Good To Go Parking – the secret way to save on Official Heathrow Parking at the airport

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• david jones says:

  26 Aug26 August 05:51

  parking around heathrow has got prohibitively expensive recently. my daughter went away for a week and it cost her something like 150 pounds. sounded almost like the price of her holiday. i’m sure a few years ago it was far cheaper.

  • Paul says:

    26 Aug26 August 08:03

    It was much cheaper. I regularly used valet parking from purple Parking for our 3 week augustvtrip and it was consistently around £100 making it about the same as a taxi. Now it almost double and the taxi still around £100 return.
    I do use T short term for weekend trips but that around £65 as opposed to about £45 2 years ago

  • David says:

    26 Aug26 August 09:51

    Presumably it’s a deliberate effort to encourage people onto public transport, which HAL needs to do to address the air quality concerns around the 3rd runway.

• Anon says:

  26 Aug26 August 05:58

  I have to be honest I’ve struggled to ever find a deal with this. I’ve just looked for a weekend in a couple of weeks (maybe 1 night doesn’t work?), it was £27.99 on Good to Go, and £27 on the regular Heathrow parking site.

• Gordon says:

  26 Aug26 August 07:06

  Me and my wife used to use purple parking and good to go from Heathrow but they increased their prices, for the last 2 years we have used NCP yes you may be surprised we mostly travel from terminal 5 LHR, So book with NCP and drop the car at their car park located in the Hilton hotel,(15 & 20 Min free transfer to T4 & T5
  They are in some cases 50% cheaper than PP AND GTG,
  You can subscribe free and get £5 extra off per booking,
  We have booked with NCP for out trip to Dubai in October and Jamaica Xmas cheapest hands down, don’t take my word for it check out their web site and compare.
  NOTE we mostly travel from T5 so we can’t say about T2 & T3 But you can be sneaky and park at Hilton and get the bus to T5 then get the free Bus or Terminal train to T3 as we are doing in December as our AA (operated by BA) flight departs from T3 and the return flight arrives at T5.
  Good Luck.

  • Roger says:

    26 Aug26 August 07:29

    Good shout on NCP Hilton.
    I checked my existing good to go booking which is Drop n Ride (you cant keep your keys) against the Hilton Car Park for T4/T5 and NCP is more than £10 cheaper for 8 days parking.

    • Roger says:

      26 Aug26 August 07:30

      Rob

      As above you need to mention about Drop n Ride that it is not at the same as main car park
      It seems to be operated differently, with Drop n Ride you lose your keys, so cant self park in the main terminal car park.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      26 Aug26 August 07:39

      You are at the mercy of the buses though.

      One perticular evening there was no hoppa bus to Hilton T5 for well over an hour and the card machine wouldn’t work on the normal bus (it’s outside the free bus area) with no change for a £20. Luckily someone waiting for another bus did otherwise it would’ve been an expensive uber ride instead, more than wiping out a £10 save.

      I only used it becuase I was staying the night but if I wasn’t I would rather pay £10-20 more and be far closer to the terminal.

      • John says:

        26 Aug26 August 07:45

        You can’t pay cash on London buses now and if the machine is broken the driver just lets you on for free though.

      • TGLoyalty says:

        26 Aug26 August 09:35

        Have to say I’m not a user of London buses and this is going back to Feb now so memory maybe hazy on who operated the bus that turned up after an hour or so wait but cash was accepted.

        My point is in the future it would have to be a significant cash saving to park anywhere but the terminal for me or not use one of the valet services.

      • callum says:

        26 Aug26 August 10:47

        London buses stopped accepting cash 4 years ago, maybe it was the Hotel Hoppa? The London buses seem to go past the Hilton every 10/20 minutes so I wouldn’t be too concerned about experiencing a one hour wait for one. Unless it’s the middle of the night, the odds are so low it’s easily worth the gamble of possibly having to take a short taxi ride.

  • Rob says:

    26 Aug26 August 09:58

    Thanks, will take a look at this.

  • the_real_a says:

    26 Aug26 August 12:13

    NCP / Hilton is great for weekends or long weekends – especially as you get free hoppa tickets included.

  • Craig says:

    26 Aug26 August 15:56

    +1 for the Hilton NCP, I’ve been using it for years. Sometimes we stay at the Hilton, sometimes I’ve booked the dreadful HI T5 as part of an accelerate push.

• George Budd says:

  26 Aug26 August 07:20

  I used their drop a ride service over the summer – you get one of the little business buses to T5 and ring them when you want picking up. It’s a great service and was a £55 for a week vs £80 for the long stay with its huge bus (was tracking prices for a bit). Would 100% recommend.

  • Nigel S says:

    26 Aug26 August 07:25

    I agree. We paid £40 for a week over Easter and with the helpful staff and immediate transfer in their posh minibus it seemed like we were using a much more expensive service. We had to park near T4 for our flight from T5 which added a bit to the transfer time but I would highly recommend.

• Paul says:

  26 Aug26 August 07:58

  Parking costs at Heatrow, even with park and go have become utterly ludicrous. It’s now cheaper to get a cab.

  I have also found a way of getting uber or friends and family to collect me without paying the pick up fees at T5. Having paid LHR huge sums to use the airport in the first instance it is infuriating that they the charge for someone to pick you up. Given how inefficient the airport is these parking fees can be very large indeed.

• Discount Mike says:

  26 Aug26 August 08:19

  There are parking lots a couple tube stops or a bus ride to Heathrow that cost a fraction of official airport parking. Often these are quicker than getting to the airport than a shuttle.

• FlyUpTop says:

  26 Aug26 August 08:46

  Paid £46 park & ride for a week stay recently, it is 10 Months in advance though.

• filipino_chino says:

  26 Aug26 August 09:01

  I used the links on Money Saving Expert and i thought i got a good deal at around £50 for 2 weeks:

  Car Park: Heathrow AirParker Play & Fly Terminal 2, 3 & 5 – Park & Ride

  Original Price: £61.95
  Discount Saving: £15.49
  Parking Price: £46.46
  Booking Fee: £1.00
  Overall Cost: £47.46

  Your Journey:

  Location: Heathrow
  Drop Off Date: 27 Sep 2018 19:00
  Return Date: 11 Oct 2018 20:30

  • filipino_chino says:

    26 Aug26 August 09:02

    booked last week for a trip in Sept (normally book well in advance, but forgotten to book this one :/ )

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