Notting Hill’s ride, already sorted.Notting Hill taxis to Melbourne Airport.
A booked driver, a fixed fare you see before you pay, and a clean hybrid at your door — to Tullamarine, the Ferntree Gully Road offices, Monash University, the Medical Centre, or the city. The trains and buses are great for the commute; we’re for everything else. No surge, 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 Ferntree Gully Road 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.
Parcels & passengers, since 1878.
Notting Hill has an origin story a taxi company could hardly invent. In the 1870s a settler named Thomas Wilkinson ran a Cobb & Co coach service carrying parcels and passengers along Ferntree Gully Road; his refreshment stop, the Half Way House, became the Notting Hill Hotel, still standing today. He’s credited with the name, after Notting Hill in London. Carrying people and packages between here and the city is, more or less, still the job — we’ve just swapped the coach for a hybrid.
A century on, the residential heart became something else notable: the Westerfield estate, built by AV Jennings in the late 1950s as Australia’s first fully pre-planned suburb — no through roads, designed to be walked. It’s a small place, barely 1.6 km², but it wraps around Monash University and one of the country’s biggest business precincts, so by day it’s far busier than its size suggests. ME CABS covers everything the trains and buses can’t.
1878
the carrier who named it
1st
Australia's first pre-planned suburb
1.6 km²
~2,900 residents, big by day
SRL
a Monash station being built
Well-linked. We do what the network can’t.
For its size, Notting Hill is remarkably well-linked: the Monash Freeway runs along its western edge, Ferntree Gully and Blackburn Roads carry buses to the university and the city, and the Suburban Rail Loop’s new “Monash” station is being built right here, on the edge of the estate. For the daily commute, the options keep getting better — and we’d never argue with that. We’re for the trips the network, even a shiny new one, was never going to do.
The early flight with luggage
Door to terminal — no bus-and-train juggle with the bags at dawn.
The work airport run
Staff, visiting academics and clients to and from Tullamarine for the Ferntree Gully Road offices and the university — booked ahead, Cabcharge accepted.
The hospital trip, the function & the late night
Monash Medical Centre a short run south, the work event where nobody wants to drive, the group of five — door to door.
It’s getting better all the time.
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.
- 2
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 Ferntree Gully Road reception, the university, or the estate.
- 4
Ride.
Clean hybrid, known price, no meter anxiety on Ferntree Gully Road or the Monash Freeway.
- 5
Arrive.
Pay the fare you were quoted. Receipt to your account. Done.
≈38 km
Notting Hill → MEL
Staff and visitors for the Ferntree Gully Road offices and the university — flight tracked, fixed fare set before you book.
Straight up the Monash, on-ramp at the edge.
Roughly 38 km and about 40 minutes off-peak via the Monash Freeway and CityLink to Tullamarine — the freeway on-ramp is right on the suburb’s edge. We watch your flight, build in a buffer, and set your fixed fare before you book — no early-morning surge. Ideal for staff and visitors arriving for the Ferntree Gully Road offices and the university. Avalon (AVV) too.
Staff & client airport runs
Maxi for the team & the bags
Flight-tracked — a delay won't cost the car
Early-morning & late-night pickups
The university, the precinct & the pub.
The university & research precinct
Notting Hill wraps around Monash University’s Clayton campus — Australia’s largest — and the research precinct beside it, the CSIRO and the Australian Synchrotron among them. It means a steady stream of academics, researchers, conference visitors and international guests, all needing a reliable, fixed-fare car to the airport or across town, with Cabcharge accepted.
The Notting Hill Hotel
And the landmark that started it all: the Notting Hill Hotel, born as a coaching stop in the 1870s and licensed since 1891 — long a favourite of students and locals, and famously run by publican Kath Byer for decades. A fixed-fare car home from the pub is the oldest idea on this page, done properly.
The estate in between
Between the offices and the university sits the walkable Westerfield estate — Australia’s first pre-planned suburb — with its reserves and community hall: the everyday trips that start or end at home, the airport, a day out, the run back home.
The Clayton health precinct — a short run south.
Notting Hill sits just north of the Clayton health precinct — Monash Medical Centre, Jessie McPherson Private and the Victorian Heart Hospital are a short run south, with other options across Monash. For appointments, day procedures, discharge pickups and visiting family, a booked, fixed-fare car removes the two hardest parts — timing and uncertainty.
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.
Melbourne’s biggest jobs hub outside the CBD.
By day, Notting Hill is business — the Ferntree Gully Road offices and the wider Monash National Employment & Innovation Cluster, Victoria’s largest jobs hub outside the CBD, sit right here next to the university, the CSIRO and the Australian Synchrotron. That’s a lot of staff airport runs, visiting academics, client pickups and after-hours travel — and 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.
Staff airport runs
To and from Tullamarine, flight-tracked, booked ahead.
Client & visitor pickups
Met at the terminal, driven to the Ferntree Gully Road door.
Cabcharge accepted
Alongside card and cash, with an itemised receipt.
The after-hours function
The work night out where nobody wants to drive home.
When getting there matters, the difference shows.
| When you want… | ME CABS | Rideshare app | Hail / rank taxi |
|---|---|---|---|
| A price you can trust | Fixed, shown before booking | Surges without warning | Metered — unknown till arrival |
| A car that turns up at 4am | Booked & assigned ahead | Depends who's online | Pot luck at the rank |
| Cabcharge accepted | Yes | No | Sometimes |
| A clean hybrid / EV | ~90% of the fleet | Whatever arrives | Whatever arrives |
| Maxi / group & mobility | Booked to suit | Limited | Limited |
The contrast is booked-driver certainty: a confirmed driver at a price locked before you travel, the runs others decline, Cabcharge handled properly — and a booking you can actually see and change afterwards.
The small centre of the Monash story.
Notting Hill is our small, central anchor in the middle of Monash, and we run the same fixed-fare service across the surrounding suburbs. It sits in the City of Monash — see the hub and the sibling suburb pages.
Notting Hill
You are hereOur small, central anchor
Oakleigh East
Between the lines
Syndal
On the Glen Waverley line
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 Notting Hill ride
Sedan for 1–4 — airport, the office, the university, appointments.
Plus
More room or premium comfort
Extra luggage, that bit of space, a smart car for a client run.
Group
Maxi for up to 11
Team airport runs, a conference group home, families with the bags.
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.
A quiet green to a walkable suburb.
There’s a quiet green to Notting Hill — a walkable estate designed around pedestrian paths, the reserves at Westerfield Drive and Samada Street, and the old Scotchmans Creek lines that once ran through it. Our fleet fits that: about 90% hybrid and electric, so the standard ride is simply the cleaner, quieter one. No badge, no lecture — just the default.
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 work airport run
Ferntree Gully Road → Tullamarine
Our team flies out for work constantly. Booked the night before on a fixed fare — Cabcharge accepted, an itemised receipt, straight up the freeway.
Book a trip like thisThe early flight
Notting Hill → Tullamarine
5am flight, two bags, didn't fancy the bus and train. Booked the night before, driver at the door, fixed fare straight to the terminal.
Book a trip like thisThe hospital run
Notting Hill → Clayton
Regular trips to Monash Medical Centre with mum. Same kind of car, door to door, no stairs, always on time.
Book a trip like thisThe night at the Notting Hill Hotel
Notting Hill
A long night at the pub the coach stop became — booked a fixed-fare car home instead of leaving the car. The oldest idea on this page, done properly.
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.
You can take the bus to campus or the train to work, but not to the airport at dawn with two suitcases, or to the hospital with someone who can’t manage stairs, or home from a work function after a long day. 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.
Notting Hill taxi & transfer questions, answered.
Can’t find what you’re looking for? Call the Melbourne dispatch on 1300 012 018.