Sunday, February 13, 2011

Gatwick Airport Parking - What to Choose ?

By Carol Lamb


So you are wanting to park your car at Gatwick airport, the choices can be endless and daunting. How are you suppose to make the right choice ? simple, you just need to take your time and compare products and companies. Type in Gatwick airport parking into any search engine and you will be returned with many websites but very few will be able to compare the car parks side by side.

Lets take a typical example of a family of four wanting Gatwick airport parking and for them to depart on 15th July for two weeks. You could wade through all those websites returned through your search engine or you could play it smart and choose a site such as www.ukairportcarparks.co.uk. What they do is they pool all of the latest products and prices from the five main sellers of airport parking in the UK into one easy to use site. So if we use this site and enter our dates and required airport we will get approximately 36 car parks returned in total. In this instance out of those 36 car parks we have 15 car parks which are on the airport itself, we have six car parks which are off the airport and 15 meet and greet car parks. Straight away you can see the vast difference in price ranging from 88.80 to 141.39, but not only that you can easily see what each individual car park has in the way of features such as security, location and transfer bus times.

So make the correct choice by using an airport parking comparison site such as this one to get the latest information and also save money and time. It can sometimes seem as if there is too much choice at times but sites like this will definately make things easier and quicker.

Holidaymakers from London and the south east of the UK will use Gatwick airport so it's easy to see why it gets so busy. Gatwick airport has two runways but only uses one at a time, it also has two terminals to serve the north and south of the airport. Always remember this when booking your car parking at Gatwick airport and make sure you've got a car park booked which serves the terminal which is used by your airline. Our example site will always let you know what teminal is served by what car park.

It's so important to take your time and choose the right car park for you, not the most exciting thing to do but it will certainly save you time and money, lots of money in some cases. It's not always the case that the more you pay the better service you get, just look for the right car park for you.

Should we park on the airport at Gatwick or off the airport ? Well for a short shuttle bus time or even a quick walk to departures then you should certainly go for the on airport car parking. You could however save a bit of money and go for the off airport option which would mean a longer bus transfer (5 - 20 minutes typically). There is no set rule but usually on airport car parks are slightly more expensive than off airport car parks. There is another option, the Meet & Greet services of which Gatwick airport has many. These are the ultimate in convenience allowing you to simply drop your car off at departures on your way out and then picking it up outside arrivals on your way back... simple!




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