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Before you get into a cab outside Shoreham station or on a Lancing side street, a few quiet checks tell you plenty. This is a calm, practical guide to plates, driver badges and booking rules — and what to do when something does not quite add up.
Local shorthand gets you to the right bit of Shoreham in your head, but a cab needs a little more. Here is how to turn 'by the bridge' or 'top of Lancing' into a pickup that lands first time, without the classic roundabout mix-up.
The villages are only four miles from the coast, but the evening, Sunday and school-holiday buses have a habit of vanishing. Here is how to plan a cab between Steyning, Bramber, Upper Beeding and Shoreham that turns up, finds you and charges what you expected.
A wet Labrador, a sleeping toddler in a travel system and a paddleboard do not fit in a saloon, however politely you ask. Here's how to declare the awkward stuff when you book, what cleaning fees are for, and which Adur pickup points make loading up painless.
A high spring tide, a westerly blow and a bit of low pressure can turn the familiar run along the coast into something entirely different. What actually happens to cab routes around Shoreham, Lancing and Southwick when the harbour comes up — and how to book around it instead of through it.
Term-time afternoons on the Adur coast have their own rush hour, and it starts at 2:40pm. Here's how Shoreham, Lancing and Worthing families can book school pickups that actually work — proper timings, sensible pick-up points and the child seat question answered.
The A27 at half four in the morning is the friendliest road in Sussex — and the least forgiving place to be let down. Here's how to book a pre-dawn Gatwick transfer from the Adur coast properly, what a fair fare actually looks like, and where the £40 quietly disappears.
Some postcodes on the Sussex coast are simple. Others send satellite navigation into a small crisis involving a footbridge, a college hill and the wrong side of the A27. Here is the light-hearted Adur Knowledge Test, with the local tricks that make pickups run smoothly.