One river, two banks, one cab firm that treats them as a single town: castle-quarter dinners on the Rochester side, High Speed trains and retail parks on the Strood side, and the bridge between them crossed a hundred times a day. Fixed prices from £25.
No-cost cancellation until 24 hours before pickup
Officially they are separate places: Strood on the west bank with its retail parks, its High Speed platforms and its workmanlike streets; Rochester on the east with the Norman castle glowering over the river, the cathedral behind it, and a High Street of independents that Dickens borrowed for half his novels. Unofficially, everyone here lives in both — works one side, eats the other, crosses the bridge without thinking. Our service is built the same way: one booking system, one set of fixed prices, and drivers who treat the bridge as a hallway rather than a border.
The river dictates the craft. When the bridge approach queues — match traffic, roadworks, a festival closure — the difference between firms is whether the driver knew before setting off. Ours did: we read the Medway crossings the way our Dartford colleagues read theirs, and your fixed price means the reading is our risk, not yours.
Local runs from £25 · Gatwick £89 · Heathrow £103 · Stansted £97 · Luton £113 · London City £48 · Medway Maritime Hospital runs · High Speed meets at Strood · Castle-quarter evenings · Central London £62 · Call 01474 554933 or rushxo.com
The castle quarter. Rochester's High Street earns its reputation — the bookshops, the tea rooms, the restaurants under the castle walls — and our evening trade follows it: dinner drops at the Esplanade end, theatre and gig pickups, and the late lift home over the bridge when the last comfortable train has gone.
Festival days. Twice a year the city becomes a stage — the Sweeps Festival's May Day morris dancers, the Dickens Festival's crinolines and chimney-sweep urchins — and the High Street closes to wheels entirely. Our regulars know the drill because we publish it to them in advance: pickups stage on the Strood side of the bridge and at agreed corners off the Esplanade, the walk is five minutes through the costumes, and the price is the same as any wet Tuesday, because surge pricing a festival is exactly the kind of thing we refuse to do.
The hospital circuit. Medway Maritime in Gillingham serves the whole conurbation, and its runs are daily work — appointments, discharges, visitor drops — with outpatient waiting priced clearly before the journey rather than discovered after it.
The Strood engine room. Retail-park hauls, the trading-estate early shifts, and above all the High Speed platforms: Strood's link toward St Pancras pairs with our £25 hop from either bank, tracked to the train so a delay moves the driver and not your evening.
Gatwick (41 miles, £89) — the M2 to the M25 and down; the conurbation's favourite holiday run, identical at 3:30am. Heathrow (50 miles, £103) — the full western arc, Dartford question answered by live data. Stansted (46 miles, £97) — over the river and up the M11, late landings met inside with a name board. Luton (57 miles, £113) — the long haul where a fixed price most plainly beats a meter. London City (22 miles, £48) — the A2 sprint for the business crowd.
| Airport (from Strood/Rochester) | Saloon | Executive | MPV 6 | 8-Seater | 9-Seater |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heathrow (50 mi) | £103 | £131 | £136 | £160 | £168 |
| Gatwick (41 mi) | £89 | £114 | £118 | £139 | £146 |
| Stansted (46 mi) | £97 | £123 | £128 | £151 | £159 |
| Luton (57 mi) | £113 | £144 | £150 | £176 | £186 |
| London City (22 mi) | £48 | £62 | £64 | £84 | £88 |
Fares last reviewed June 2026. Fixed at booking, tolls included.
Returns are exactly double in one booking — car at the door outbound, name board in arrivals inbound, flight tracked throughout. Cruise traffic note: Dover and Southampton sailings from the Medway towns are fixed-quote work we do weekly; ask with your sail time and we will build the margin properly.
Higham over the hill, Gravesend along the A226, Ebbsfleet International for the fastest London trick and Meopham on the ridge — one number, 01474 554933, both banks and beyond.