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Post by N230UD on Jan 29, 2020 21:00:58 GMT
Has anyone ever travelled on the various parking buses at the airports around London?
When I sometimes fly from London, I like to get to the airport a few hours earlier than I need to, and try out some of the local buses. e.g. the Metrobus network at Gatwick, and the various local routes around Heathrow. But if often been tempted to try some of the car park shuttle routes, which often have unusual vehicles on them, such as articulated Mercedes and Scania buses. Does anyone know of any of these routes which are easy to have a ride on, despite not going to collect a car? Any good examples?
I know at Heathrow, the British Airways buses (operated by King's Ferry) are for staff only, and the Hotel Hoppa routes have a premium fare (with rather boring E200s). Are there any routes you can just jump on for free,and not get stranded at a car park?
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Post by vjaska on Jan 29, 2020 23:15:53 GMT
Has anyone ever travelled on the various parking buses at the airports around London? When I sometimes fly from London, I like to get to the airport a few hours earlier than I need to, and try out some of the local buses. e.g. the Metrobus network at Gatwick, and the various local routes around Heathrow. But if often been tempted to try some of the car park shuttle routes, which often have unusual vehicles on them, such as articulated Mercedes and Scania buses. Does anyone know of any of these routes which are easy to have a ride on, despite not going to collect a car? Any good examples? I know at Heathrow, the British Airways buses (operated by King's Ferry) are for staff only, and the Hotel Hoppa routes have a premium fare (with rather boring E200s). Are there any routes you can just jump on for free,and not get stranded at a car park? They may be Enviro 200’s but the Hotel Hoppa ones at Heathrow are far from boring. They have a bigger engine and produce a far more interesting sound than your regular mundane Enviro 200. |
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Post by N230UD on Jan 30, 2020 19:20:33 GMT
Has anyone ever travelled on the various parking buses at the airports around London? When I sometimes fly from London, I like to get to the airport a few hours earlier than I need to, and try out some of the local buses. e.g. the Metrobus network at Gatwick, and the various local routes around Heathrow. But if often been tempted to try some of the car park shuttle routes, which often have unusual vehicles on them, such as articulated Mercedes and Scania buses. Does anyone know of any of these routes which are easy to have a ride on, despite not going to collect a car? Any good examples? I know at Heathrow, the British Airways buses (operated by King's Ferry) are for staff only, and the Hotel Hoppa routes have a premium fare (with rather boring E200s). Are there any routes you can just jump on for free,and not get stranded at a car park? They may be Enviro 200’s but the Hotel Hoppa ones at Heathrow are far from boring. They have a bigger engine and produce a far more interesting sound than your regular mundane Enviro 200. Interesting, I wasn't aware of that, thank you. Some of the routes are relatively long too. I believe some of those E200s have appeared on Hallmark's ordinary routes as well. |
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Post by redexpress on Jan 30, 2020 20:35:54 GMT
Has anyone ever travelled on the various parking buses at the airports around London? When I sometimes fly from London, I like to get to the airport a few hours earlier than I need to, and try out some of the local buses. e.g. the Metrobus network at Gatwick, and the various local routes around Heathrow. But if often been tempted to try some of the car park shuttle routes, which often have unusual vehicles on them, such as articulated Mercedes and Scania buses. Does anyone know of any of these routes which are easy to have a ride on, despite not going to collect a car? Any good examples? I know at Heathrow, the British Airways buses (operated by King's Ferry) are for staff only, and the Hotel Hoppa routes have a premium fare (with rather boring E200s). Are there any routes you can just jump on for free,and not get stranded at a car park? They may be Enviro 200’s but the Hotel Hoppa ones at Heathrow are far from boring. They have a bigger engine and produce a far more interesting sound than your regular mundane Enviro 200. I think they have Voith boxes, or am I confusing them with something else? |
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Post by snowman on Jan 30, 2020 21:06:40 GMT
Has anyone ever travelled on the various parking buses at the airports around London? When I sometimes fly from London, I like to get to the airport a few hours earlier than I need to, and try out some of the local buses. e.g. the Metrobus network at Gatwick, and the various local routes around Heathrow. But if often been tempted to try some of the car park shuttle routes, which often have unusual vehicles on them, such as articulated Mercedes and Scania buses. Does anyone know of any of these routes which are easy to have a ride on, despite not going to collect a car? Any good examples? I know at Heathrow, the British Airways buses (operated by King's Ferry) are for staff only, and the Hotel Hoppa routes have a premium fare (with rather boring E200s). Are there any routes you can just jump on for free,and not get stranded at a car park? You can certainly jump on the airport long stay buses for free (but not the private car park ones). The trick is to see which section of car park they are filling that day by observing where the newly arriving cars are being sent, as that is where return bus to airport will pick up from. They only pick up in one section. Heathrow has some business car parks as well, nearer but still on perimeter with bus shuttles. Some like the summer special at Gatwick pick up and drop at same place as they park car for you. Some airports have car hire slightly off site, with free shuttles, Dublin is like that, they appear to be for different companies but when you get there, will find the car hire firms are few metres apart at Dublin so any bus would have done |
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