Reading to Boomtown Fair taxi and Boomtown Fair to Reading after the event, fixed fare from £119 each way

Reading to Boomtown Fair and back: fixed fares

Reading to Boomtown Fair is an event-day run our drivers know well. A saloon from Reading to Boomtown Fair is a fixed fare from £119 each way, about 36 miles and 60-87 min door to door. Book the return with it and the pair is priced at 1.8 times a single, from £214, with the driver waiting at the agreed meeting point after the festival on the Matterley Estate. An 8-seater for a group is from £173, 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 Reading, drop-off at Boomtown Fair

Pick-up is at your door anywhere in Reading or the Berkshire towns and villages around it, with the driver named the day before and a text when the car is outside. At Boomtown Fair we drop at the official drop-off point, or the meeting corner we agree for the festival on the Matterley Estate when the roads around the venue are closed.

The drive is about 36 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.

Boomtown Fair to Reading: the journey home

Boomtown Fair to Reading 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 festival on the Matterley Estate, however late it runs; the driver takes you back to your door in Reading. Waiting time is included in the return price and the fare does not change for the finish time.

Event days at Boomtown Fair

For the festival on the Matterley Estate 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 Reading 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.