to help you decide faster and avoid booking the wrong transfer.
The price table on the page is a starting guide, but the live quote is the best way to check the current fare for your exact address, airport, terminal and vehicle before checkout.
Some airports apply pickup, drop-off or access charges. Where they apply to your journey, they are reflected in the live quote so you can see the full amount before you book.
Using the exact pickup address in Brighton is more accurate than choosing only a broad town name. It helps match the route correctly and gives you a more reliable booking price.
If you are travelling with more than cabin bags, child seats, pushchairs or several passengers, it is usually better to move up to an Estate, MPV or 8-seater rather than risk running out of space.
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Brighton's airport geography is exceptional. Gatwick sits twenty-five miles directly north — A23 to M23 J11, a straight north-south motorway run with no M25 stretch and no central-London detour. In light traffic the door-to-terminal time is thirty minutes. Even in the dawn-departure peak it rarely tops forty-five. No other major UK coastal city has anything close to that proximity to a major international hub.
The reason Brighton residents still book ahead is the dawn-departure problem. Gatwick's first wave of British Airways, easyJet, Norwegian, TUI and Virgin Atlantic departures starts at 6am and runs solid until 9am. That means BN-postcode pickups in the 4am to 5:30am window — and Brighton railway station's first service does not run until around 5am. The Gatwick Express, Thameslink and Southern services that work fine for a 9am meeting do not exist for a 6:30am long-haul. A pre-booked airport taxi with a fixed fare, a known driver name confirmed by SMS the night before, and no risk of cancellation, is genuinely the only reliable option for that slot.
The second profile is inbound. A Heathrow long-haul flight from New York, Singapore or Dubai lands at T5 at 6am with two cases, jetlagged passengers, and a conference at the Brighton Centre starting at 2pm. The Heathrow taxi rank queue is twenty minutes deep, the meter starts the moment you sit down, and no on-demand driver knows whether the Grand Brighton drops at the King's Road entrance or the Cannon Place service road. A pre-booked Heathrow-to-Brighton taxi has your driver already inside arrivals, a fixed ninety-minute journey down the M23 anti-clockwise from J7, and you arrive at the hotel reception, not at a confused traffic crawl on the seafront.
The price quoted at booking is the price you pay. A23 standstill, dawn slot, Christmas Eve, Pride Saturday — no surge, no loading, no surprises at the kerb.
Our drivers run Brighton-to-Gatwick weekly, know the Pyecombe and Hickstead slowdowns, and switch to the A23 over the M23 spur when the morning peak demands it.
Same fixed-price standard whether you are flying short-haul from Gatwick or long-haul from Heathrow T5. One booking system, one driver-allocation team, every airport from Brighton.
The 5am-9am long-haul intake window at Heathrow and the 6am Gatwick wave are both heavy traffic for Brighton collections. We monitor every inbound flight and adjust your driver's arrival in real time.
Step up from standard saloon to executive — premium upholstery, quieter cabin, bottled water — for Brighton Centre conference VIPs, Sussex Uni visiting academics and Royal Pavilion-area corporate hospitality.
Enter your Brighton pickup — BN1 home postcode, Brighton Marina apartment, Falmer Sussex University campus, Hove seafront hotel, Lewes village address — choose your destination terminal and vehicle class. Your fixed quote appears on screen instantly. No registration, no callbacks, no payment until you confirm.
Your booking confirmation lands in the inbox the moment you complete the form. A second email — driver's first name, vehicle make and registration plate, direct mobile number, pickup address restated — arrives roughly twenty-four hours before pickup. No app to install, no portal log-in needed.
Your assigned driver pulls onto your BN doorstep, hotel forecourt, marina pontoon car park or university hall a few minutes ahead of the booked slot. Suited, courteous, ready to take the bags. They confirm your terminal, flight number and check-in cut-off on the doorstep before pulling away.
Outbound we drop at the exact check-in zone for your airline — Gatwick North for BA, Norwegian and Virgin Atlantic; Gatwick South for easyJet and TUI; T5 for BA long-haul; T2 for Star Alliance; T3 for Virgin and Emirates; T4 for SkyTeam. Inbound your driver is already inside the arrivals area with a clear surname card, monitoring your progress on the live aviation feed before the carousel even starts.
The dominant route from Brighton by a wide margin — closer than any other major airport from any major UK coastal city. A23 north to M23 J11, then the dedicated terminal access road. North Terminal for BA, Norwegian, TUI and Virgin Atlantic; South Terminal for easyJet and most of the European low-cost fleet. Heavy dawn-departure pattern.
The long-haul anchor for Brighton — Asia, North America, Africa, Middle East routes Gatwick does not match. M23 north to M25 J7 anti-clockwise to J15 spur for T5, or J14 onwards for T2/T3/T4. Heavy on inbound long-haul collection: international visitors landing at T5 then a ninety-minute coastal run down. See dedicated Brighton–Heathrow long-haul page →
The longer of the four runs, but viable when Wizz Air, easyJet base routes or TUI fares to a specific Eastern European or sun-Mediterranean destination decisively beat Gatwick. M23 to M25 J7 anti-clockwise to J21A then M1 north to J10 spur. Heavy on the dawn-departure pattern.
The furthest of the four from Brighton but worth it when Ryanair or Jet2 European short-haul fares clearly undercut the alternatives. M23 north to M25 J7 anti-clockwise to J27, then M11 north. Mostly a dawn-departure pattern — Brighton pickups in the 3am to 4:30am window.
Brighton to Gatwick North Terminal: A23/M23 J11 to the dedicated North Terminal slip road. Carries British Airways short-haul and long-haul to North America and Caribbean, Norwegian, TUI charter, Virgin Atlantic long-haul (Florida, Caribbean, India), Emirates and Cathay Pacific. The North forecourt is typically a few minutes longer to clear at peak times because of long-haul drop-off vehicle volume.
Brighton to Gatwick South Terminal: Same M23 J11 approach, then the South Terminal access road which sits below the M23 spur. Carries easyJet (the largest base airline at Gatwick), Wizz Air, Vueling, Tui short-haul, Ryanair and most of the European low-cost fleet. Drop-off is generally faster than North at dawn because the volume is more scheduled than concentrated.
Brighton → Heathrow long-haul: full detail on a dedicated page. The 70-mile A23 + M23 + M25 J7 anti-clockwise run, terminal-by-terminal arrival logic for T2 / T3 / T4 / T5, the University of Sussex Falmer + Brighton Centre + Roedean School corporate and academic pattern, train comparison and the reverse Heathrow to Brighton inbound (heavy inbound-tourism focus) all live on our dedicated Brighton to Heathrow taxi page →
| Route | Saloon | Estate | MPV 6-Seat | 8-Seater |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton → Gatwick | £55 | £65 | £85 | £110 |
| Brighton → Heathrow | £125 | £140 | £165 | £195 |
| Brighton → Luton | £145 | £160 | £185 | £225 |
| Brighton → Stansted | £165 | £180 | £210 | £250 |
| Brighton → London City | £110 | £125 | £145 | £180 |
Lead prices shown from central Brighton (BN1). Hove (BN3), Lewes (BN7), Worthing (BN11) and Newhaven (BN9) pickups are quoted separately at the booking widget. Every fare is final at confirmation — no surge, no Pride/Brighton Festival loading, no holiday surcharge. Get your live quote here.
We collect from every postcode across Brighton, Hove and the wider Sussex coastal commuter belt. From a BN1 seafront flat to a Falmer university campus, from a Hove Lawns hotel to a Lewes village address — your driver comes to the exact spot:
We also handle scheduled venue work across Brighton's busy commercial and tourism calendar — the Brighton Centre on King's Road (the city's primary conference venue, regularly hosting Labour Party, Liberal Democrat and trade-association annual conferences), the Amex Community Stadium at Falmer for Brighton & Hove Albion home fixtures, the Royal Pavilion tourist area, Brighton Marina, the Brighton i360 observation tower, Royal Sussex County Hospital on Eastern Road for medical referrals, the University of Sussex campus at Falmer, the University of Brighton Moulsecoomb and Falmer campuses, Roedean School on the cliff top and the cluster of seafront hotels including the Grand Brighton, the Hilton Brighton Metropole, the Mercure Brighton Seafront, Hotel du Vin, the Holiday Inn Brighton Seafront and the Premier Inn Brighton Seafront. Operated from the Cardinal Point office in Rickmansworth (WD3 1RE), 55 miles north of Brighton via the M23-M25 corridor — one company, one fixed-price standard, all four London airports.
Brighton's commercial travel mix is unlike any other UK coastal city. The conference economy — the Brighton Centre alone hosts thirty-plus major annual conferences including Labour, Liberal Democrat and large trade-association events — generates heavy inbound Heathrow long-haul demand for international keynote speakers, sponsors and corporate delegations. The dual-university traffic (University of Sussex at Falmer is a Russell Group research-intensive institution; University of Brighton runs Moulsecoomb, Falmer and Eastbourne campuses) brings tens of thousands of international students plus visiting academics through Gatwick and Heathrow every year. The tourism economy — Royal Pavilion, Brighton Pier, Brighton Marina, the i360, the Lanes, AmEx Stadium home matches — drives high inbound transfer demand at Heathrow for international leisure visitors and at Gatwick for European short-haul tourists. Our executive chauffeur service is structured around all three from a single dispatch.
Missing a Gatwick 6:30am long-haul departure because the A23 jammed at Pyecombe is not a survivable outcome when a Virgin Atlantic flight to JFK or a TUI charter to the Caribbean is leaving without you. The fixed-fare guarantee, A23/M23 live traffic routing and confirmed-driver allocation by 8pm the night before remove that risk from the calendar.
Brighton has one of the best rail links to Gatwick in the UK — Thameslink and Southern direct services run roughly every fifteen minutes and the fastest is thirty minutes city-to-airport. The catch is the door-to-terminal arithmetic: a fifteen-minute walk or taxi to Brighton station, the train journey, then a walk through the Gatwick station concourse to your terminal entrance. Here is the comparison:
| Rapid Airport Taxi | Thameslink / Southern via Brighton Station | |
|---|---|---|
| Door to terminal time | 30–45 minutes | 55–75 minutes (incl. Brighton-to-station + Gatwick walk) |
| Luggage handling | Driver loads & unloads, no platform haul | Self-carry across station, train, Gatwick concourse |
| Reliable arrival time | Live A23/M23 traffic routing | Thameslink delays, weekend engineering, missed connections |
| Available before 5am | Yes, 24/7 — no overnight surcharge | No — first Brighton service runs around 05:00 |
| Cost for a family of four | One fixed MPV fare from £85 | 4 × rail tickets + 2 × Brighton station taxi |
| Direct from Marina / Hove / Falmer | Yes — door pickup, no Brighton station detour | Onward connection to Brighton station required first |
For a solo BN1 commuter heading to a daytime business meeting near Gatwick with hand luggage only, the Thameslink is genuinely useful. For families, dawn departures, anyone with hold luggage, conference delegations, university research groups, inbound Heathrow long-haul or any pickup not within a five-minute walk of Brighton station — the door-to-terminal taxi wins on every measurable axis.
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