Gatwick tip to avoid the £5 drop off

[pvr]

At the south terminal just before the ramp is the long term parking. Go in there (2 hours free parking) to get dropped off and take the coach to the terminal (2 minutes ride). The coach is every 10 minutes.

 

[enuff_zed]

I believe the same applies to the North Terminal Long Term as well.

 

[Z4paul]

Good tip, out of interest is there a similar way round the drop off fee at Stansted? £7 up to 15 mins then £25 over that !!

 

[Lynchy]

Or you could park at PVRs, leave your car and he’ll drop you off and pick you up and on your return he would’ve washed and polished your car :wink:

 

[Pondrew]

Or you could park at PVRs, leave your car and he’ll drop you off and pick you up and on your return he would’ve washed and polished your car

And kept it in one of his 17 garages on the estate.

 

[Beatman]

Just a heads up, at Heathrow from later this year, not only will you have the high drop off charges to contend with. But, it will fall in to the London ULEZ expansion zone :headbang:

 

[enuff_zed]

Just a heads up, at Heathrow from later this year, not only will you have the high drop off charges to contend with. But, it will fall in to the London ULEZ expansion zone :headbang:

From a previous discussion on here, I believe the long stay car parks will be outside it though. Suppose they have to be or you'd have a fine before you even got home!

 

[Beatman]

Just a heads up, at Heathrow from later this year, not only will you have the high drop off charges to contend with. But, it will fall in to the London ULEZ expansion zone :headbang:

From a previous discussion on here, I believe the long stay car parks will be outside it though. Suppose they have to be or you'd have a fine before you even got home!

If you look at the planned expansion map, it looks as if the whole of Heathrow is covered ?

 

[enuff_zed]

Just a heads up, at Heathrow from later this year, not only will you have the high drop off charges to contend with. But, it will fall in to the London ULEZ expansion zone :headbang:

From a previous discussion on here, I believe the long stay car parks will be outside it though. Suppose they have to be or you'd have a fine before you even got home!

If you look at the planned expansion map, it looks as if the whole of Heathrow is covered ?

That would be ludicrous surely. You would have to be sure to pay the charge before left? Would it be for every day or just the trips in and out?

 

[pvr]

ULEZ at an airport whose planes are polluting like nothing else. Something wrong with that.

 

[N4LLY]

"Good tip, out of interest is there a similar way round the drop off fee at Stansted? £7 up to 15 mins then £25 over that !!"

Or drop off in the Premier inn car park. Should be not that much of a walk into the terminal ?

 

[MikeyH]

From a previous discussion on here, I believe the long stay car parks will be outside it though. Suppose they have to be or you'd have a fine before you even got home!

If you look at the planned expansion map, it looks as if the whole of Heathrow is covered ?

That would be ludicrous surely. You would have to be sure to pay the charge before left? Would it be for every day or just the trips in and out?

The world is going made with greed :headbang:

 

[MikeyH]

Or drop off in the Premier inn car park. Should be not that much of a walk into the terminal ?

Aren’t they patrolled by those parking eye scum bags?

 

[N4LLY]

Or drop off in the Premier inn car park. Should be not that much of a walk into the terminal ?

Aren’t they patrolled by those parking eye scum bags?

Not that i noticed last time i stayed there :?
A quick drive through should'nt be a problem.

 

[pvr]

Be careful with that one though as I did read that the person checking in after drop off has to register the vehicle that dropped them off to avoid an automatic “invoice”

 

[Pondrew]

Heathrow Airports Holdings Ltd who run all the big UK airports, have lost millions in revenue from airlines in the last few years thanks to covid. Charging punters through the nose for everything is a quick and easy way to start to recoup those losses.
Stansted is a good one. Every time I go there (quite often and going again next Tuesday) there are cars strewn all over the verges just outside the drop-off area to avoid the charges with people pulling their luggage across the grass to get to the terminal. Yet they have every road covered by ANPR cameras and signs warning of fines. They police this well so I heard.
The last three times I have gone through the drop-off road the barriers have been up and no fees payables. If you go at a busy time, the queue at the barriers backs up so quickly that it gridlocks the drop-off area, so they open the barriers to free it up.
So invariably it's cheaper to go to the right place; and a lot easier for travellers! :rofl:

Badly designed and poorly executed; imagine that in the UK?

 

[pvr]

Why do they have barriers? At Gatwick there is just the camera and if you drive through, payment is due.

 

[Pondrew]

Why do they have barriers?

Possibly something to do with location. Stansted is in Essex, if they had cameras all the local girls would be taking selfies with them! :? :lol:

 

[Nanu]

Or drop off in the Premier inn car park. Should be not that much of a walk into the terminal ?

Aren’t they patrolled by those parking eye scum bags?

Not that i noticed last time i stayed there :?
A quick drive through should'nt be a problem.

Be careful with that idea. I dropped the wife off at our local eye infirmary and drove straight out again and received a parking charge notice from Parking Eye. Fought them and won thanks to a website called Peppipoo. (Yes that is the name) which I recall Carol put me onto. Useful for most parking issues. 2 out of 2 wins in my case

 

[N4LLY]

Be careful with that idea. I dropped the wife off at our local eye infirmary and drove straight out again and received a parking charge notice from Parking Eye. Fought them and won thanks to a website called Peppipoo. (Yes that is the name) which I recall Carol put me onto. Useful for most parking issues. 2 out of 2 wins in my case

I use the Yellow zone car park.
Premier inn have used couple of time as flight times to Wroclaw are 0725 Hrs (Have an office there)

Last June ithought i would try and early hours start from Home. Frigging Dartford Tunnel was closed.
Had to divert Blackwall tunnel and through london to M11

Going again in March, am booked into Premier Inn :roll: