Getting from your Heathrow Airport Hotel to your terminal often involves the Hotel Hoppa Heathrow and whilst it’s a great service there are alternatives that can work out both cheaper and quicker. The car park is currently closed, however.Hotel Hoppa Heathrow Insider Tips for The Renaissance We wrote about the Hilton Terminal 5’s NCP car park here.
HOPPA BUSES AT HEATHROW FREE
Anyone using this car park is given free Hotel Hoppa tickets to the airport. If you are looking to drive to Heathrow and then take a bus to the airport, it is worth noting that the Hilton Terminal 5 – which is not at Terminal 5 – has an NCP car park attached to it. If you approaching Heathrow by tube and are staying at the Moxy, DoubleTree, Best Western Ariel, Courtyard or any of the other hotels on Bath Road to the east of the airport, it will be quicker to get off at Hounslow West tube station and get a bus. This map (PDF) is a schematic of the bus routes around the airport. Remember that cash is not accepted on the London bus network so you will need an Oyster card or contactless credit or debit card. You can take multiple buses within one hour for this price.
The services are hardly expensive, however, at £1.65 per trip. Heathrow withdrew financial support for bus services last year, making a mockery of its environmental credentials. The downside is that you won’t be dropped in the forecourt of your hotel, which the Hoppa would do.īus trips within the airport perimeter are no longer free. The only thing you need to know is which buses head towards your hotel. Leaving the Central Bus Station between Terminals 2 and 3, most buses head through the tunnel and onto Bath Road where the majority of the hotels sit. We have run a number of Heathrow hotel reviews in recent weeks, which has made me familiar with the local bus services. Instead, Plan B is to take a standard London bus Heathrow is outside the zone inside which black cabs are legally obliged to take you. Whilst technically there is a way they can arrange to ‘push in’ to the queue on their return, you can imagine the response you will get when you ask a driver to give up a £75+ trip to Central London in return for a quick run to your hotel. We recently published this article about the best hotels which are walkable to Heathrow’s terminals. That means the Sofitel in Terminal 5, the Crowne Plaza in Terminal 4 ( Crowne Plaza Terminal 4 review here), the Holiday Inn Express in Terminal 4 ( Holiday Inn Express Terminal 4 review here), the Premier Inn at Terminal 4, the Hilton in Terminal 4 ( Hilton Terminal 4 review here), the Aerotel inside Terminal 3’s arrivals hall ( Aerotel Terminal 3 review here), the Hilton Garden Inn in Terminal 2/3 ( Hilton Garden Inn T2/3 review here) or the Hilton Garden Inn at Hatton Cross ( Hilton Garden Inn Hatton Cross review here). Plan A, the obvious answer, is to stay at a hotel in the airport There are ways of avoiding this fee, which adds up to £22 to your overnight costs for a couple. How can you avoid the £11 return Hotel Hoppa fee? Taking the local buses means that you may have a short walk to your hotel, and may have to cross a busy road. The ONLY redeeming feature of the Hotel Hoppa is that you are dropped on the hotel forecourt. Up to 10 local bus services going in the same direction could pass whilst you are waiting for your over-priced Hoppa. If you are lucky and are the first to be dropped off, all that means is that you will face a longer trip in the morning.Įven worse is the fact that services are currently reduced to as little as one bus per hour.
Most will visit 3-4 other properties before depositing you at yours. To add insult to financial injury, most Hoppa routes involve a circuitous drive around the area. There is a 50p saving if you book in advance or use a kiosk at the airport. It currently costs a ludicrous £6 per person one-way or £11 return if you pay cash to the driver. However, like any monopoly, Rotala has not been shy in exploiting it. We all know from experience at other airports how chaotic arrival terminals can be with hotel and car hire shuttle buses all jostling for space. To be honest, I have always been happy with the idea of not letting the Heathrow Airport hotels run their own shuttle buses. Instead, Rotala, which bought the business from National Express a few years ago, has a monopoly contract to operate the ‘Hotel Hoppa’ shuttle service to 34 different hotels around the airport.
Unlike virtually all other major airports, at Heathrow hotel shuttle buses are banned.
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