Braintree to Reading Festival taxi and Reading Festival to Braintree after the event, fixed fare from £219 each way

Braintree to Reading Festival and back: fixed fares

Rushxo covers Braintree to Reading Festival for every fixture and festival, in both directions. A saloon from Braintree to Reading Festival is a fixed fare from £219 each way, about 83 miles and 2.0-2.9 hrs door to door. Book the return with it and the pair is priced at 1.8 times a single, from £394, with the driver waiting at the agreed meeting point after the August bank holiday festival. An 8-seater for a group is from £318, executive cars on request.

Fares are per car, agreed at booking, and include tolls and any London charges where they apply. No meter, no surge, the same price after the last encore.

Pick-up in Braintree, drop-off at Reading Festival

Pick-up is at your door anywhere in Braintree or the Essex towns and villages around it, with the driver named the day before and a text when the car is outside. At Reading Festival we drop at the official drop-off point, or the meeting corner we agree for the August bank holiday festival when the roads around the venue are closed.

The drive is about 83 miles; the driver checks closures and event-day traffic orders and picks the fastest route on the day, so the time above already allows for normal traffic.

Reading Festival to Braintree: the journey home

Reading Festival to Braintree is the same fixed fare as the outbound leg. Book both legs together and the driver waits at the agreed meeting point at the end of the August bank holiday festival, however late it runs; the driver takes you back to your door in Braintree. Waiting time is included in the return price and the fare does not change for the finish time.

Event days at Reading Festival

For the August bank holiday festival we plan around the venue, not the postcode: the drop-off point that is actually open, the corner we meet on afterwards, and a departure time that beats the car-park queue. An 8-seater takes the whole group from Braintree for little more than two saloons, and a wait-and-return price keeps the same driver on site for the day. Late finishes are normal for us; the fare is the same at 1am.