Parking at Heathrow

[Ricochet J]

I certainly wouldn't want to be parking my car on a street for 2 weeks.

As long as the street is perfectly well lit in a decent area I see no reasons not to.

 

[Indy500]

Parking on the local streets isn't really that viable given Hounslow council's attitude towards it (they use tickets as a cash cow to offset the static tax rate). Even residential cul-de-sacs have restrictions and permits now.

 

[[TW]Fox]

Can never be bothered with the faff of driving to Heathrow. Train the night before and a hotel.

 

[Meatball]

What terminal are you flying out? Purely out of interest...

 

[Simon]

Can never be bothered with the faff of driving to Heathrow. Train the night before and a hotel.

Depends where the OP lives surely ?

 

[Westyfield2]

I just do the official T5 Long Stay car park.

 

[[TW]Fox]

Depends where the OP lives surely ?

True, I guess if he lives somewhere they don't have trains its probably not a useful suggestion.

 

[Simon]

Well I'm not gonna get a hotel if I'm 40miles from heathrow am I?

The cheapest option is driving when there is two people.

 

[Em3bbs]

A train return from Reading would be cheaper than driving & parking.

I would even get the train from Maidenhead to Heathrow as it's easier/cheaper than leaving the car there although generally a family member would take me.

 

[[TW]Fox]

Well I'm not gonna get a hotel if I'm 40miles from heathrow am I?

The cheapest option is driving when there is two people.

26 quid return from Reading. Looks cheaper for two than parking alone let alone adding petrol.

 

[Kingy]

Well I'm not gonna get a hotel if I'm 40miles from heathrow am I?

The cheapest option is driving when there is two people.

Airport Taxi?

 

[Em3bbs]

26 quid return from Reading. Looks cheaper for two than parking alone let alone adding petrol.

The train from Reading is probably one of the easiest routes into Heathrow as well - I'm surprised so many people dismiss it as an option. It's so much more relaxed than fighting your way down the M4 then trying to sort out parking etc.

 

[[TW]Fox]

Plus last thing I want to do after a 12 hour invariably overnight flight is drive.

 

[miniyazz]

Last thing I want to do after getting off a plane with a bag or two of luggage, usually in the middle of the night, is struggle with public transport. Give me a car any time.

 

[Simon]

26 quid return from Reading. Looks cheaper for two than parking alone let alone adding petrol.

Reading to Thatcham is £5 each way. . Plus I have to pick up a cat on the way home and also get taxi to and from the strain station.

M4 is easy if you plan your flight times to miss peak traffic

 

[acemastr]

I'm 80miles away, between Cambridge and Northampton.

Hotel is the easiest option for us, 7:55 flight, so at the airport for before 5:00, then fly back for 6:55am two weeks later. Plus I hate public transport.

 

[Simon]

I'm 80miles away, between Cambridge and Northampton.

Hotel is the easiest option for us, 7:55 flight, so at the airport for before 5:00, then fly back for 6:55am two weeks later. Plus I hate public transport.

Do you drive or train though?

 

[acemastr]

Driving down there, forgot to say the parking is included with the Hotel, £83

Oddly the hotel is: http://www.radissonblu-edwardian.com/middlesex-hotel-gb-ub3-5aw/gbedwair/home

Which looks rather posh!