A King Power Stadium to Priestfield taxi is ground-to-ground travel in its most literal form — Leicester's stadium to Gillingham's, door of one to the streets of the other, with the whole Kent-bound run priced as a single fixed figure. It's the away day with the logistics already solved: no connections, no coach park at 6am, no 'how do we get from the station' at either end.
Turnstile to turnstile
Most away-day travel is a relay: car to station, train to London, another train into Kent, then a walk or a local cab to a ground you don't know. This page deletes the relay. One vehicle leaves the King Power quarter and stops moving within sight of Priestfield — and because your driver has thought about Gillingham's tight matchday streets in advance, it stops somewhere it can also leave from afterwards, which around a packed lower-league ground is the detail that separates the professionals from the postcode-followers.
The away-day economics, done honestly
Price the traditional version of this trip truthfully — advance rail for each person, the cross-London leg, the local taxis at both ends, the buffer hours the timetable forces on you — and the fixed car figure split between four or more starts winning outright, before you count the comfort of leaving when the game ends rather than when the trains say. For a lone traveller, rail wins on price and we'll say so plainly. Away days, though, are rarely travelled alone.
Kick-off is the contract
We plan this run to a stricter standard than a normal journey because the deadline isn't a preference, it's a kick-off. That means departure times built on the day-and-hour's real traffic — a Saturday 3pm asks different questions of the M25 than a Tuesday 7.45 — margin you can see and veto, and a driver watching conditions the whole way down. In years of doing fixture runs, the lesson is always the same: the fans who enjoy the day are the ones whose travel maths was done by somebody else.
Vehicles & pricing
A saloon for the die-hards or an 8-seater for the whole supporters' branch — turnstile-to-turnstile at a fixed quote, scarves included at no extra charge.
- Fare fixed and confirmed in writing at booking
- Driver allocated at booking — never found on the day
- One price at any hour, every day of the year
King Power Stadium to Priestfield Stadium taxi FAQs
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Do you wait during the match for the return?
Get your fixed fare
Fixture confirmed? Fix the fare the same day — one message and the whole away day's transport is one written number.