B'ham airport - is this right?

jscalow

Its free at Gatwick

kittykat100

Its free at:

Heathrow
Gatwick
Stansted
Luton
East Midlands
Doncaster
Norwich
Manchster
Robin Hood

(Those are the ones that are free that I have been to recently)

Kittyx

khizman

instead of going straight on, turn right, at the mini roundabout go left and park outside the ibis hotel next to the car park entrances, the yellow lines there are as good as non existant.

You pay airport tax, IMO that should cover the drop off fee.

pinkcandyflossprincess

khizman wrote: »

instead of going straight on, turn right, at the mini roundabout go left and park outside the ibis hotel next to the car park entrances, the yellow lines there are as good as non existant.

You pay airport tax, IMO that should cover the drop off fee.

yes i was thinking if you can drop off before the oint where they charge you.
on a differnt topic through the bag check , the woman told me to empty bags in to trays then because i have 5 kids so trying to keep a hold on them at same time she grabbed my bag and literally shot it in the air into the scanner shouting theres no !!!!ing time:eek: it had my camcorder in as well!
i was so shocked i didnt dare say anything in case i was detained and missed the flight

jamescredmond

MrSmartprice wrote: »

It is exactly that! Using security concerns to squeeze extra money out of unsuspecting punters is a scandal. Another one I have seen is selling the little plastic bags for your liquid bottles at the airport for 50p a time. Yet other airports happily supply them for nothing.

I have also read in the Times today that you can pay £3 a time to jump the queue at the security checks. Rip-off Britain just about sums it up.:mad:

which was really the point of my OP.

unless you know the ropes at BHX, it's easy for anyone to be suckered into parting with a squid just by following road signs.

now, I know different.

typical of us Brits to meekly cough up, complain quietly and forget all about it.

we're supposed to dislike the french, but I've got a sneaking admiration for them: if they object to something en masse they simply ignore it/down tools.
my g/father (non-brit) once made this observation: 'if I had one criticism of the british it would be this - they put up with just about anything'.

am I making too much fuss about a £1 charge? maybe, but - like you - I get hugely annoyed with any kind of 'entrapment charge' that awaits the unsuspecting.

this is one of them, and it won't happen to me/OH again.

spiro

On a related issue you now have to pay £1 to use a luggage trolley at Luton airport.

jamescredmond

so, the a/ports have latched on to r/air's business model..

guess it was only a matter of time.............

LesD

MrSmartprice wrote: »

Hi Les! Still watching Spanish footy?:cool:

Saw two games while out there this month. Our local team won away 5-0!!! But could only draw at home against NINE men from a 'basement' team. Also, although I didn't see them, they managed to lose 1-0 nil yesterday against another NINE men from lower in the league.

One other anomoly - the top club has a played 13, won 12, lost 1 record. Guess who beat them! Yep - our team!

bryanb wrote: »

It is permissible to stop on double yellow lines to drop passengers unless there are also no unloading markings (Highway code)

Not sure what they're filming then - must be an airport regulation to prohit stopping. No one ever parks up there.