 Poster: A snowHead
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Appears from signage on the lanes leading to the drop off area at T5 (and latterly being used as a pick up area too as traffic was so light they weren’t enforcing drop off only) that the money gougers running Heathrow are now charging you £5 to drop off when this was formerly free. Also confirmed on their website
Now only 10p less than the first half an hour in the terminal’s short stay car park.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Same for Gatwick
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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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| ster wrote: |
Appears from signage on the lanes leading to the drop off area at T5 (and latterly being used as a pick up area too as traffic was so light they weren’t enforcing drop off only) that the money gougers running Heathrow are now charging you £5 to drop off when this was formerly free. Also confirmed on their website
Now only 10p less than the first half an hour in the terminal’s short stay car park. |
Sadly its been like that since the beginning of November. For short trips on BA, Pod parking at T5 is at times the best value and less for us than getting a taxi to and from Heathrow.
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Same for most UK airports. It is still free to drop-off in the Long Stay car park, and the passengers get the bus. (No charge for a stay less than 30 minutes).
Note also that terminal charging is based on ANPR, not barriers. You can pay only by card/phone, and if you don't pay (within a limited time) expect to get an £80 PCN (reducible to £40).
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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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Took the old man to Gatwick last week. First time heading there since the dreaded C word.
£5 to drop off for a max of 10 minutes or £11 to park in short-stay, give him a proper goodbye and grab a coffee on the way out. Hated paying full stop but I refuse to pay £5 to "drop off". Is that cutting your nose to spite your face? 
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Same at Stansted but free for a period in the midstay and bus to terminal
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I know the feeling 
I showed my youngest son how much I loved him a few months ago when I paid for the drop off rather than dumping at the long stay parking and running....
Of course I was spending his inheritance but it's the thought that counts
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@DJL, £7 at Stansted for me today!
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Both Bristol & Cardiff people just wait in the side lanes for the passenger to walk down
Probably looks like a dogging spot 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Flew in and out of Luton in November and loads of people park and wait in the road by the Ibis and Courtyard Hotels.
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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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@LOTA, when I’ve been to Luton before, a lot of people do that to wait for a call from whoever they’re collecting so they don’t end up spending too long at the pick up. They then drive up to the pick up point.
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£3 at Birmingham and has been for a long time.
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You know it makes sense.
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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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| Mr.Egg wrote: |
Both Bristol & Cardiff people just wait in the side lanes for the passenger to walk down
Probably looks like a dogging spot |
Same at every layby within 3 miles of Leeds Bradford. At least it's rural!
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Poster: A snowHead
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| mountainaddict wrote: |
Rip off Britain at its finest. Money grabbers with no scruples the lot of them  |
A fiver is hardly money grabbing is it? I mean, can't have been too easy running a major international airport lately!
Stansted is THE rip off - the other day I had to pick someone up and got shafted £20 for a short stay while I waitind in the plague infested and dimly lit terminal. Today, on the other hand, it was only £5.10 at Heathrow T2 and all very civilised. (I'm not a taxi driver)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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£3 at Birmingham and has been for a long time.
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IIRC you get 30 minutes free at Birmingham. You only have to pay if you miss the turnoff to the drop off and pick up zone.
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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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@Pruman, was that £20 for half an hour at Stansted, as that’s what you’re equating it to when comparing it to the £5.10 at Heathrow? If so that’s pretty extortionate.
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| ster wrote: |
| @Pruman, was that £20 for half an hour at Stansted, as that’s what you’re equating it to when comparing it to the £5.10 at Heathrow? If so that’s pretty extortionate. |
Best bet at Stansted is to park in mid stay for free and have arriving passenger get the bus to meet you (or you can get the bus to the terminal to meet them).
I park up at the rest area 5 mins away from Stansted and wait for a call saying “we’re off the plane” then head round to the mid stay. I think 60 mins in the mid stay is free for drop off or pick up.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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When I went to LHR, STN, LGW etc I had a limousine and chauffeur, even though I had a normal job. Companies will just be charged for the price of it and not care and the public will not have too much of an option.
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For waiting at Luton airport I used to go over to a trading estate nearer Luton. There was a Toys'RUs and several 'warehouse' shops there and a coffee/snack van, while I waited for the phone call to say we're out of customs and on way.
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| GlasgowCyclops wrote: |
| When I went to LHR, STN, LGW etc I had a limousine and chauffeur............ |
Is that the same as an airport taxi? You didn't half make my Valet, Chef and Head Gardener laugh.
But, yes, the cost will just get absorbed and most won't notice. Interestingly, licensed black cabs get a 100% discount but sounds like it doesn't apply to others like Uber, Addison Lee etc.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| DJL wrote: |
| ster wrote: |
| @Pruman, was that £20 for half an hour at Stansted, as that’s what you’re equating it to when comparing it to the £5.10 at Heathrow? If so that’s pretty extortionate. |
Best bet at Stansted is to park in mid stay for free and have arriving passenger get the bus to meet you (or you can get the bus to the terminal to meet them).
I park up at the rest area 5 mins away from Stansted and wait for a call saying “we’re off the plane” then head round to the mid stay. I think 60 mins in the mid stay is free for drop off or pick up. |
That's what I do at Stansted and Luton. Kind of assumed all airports operated like that these days.
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