My wife and I will be using our return half of our Heathrow Express ticket to return to the airport the day before our flight home - we have reservations at a local hotel for the night. When we get off the train, I assume that we will be in the 'Check in ' part of the airport, not the baggage/exit/ taxi part. Will we have access to cabs? We are to old to find and fight the buses with luggage. Thanks.

Are you staying at one of the hotels connected to a terminal? We find that is much easier for us. We transit through LHR on every trip to Europe, usually spend a night there both directions. We have stayed at Hilton, Terminal 4 and Sofitel, Terminal 5 several rimes each.

We will be staying at the Renaissance London heathrow, which I understood to be convenient for Terminal 2. I am not familiar with Heathrow, but at Houston, all of the outgoing cabs and shuttles leave from the exit at baggage claim and you cannot get to that point without going thru security etc, just as you would if you were flying out, which we are not. That really is the basis of my question.

Thanks everyone for your information.