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Airport parking prices
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:40 pm
by Foggy
off to Palma fri 15 till sun 17th feb from luton airport
mid term parking 32 quid ,short term 54 quid ..54 bloody quid
not as if i am going in the summer is it
got some discount codes to get the 54 down to 48 but even thats still a rip off
can park for 13 quid but its one where you leave the keys with em ,dont fancy that to be honest
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:18 pm
by Hitch
That cheap one, is that the one where they let cabbies borrow your car the evenings your away?
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:56 pm
by ultimatehandyman
It often costs more to get to the aiport than the actual price of the flight!
It's a rip off
Re: Airport parking prices
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:01 pm
by bobbie-dazzler
Foggy wrote:off to Palma fri 15 till sun 17th feb from luton airport
mid term parking 32 quid ,short term 54 quid ..54 bloody quid
not as if i am going in the summer is it
got some discount codes to get the 54 down to 48 but even thats still a rip off
can park for 13 quid but its one where you leave the keys with em ,dont fancy that to be honest
We sometimes fly from gatwick, and we leave our car at one of those 'leave the keys places', we have used the same one for years and found them okay.
If we fly from heathrow, which is 10-15 mins away, we leave the car at home and get a lift to the airport.
You can get a discount if you are an AA member, I think we save something like £8-£10.
Not too sure you get one if you are actually parking in the long or short term one though.
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:14 pm
by Hoovie
I paid less then your 3 day Luton price for 8 days at Heathrow before Xmas
Luton is a big rip-off for parking and Stansted is just as bad
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:24 pm
by Foggy
Hitch wrote:That cheap one, is that the one where they let cabbies borrow your car the evenings your away?
thats why i dont fancy it
Bobbie ..i am with the AA but thru my bank so you dont actually get a membership number and you need it to get the savings
can park at Doncaster airport for a week for that price and its just outside the Terminal ,just couldnt find flights to suit the days i want from there or East midlands so had to choose Luton ..bloody rip off
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:15 pm
by Telmay
At Gatwick it would have cost more to p[ark the car for two weeks than getting a cab for £70 return! But I can understand the cost for long term - its the short term costs that really give me the balls ache!!!!
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:34 pm
by Stoday
If you fly Emirates business class you get a limo and driver free.
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:38 am
by handyman
it helps when you live 10mins from the airport................and even better when the flight paths dont go over your house
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:46 pm
by davek0974
We use the 'leave the keys' people, summer-special i think at Gatwick, no probs yet. I always write the mileage on the keytag though!
About £40 for two weeks mid summer, not bad.
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:12 pm
by Hoovie
Stoday wrote:If you fly Emirates business class you get a limo and driver free.
Emirites don't fly to Palma though, just some god-forsaken deserts
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:15 pm
by Hoovie
davek0974 wrote:We use the 'leave the keys' people, summer-special i think at Gatwick, no probs yet. I always write the mileage on the keytag though!
About £40 for two weeks mid summer, not bad.
I used one of those "hotel for a night, park for a fortnight" services in Gatwick last January.
worst hotel I have EVER stayed at, and the amount of people complaining about their cars when I collected my keys two weeks later (and then found my car in a waterlogged field with a flat battery) put me off ever so slightly from doing that again
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:34 pm
by peter c
I used one at Gatwick last October. Having compared them all on a website we stayed at the Hilton two minutes walk away from South Terminal. When we arrived at the hotel they were waiting to collect the car. When we arrived back I suppose we waited at most ten minutes for the car to be delivered. Well impressed
The problem with a lot of the cheaper ones is they are some miles from the airport so there will be delays getting to the airport and back again to collect your car. Nowadays all I want to do when I get back is to jump in the car and do battle on the M23 and M25. Glad I live in Suffolk where we have no motorways.
Peter C
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:37 pm
by handyman
the airparks place near us wanted £900 a year to park up the campervan
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:16 pm
by terrys_plumbing_bits
last time my mate went amsterdam he parked his car at a leave ya keys one for 3 days and cost him 45 pound !!!!!