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After making a cock-up and forgetting to book hotel and parking for our Easter trip and seeing prices are now sky high im trying to avoid the same issue for our summer trip.
We are flying 7am from Gatwick with BA and i’m really more interested in convenience over quality when we will barely have the room for 8 hours. I see the premier inn is just over £100 but that’s at the North terminal and I can get a ‘double’ room at the yotel in the south terminal for £20 more.
I’m happy to pay the extra for the ease of the Yotel but will we even get 2 adults and 3 suitcases in there?? We are self catering for 3 weeks and normally take a case of foodstuffs. I read the HFP review but it was just Rhys in there solo (i think).
Lots of people like the Bloc Hotel at LGW regardless of which terminal you fly from, lost count of the numbers of people I chatted to on flights who said they were headed there after they landed and were regular guests.
People always looked happy as they went into the lifts in the terminal going up to it too!
Wondering if you considered this.
Lots of people like the Bloc Hotel at LGW regardless of which terminal you fly from, lost count of the numbers of people I chatted to on flights who said they were headed there after they landed and were regular guests.
People always looked happy as they went into the lifts in the terminal going up to it too!
Wondering if you considered this.
I did but the Bloc is almost the same price as the Sofitel.
Premier Inn over Yotel for sure. I can barely manage to open one large suitcase in the tiny Yotel room, so I wouldn’t imagine what having 3 suitcases will be like.
I have an early morning flight with BA as well coming up, but I’ve booked the Premier Inn at the North terminal – it’s convenient enough given the free and frequent shuttle.
It would be tight with 3 cases but doable and it is very convenient just coming up in the lift in the morning! BA offers twilight check in if it works with your schedule (closes at 9pm I believe)
@kevinchoi I’m assuming you were in the smaller single room. The double room has space to open bags and space for 2 cases under the bed
We stayed at the Hampton by Hilton which was very good and unexpectedly triggered the Diamond extension
Always surprisingly expensive though vs the Premier Inn!
Yes the Hilton is over £200 that night virtually twice the price of the Lenny Henry.
The north terminal is only a couple of minutes to south on the monorail so I wouldn’t use the “distance” as a deciding factor to go with the Yotel (or Bloc as others have mentioned) over the premier
Depends how important the double room is to you and if its worth the extra £20 over the premier
If you’ve not booked parking, can I recommend the Cophall parking near Gatwick. Great service all round. Even jump started my car after battery flat after a long holiday. Good prices and the parking lot is directly behind drop off, on a tarmacked area.
You ring them when you arrive and they come to pick you up
I agree that being from North to South terminals is easy, even with luggage. Choosing a hotel over the “distance” between them is pointless.
Thanks alll for the responses.
Parking already booked, that’s the one thing I did early on when I got the flights in October, managed to get the official long stay south for 20 nights for £105 which I thought was a decent price.
I’m going to go against most of the crowd and say that for an early morning flight I’d now stay at whatever terminal I was flying from. Having experienced an occasion when the monorail went down last year I wouldn’t want to deal with that whilst trying to catch an early flight – it would negate any benefit of staying so close! We were lucky and just needed to get from South, where we’d arrived by train, to North, where we were staying overnight at the Sofitel. We were waiting for the monorail when it went down and it ended up taking an hour to get to the other terminal. There were some very stressed people! They did put on replacement buses but it took them a while to get them organised and then boarding them was utter chaos.
The earlier the flight departure, the easier I want the journey from hotel to terminal, so my vote goes to the Sth Terminal hotel.
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