Business transfers from Broadstairs: executive cars for London, meetings and flights

What business transfers from Broadstairs include

Everything is pre-booked, from a single trip to a full day:

• Executive cars to meetings and premises in London.
• Airport transfers for work trips, including London City, the nearest of the five airports to Broadstairs.
• Collecting visiting colleagues and clients from the airports or from Broadstairs station.
• Journeys to conferences, exhibitions and events, such as those at ExCeL London.
• As-directed hire by the hour or by the day, when one appointment leads to the next.

Train or executive car into London?

Broadstairs station has had high-speed trains to St Pancras since December 2009, two an hour off-peak by different routes, as well as an hourly service to Victoria. For one person going to a meeting near St Pancras with a laptop bag, the train is hard to beat.

The car comes into its own in other situations:

• Several of you are going, because the fare is for the car rather than per seat.
• The meeting is somewhere the train does not reach directly, such as Canary Wharf or a business park off the M25.
• You need to work, take calls or prepare in private on the way.
• There is more than one stop, or samples, display stands or luggage to carry.
• The day starts before you would want to be on a platform, or ends well after.

Working on the move

An executive car takes up to four passengers and two or three large cases, and the back seat is a quiet place to read the papers before a meeting. Tell us when you book if you need a particular entrance, or a pickup from a different address from the one you were dropped at.

If the day holds several meetings or you cannot say when you will finish, book as-directed hire, where the car and driver stay with you by the hour or by the day, rather than a string of one-way trips.

Flying for work: a business airport transfer from Broadstairs

London City is the quickest airport from Broadstairs, typically 1 hour 35 minutes to 1 hour 55 minutes by the A2 and the Blackwall Tunnel. Gatwick usually takes 1 hour 40 minutes to 2 hours, Stansted 1 hour 55 minutes to 2 hours 20 minutes, Heathrow 2 hours to 2 hours 30 minutes and Luton 2 hours 5 minutes to 2 hours 35 minutes.

On the way back the flight is tracked and the driver times the collection to the real landing, meets you in arrivals with a name board and takes your bags. A delay outside your control adds nothing to the fare, and the fare is the same for a red-eye arrival at dawn as for one at lunchtime.

Visitors coming to Broadstairs on business

If a client, a consultant or a new colleague is flying in to see you, we can meet them at the airport and bring them to Broadstairs, whether that is a hotel in the old town, premises in Westwood or a house in Kingsgate. Book in your name, give us theirs, and the driver holds the name board for them in arrivals.

Visitors arriving by train can be collected from Broadstairs station on Lloyd Road, which has a drop-off and pick-up point, and taken on to the airport or to London when the visit is over.

Conferences, exhibitions and events

For trade shows and conferences at venues such as ExCeL London in east London, a car lets you arrive with your display material and leave when the last session ends. Tell us the entrance and the time you need to be there, and we will plan the pickup in Broadstairs from that.

Through the Blackwall Tunnel, peak charges apply on weekday mornings northbound and weekday evenings southbound. Like other tolls on the journey, the charge can be added to the fare where it applies.

Early starts and late finishes

The service runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and the fare does not change with the hour. That makes it practical to be collected in Broadstairs before dawn for a breakfast meeting, or to stay at a client dinner in London without watching the clock for the last convenient train.

Tell us roughly when the meeting should end. If it overruns on a return pickup, the first 10 minutes after the agreed time are free and waiting after that is charged at the standard rate, so a quick message when you know you will be late helps. For an evening with no fixed end, as-directed hire saves the guesswork.

Booking corporate travel from Broadstairs

Book online and the fixed fare for the executive car shows before you commit; pay by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Klarna or Revolut, with 10% off in the online booking system using the code ExpressTravelKent. You can also arrange it by phone on 01843 247247, by WhatsApp or by email, at any hour.

If the plan changes on the day, an extra stop or a big change of route can be added to the fare. Cancelling more than 24 hours ahead is free; later cancellations may be charged in part or in full.