London Gatwick Airport Transfer — LGW

London Gatwick Airport (LGW) is the UK's second busiest airport and London's primary hub for budget and medium-haul carriers. It sits 47 km south of central London and has two terminals, North and South. The Gatwick Express reaches Victoria in 30 minutes, but Victoria is not most travellers' final destination. A private transfer takes you directly from arrivals to your address at a fixed price.

Transfers start from £40, fixed price, confirmed at booking. No meter, no hidden fees, no surge pricing.

Transfer times and distances from LGW

• Victoria and Westminster: 47 km, approximately 55 to 80 minutes
• Covent Garden and the West End: 50 km, approximately 60 to 85 minutes
• Mayfair and Marylebone: 52 km, approximately 60 to 85 minutes
• South Bank and Southwark: 44 km, approximately 50 to 75 minutes, the closest major London area to the airport
• Brighton: 40 km, approximately 35 to 50 minutes
• Crawley and Horley: 5 km, approximately 10 to 15 minutes

Why book a private transfer from LGW?

• Door to door. The Gatwick Express reaches Victoria in 30 minutes and you still need a taxi from there
• Fixed price, no meter, confirmed at booking, including through school holidays, festival season and major London events
• Both terminals covered, North and South, with your driver at the correct hall
• Flight monitoring and 60 minutes of free waiting, at no extra charge
• Service around the clock, for early and late flights alike

Getting from Gatwick to London

The Gatwick Express reaches London Victoria in about 30 minutes, Thameslink trains run through to London Bridge, St Pancras and beyond, and Southern services also serve the airport. Each leaves you at a station with an onward leg and your luggage. A private transfer is door to door in roughly 55 to 80 minutes to central London, or about 35 to 50 minutes to Brighton.

North or South Terminal?

The two terminals are linked by a shuttle and are not interchangeable for a meeting point. Most easyJet and British Airways short-haul flights use South, but the allocation shifts and a boarding pass is the only reliable source. Your booking carries the flight number, so the driver waits in the right arrivals hall and confirms it in the details you receive the day before.

Gatwick is the South Bank's airport

Because it approaches from the south, Gatwick is quicker to Waterloo, Southwark and the South Bank than to Marylebone, which reverses the usual assumption that Heathrow is always closer. For anyone staying south of the river the difference is 10 to 15 minutes in Gatwick's favour, and for anyone heading to Heathrow's side of the city it runs the other way.

Brighton and the south coast

Brighton is 40 km from the airport and 35 to 50 minutes away, which makes Gatwick closer to the coast than to central London. That produces a steady stream of arrivals whose destination was never the capital: conference delegates, festival visitors and anyone heading to the Sussex villages, all of which are ordinary fixed-price transfers rather than special arrangements.

Crawley, Horley and the airport's own doorstep

Not every arrival is going far. Crawley and Horley are 5 km out, 10 to 15 minutes, and the hotels there absorb a steady flow of passengers on early departures and disrupted connections. Those journeys are short enough that a metered fare is mostly the minimum charge anyway, so the value is having a car waiting rather than joining a rank for a five-mile trip that drivers are not queueing for.

Late arrivals and early departures

Gatwick's budget schedule pushes flights to the edges of the day, and the rail service thins out overnight while the airport keeps working. Booking for your actual landing time and letting the driver track the inbound removes the risk of arriving to a closed station. The rest of the country is on the United Kingdom page.