Help with Airport hotel and parking included

miat1974

Apologies if Ive posted this in the wrong place.... but i am new to posting!! We are looking for 2 x family rooms (2 adults 1 child in each room) and 1 x double room for Gatwick airport for the 5th March. We need parking too. (arrive back the 21st March) Any ideas???

virgo149

Type in 'airport hotels' or 'airport parking' in your search engine and it should give you a list of companies doing this.

We use Holiday Extras on a regular basis and have never had a problem with them. They also seem to be very slightly cheaper than the others as well.

miat1974

anyone else?? Ive found the travel lodge gatwick for £26 per family room but not sure on which car park would be the best if staying here??

budgetflyer

https://www.simplyparking.co.uk sometimes have deals that holidayextras dont

virgo149

miat1974 wrote:

anyone else?? Ive found the travel lodge gatwick for £26 per family room but not sure on which car park would be the best if staying here??

Most of these websites give prices with and without parking. Those with are usually cheaper than if you book separately. Also most carparks at Gatwick are Terminal specific but you can always take the monorail between terminals if you use the 'wrong' one. We did this in December when we flew out of North and arrived back at South and it wasn't too bad at all. Also depends if you want to park on site at the hotel (so you can dump stuff before you go) or use one of the carparks on the edge of the car park (i.e. drive there first thing before your flight). I think Gatwick are still running their 'summer special' car parks and these are slightly cheaper than say NCP but slightly further out (?).

lisyloo

I am going to gatwick shortly and I am planning on using Maple meet & Greet.
They meet you at the ariport with you car which I think is better than waiting for a bus and then transferring.

I have not used them before but others on this site have had good experiences.
I have gound £42 for 8 days but this was an "advance" booking (there was another type that was more expensive).
It is slightly more than other parking but only a few pounds for the convenience of being met at the airport.

I checked where they parked their cars and it says a secure compound (I think I found that on the Gatwick airport site).

So if you can get a cheap Travelodge room then I think this works out better than many of the hotels with parking.
If you do go to one of the hotels with parking then check out the transfer arrangements. Some of them say free transfers but only go once an hour which isn't always that convenient, so you need to add on the costs of a taxi if you want to do that rather than wait 1 hour.
Some transfers from hotel packages do not run 24 hours or charges extra.
Basically make sure you check it out.
Some include breakfast others are room only.

franklally

Thanks budgetflyer - simplyparking.co.uk were far cheaper than the others for parking at North terminal Gatwick

cupidstunt

Try purple parking. You can use Tesco clubcard points.
All info can be found from here http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/clubcard/