Sorry for the re-post, but can someone clear this up for me?
I have heard conflicting things about the shower facilities in Heathrow. I'm going to have an 8 hour layover and would like to be able to shower, but some posts here say that the shower facilities are for members only.
Does anyone know what you need to be a member of?
Can anyone also verify that there are shower facilities in Terminal 4 as well as Terminal 1? I'll be flying in and out of Terminal 4...
thanks very much

By doing a websearch I found there are executive lounges in terminals 1,2, 3 run by Servisair that have, among other things, showers. The cost is 18.80 GBP/person.

Here's the website where I found the info. It also has links to what's in terminal 4 (no showers that I see) and the website for servisair.

http://www.heathrow-airport-guide.co...acilities.html

If you're flying business class, you might check with your own airline to see what facilities they might have in their own lounge area. Another option is getting a "date rate" at one of the airport hotels. This would allow you to also take a nap if you wanted.

I used public showers at Heathrow this past August. It cost 3 GBP for a private room with shower, toilet, sink, hair dryer, towel, packets of soap. This was in Terminal 2 right where you enter 1/2 and just to the right a few steps. They are run by the same outfit that I saw took care of the other public restroom facilities in the airport.

I asked around (a few clerks and airport staff) if there were any in Terminal 4 and no one seemed to have an answer.

I arrived Term 4 and departed Term 1 so it was convenient for me.

Servisair lounges dont have showers. Or rather, if they do, they've installed them in the past two months and failed to announce it on their website. I'm generally too mean to have access to FF or posh class lounges, but get free access to Servisair lounges through another membership, so these are the facilities I use most at LHR.

Irrelevant for kg anyway, since they're at T1-3 only and are all airside. So kg couldn't get to them even if they did have showers.

According to the BAA site, there ARE public showers at T4, both airside and landside. Do a search on "showers" at www.baa.com/heathrow. To see where the airside ones are, go to the terminal map , then navigate yourself to Gate 1A in the departures concourse.

The shower facility I used was separate from the bathrooms or lounges. It specifically said "Showers" on the sign at the door and had a front desk to pay and get the towel, then shower rooms along a hallway.

flanner's right. i spend far too much time in the T1 servisair lounge and i've never seen any showers. then only "convenience" they have is a very tiny and somewhat grubby toilet.

I know there are showers in T4. I saw them in the public restroom outsied secruity. Check out the following website and information. You can also print out a terminal map there that will have showers on it.

http://www.baa.com/main/airports/hea...l_4_frame.html
Showers
Showers are available in the following locations throughout the airport:
Terminal 1
Before security
Terminal 3
Departure lounge - these facilities are currently unavailable due to development works.
Terminal 4
Available in the toilet areas on the Arrivals level, before security and further facilities are available after security control
Additional shower facilities are available in the Flight Connections Centre.

wow..thanks... My head is spinning. Thanks Katharine22- I guess if I see them in Terminal 4, I'll take advantage of it-Did you actually use one of these showers?
Suze- I've seen your previous posts about this- are these showers clean and worth the money?

kg- I thought it was fine & the price was OK by me (2GBP for the shower room or 3GBP included the towel and soap packet). Nothing fancy but clean and private. I have done layovers at Heathrow several times before & made a point this trip to find where they were and use them. Mine must have been the Terminal 1 before security facility as mentioned above. Travel was in August and it was HOT. I had packed my carry-on with a fresh 1/2 change of clothes. Since you're going in and then out of Term 4, I guess the one I used won't work for you.

I had also noticed ones in the bathrooms near departure gates in the past (but hadn't had time to use them) which is what got me thinking about it in the first place.

We didn't use them, but if i had it to do over again, I certainly would in order to refresh before comtinuing on...