Pick the station you are actually arriving at, because the fare follows the distance rather than the station: Temple Meads and the bus and coach station are £39 fixed to Bristol Airport, Bristol Parkway and the new Bristol Brabazon are £49, and Bath Spa is £59. Ashley Down is an estimated £39 to £49 band, because BS7 is not on the published price list yet. Each has its own page below with the pickup arrangements, the honest public transport comparison and the full price list for longer journeys. All of them are pre-booked only, online or on 0117 966 6666, at any hour.
Checked September 2026.
Every Bristol station compared
Six stations and one place still waiting for one, with the thing at each that usually decides whether you book a car.
| Station | To Bristol Airport | The thing that decides it |
|---|---|---|
| Bristol Temple Meads | from £39 | The Airport Flyer leaves from the station itself, so the bus is an easy call if you are on your own. |
| Bristol bus and coach station | from £39 | The Flyer goes from bay 9 of the building itself. A car earns its place on Heathrow, cruise runs and late coach arrivals. |
| Bristol Parkway | from £49 | There is no direct bus at all. The public transport route is a train into Temple Meads and then the Flyer. |
| Bristol Brabazon | from £49 | Opening autumn 2026 on an hourly line. Miss a train and the next is sixty minutes away. |
| Ashley Down | £39 to £49 band | No car park at all, only accessible bays, so nobody can drop you and leave the car. |
| Henbury | £39 to £49 band | No station at all yet. The line terminates here in 2028, and even then the airport needs a change at Temple Meads. |
| Bath Spa | from £59 | The A4 Air Decker runs direct from the bus station next door for £9.50. |
Saloon prices for the whole car, up to 4 passengers, not per seat. The Ashley Down figure is an honest band rather than a quote, for the reason given on its own page.
Why two stations cost more than the others
Distance from the airport, and nothing else.
Temple Meads and the coach station both sit in the BS1 and BS2 city centre postcodes, which is the £39 band and about 25 minutes. Parkway and Brabazon are both BS34, out at Stoke Gifford, Filton and Patchway in north Bristol, which is the £49 band and about 35 minutes because the run is longer and crosses the city. Bath Spa is a different town entirely, hence £59.
Nothing about the fare depends on which station you use or how busy it is, and it does not move on the day. Areas we have not priced individually are banded honestly on the fares by area page, and the longer runs, Heathrow at £179 through to the Southampton cruise terminal at £159, are the same from all five stations and listed on the long-distance index.
What is true at all of them
We pick up from all six: Temple Meads, the bus and coach station, Parkway, Brabazon, Ashley Down and Bath Spa, at the prices above. We are a licensed private hire operator, so we are booked in advance and never picked up from a rank.
That matters at a station more than most places, because most of them have a rank right outside and it is not ours. Temple Meads has one on the forecourt, Parkway has one at the entrance, and Brabazon is being built with one. Those are for hackney carriages, which can queue for walk-up work. We cannot sit on them and we cannot be flagged down. If you have just come off a train with no booking and there is a car waiting, take it; the fuller version of that argument is on the rank versus pre-booking page.
What booking ahead gives you instead is a known price, a known vehicle size and a known time, at any hour. Your driver waits in the main pickup and drop-off area at the station, and confirms it with you when you book.
One thing that applies at every one of them, and is worth knowing before you book: tell us which train or coach you are on, and tell us straight away if it is delayed. The driver is timed to your actual arrival, and a station pickup includes five minutes' free waiting rather than the 45 minutes our airport work carries. If you need a wheelchair accessible vehicle, book well ahead and read what we can and cannot offer on the accessible taxi page first.
What changes in autumn 2026
The Henbury line reopens to passengers and Bristol gets a new station.
Bristol Brabazon is being built on the former Filton Airfield and is expected to open in autumn 2026, running hourly into Temple Meads and calling at Ashley Down on the way. The far end of that line, Henbury, has planning permission but is not expected until 2028. It is also the station for Aviva Arena when that opens in late 2028, which will put 20,000 people at a stop with an hourly train and no general public car park. We will publish arena pickup arrangements nearer the time rather than invent them two years early.
Tick Taxi is an independent private hire operator licensed by South Gloucestershire Council and Bristol City Council. All pickups are pre-booked. We are not affiliated with Great Western Railway, Network Rail, First Bus, National Express, YTL or any of these stations, and nothing here is an official station service.
Foire aux questions
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