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Im due to fly out of T3 on Friday afternoon but have just had to book a work trip which will get me into T5 at midday on Thursday. So no point heading north to be home just for a few hours.
Will I be able to use the T5 arrivals lounge? I’m flying club Europe.
Can anyone recommend a nice hotel walkable to T3 and easily accessible from T5?Thanks lots .
You won’t be able to access the arrivals lounge off a short haul flight.
As for hotels start here
https://www.headforpoints.com/category/london-airport-hotel-reviews/
I wouldn’t get too hung up on a hotel at T3 as most hotels in the LHR area have easy access to all terminals.
There are only 2 hotels walkable to T2/T3. The Hilton Garden Inn and the Aerotel. It’s not possible to walk along the road to the terminals. So you’ll be using Tube/bus/cab otherwise.
Excellent value and also a good standard of accommodation are the HIEX and CP at T4. You need to get the tube to T2/3 then change and get off at T4, then it’s a short walk. They share a very good restaurant and have been comfortable, spotlessly clean and quiet, with great air con when I’ve stayed, which ticks all my boxes. You can sometimes get one or the other for as low as £70 pn. They have been reviewed here.
I can’t resist marvelling, as a northerner, that getting from one part of LHR to another takes 2 separate tube journeys!
Excellent value and also a good standard of accommodation are the HIEX and CP at T4. You need to get the tube to T2/3 then change and get off at T4, then it’s a short walk. They share a very good restaurant and have been comfortable, spotlessly clean and quiet, with great air con when I’ve stayed, which ticks all my boxes. You can sometimes get one or the other for as low as £70 pn. They have been reviewed here.
I can’t resist marvelling, as a northerner, that getting from one part of LHR to another takes 2 separate tube journeys!
You can do one bus journey on the 482 or 490 bus from T5 to the CP at T4, cost £1.75, 16 minutes.
Thanks Richie. I generally stay at T4 and do Anna’s 2 Tubes trip too. It can e a long wait at times.
Hotels walkable at Heathrow – https://www.headforpoints.com/2022/02/16/which-heathrow-airport-hotels-walkable-from-terminals/
To clarify to get from T5 to T4 by tube you need to go up to Hatton Cross then take a T4 bound tube back to the airport. It’s a simple cross the platform and wait for the tight tube scenario.
To get to T3 from T4 just take the first tube that comes along.
As to why it takes two tubes is down to the history of when the tube was first sent to LHR. Initially it was just to T1/2/3 then the loop line to T4 was added as part of building T4. This is a single track one way direction from Hatton Cross
When T5 came along the track was built from T5 to T3. Not sure why the T4 loop wasn’t extended to T5 – likely a combination of cost and the practicality of construction and the overall increase of journey times.
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Excellent value and also a good standard of accommodation are the HIEX and CP at T4. You need to get the tube to T2/3 then change and get off at T4, then it’s a short walk. They share a very good restaurant and have been comfortable, spotlessly clean and quiet, with great air con when I’ve stayed, which ticks all my boxes. You can sometimes get one or the other for as low as £70 pn. They have been reviewed here.
I can’t resist marvelling, as a northerner, that getting from one part of LHR to another takes 2 separate tube journeys!
You can do one bus journey on the 482 or 490 bus from T5 to the CP at T4, cost £1.75, 16 minutes.
I second the comment about buses from T4 to T5 (and vice versa) being very simple. When departing T5 (BA) but returning to T4 (EY) earlier this year, I used T4 long stay parking, and then took a bus to the Sofitel T5, where I had already dropped off the family and our luggage (we had an early morning T5 departure the following day). It was very easy. That said, T4 isn’t walkable to either of the OP’s terminals, so one of the usual Bath Road hotels may be just as convenient for the OP–or else the HGI T2/3 n advance of the T3 departure.
Thanks, I’ll make a note about the buses – are they easy to find?!
The HGI T2/3 can be over £300 on some nights! We are staying there this week, but only because we’ve got an early T3 departure and there was an Amex £50 off deal when I booked, but a family room still worked out about £175.
There is a good selection of hotels at T4 which surprisingly are also convenient for T3 and T5.
For T5, the buses go from T4 very 10 mins or so, but there is also a stop pretty much outside the T4 PremierInn. For T3 there is the tube or the Elizabeth line direct from T4 to T3.
For trains between T5 and T4 you don’t have to go via Hatton Cross, you can go via a change at T3 – but there is often a long wait. The bus is better but not so good if you have large baggage.
A convenient option, after arriving at T5, would be to take the airside transfer bus from T5 to T4 and cross the border there and walk to a T4 hotel. Then train to T3 in the morning.
Thanks, I’ll make a note about the buses – are they easy to find?!
Yes, bus stop 11 at T4 – just make sure you get on one going the right way ie to T5, which it will say on the front. (They also stop at the same stop going the other way to Pools on the Park (490) or Southall (482)).
From HIX it is probably easiest to walk to the terminal. To or from the PremierInn, there are stops pretty much outside the hotel. One stop beyond T4 if coming from T5 (Starlight Way) or the stop is just out and to the right for going the other way.
From T5 it is bus stop 7. 482 and 490 start there so you can’t go wrong. Both stop outside the T4 long stay car park, T4, and outside the T4 Premier.
Payment is by Oyster card or any other payment card or phone. You only need to tap in, not out.
The bus stop outside the Premier Inn to go to T5 is located at:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/2jiNPvZiDZ4v5WEN8
There is also a bus stop at T4 itself, No11 located just outside on the arrivals level downstairs
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