Taxis and airport transfers from Gelliwastad Road, Pontypridd. Six pounds anywhere in town in the day, Cardiff and the three airports priced by zone, twenty-two cars including four eight-seaters and two with a ramp, and a car on the road at every hour of every night.
11 cars on the road this evening; about 10 minutes in town
Pick the zone, the destination and how many of you; the fares page gives the figure.
What we do
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Anywhere in Pontypridd town to anywhere else in it for a flat £6 in the day; Treforest, Rhydyfelin, Church Village, Cilfynydd, Porth and the rest of the borough priced by zone on the fares page; the station, the hospital, the shops and home from the pub, with a car in about eight minutes most of the day.
A flat £6 anywhere within Pontypridd town in the day, £4.
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Fixed fares from every zone of the borough to Cardiff Airport, Bristol Airport and Heathrow, with the flight number on the booking so the car is there when you land rather than when you said you would. Forty-five minutes free after landing, a name board at arrivals for £10 if you want one, child seats booked ahead at no charge, and eight-seaters for the big family.
From Pontypridd town: Cardiff Airport £48, Bristol Airport £110, Heathrow £240, up to four passengers with luggage; five to eight in an eight-seater 40% more.
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Daily school runs for the council, for schools with pupils who need a car, and for families with two schools and one parent, with the same enhanced-DBS-checked driver every day and a substitute the school has already met. Contract runs for surgeries, day centres and the university on the same terms, from £9 a leg within the borough.
From £9 a leg within the borough for a daily school run, invoiced monthly; a shared run split between families from £5 a child a leg.
04
Two wheelchair-accessible vehicles with a rear ramp, four-point restraints and a seatbelt for the chair user, driven by drivers trained to load and secure a chair properly, at the same fixed fare as a saloon. Hospital, day centre, the shops, the match and the airport, booked an hour ahead in the day and the night before for the morning.
The same fixed fares as a saloon: £6 in town, Cardiff Airport £48, by zone to everywhere else.
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An account for businesses, surgeries, care homes, schools, the university and the council: book by phone, app or email against the account, a reference and a cost centre on every journey, one itemised invoice on the first of the month with 5% off the fixed fares, and a named person at the office who knows your routes.
No account fee.
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Four eight-seater minibuses for five to eight people: the family to Bristol with the cases, the rugby crowd to the Principality, the hen party to Cardiff and home again at two, the wedding party between the chapel and the venue. The saloon fare plus 40%, fixed, with a driver who has done the stadium traffic before.
The saloon fare for the zone plus 40%: Cardiff city centre £45 from Pontypridd town, Cardiff Airport £68, Bristol Airport £154, Heathrow £336, for up to eight people with luggage.
Fares
£6
Taff Street to the Graig, the station to Trallwn, the Co-op to home. £4.50 for a hop under half a mile.
£24
From £24 to £38 depending on the zone; £32 from the town centre. Central station, the stadium, Queen Street.
£40
From £40 to £54 by zone; £48 from the town centre. The flight watched, 45 minutes free after landing.
£102
From £102 to £116 by zone; £110 from the town centre. The drop-off zone fee is in the fare.
£232
From £232 to £246 by zone; £240 from the town centre. Any terminal, with the M4 margin built in.
£9
The same vetted driver every day, invoiced monthly. Shared runs from £5 a child a leg.
Up to four passengers with luggage in a saloon or estate; five to eight in an eight-seater at 40% more. Local fares are 25% more between midnight and 5am; pre-booked airport runs are not. Including VAT.
Airports
An airport collection is booked against the flight number. If it lands early the driver is early; if it is two hours late the office holds the driver back and you pay nothing for the wait. Forty-five minutes free after landing, the car park fee in the fare, child seats booked ahead at no charge, and a name board at arrivals for £10 if you want one.
How we work
Fixed fares by zone to Cardiff and the airports, a flat £6 anywhere in town in the day, and a 25% uplift after midnight that is written down rather than discovered. Waiting is free for the first ten minutes and £5 a quarter hour after, and the driver tells you when it starts.
Airport collections are booked against the flight number. If it lands early we are early; if it is two hours late the driver is told by the office and you are not charged for the wait. Forty-five minutes free after landing, then the normal waiting rate.
Rhondda Cynon Taf licence, enhanced DBS, a six-monthly vehicle inspection, hire-and-reward insurance and a dashcam in every car. Contract and school work gets the same named driver every day, and a substitute the school has already met.
Businesses, surgeries, care homes and the university book by phone, app or email against an account, get a reference on every job, and one invoice on the first of the month with 5% off the fixed fares. The office answers account queries the same day.
School and contract runs
Eleven cars do the same school run every day for the council, for schools and for families, with an enhanced-DBS-checked driver the child knows and a substitute the school has already met. Surgeries, day centres and the university run their regular journeys the same way, on account, invoiced once a month with a reference on every trip.
How a run is set upEvery hour
The night line rings through to a dispatcher, not a machine. Sixteen cars on a weekday, nine on a Friday and Saturday night until three, and five between midnight and six every night including Christmas, when the 25% night fare applies in town and the airport fares do not change. The dispatcher tells you the car, the colour and the driver's name, and the app shows it coming up the hill.
Passengers
Booked the night before for 3:45, car outside at 3:40 with the engine off so as not to wake the street. £46 as it said on the website, the driver took the cases, and on the way back a week later the flight was ninety minutes late and he was there anyway with no charge for it. That is the whole job done properly.
Six quid home from town on a Thursday, same as it says, same as it was last year. The dispatcher tells you the colour of the car and the driver's name and the app shows it coming up Taff Street. Twenty minutes on a Saturday at midnight, which they tell you honestly rather than saying five.
My son has been taken to his school in Tonteg every morning for three years by the same driver, Emyr, who knows which days are hard and which song helps. When Emyr was off, the office texted me the name of the substitute, who my son had already met at the school. I did not know a taxi firm could do that.
£48 from Pontypridd town centre for up to four passengers with luggage, £40 from Taff's Well, £54 from Abercynon: every zone is on the fares page and the quote there is the fare. Five to eight people in an eight-seater is 40% more. The flight is watched, forty-five minutes after landing are free, and there is no night uplift on a pre-booked airport run.
Yes. Cardiff, the three airports and every zone in the borough have a published fare and that is what the dispatcher quotes and the driver takes, whatever the traffic does. The meter runs only on journeys we have not priced, outside the zones, and the driver tells you first.
About eight minutes in town during the day with sixteen cars running; about twenty on a Friday or Saturday night between eleven and one, which we would rather tell you than pretend. Book a time and the car is yours at that time.
Two, with a rear ramp, four-point restraints and trained drivers, at the same fare as a saloon. Book an hour ahead in the day and the night before for a morning run; regular hospital journeys are set up once on the same driver.
Yes, with no fee: 5% off the fixed fares, a reference on every job and one itemised invoice a month as a PDF and a spreadsheet. About forty surgeries, care homes, schools and firms in the borough already do.
Eleven cars do the same school run every morning of term for the council, for schools and for families, with the same enhanced-DBS-checked driver every day and a substitute the school has already met. From £9 a leg within the borough, invoiced monthly.
Cars on the road twenty-four hours a day from the office on Gelliwastad Road, with the fare fixed before you get in. Ring 01443 496 0700 any hour, or book here for a set time, an airport run, an eight-seater or the ramp car and the office confirms within the hour in the day.
