The Randox Grand National Festival fills Aintree every April — the 2026 renewal on 11 April was won by I Am Maximus in front of a capacity crowd, and the 2027 festival runs 8–10 April. RushXO drives racegoers door to door from London, about 215 miles, with one fixed fare for the whole car and the return timed to the last race.
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before pickup
The 2026 Grand National was won on 11 April by I Am Maximus for Willie Mullins and Paul Townend — and the next Randox Grand National Festival is already confirmed for 8–10 April 2027. The 215-mile London to Aintree run is the classic case for pre-booking: a RushXO transfer carries your party door-to-door in one vehicle, drops at the set-down for your enclosure under the raceday plan, and has the return agreed before the first race — while National-day trains heave and every app surges.
From £330 saloon · ~215 miles, ~4h with a stop · Raceday set-down by enclosure · Pre-agreed return as racing ends · 2027 Festival: 8–10 April · Groups split one fixed fare · No surge · 4.9★
Book online at rushxo.com/rushxo-booking, call our 24/7 concierge on +44 1474 554933, or WhatsApp +44 7466 237870 for an instant fixed quote for your exact address and times.
The Grand National Festival runs over three days each April — Opening Day, Ladies Day and Grand National Day — with the big race itself going off at 4pm on the Saturday over 30 fences and four and a quarter miles. The 2026 running was taken by I Am Maximus for Willie Mullins and Paul Townend; the 2027 festival is confirmed for 8–10 April, and transfer bookings are already open.
From London it is roughly 215 miles up the M40/M6 to Aintree in Merseyside — 3 hours 45 minutes to 4 hours 15 minutes by car. Race trains into Liverpool are rammed and the Merseyrail shuttle to Aintree station queues long after the last race; a pre-booked car removes both.
Your driver sets you down as close to the Ormskirk Road entrances as race-day closures allow and agrees the matching pickup point for the evening. Hospitality guests with early access are collected from London pre-dawn; overnight packages with a Liverpool hotel stop are quoted as one fixed price.
For groups, an 8-seater splits the fixed fare to about £61 per person each way — competitive with peak race-day rail, but with the suits, hats and champagne travelling with you, and nobody standing on a packed 7am train out of Euston.
We collect from every street, hotel and business address across Central and Greater London, with pickup order planned for groups so nobody drives, nobody parks and everybody travels together.
Doorstep collection across the centre of the capital — homes, hotels, offices and serviced apartments alike. Frequent pickup areas include:
Hotel pickups are seamless — the driver liaises with the concierge and waits at the entrance with your name.
Corporate and residential collections across the financial districts and East London:
Corporate accounts are welcome — monthly invoicing, cost-centre tagging and priority booking for regular travellers.
Full coverage of the northern and western boroughs and the M1/M40/M4 corridors out of the capital:
Living near the route’s exit motorway often shortens your journey — we plan the pickup order accordingly for groups.
South of the river and every major rail terminus, so an onward connection never becomes your problem:
Arriving into London by rail and continuing by road? We meet your train and remove the awkward connection entirely.
On Grand National days Aintree runs a managed traffic plan. Your driver drops at the practical set-down for your enclosure and collects from the agreed point as racing ends.
Set-down at the closest practical point for your tickets under the raceday plan:
Tell us your enclosure and target arrival; we plan the approach and the return pickup before you go in.
Making a weekend of the festival?
Multi-day festival bookings and round trips with waiting are quoted as one fixed figure.
A look at the route’s start and end points — all images are free-licence photographs used with attribution.
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Exact pickup and drop-off locations with GPS coordinates and one-tap navigation. Open any point in Google Maps, Waze or What3Words, or get full driving directions for the route.
Door-to-door collection from any Central or Greater London address
Aintree Racecourse, Ormskirk Road, Liverpool L9 5AS
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Maps © OpenStreetMap contributors (open licence). Coordinates are indicative locations — your driver confirms the exact set-down for your booking.
Every detail — from the doorstep collection to the handover at Aintree — is handled by a professional, route-experienced chauffeur.
The price you see is the price you pay. All motorway tolls, parking and waiting time are built into the quote — agreed at booking and never altered, whatever the traffic does on the day.
We plan your London pickup backwards from gates, kick-off or curtain time using realistic event-day traffic for Goodwood, with a sensible buffer for venue congestion. If the schedule moves, we move with it.
Every driver is TfL Private Hire licensed, enhanced-DBS checked, and knows both the London collection area and Aintree inside out. Suited, courteous and discreet.
Pre-dawn departures, late-night returns, last-minute bookings — our dispatch runs around the clock. A 4am run costs exactly the same fixed fare as a midday one.
Saloons, executive Mercedes and BMW, six-seat MPVs and 8–9-seat minibuses — valeted before every job, with complimentary bottled water and phone chargers.
After the event, your driver is already positioned at the agreed pickup point with the patience built in for the crowd to clear — no surge apps, no taxi queue at the end of a long day. A 4.9-star service across 4,850 patrons.
Every vehicle in our fleet is available for this route. Fares below are fixed one-way and include all tolls, parking and waiting at collection.
RushXO prices the journey on genuine road distance, with a long-distance taper that keeps the per-mile rate fair across the full 215 miles rather than charging a flat town rate the whole way. A saloon starts from around £330, quoted as a single fixed figure for the vehicle, not per person, with all tolls included:
| Vehicle | Capacity | Fixed fare from |
|---|---|---|
| Saloon | Up to 4 passengers | £330 |
| Executive (Mercedes/BMW) | Up to 3 passengers | £355 |
| MPV | Up to 6 passengers | £395 |
| 8-Seater Minibus | Up to 7 passengers | £440 |
| 9-Seater Minibus | Up to 8 passengers | £490 |
Fixed at booking — tolls and standard waiting included. No surge, no meter, no hidden extras.
From London we run the M1 to the M6, north past Birmingham and through Cheshire, then the M62/M57 for the approach to Aintree on Liverpool’s northern edge. Around 215 miles, typically 4 hours with a comfort stop — and on Grand National day the final miles run under a full event traffic plan that our drivers know.
The return is agreed before you go in: your driver positioned for the post-racing exodus so the journey home starts when you want it to.
| Distance | 215 miles |
| Off-peak | 4 hr 00 min |
| Morning peak (07:00–09:30) | 4 hr 40 min +40 |
| Evening peak (16:00–19:00) | 4 hr 50 min +50 |
| Overnight (22:00–06:00) | 3 hr 45 min |
Indicative times for the full run. We always plan your pickup with a buffer for traffic and the final approach.
| Fixed fare — all tolls & parking | ✓ |
| Event-day traffic planning | ✓ |
| 60 minutes free wait at collection | ✓ |
| Door-to-door, any London address | ✓ |
| Meet & greet available | ✓ |
| Child seat / booster (free) | ✓ |
| Free cancellation (24h notice) | ✓ |
| Female chauffeur on request | ✓ |
On-demand apps apply surge pricing that peaks exactly when you most need to travel — early mornings, late nights, event finishes and bad weather — and on a 215 miles run that surge applies to the whole fare. A RushXO fare does the opposite: calculated on genuine road distance, quoted as a single fixed figure at booking, and never altered. No surge multiplier, no peak uplift, no night premium, no Bank Holiday surcharge. Whatever the traffic does, the driver absorbs the delay; your fare does not move.
London is where almost every long-distance journey in Britain begins, and it is also where collection logistics matter most. RushXO collects door-to-door from every borough — a Mayfair hotel, a Canary Wharf office, a family home in Croydon or a hall of residence in Camden — with the pickup order planned for groups and the departure time planned around live traffic on the route’s exit motorway. There is no rank to find and no app lottery: a named, licensed chauffeur arrives at your door at the time the journey actually needs.
Aintree Racecourse is the home of the Grand National, the world’s most famous steeplechase. The 2026 running was won on 11 April 2026 by I Am Maximus for Willie Mullins and Paul Townend, and the next Randox Grand National Festival is confirmed for 8–10 April 2027 — with travel plans for the big Saturday best locked in early, because everything around Aintree sells and surges on National day.
Trains into Liverpool on National day are rammed and the Merseyrail shuttle to Aintree more so; driving yourself means event parking and a long crawl out. A pre-booked RushXO transfer is door-to-door in one vehicle — a group splits one fixed fare, the dress code survives the journey, and the ride home is guaranteed at the moment 70,000 other people are opening the same surge-priced app.
Event transfers live or die on timing. For Aintree we plan your London pickup backwards from gate, kick-off or curtain time using realistic traffic for that day and hour, with a sensible buffer for event-day congestion around the venue. On the return, your driver is positioned at the agreed pickup point as the event ends — with the patience built in for the crowd to clear — so you are not bidding against thousands of others for a surge-priced car.
Many guests book the day as a round trip: out, the event itself, and home with the same driver. Waiting time on site can be included in a single fixed quote, which usually beats two separate bookings and guarantees the journey home at the moment you most want certainty. Tell us the event schedule and we will quote the whole day as one figure.
For families and groups, the journey is far simpler in one vehicle than split across cars or managed by train with its changes and connections. A single RushXO MPV or 8–9-seater carries everyone and all the luggage door-to-door for one fixed fare — frequently cheaper per head than the equivalent rail tickets, and far less stressful. Child seats and boosters are provided free on request; just tell us the ages and number of children at booking.
A pre-booked RushXO transfer means your driver is named and identifiable to you in advance, holds an enhanced DBS check as a condition of their TfL Private Hire licence, and operates a fully insured, logged vehicle. You receive the driver’s name, number, and the vehicle’s make, model and registration before pickup. A female chauffeur can be requested for lone or late-night travellers.
A saloon comfortably takes two large cases and two cabin bags; an MPV or minibus swallows a group’s worth of suitcases and equipment. If you are travelling with unusual or bulky items — golf clubs, ski gear, a folded wheelchair, a musical instrument — tell us at booking and we will allocate the right vehicle so nothing is left on the pavement. Assistance dogs travel as standard, and other pets can usually be accommodated with advance notice.
Knowing exactly how the day will unfold takes much of the stress out of it. Here is how a typical booking with RushXO runs from start to finish.
On a journey as time-critical as London to Aintree, the things that matter are reliability, honesty about price, and the confidence that your driver knows what they are doing at both ends. Your fare is fixed before you travel and includes every toll. Your pickup is genuinely door-to-door, planned around your schedule rather than a generic estimate. Your driver is TfL-licensed, DBS-checked and route-experienced, and you know their name and vehicle before you travel. And behind every booking sits a 4.9-star record from 4,850 verified patrons and a 24/7 dispatch team you can actually reach. Plan your transfer today at www.rushxo.com.
RushXO Ltd is a Dartford-based private hire operator licensed by Transport for London, registered at Companies House under number 16464640, and registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office under reference ZC112187. Every RushXO driver holds a current TfL Private Hire Driver licence, which requires an enhanced DBS criminal-record check, a medical assessment, and topographical and English-language testing. We hold a 4.9-star rating from 4,850 verified patrons, and our entire model rests on one promise: the fixed fare quoted at booking is the fare you pay, on every journey, every time.
Reserve online at rushxo.com/rushxo-booking, call our 24/7 concierge on +44 1474 554933, or WhatsApp +44 7466 237870 for an instant fixed quote.
"Booked an early pickup in London for Aintree. The driver arrived ten minutes early, loaded everything, and had us there in good time despite roadworks. Exactly what you want on a deadline."
"We use RushXO for every Aintree trip now. Same fixed price every time, clean car, and the driver was waiting for us on the return even though we ran late. No meter, no fuss, genuinely reliable."
"Group of us with all the bags — the V-Class was spotless, the driver helped with everything, and the fixed fare beat what a metered cab quoted. Door to door both ways."
The 2027 Randox Grand National Festival at Aintree runs Thursday 8 to Saturday 10 April 2027, with the Grand National itself on the Saturday. The 2026 race took place on 11 April 2026 and was won by I Am Maximus.
Fixed one-way fares start at £330 for a saloon and £490 for an 8-seater minibus — whole vehicle, tolls included, locked at booking with no festival surcharge.
Around 3 hours 45 minutes to 4 hours 15 minutes via the M40 and M6, depending on traffic. Many racegoers travel up the evening before; we can include a Liverpool hotel drop in the same fixed fare.
Yes — the return pickup point is agreed in advance and the driver waits as the crowds clear. You leave when you are ready, not when a packed race train departs.
All three festival days, plus Aintree’s other meetings through the year. Tell us the day and your enclosure and we plan the set-down around it.
Usually for groups of five or more — an 8-seater works out near £61 per person each way from central London, door to door, with no Euston scramble or Merseyrail shuttle queues.
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