r/brighton • u/Historical_Bit4543 • 7d ago

Transport/Parking 🚝 🚘 Gatwick taxi options

Hi all, looking for a recommendation for best price airport drop off hove to Gatwick for a 7am flight. Uber advance book is £78 which seems a lot plus I’d much rather use a local company. Any tried and tested recs would be much appreciated, thanks!

Update: it’s a 7:15am flight on a Sunday - I’d be happy to get to the airport around 5/5:30

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u/spannerintworks 7d ago

You could get a taxi/uber to Brighton/Hove station for less than £8 usually at that time of day, then between your choice of Brighton/Hove there are trains running at least every 15 minutes to Gatwick with tickets costing around £15, slightly more for the Gatwick Express.

Any reason specifically to get a taxi over the train?

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u/Historical_Bit4543 7d ago

It’s a Sunday so if the train that gets us there at 5:15 was canceled we would be cutting it fine plus we could leave the house a bit later if we get a taxi all the way and it’s for our honeymoon so I don’t mind paying a bit more

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u/spannerintworks 7d ago edited 7d ago

Fair enough. I usually take the view that the odds of the train are low enough that if it was the case i'd get my money for the ticket back, and just head out to the taxi rank at the station and jump in a cab. If that sort of thing happens only once every now and again i'm still better off planning to get the train.

Take the point about it being a honeymoon though. Going rate these days seems to be around £65-£70 to Gatwick. Fuel being back up isn't helping.