A fixed price, a driver at the door, and no meter anxiety.
Avalon is 55 km from the Melbourne CBD and just 20 from Geelong — long enough that a metered fare or a surging app can sting. ME CABS runs it pre-booked, at a price agreed before you travel, with a driver who meets you and tracks your flight.
- A price agreed first
- fixed and all-in, before the wheels turn
- ~50 min to the CBD
- about 55 km, straight up the Princes Freeway
- 15–20 min to Geelong
- Avalon is Geelong's airport, not just Melbourne's
- Met at the terminal
- one terminal, flight tracked, bags handled
Fixed price
Agreed before you travel
Flight tracked
Arrivals adjusted to landing
Cabcharge & MPTP
Plus card & cash
5am & midnight
Booked, so a car is committed
ME CABS runs pre-booked, fixed-price transfers to and from Avalon Airport. We track your flight, meet you at the terminal and agree the price before you travel.
No surge. No meter. No guessing.
Get your fixed Avalon priceAVV → Melbourne CBD
≈ 50 min
about 55 km, door to door
AVV → Geelong
15–20 min
about 20 km, door to door
First, make sure you are going to the right airport.
This is the single most useful thing a local operator can tell you, because getting it wrong is an expensive morning.
Avalon Airport
At Lara · between Melbourne & Geelong
Melbourne’s second airport, and a single-terminal one. Jetstar runs almost all the domestic flying here — Sydney, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Adelaide — alongside selected international services.
- One terminal — the meet-and-greet is simple
- Closer to Geelong than to Melbourne
- A straight freeway run to the CBD
~75 km
90+ minutes apart
Opposite sides of the city, with no coordinated transport between them.
Melbourne (Tullamarine)
A completely separate airport
If you are flying Qantas, Virgin or Rex, you are almost certainly departing from Tullamarine — not Avalon. It is the city’s main international and domestic gateway, on the northern side.
Local tip worth its weight
Check your ticket for AVV vs MEL before you book a car. If you are not sure which one you are flying from, tell us the flight number when you book and we will confirm it with you.
Avalon sits between two cities — and it is nearer to the second one.
Public-road distances and typical drive times. Every leg is a fixed, pre-agreed price, not a meter.
Melbourne CBD
Flinders Street to the terminal
≈ 50 min drive
Princes FwyAvalon (AVV)
One terminal, at Lara
15–20 min drive
Geelong
And on to the Bellarine
The drive from the CBD runs over the West Gate Bridge and down the Princes Freeway, and whatever the road costs is already inside your quoted fare — while from the Geelong side, Avalon is barely twenty minutes away.
One terminal. So finding each other is simple.
The pick-up rank sits directly outside Avalon’s single terminal — none of the multi-terminal confusion of a big airport. For a pre-booked ME CABS transfer your driver is watching your flight and ready when you land. You are met, your bags go in, and you leave.
Your driver tracks the flight
The pickup moves with your actual landing time.
Bags handled, not hunted for
You are met at the terminal and away — no queue, no app-pin confusion.
Name-board greeting on request
If you want a meet-inside greeting, arrange it when you book.
You agree the price up front — one number that does not move.
Avalon is where fixed pricing earns its keep. It is a long enough run that a metered taxi can land anywhere in a wide range depending on the Princes Freeway, and rideshare apps surge exactly when you least want them to — early mornings, late nights, holiday getaways.
A meter or an app
- The number is only known when you arrive
- Traffic on the freeway is your problem, not the driver's
- Peak-hour and holiday surge lands on the exact flights people take from Avalon
- Fares outside the metro zone get unpredictable
A pre-booked ME CABS fare
- Agreed before the wheels turn, and it does not move
- Covers the drive, the road, tolls, the airport's access fee and GST
- Cabcharge and MPTP accepted, with a tax invoice for every trip
Sedan for two. A maxi so a family is not split across two cars.
Tell us passengers and bags at booking and the right category is assigned to the run.
Flex
The everyday choice for solo travellers, couples and standard luggage.
Plus
More boot space for extra bags, golf clubs, or a board bound for Torquay.
Group
A maxi keeps a family or group and its bags together — not split across two cars.
Wheelchair
Wheelchair-accessible vehicle on request. Tell us at booking so the right car is sent.
Vehicle categories are assigned subject to availability. About 9 in 10 ME CABS cars are hybrid or electric — a cleaner, quieter ride on a long freeway run. More on group & maxi taxis and wheelchair-accessible travel.
Not just the CBD. Avalon is the smart gateway to the west and the coast.
Because Avalon sits on the Geelong side of Melbourne, it is often the better starting point for the west and south-west — exactly the territory metro-only apps struggle with, and exactly where ME CABS already runs.
Melbourne CBD & inner suburbs
A straight run up the Princes Freeway and over the West Gate Bridge — one fixed fare, door to door.
~55 km · ~50 min
Geelong, Lara & the Bellarine
Avalon sits closer to Geelong than to Melbourne. For the Bellarine it is comfortably the smarter airport.
~20 km · 15–20 min
Surf Coast & the Great Ocean Road
Start the coast road without crossing Melbourne first. City traffic bypassed entirely.
Torquay · Lorne · Apollo Bay
Werribee & the western corridor
The growth corridor between the two airports, where app coverage thins out fast.
Point Cook · Tarneit · Wyndham
On a long, timing-sensitive airport run, certainty beats everything else.
Over rideshare
No surge
Rideshare climbs at early-morning and holiday peaks — precisely the flights people catch from Avalon. Your ME CABS price is fixed.
No “regional” surprises
Avalon sits outside the metro zone, where app fares and return-leg handling get unpredictable. Ours is quoted whole.
A driver who is expecting you
Pre-booked and flight-tracked — not matched to whoever happens to be nearby, which out at Avalon may be no one.
Someone accountable
You book a company, you get a tax invoice, and you reach a real person on 1300 012 018 if anything changes.
Over a rank taxi or a big network
The meter is the anxiety
Metered is fine for a short hop. Across 55 km of freeway it is exactly the thing people dislike — numbers climbing while you sit in traffic.
Booked beats turn-up-and-hope
The rank outside Avalon depends on a car being there. A booking commits a specific vehicle to your flight.
Not one job in a national pool
You have booked a Melbourne operator who owns getting you there, rather than a ticket in a dispatch queue.
One number, quoted whole
The drive, the road, tolls, the airport's access fee and GST — settled up front, not itemised as surprises at the kerb.
We follow the flight, not the schedule you hoped for.
Delays are the norm on budget routes, so this matters at Avalon more than most airports. For arrivals we follow your flight number and adjust the pickup to when you actually land. For departures we build the freeway run and the check-in buffer into the plan, so a delay upstream does not turn into a missed flight.
Give us the flight number at booking and the rest is handled.
- Flight
- Tracked from booking to landing
- Pickup
- Moves with the actual arrival time
- Driver
- Assigned to your run, meets you at the terminal
- Price
- Fixed at booking — the delay does not change it
- Payment
- Card, cash, Cabcharge or MPTP · tax invoice
Avalon Airport questions, answered.
Can’t find what you’re after? Call the Melbourne dispatch on 1300 012 018 or message us on WhatsApp.
Book your Avalon Airport transfer.
Fixed price · meet-and-greet · flight tracked · Melbourne, Geelong and the coast. Tell us the flight and we’ll give you the number up front.