Southend Airport to Reading Festival taxi and Reading Festival to Southend Airport after the event, fixed fare from £221 each way

Southend Airport to Reading Festival and back: fixed fares

Southend Airport to Reading Festival is an event-day run our drivers know well. A saloon from Southend Airport to Reading Festival is a fixed fare from £221 each way, about 84 miles and 2.1-3.0 hrs door to door. Book the return with it and the pair is priced at 1.8 times a single, from £398, with the driver waiting at the agreed meeting point after the August bank holiday festival. An 8-seater for a group is from £320, 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 Southend Airport, drop-off at Reading Festival

Pick-up is in the arrivals hall at Southend Airport: the driver holds a name board, the flight is tracked and 45 minutes of waiting is included, so you go from the gate to Reading Festival without a queue for the rank. 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 84 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 Southend Airport: the journey home

Reading Festival to Southend Airport 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; for a flight home we time the departure from the venue around your check-in, and the driver drops you at the terminal door. 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 Southend Airport 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.