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I have an overnight at LHR before 6pm flight next day. Was planning a trip into London for a walk around, but left booking the Heathrow Express too late to buy a £5 ticket, now too expensive to contemplate.
Staying at T4, would appreciate any suggestions to pass away a morning using public transport, otherwise it’s dismantling the hotel room trouser press ala Alan Partridge.
Try the driverless “Pods” at T5, if they are operating.
Visit the museum at BA’s Waterside HQ – if it has re-opened after Covid (needs booked in advance and you take staff bus from T5)
In summer, go to the rooftop bar of one of the hotels – can’t remember which – and plane spot.
Walk through the T5C tunnel to T5 main terminal – don’t take the train back, you’ll cause all sorts of issues with UK immigration and BA’s fit to fly. Although that would be another way to “waste and hour or two”!
But really, transport from LHR to London shouldn’t be that much of an issue, surely?
left booking the Heathrow Express too late to buy a £5 ticket, now too expensive to contemplate
Elizabeth line or Picadilly line. Only people expensing their travel or gullible foreigners take the HEx (IMHO).
Thanks Colin,
Transport into Central London OK if 15 minutes on Heathrow express but not for the crazy price return that I would now have to pay. Using underground or Lizzy line takes too long given that I have about 5 hours to pass.
BA museum sounds good, will look into.
Transport into Central London OK if 15 minutes on Heathrow express
You can’t get to central London in 15 minutes on HEX, only to Paddington, and only from T123.
And as you are staying at T4, it will take you over 20 minutes to get to Paddington (you will have to take an Elizabeth to T123, then HEX) then at Paddington, back to the Elizabeth to get to central London…
The Elizabeth is direct from T4 to Bond Street in 37 mins, Tottenham Court Road in 39.
BA Heritage Centre detail here:
https://www.britishairways.com/content/information/about-ba/history-and-heritage
If worried about time, and the sun is shining – Elizabeth Line into Paddington and then have a walk along the canal to Little Venice, past the flat in A Fish Called Wanda?
Quite a few paces for food and drink too.
BA Heritage Centre detail here:
https://www.britishairways.com/content/information/about-ba/history-and-heritage
If worried about time, and the sun is shining – Elizabeth Line into Paddington and then have a walk along the canal to Little Venice, past the flat in A Fish Called Wanda?
Quite a few paces for food and drink too.
Thanks for posting this. I visited it in 2013 and have always wanted to visit again (with more time) but had no idea it was open to the public. I have emailed them.
Agree this whole lack of a £5 HEX ticket is a red herring even if your plan was to simply marvel at the inside of Paddington station. You’d probably end up connecting onto an Elizabeth line train to get somewhere meaningful in London anyway and indeed the transport planners just say to get the Elizabeth Line from T4 to London, not the HEX
Google maps says T4 to BA Heritage Centre is 36 mins by public transport.
There are buses (£1.75) from T4 to Richmond, which takes 50 minutes.
Windsor? In my younger days I used to just head into Hounslow in such instances. Spent some time at shops, coffee and luch. Used to be a lot of pilots and cabin crew around there too so a good place for AV geeks to hang out.
Apart from Windsor, which is easy to get to, there is always the SL7 bus route. Now every 15 minutes. I had about 5 hours to kill at T2. Went to Kingston. Did some shopping in John Lewis. Walked along the river. Had lunch and then bus back to central bus terminal. A great way to spend a few hours rather than sitting in the lounge before a long overnight flight to Singapore.
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