Confirmed as of September 2026: Gatwick £75, Heathrow £105, Stansted £100 (+£5 pickup/drop-off), Luton £145, and London City £160. Local journeys around town and the surrounding villages are quoted individually based on pickup, destination and time of day.
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council sets the maximum fares for hackney carriages — the metered cabs you'd hail on the street or from a rank. Private hire fares, like ours, aren't council-regulated: if a private hire vehicle has a meter fitted it can't charge above the hackney maximum shown on it, but otherwise the price is agreed directly between operator and customer. That's exactly why we can quote a fixed fare before you travel rather than run a meter. Full detail on the council's own taxi fares page.
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council's hackney carriage tariff went up from 3 December 2024, taking a two-mile journey from £8.00 to £8.60 — the first change since April 2022. The rise was requested by a local proprietor citing rising running costs and the transaction fees on the card machines drivers had recently been required to install, after several Kent councils made card payment compulsory. Councillors on the licensing committee were split on whether card fees justified it on their own, but agreed the wider cost-of-living pressure did.
Private hire operators like us aren't tied to that council tariff — we set our own fixed prices, which is why the fares above haven't simply tracked the hackney rate upward. Coverage of the increase is available from West Kent Radio.
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council raised its hackney carriage tariff from 3 December 2024, taking a two-mile journey from £8.00 to £8.60. A local proprietor requested the rise, citing rising running costs and the transaction fees on the card machines drivers were required to install. Councillors were split on whether card fees were a strong enough reason, but agreed general cost-of-living pressure was.
Airport fares are fixed and published on this site. Local journeys are quoted individually, since pickup point, destination and time of day all affect the price, but we confirm it before you travel wherever possible rather than leaving it to a meter.
Yes. Council licensing guidance elsewhere in the UK explicitly tells residents to agree a taxi fare at the time of booking so they know the price before the journey ends, since overcharging complaints are a recurring theme in local taxi licensing generally. Every fare we quote is agreed upfront for exactly that reason.
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