 Poster: A snowHead
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try www.aph.com - purple parking
Reasonable at £60.26 for 8 days; I am sure someone can get better than this. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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hibernia, I doubt you'll get cheaper than that, Heathrow parking is expensive. I've just paid £95 with Purple Parking for 11 days. Best quotes I got after some searching and using various discount codes were £77 @ Park 4 Less (T1/2/3 only), £91 at Flyway parking, £91 at Economy Parking. That was through BCP and with Civil Service Motoring Association discounts. Trouble with those last 3 was they said they couldn't carry skis or snowboards on their small minibuses - so to it had to be either Purple Parking or spend £140+ to park within the airport 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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If you book online in advance via www.baa.com, then you can usually get into the Business Park&Fly which is just over the road from Terminal 4 for only a bit more than Purple. Currently they are quoting around £85 for days for 8 days beginning of March. Transfer takes only 5 minutes, and I find it great when travelling with lots of ski gear.
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If you are a SCGB member, it's always worth checking snowextras. I paid £57.60 for a week, off airport, recently. Even if you are not a member, checking out the car park could be worthwhile. Off airport - but cheerful and efficient.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Nick Zotov - its amazing but I always forget to do that, in my 7 years or so of SCGB membership I do not think I used that facility more than few times. Subliminly I suppose that I think that better deals can be achieved elsewhere without using snowextras. But I may be wrong in that!
Thanks for that link BTW - now put into my favouries - it brings them all together 
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hibernia, not sure if I really got a cheaper deal than going to the car park site direct. But snowextras was a very convenient way of finding it in the first place, and I do think I got a good deal in terms of Heathrow car parking generally. Happy to have helped with the link.
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Nick Zotov, you're right. When I got quotes for Heathrow parking the snowextras on-line prices with my SCGB membership came out just the same as enquiring direct and not going through SCGB.
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Thank God I don't have parking charges like that here -£36 for my 12 day stay at Newcastle Airport.
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Obviously depends on flight times but last time i flew from Heathrow it was early am. Drove up night before & stayed in one of the airport hotels. Cost about £70 for double room but that included leaving car in their car park for two weeks.
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Roger King - that's a good idea if you are travelling from a long distance. And the car parking is effectively free.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Heathrow is a nightmare for this.
Pink elephant plus a crappy hotel the night before are miles away and it seems to take ages to get back to your car... but they do seem to be cheap...
The other thing that might be worth checking out is hire car - had a work trip and a one way rental to Heathrow from Bristol was about £28 - much cheaper than the train. Adding in a one way rental home if its also about the same might work out as being the same as parking charges - plus the rental places are nearer the terminal than the car parks and very efficient
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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mountain mad, never considered getting a hire car, good idea. If I could do it for £40 each way then that's already cheaper than what I'm paying for Purple parking.
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Heathrow is a nightmare for this.
Pink elephant plus a crappy hotel the night before are miles away and it seems to take ages to get back to your car... but they do seem to be cheap...
The other thing that might be worth checking out is hire car - had a work trip and a one way rental to Heathrow from Bristol was about £28 - much cheaper than the train. Adding in a one way rental home if its also about the same might work out as being the same as parking charges - plus the rental places are nearer the terminal than the car parks and very efficient |
That's an astonishingly cheap rate. Corporate rate for the company? If not, can you tell us which car hire company?
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You know it makes sense.
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Yes do tell. The one-way rental excess charge alone is usually a lot more than that.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I'm with RobW. If you have a long flight, it's well worth spending a few £££ for the extra convenience of parking your car across the road from the terminal. The business car park is extremely well located for T4.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Nick/Ian
It was organised by work - so if thats unusual then it must have been a corporate rate.
I was surprised that it was cheaper than catching the train!!!
It was Hertz if that helps?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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hibernia, funny but theat may be the case with us too, car has a fault which we think may result in a new gearbox, and the best time to have the job done will be when we are in Canada. Ridiculous thing is though, the taxi will cost more than the parking,
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hibernia,
try this little trick I know but sshhhh keep it to yourself  . book your parking at NCP airport parking which is based in hotel carpark just outside Heathrow (just off roundabout before you go through tunnel) just looked at quick quote for a weeks parking from Saturday =£53.60. They have a regular bus which transfers you to airport. Now for the but! but it doesn't serve terminal 4 !!!! however if your prepared to make your own way in the airport to/from T1,2,3 (tube/shuttle buses?) then it is one of the cheapest parking options I believe. Hope this helps.
Rgds
Rich
http://www.ncp.co.uk/
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Type23 - thanks, filed away for the next time.
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If you normally use Purple Parking then try skyparksecure.com. We've just booked with them - it's the Purple Parking car park, but for 8 days is about 10 GBP cheaper than going with PP direct.
Cheers,
Simon
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