Airport and cruise transfers in Portsmouth.
Portsmouth is an island city with three ways off it, and which one you take decides your journey time far more than the miles do. Every Portsmouth job is pre-booked and priced before the car moves.
From Portsmouth
The journeys we make from here.
Distances and times below are measured on the same routing engine that prices your booking, in typical traffic. They are what we plan to, not a promise about the road on the day — and because the price is agreed before you travel, a slow run costs you nothing extra.
- Portsmouth→Gatwick Airport65 mi
1h 38m typical
- Portsmouth→Heathrow Airport68 mi
1h 20m typical
- Portsmouth→Southampton Airport20 mi
27m typical
- Portsmouth→Ocean Cruise Terminal18 mi
36m typical
Anywhere else in the UK is quoted the same way, on our published per-mile rate, fixed at the moment you book. The pre-set route prices cover our Southampton, Winchester and Basingstoke zones.
Local detail
What actually decides a Portsmouth journey.
Gatwick is the closer of the two London airports from Portsmouth — 65 miles against Heathrow's 68 — and it is one of the few places on the south coast where that is true. Heathrow runs north on the A3(M) and M3, or west along the M27 to junction 11; Gatwick goes east on the A27 to the A24 or the M23. Both leave the city by one of the three road crossings, and at 07:30 on a weekday the crossing is the whole journey.
The Southampton cruise terminals are 18 miles west, about thirty-five minutes clear. Portsmouth also has its own ferry traffic — Wightlink and Hovertravel at Gunwharf and Southsea, Brittany Ferries at the International Port — and those are timed check-ins, not turn-up-and-go. We time the pickup against the check-in close, not the departure.
Portsmouth sits outside the Southampton fixed-fare zone, so journeys are quoted on the published per-mile rate. The price is still agreed and locked before you book; it is simply calculated from your postcode rather than read off a route table.
Where we pick up
PO1–PO6 and the villages around them.
- Portsmouth & Southsea and Portsmouth Harbour stations
- Gunwharf Quays and the Historic Dockyard
- Southsea, Eastney and Old Portsmouth
- Queen Alexandra Hospital and the University quarter
- Cosham, Drayton and Farlington
Pickups outside these areas are quoted the same way — the per-mile rate for your vehicle multiplied by the route, shown before you book.
The docks
All five Southampton cruise terminals.
The terminals are not interchangeable. Ocean and QEII sit behind Dock Gate 4 on the eastern docks, Mayflower and City behind Dock Gate 10 to the west, and arriving at the wrong gate on a two-ship Saturday costs half an hour. We confirm the terminal from your booking reference rather than the ship’s name, and time the pickup against the check-in window printed on your boarding pass.
Frequently asked
Quick answers.
- Yes — Gunwharf, the Isle of Wight terminals and the International Port. Tell us the sailing you are meeting and we work back from the arrival, not from a guess. Foot-passenger arrivals and vehicle decks clear at different times, so it helps to say which one you are on.
- Portsmouth is outside the Southampton SO14–SO53 fixed-fare zone, so journeys are quoted on our published per-mile rate from your postcode rather than from the fixed-fare route table. The quote is still locked at the moment you book.
- For an airport or cruise run, as soon as you have the flight number or the sailing. For a local journey same-day is usually fine, but we are a pre-booked fleet rather than a rank — there is no guarantee of a car in ten minutes at three in the morning, and we would rather say so than take the booking and disappoint you.
- We track the inbound flight from wherever it took off, so the pickup time moves with the aircraft rather than with the schedule you booked against. The first 60 minutes of waiting after landing is included — enough for a full-flight baggage reclaim — and you are not charged for a delay that is not yours.
- Yes. Airport drop-off charges, congestion and ULEZ where they apply are shown as their own lines on the booking form so you can see what is a fee and what is fare. Nothing is added after the journey: no meter, no day-of re-quote, and the fare is locked when you book even if our rate sheet changes before your pickup.
Price first, journey second.
Put in a Portsmouth pickup and a destination, and the price comes back before anything is booked.
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