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Why Choose Excel Taxi Yeovil
There are plenty of ways to get a taxi in Yeovil. What makes people book the same one twice is fairly simple: the car turns up when it was promised, the price is the price you were quoted, and someone answers the phone. That is what we have built the business around.
Reliable and punctual
Turning up on time is the whole job. A taxi that arrives ten minutes late is not a minor inconvenience when it is taking you to a hospital appointment, a 6am check-in or the last train home. We plan pick-up times backwards from when you actually need to arrive, with a sensible buffer built in, rather than optimistically from when we would like to leave. If something on the road changes, we call you rather than leaving you watching the window.
Professional local drivers
Our drivers live and work here. That sounds like a small thing until you are trying to explain a pick-up point on a Yeovil back street to someone reading it off a map for the first time. Local knowledge means knowing which way round the town centre is quicker at half past three, where you can actually stop outside Yeovil District Hospital, and which entrance at Yeovil Junction you meant. Every driver is licensed and insured for private hire work, and the vehicles are maintained to the standard our licensing authority requires.
Fixed, competitive fares
Most of our journeys are quoted as a single fixed price, agreed with you before you travel. No meter ticking in traffic, no surge pricing because it happens to be a Friday night, and no awkward moment at the destination working out what you owe. On airport transfers and long-distance runs this matters most, because those are the journeys where a meter can run away with itself. Ask us for a price and we will give you one. See our fares page for how pricing works.
Clean, comfortable vehicles
Cars are cleaned between jobs, not once a week. If you are getting into a taxi at four in the morning with a suitcase, or after a hospital appointment, or with a child in tow, the state of the back seat is not a detail. Tell us what you are carrying when you book and we will make sure the vehicle has room for it, rather than everyone standing on the pavement rearranging bags.
Airport specialists
Airport runs are the journeys we do most, and the ones with the least margin for error. We track your flight, so a delayed landing does not mean a driver leaves without you and it does not cost you extra. On the way out, we plan your pick-up around the check-in time you give us, not around the flight time. Bristol Airport is roughly 40 to 45 miles from Yeovil and takes about an hour and ten minutes in normal traffic; Heathrow is around 110 miles and two to two and a half hours. We also cover Gatwick, Exeter and Southampton, with Luton and Birmingham on request.
Easy booking
Book whichever way suits you: call or text 073 88 33 40 08, message us on WhatsApp, or use the booking form and we will come back to confirm. You will be dealing with a person, not an app queue — which also means you can ask a question, change a pick-up point, or check we can fit a wheelchair, a bike or a week's luggage before you commit.
Available day and night
We run day and night. For late-night finishes and early-morning starts we ask you to pre-book, because that is how we guarantee a specific driver is awake, assigned and outside your door at the time you asked for. A 4am airport run booked the week before is a very different proposition from one requested at 3.40am.
A local business, not a call centre
Excel Taxi Yeovil is owner-run by Jenson Mathew, who has been driving passengers around Yeovil and South Somerset for more than three years. Every booking matters because the reputation is personal and the town is small. If we get something wrong, tell us — we would much rather hear it from you directly than read it in a review. More about us, or see the areas we cover.