Burwood’s ride, already sorted.Burwood taxis to Melbourne Airport.
The tram’s great for the commute — but not at 4am with two suitcases. A booked driver, a fixed fare you see before you pay, and a clean hybrid at your door is the easy way to Tullamarine, Deakin, the Medical Centre, or the city. No surge, no tram-then-bus-then-train marathon, no app roulette.
Your exact fixed fare, in under a minute.
Enter pickup and drop-off and your exact fixed fare appears before you confirm — locked, the fare you see is the fare you pay. No meter, no surge, no traffic surcharge.
Need help now? Call 1300 012 018 or message us on WhatsApp. Cleaner ride, same price — about 9 in 10 of our cars are hybrid or electric.
Fare Estimate
Get your fixed price instantly — no surge, no surprises
All prices include GST. No hidden fees.
The fare you see is the fare you pay.
It removes the single biggest taxi anxiety — not knowing the cost. Here’s how it works, every trip.
You see it first
Enter pickup and drop-off. Your price is set and shown before you book — tolls and GST included.
It doesn't move
No surge at 5pm. No meter creep on Burwood Highway or the Monash Freeway. The fare you see is the fare you pay.
You're matched, not gambled
A real driver is assigned to your trip — not auto-dispatched and hoped for.
The tram runs through it, the airport doesn’t.
Burwood started as a market-garden village called Ballyshanassy, surveyed in 1858 and renamed Burwood in 1879 after a grand old house. But the modern suburb is defined by one thing: Deakin University’s Melbourne Burwood Campus — the university’s largest and busiest, with around 32,000 students strung along Burwood Highway, plus the schools, shops and leafy streets around it.
It’s also a suburb of surprising Australian firsts: the country’s first drive-in cinema opened here on Burwood Highway in 1954, and the first Kmart in Australia opened at Burwood in 1969. Add Wattle Park, the route 75 tram down the highway, and a diverse, education-focused community. One thing it doesn’t have is a train station of its own — which is exactly where ME CABS comes in, on a fixed fare.
~32,000
students — Deakin's biggest campus
No station
on the tram, off the train line
1954
Australia's first drive-in cinema
1969
Australia's first Kmart opened here
Great tram. No station. We fill the gap.
Burwood has one of Melbourne’s better tram runs: route 75 travels the full length of Burwood Highway, from the city out to Vermont South, stopping right outside Deakin. For the daily commute and a trip into town, it’s genuinely good. What Burwood doesn’t have is a railway station in the suburb — and the new Suburban Rail Loop “Burwood” station being built at Deakin is still years off. So getting to the airport by public transport means a tram, then a bus or train, then another change — well over an hour and a half with your bags.
The early flight with luggage
Door to terminal — no tram-then-bus-then-train juggle at dawn with the bags.
The Deakin airport run
Students, staff and visitors to and from Tullamarine, flight tracked, on a fixed fare — with Cabcharge accepted.
The hospital, the late night & the group
Monash Medical Centre or Box Hill a short run, the function, a group of five — door to door.
A rail loop still years off.
Your trip, sorted — start to finish.
Booking takes about a minute, and once it’s done, it’s done — a fixed fare, a confirmation in writing, and a driver who turns up. Your ride is sorted.
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Book.
Online in under a minute, by phone, or on WhatsApp. Fixed fare shown up front.
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Confirm.
You get a booking reference and driver details. Track it from your account.
- 3
Pickup.
A booked driver arrives at your door — home, a Deakin building, the Burwood shops, or a school gate.
- 4
Ride.
Clean hybrid, known price, no meter anxiety on Burwood Highway or the Monash Freeway.
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Arrive.
Pay the fare you were quoted. Receipt to your account. Done.
≈38 km
Burwood → MEL
Students and staff met at the terminal and driven to the door — flight tracked, a delay won’t cost you the car.
With no station, the car is the obvious way.
Roughly 38 km and about 36–40 minutes off-peak via the Monash Freeway and CityLink to Tullamarine. With no train and a 1½-hour public-transport slog the alternative, a booked car is the obvious way — we watch your flight, build in a buffer, and set your fixed fare before you book, with no early-morning surge. Ideal for students and staff arriving for Deakin. Avalon (AVV) too.
Deakin student & staff runs
Maxi for the group & the bags
Flight-tracked — a delay won't cost the car
Early-morning & late-night pickups
Deakin, Wattle Park & the firsts.
Deakin’s biggest campus
Deakin University’s Melbourne Burwood Campus is the university’s largest — around 32,000 students, thousands of staff, and a steady stream of visiting academics, conference guests and international students. That’s a huge, reliable travel base: airport runs, city trips, events and group moves — with the Suburban Rail Loop station being built right at the campus for the future.
Wattle Park & the firsts
Beyond the campus, Wattle Park — 41 hectares of gum trees, wildlife and a public golf course — is Burwood’s green landmark, threaded by the Gardiners Creek trail. And there’s the history: Australia’s first drive-in cinema (1954) and first Kmart (1969) both opened here. A busy suburb with a surprising story.
All easy, fixed-fare trips
A day at Wattle Park, a Deakin open day, a group to a campus event, or the airport run home — every one a booked, door-to-door trip on a fare set before you go.
Between Box Hill and the Clayton precinct.
Burwood sits between several major hospitals — Box Hill Hospital to the north, Monash Medical Centre and the Victorian Heart Hospital in Clayton to the south, and Cabrini in Malvern to the west. For appointments, day procedures, discharge pickups and visiting family, a booked, fixed-fare car removes the two hardest parts — timing and uncertainty — and with no station in the suburb, it’s often the only comfortable way.
ME CABS provides non-emergency patient and visitor transport — for emergencies always call 000.
Appointments & day surgery
On time, dropped at the right entrance.
Discharge
A reliable ride home when you can't drive after a procedure.
Visiting family
In and home again without the parking and the long walk.
Accessible vehicles
On request, for those who need them.
A campus that’s always on the move.
A campus the size of Deakin’s generates constant travel: visiting academics and conference speakers to collect from the airport, international students arriving and departing, and events that need groups moved. For the campus and the businesses along Burwood Highway, ME CABS keeps it simple: Cabcharge accepted on every trip, alongside card and cash, with a fixed fare shown before you book, no card fee on Cabcharge, and an itemised receipt after the trip.
Student & staff airport runs
To and from Tullamarine, flight-tracked, booked ahead.
Deakin campus trips
Visiting academics, events and city trips, door to door.
Cabcharge accepted
Alongside card and cash, with an itemised receipt.
Group & event moves
A maxi for a campus event or a group airport run.
Great for the commute. We do the airport run.
| When you want… | ME CABS | Rideshare app | Tram + train/bus |
|---|---|---|---|
| A price you can trust | Fixed, shown before booking | Surges without warning | Cheap, but not door to door |
| Door-to-door with luggage | Your door to the terminal | Usually | Multiple changes with the bags |
| A car that turns up at 4am | Booked & assigned ahead | Depends who's online | Limited early services |
| Cabcharge accepted | Yes | No | No |
| A clean hybrid / EV | ~90% of the fleet | Whatever arrives | — |
| Maxi / group & mobility | Booked to suit | Limited | Hard with a group |
The tram is genuinely good for the commute — so the honest contrast is door-to-door and luggage, not price. Booked-driver certainty: a confirmed driver at a price locked before you travel, Cabcharge handled properly, and a booking you can see and change afterwards.
The university anchor of the north edge.
Burwood is a busy anchor on the northern edge of Monash, and we run the same fixed-fare service across the surrounding suburbs. It sits partly in the City of Monash — see the hub and the sibling suburb pages.
Burwood
You are hereOur university anchor
Burwood East
Down the highway, fixed fare
Bennettswood
Door-to-door, fully covered
Box Hill South
A short run north
Surrey Hills
Over the Whitehorse border
Glen Iris
The Alamein-line neighbour
One booking. The right vehicle for the trip.
The booking is capacity-based — choose by how many people and bags you have, and we’ll match the car to the trip.
Flex
The everyday Burwood ride
Sedan for 1–4 — airport, campus, city, appointments.
Plus
More room or premium comfort
Extra luggage for the airport, that bit of space on a long trip.
Group
Maxi for up to 11
Students and bags to Tulla, a group to a campus event, families with the luggage.
Accessible
Mobility needs
Wheelchair-accessible and mobility vehicles on request, subject to availability.
Our fleet — about 9 in 10 hybrid & electric
Primarily Tesla and Lexus hybrids — cleaner, quieter and more comfortable than an older cab — plus wheelchair-accessible and mobility vehicles on request. A greener ride that doesn’t cost you certainty.
Greener than it looks.
Burwood is greener than it looks — Wattle Park’s bushland, the Gardiners Creek trail, and a university that builds to sustainable-design principles. Our fleet fits right in: about 90% hybrid and electric, so the standard ride is simply the cleaner, quieter one. No badge, no lecture — just the default, which happens to suit a campus travel policy nicely.
A number, not a slogan — run your trip and see the real estimated emissions for a hybrid versus an older cab.
Carbon Savings Calculator
See how much CO₂ you save by choosing ME CABS over a petrol car
The trips we handle every week.
Illustrative of the journeys we want to feature — real, permissioned customer stories will replace these as they are collected.
The Deakin airport run
Burwood → Tullamarine
International student at Deakin, flying home for the break, two big bags, no easy train from Burwood. Booked the night before, fixed fare straight to the terminal.
Book a trip like thisThe early flight
Burwood → Tullamarine
5am flight, didn't fancy the tram-then-bus with luggage. Driver at the door, fixed fare, calm the whole way to Tulla.
Book a trip like thisThe hospital run
Burwood → Box Hill / Clayton
Regular trips to the hospital with mum. Same kind of car, door to door, no stairs, always on time.
Book a trip like thisThe Wattle Park day
Burwood · Wattle Park
A morning at Wattle Park and a round of golf, then home again — booked there and back on a fixed fare, no parking, no driving.
Book a trip like thisAlready booked? You’re not left in the dark.
View, change or cancel — three ways to stay in control of your trip.
The tram will get you to the city, but not to the terminal at dawn with a suitcase, or to the hospital with someone who can’t manage the walk, or the family landing at Tullamarine who need a lift home. For those trips, there’s a particular calm in knowing the car is already booked. It’s booked. It’s a fixed price. It’s a clean, quiet car.
Your ride is sorted — see you soon.
Burwood taxi & transfer questions, answered.
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