Monterey and Carmel Airport Transportation from SFO

Monterey has its own small airport, but most visitors land at SFO for the flight choice and face a two-hour drive south. Two hours is the wrong length for improvising: too far for a rideshare to find a willing driver at a fixed price, and long enough that a rental-car queue after a red-eye is the last thing anyone wants. A booked car is waiting at the curb, and the price was settled before you took off.

The peninsula's towns sit ten minutes apart, so the whole drive is the airport leg. Whether you are staying on Cannery Row, on Ocean Avenue in Carmel or inside the Pebble Beach gates, the car goes to the door.

Two flat rates. Monterey and Pacific Grove share one; Carmel-by-the-Sea and Pebble Beach share a second, a little higher for the extra twenty minutes past Monterey. Both are the same in either direction, published on the pages below as the Economy fare — the Toyota Sienna, the entry car on these drives, with Premium and Black Car priced above it in the booking flow. Every published fare is the whole price: the SFO airport fee is already inside it, and the drive crosses no toll bridge.

There is no meter and no surge. Holiday traffic on 101 or a slow crawl through Salinas changes nothing about your price.

Add your flight number when you book and we track it. Collect your bags and step out to the arrivals curb at your terminal; we text the driver's name, car and plate before you land, and there is no waiting fee for a late flight. Departing, the driver drops you at the curb on the departures level of your terminal.

Honest note: San Jose International (SJC) is about half an hour closer to Monterey than SFO. If your fare lands there, choose SJC as the pickup in the transfer form. Between SFO and SJC, book around the flight that suits you — the peninsula drive is the long part either way.