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Airport Parking: Quick Guide For The First-Time Traveller
Now you don’t have to worry about your vehicle before a flight. International-class facilities are available at Britain’s best airports including Gatwick, Manchester, Stansted, Birmingham and Heathrow.
You can either drive in just before your flight and find a parking bay or book in advance. The latter is always the best option because you don’t want to hassle yourself just before your flight. Parking bays are full at most airport parking lots most of the time. You can also save up to 25 per cent on the regular price with an advance booking.
Manchester Airport Parking, Birmingham Airport Parking, Gatwick Airport Parking, Stansted Airport Parking and Heathrow Airport Parking gives you two options based on the time you want to leave your car for. This includes long-stay (up to 90 days) and short-stay (for a few hours) bookings.
Manchester Airport Parking is extremely convenient with the authorities working to make it carbon neutral before 2015. Almost 16,000 bays are available at its eight separate public car parks. These are supplemented by parking bays at 10 privately-owned parking lots. There is a convenient shuttle service available too that drops you at the terminal. You can even get discounted hotel stays or avail free parking offers if you choose to stay in a hotel nearby for a few days.
Birmingham Airport Parking facilities are the cheapest in England including a multi-storey parking lot. A two-hour parking stay at the airport costs only £1.20 for the first 30 minutes. As with other airports, if you go for advance booking up to three months before, you can park for as low as £2.99 per day. Advance booking can fetch discounts up to 60 per cent of the regular parking cost. Incidentally, an off-site parking lot, the APH Birmingham has been awarded the AA/Police Gold Award for high security. It is monitored 24×7 with close-circuit cameras. However, it is about 15 minutes by bus from the airport.
Advance Booking at Heathrow Airport Parking can fetch you discounts up to 70 per cent on the regular price. You get free parking by booking a room at a nearby hotel too. Heathrow also has a business car parking service that facilitates long-term stay combined with a on-demand transfer service.
Stansted Airport Parking also offers the same kind of short-stay and long-stay parking but its unique features include much larger parking bays for camper vans or trailers. But these are very limited in number and you are unlikely to find a big bay empty unless you have booked for it in advance.
Gatwick Airport Parking has also been upgraded and expanded recently. However, the parking is quite costly here. Off-site Gatwick Airport Parking facilities are available at Cophall Farm, Courtlands and APH Gatwick. All these include highly secure compounds. On-site Gatwick Airport Parking options include Parking Express South, Summer Special facility and NCP Flightpath.
Facilities at all these airports include a premium valet or chauffeured service. You are greeted by a driver at the reception who takes the keys from you and when you return, you are handed your car keys with the vehicle standing right at the airport. You don’t have to bother about parking the vehicle yourself. Though, this kind of valet service is costly, it is extremely convenient for single women travelling alone, people with large families and luggage or those physically challenged.
You can compare rates and find good booking offers for parking facilities online too but always book at genuine and validated websites.
Jamy Wilson
http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/airport-parking-quick-guide-for-the-firsttime-traveller-1282122.html
Stansted Airport (Nov 2009) - Pickup - park in nearby town & catch a bus?
As my partner’s parents now have to fly from Slovakia into Stansted, arriving tomorrow at 11.15am, what might be the most cost effective way to collect them. The pickup charges appear ludicrous and do not think anything has improved since last experience. In Luton I can park in the medium parking for £3 and get 2 hours parking and it not much more than a 10 minute walk to the terminal. I do not think it fair to have to pay nearer £10 at Stansted so I would prefer if this is the case to use a local bus service and give the money to the local community. So how much, how long and how easy will it be for me to find fair parking in e.g. Bishops Stortford and get the 3 of us back in a reasonably short period of time. Example Arriva Service 510 - 16 minute journey (Tel 0844 800 4411 - currently closed) Thanks
Help from website
http://www.toandfromtheairport.com/stansted.html
Then Arriva
Bishop’s Stortford – London Stansted Airport £2.60 single, £4 return
But what are the parking charges in Bishops Stortford close to the bus stop etc
I would say drive up to Birchanger Services which is at the M11 junction where the turn off for Stansted Airport is http://motorwayservicesonline.co.uk/Birchanger_Green … tell your partner’s parents to phone you on your mobile phone once they have cleared Customs and are heading for the arrivals area, if they don’t have a mobile phone too there are always payphones around … in the meantime you sit in the motorway services with free parking having a coffee waiting for their call … when they call tell them to make their way to the Short Stay Car Park … with a bit of luck they will get there about the same time as you do … the first 30 minutes in the Short Stay Car Park costs £2.50
Could you check my grammar please?
There are many ways to spend your summer holiday, my last one I decided to spend in a foreign country. I, to my thinking, have been to many places, but mainly it was resorts of developing countries. And as I have european citizenship now, what means free movement through whole Europe, it would be silly not to visit the main island in the world. I’m talking about Great Britain, of course.
Here it was, twenty first of June. Airplane, two hours of anxious expectation, Stansted airport, bus to London. I was informed that the first impression of megapolis is in 90% awful: crowds of people, dirt, vanity and total disorientation. At least such was my Moscow arriving impression. But with London it turned out another way.
We left the bus just near Hyde Park, with travel bags, in the middle of the street, in the way of tens pedestrians. I was expecting to hear something like “Watch where you’re staying, softhead!”, but all I heard was “Sorry”. I received tens of “Sorry” in one minute. Later I was thinking how should I feel about it, but then I regarded such politeness as… displaying of culture. After a couple of days I began to say “Sorry” to every passerby who was accidentally touched by me. After a week I got accustomed to English two-tap hands and face washing system. After a month I almost integrated to completely international environment.
Well, if to speak about traveling, I think that it doesn’t matter where are you going and how much money do you have in your pocket. As for me, the only two things you should have for excellent time spending are people around you and the way in front of you.
There are many ways to spend your summer holiday, my last one I decided to spend in a foreign country. I, to my thinking, have been to many places, but mainly it was resorts of developing countries. And as I have European citizenship now, what means free movement through whole Europe, it would be silly not to visit the main island in the world. I’m talking about Great Britain, of course.
Here it was, twenty first of June. Airplane, two hours of anxious expectatioStintedted airport, bus to London. I was informed that the first impression megalopolislis is in WFLawful: crowds of people, dirt, vanity and total disorientation. At least such was my Moscow arriving impression. But with London it turned out another way.
We left the bus just near Hyde Park, with travel bags, in the middle of the street, in the way of tens pedestrians. I was expecting to hear something like “WatcYourre you’re ssoft headsofthead!”, but all I heard was “Sorry”. I received tens of “Sorry” in one minute. Later I was thinking how should I feel about it, but then I regarded such politeness as… displaying of culture. After a couple of days I began to say “Sorry” to every passerby who was accidentally touched by me. After a week I got accustomed to English two-tap hands and face washing system. After a month I almost integrated to completely international environment.
Well, if to speak about traveling, I think that it doesn’t matter where are you going and how much money do you have in your pocket. As for me, the only two things you should have for excellent time spending are people around you and the way in front of you.

