Gatwick to Nobu Hotel Portman Square Transfer – Marylebone, Met at Arrivals

A Gatwick to Nobu Hotel Portman Square transfer is a fixed-price Mercedes chauffeur, around 75 to 95 minutes door to door and from £241 one way, running in both directions 24/7. You land, walk into arrivals, and your driver is waiting with a name board – no app, no rank queue, no surge when the terminal fills up. The same service runs Nobu Hotel Portman Square to Gatwick for your departure, set to your flight time.

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Nobu Hotel Portman Square sits on a corner of Portman Square, in the heart of Marylebone just north of Oxford Street. From Gatwick it is around 28 miles, the M23 and then the A23 up through south London before the drop into the West End. Plan for 75 to 95 minutes in ordinary traffic; a weekday rush hour can add half an hour, while an early Sunday clears quicker. We track your inbound flight and set the pickup to your real landing time, so a delay on the runway is ours to manage rather than yours.

The cheaper route on paper is the train – Gatwick Express into Victoria in about 30 minutes, then the Tube or a short taxi up to Marble Arch or Bond Street. It works for one traveller with a small bag. With a couple of cases, a shopping trip already planned around Selfridges, or a tired arrival off a long flight, the change and the last leg are what wear you down. Where the train honestly is the better call for your trip, we will tell you plainly rather than push the car.

MILE5 has run airport transfers for over 15 years, more than 50,000 of them. We are TfL Licensed (No. 009161), fully insured, and hold a 5-star Google rating you can read through our client reviews before booking. The fare is fixed and confirmed before you travel, so the number quoted is the number you pay.

Gatwick to Nobu Hotel Portman Square – Fixed Prices

All prices are fixed, all inclusive, and start from the amounts shown. Final quote depends on exact postcode, vehicle choice, and any additional stops. No surge pricing, no hidden fees.

Three Mercedes classes cover most arrivals. The E-Class carries up to three with luggage and is the standard for a solo trip or a couple. The S-Class holds the same number with a more formal finish. The V-Class opens out to seven seats for a family or a group, which is the one to pick if a shopping-led stay means more cases on the way back. Each fare, whatever the class, includes a meet-and-greet inside North or South Terminal arrivals, live flight tracking, 60 minutes of free wait time, the £10 Gatwick drop-off charge absorbed, ULEZ covered where it applies, full luggage handling, child seats on request at an extra charge, and delivery to the hotel entrance on Portman Square. It runs 24/7, every day of the year.

Portman Square and shopping-side Marylebone

Portman Square is one of Marylebone’s quieter garden squares, a green pocket a couple of minutes north of the Oxford Street crowds. That is much of the appeal of this address – you are a short walk from Selfridges and the full sweep of Oxford and Bond Streets, yet set back on a calm square with its own private gardens. The village feel of Marylebone High Street, with its boutiques and the Chiltern Firehouse, is a few minutes north; the Wallace Collection is around the corner; and Hyde Park is about ten minutes’ walk south. Marble Arch and Bond Street stations are both close, which tells you how central this is without being on a main road.

For a chauffeur, the main thing here is Oxford Street and the streets feeding it, which clog at peak and over weekends. We come in off the quieter approaches to the square rather than fighting the shopping traffic, and set you down at the hotel’s corner entrance. If you are basing a few days of shopping here, we are happy to hold bags in the car between stops on a half-day booking – useful when the boot fills up faster than the suitcase did.

The Nobu name in Marylebone

This is the London hotel that carries the full Nobu treatment. Nobu Hospitality – the brand founded by chef Nobu Matsuhisa, Robert De Niro and Meir Teper – opened it in 2020 as its second hotel in the city, reborn from a former hotel on the square behind a striking new glass façade. The public spaces are by David Collins Studio, with Make Architects on the building, and the look is Japanese minimalism done at scale: a light, high lobby with a 16-foot kinetic silver sculpture by Ivan Black turning overhead, then 249 rooms in a pared-back, natural-materials style, many with balconies looking over the square.

The restaurant is the heart of it. When the long-running Nobu on Berkeley Street closed, its flagship moved here, bringing the brand’s Japanese-Peruvian cooking and signature black cod miso into a much larger room with a sushi counter and floor-to-ceiling windows onto the square. Around it sit the Nobu Bar with a year-round terrace, The Lounge for all-day dining and afternoon tea, a Nobu Pilates studio and wellness centre, and a large ballroom for events. Guests also get access to the private Portman Square Gardens across the road. It is a hotel with a real scene to it, the sort of place where an unhurried, on-time arrival sets the tone for the stay.

Chauffeur, taxi or ride-hail

For a central Marylebone address the everyday comparison is a fixed chauffeur against a black cab off the Gatwick rank or a ride-hail app. The cab is metered, so a long motorway run with a slow West End finish can climb in a way you cannot see coming, and the app price that looks low at a quiet hour rises the moment several flights land together. The way the two main apps actually price a trip is broken down in this look at Uber versus Bolt in London, but a chauffeur takes the guesswork out entirely: a fixed number agreed up front, a named driver waiting inside arrivals before you reach the doors, and an hour of free wait if the border is slow. For a guest checking into a hotel like this after a flight, that predictable arrival is usually worth more than a few pounds saved.

What the route has taught us

A few notes from running this one into Marylebone. Oxford Street and its side roads are the choke point, especially on a Saturday and in the run-up to Christmas, so on a busy day we route in around the worst of it. The hotel sits on a corner of the square, and we know the set-down point that keeps you out of the through-traffic. For an early outbound, book the car the night before and let us watch the morning M25 – the southern run back to Gatwick is the part that catches people short. And Nobu Hotel Portman Square to Gatwick uses the same flight-led timing in reverse, leaving room for bag-drop without a long, idle wait at the terminal.

Meeting you at Gatwick

The pickup works the same whichever terminal you land at. At North Terminal or South Terminal your chauffeur waits in the arrivals hall with a name board, your flight already checked – the North Terminal guide and the South Terminal guide show where the arrivals meeting points are if you want to know in advance. We follow your inbound on the Gatwick flight information page, where you can also check the live arrivals board, so an early or late landing just moves the pickup with nothing for you to do. For Nobu Hotel Portman Square to Gatwick we collect from the square at the agreed time and run straight to your terminal.

Written by Ian Silva, MILE5’s lead content author. This guide draws on MILE5’s 15+ years and 50,000+ airport transfers, plus first-hand research into terminal logistics, fleet operations, and London airport routes.

Gatwick to Nobu Hotel Portman Square – FAQs

How much is a Gatwick to Nobu Hotel Portman Square transfer?

A Gatwick to Nobu Hotel Portman Square transfer is fixed from £241 one way in a Mercedes E-Class, £347 in the S-Class, and £361 in the seven-seat V-Class. The fare is the same the other way, Nobu Hotel Portman Square to Gatwick, agreed before you travel with no surge pricing and nothing added at the end.

How long does the journey take?

Around 75 to 95 minutes for the roughly 28 miles, via the M23 and the A23. Allow more in weekday rush hour and less early on a quiet morning. Because we track your flight, the timing is built around your real arrival rather than the schedule.

Where will my chauffeur meet me at Gatwick?

Inside the arrivals hall at North or South Terminal, holding a name board, with your landing time already checked. No kerbside rank to find and no car park to walk to – you come through and your driver takes the bags.

What happens if my flight is delayed?

Nothing on your side. We track the inbound flight and reset the pickup to when you actually land, and every booking includes 60 minutes of free wait after touchdown to cover passport control and baggage.

Do you also cover Nobu Hotel Portman Square to Gatwick?

Yes – the route runs both ways at the same fixed fares. For a departure we collect from the square at a time set around your flight, with enough margin for the M25 and check-in, and take you direct to your terminal.

Which vehicle suits my luggage?

An E-Class or S-Class is fine for up to three passengers with a case or two each. For a family, a group, or extra or oversized luggage, the V-Class gives seven seats and far more boot space – the safer choice if you are unsure, especially after a shopping trip.

Is the Gatwick drop-off charge included?

Yes. The £10 Gatwick drop-off charge is built into your fixed fare, as is ULEZ where it applies, so the quote you get is the price you pay.

Other MILE5 routes near Nobu Hotel Portman Square

Nobu sits among a group of Marylebone and Fitzrovia hotels we cover most weeks, so guests often compare a few. The grande dame of the area, The Langham on Regent Street, is from £242, while the Marylebone Hotel on Welbeck Street is also from £242. Over the road from Marylebone station, the Landmark London with its palm-filled atrium is from £217.

A short way east in Fitzrovia, the London EDITION on Berners Street is from £241, and up by the stations the St Pancras Renaissance beside Eurostar is from £233. If you are staying around the district rather than one named hotel, our wider Gatwick to Marylebone transfer page from £242 covers the area as a whole.

For everything else, the Gatwick hotel transfers hub lists every London hotel we serve, and the main Gatwick airport transfers page sets out terminals, fleet and how the fixed-price service works. MILE5 also runs the same chauffeur service from Heathrow and across London when your travel goes beyond this one route.

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