Harefield Village · Harefield Hospital · Denham · Ickenham · Ruislip · Uxbridge · Rickmansworth
A village airport taxi service for the UB9 postcode — eight miles north of Heathrow with quick A40 and M25 access. We collect from every Harefield address, run Harefield Hospital patient and visitor transfers every week, and price every airport on one fixed-fare grid that never changes after you press confirm.
"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.
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Using the exact pickup address in Harefield Airport 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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Harefield occupies an unusual position on the airport-taxi map. The UB9 postcode is a genuine Buckinghamshire-bordering village — church on the hill, pond on the green, Grand Union Canal a couple of minutes down the lane — but it sits just eight miles north of Heathrow, with the A412 dropping south to the A40 at Denham and the M25 at Junction 16 a few minutes east. A door-to-terminal journey to Heathrow Terminal 5 from an address near St Mary's Church or Park Lane is around 20 to 25 minutes off-peak. From the gates of Harefield Hospital on Hill End Road the run is shorter still.
The geography also gives Harefield a national role most villages never have. The hospital is part of the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and is one of the world's leading heart and lung transplant centres. Families, post-operative patients and visiting consultants fly into Heathrow Terminal 3 and Terminal 5 every week of the year and need a settled, properly briefed taxi service for the short final leg to Hill End Road. We handle those collections as a routine line on our weekly UB9 despatch sheet, alongside the village's regular early-morning long-haul commuters. Our office sits at Cardinal Point in Rickmansworth, about five miles north up the A412.
A Hillingdon council-licensed operator, not an app interface. The Harefield chauffeurs we send are licensed as Private Hire Drivers by the London Borough of Hillingdon (or one of the bordering Buckinghamshire authorities), and each carries a current enhanced DBS certificate. The cars themselves run an annual council PHV inspection over and above the MOT cycle. Dial 01923 88 2424 at 3am and the office in Rickmansworth picks up — a real Hertfordshire human, not a recorded menu — which especially matters for Harefield Hospital relatives landing at unsocial hours and needing to alter a meet at short notice.
The figure on your booking confirmation is the figure on the chauffeur's printed receipt. A40 traffic, M25 weekend closures, surge demand at 4am — none of it lifts the price up.
Hill End Road, the visitors' car park, the Hill End side entrance — we run these every week. Patient mobility cases, long-haul family arrivals, consultant departures all handled with the care this village expects.
Every UB9 inbound booking is wired to the official airline arrival feed. Driver leaves short-stay when your plane lands, not when the schedule said it would — matters most for family members touching down from the Middle East or Far East.
Pre-dawn Heathrow booked at 11pm Sunday? The Rickmansworth office is staffed. Your Harefield chauffeur is named on the despatch sheet inside ten minutes, every hour of every night.
Solo executive saloon for the village commuter, family MPV with two child seats free for a Heathrow holiday run, 8-seater minibus for an extended hospital-family arrival — same booking form, same fixed-fare model.
Put your Harefield pickup postcode (UB9 for the village, or the surrounding UB10 / UB8 / WD3 / HA6 codes) into the booking widget at the top of the page. Choose the destination terminal — or Harefield Hospital itself for the return leg — and pick a vehicle. The fixed Harefield door-to-terminal fare appears on screen straight away.
You will see the booking receipt drop into your email within a few seconds of confirmation. Twenty-four hours before the trip a second message follows — the assigned chauffeur's first name, the model of the Mercedes coming for you, its colour, its plate, and a working mobile to call — which is everything needed either to identify the right car at a UB9 doorstep at half past four in the morning, or to locate the chauffeur at the Harefield Hospital visitors' bay on the return run.
Every UB9 pickup follows the same rule: the chauffeur is on your driveway a few minutes before the booked time, not after. They get out of the car, greet you by surname, load the hold cases from your porch into the boot, repeat the terminal back to you so there is no possibility of confusion, and the engine is rolling within roughly ninety seconds. No tracker app to refresh, no doubt about whether a stranger accepted your job.
On the outbound, your drop happens at the specific terminal lane stated on your booking — the BA First Wing at T5C, the Virgin Upper Class lane at T3, the T2 Star Alliance forecourt — rather than at some unspecified Heathrow kerb. On the inbound, the airline data feed flips to "landed" the moment your plane reaches its stand, and that is the chauffeur's cue to leave short-stay and walk in to arrivals with a printed surname card. You emerge from customs and the car is parked a short walk away. Lost baggage, long immigration queue, sluggish e-gate — none of it starts a meter.
The headline Harefield run. From a UB9 village address the chauffeur drops south on the A412 to Denham, picks up the A40 east, then takes either the M4 spur for the central terminals tunnel (T2 and T3) or the M25 from J16 down to J14 for the dedicated T5 spur. Every Heathrow terminal at one fixed Harefield fare.
A412 north through Rickmansworth to the M25 at J17 / J18, anti-clockwise to J21, then north on the M1 from J6 to J10 for the Luton airport spur. UB9 holidaymakers booked on easyJet, Wizz Air, Ryanair and TUI weekend routes use this fare every week.
From a UB9 doorstep the route is south to M25 Junction 16, clockwise round the western half of the orbital as far as J7, then onto the M23 southbound for the airport approach. One fixed Harefield fare covers both Gatwick North and South Terminals. The stretch between J9 and J7 can knot up on a Friday afternoon — our office watches the live traffic feed and brings the morning pickup forward when a queue is starting to form.
Route runs A412 north out of Harefield to the M25 at J17, then a sweep anti-clockwise along the northern arc of the orbital to J27, before peeling onto the M11 northbound for the airport at J8. Every UB9 Stansted booking includes a full hour of free wait at arrivals as standard — the Ryanair landside queue at busy weekends regularly eats the whole hour.
London City Airport (25 miles east via the A40 and A406) is also covered at the fixed Harefield grid — useful for finance, legal and consulting professionals living in the village and flying to short-haul European meetings.
| Route | Saloon | Estate | MPV 6-Seat | 8-Seater |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harefield → Heathrow (T2/T3/T4/T5) | £50 | £60 | £75 | £95 |
| Harefield → Luton | £55 | £65 | £80 | £100 |
| Harefield → London City | £75 | £85 | £100 | £125 |
| Harefield → Gatwick (North/South) | £90 | £100 | £115 | £140 |
| Harefield → Stansted | £90 | £100 | £115 | £140 |
Fixed fares from central Harefield (UB9). Outlying addresses near Mount Vernon Hospital, Maple Cross or the Denham UB9 / Buckinghamshire side may vary by a few pounds. Get your exact quote here.
Harefield is only eight miles from the Heathrow perimeter, which is why the Heathrow run is so genuinely quick. The four terminals only really diverge in the final couple of minutes after exiting the spur road towards the correct check-in zone:
Lock the terminal number in at the booking stage and the chauffeur drives straight to the correct kerbside — a small detail that matters most for incoming hospital visitors who may be travelling under stress and unfamiliar with Heathrow's terminal layout.
Our Harefield airport taxi service covers every UB9 postcode in the village proper plus the surrounding Hillingdon-and-Buckinghamshire-border area. Whether you are on Church Hill, by St Mary's Church, near Harefield Hospital, on Park Lane, by the Grand Union Canal, or in adjacent Denham, Ickenham or Rickmansworth, we collect from your front door:
Regular pickup points include Harefield Hospital on Hill End Road, Mount Vernon Hospital, St Mary's Church Harefield on Church Hill, The Plough Inn, The Compasses, the Harefield Cricket Ground, the Grand Union Canal towpath at Harefield Marina, Denham Country Park, and the De Vere Denham Grove Hotel — plus every village lane and country drive across the UB9 area between them.
Harefield Hospital is one of the most internationally respected heart and lung transplant centres in the world. The unit treats patients referred from across the UK, Europe, the Middle East and beyond, and the families who travel to support them — often for weeks or months at a time — are a constant feature of the village. We have built genuine experience around the airport transfer leg of those journeys, and we treat it as a different service from a regular village taxi:
If the booking is for a Harefield Hospital patient or family member, add that context to the booking comments and we will brief the chauffeur appropriately — quieter conversation, smoother pickup, no rushed kerbside loading. The fare structure is identical to a regular UB9 booking — we do not levy a hospital surcharge.
The UB9 village commuter is a quiet but consistent corporate customer base — senior medical staff at Harefield Hospital, finance and legal professionals working in the City of London or Canary Wharf, technology and aviation consultants based around Heathrow's edge, and a steady flow of executives from the Stockley Park and Bedfont Lakes business parks immediately south. Our Harefield executive airport chauffeur service is built for that customer profile: the passenger who wants the short M25 / A40 hour to be quiet, productive and presentable on a video call.
What the executive tier delivers on a Harefield booking:
If the Harefield booking is bigger than four heads — relatives flying in en masse to visit a family member recovering at Hill End Road, a Buckinghamshire wedding moving the bridal party across to Gatwick, a UB9 stag run heading to Stansted — a single 8-seater minibus with serious hold-bag capacity is the right answer rather than splitting across two saloons. One vehicle, one fixed price, one conversation among the entire group. Full vehicle range here.
The clearest sketch of the Harefield operation is six recurring jobs that hit the UB9 despatch sheet every week of the year:
Heathrow Terminal 5 is around 25 minutes south of UB9 down the A412 and onto the M25 at J16. The widget at the top of this page returns your locked Harefield fare in seconds, the council-licensed chauffeur is allocated overnight, and the figure on tomorrow's terminal receipt is identical to the figure you accept tonight.
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