Which Heathrow Airport Car Service Would You Use?
Sep 29th, 2015, 11:52 AM
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Since I'm the one who started this up again, I guess the better question is: what is the best way to get from LHR to The Goring Hotel? We are scheduled to arrive in London at 7:20am on a Thursday. If all goes well, by the time we get through customs, baggage claim, get money at the ATM, it'll be about 8:30-9am. We are a party of 2 and each will have our own large suitcase + one cabin bag.
We don't want to take the Tube from Heathrow. Been there, done that. Other than reserving a car through Just Airports or similar service, is there another or a better way of getting from the airport to our hotel?
Thanks!
ILP
We don't want to take the Tube from Heathrow. Been there, done that. Other than reserving a car through Just Airports or similar service, is there another or a better way of getting from the airport to our hotel?
Thanks!
ILP
Sep 29th, 2015, 12:30 PM
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if you don't want to take the tube or a car service, that leaves the train to Paddington and make your own way to your hotel. So no, there isn't a better way than the tube or a direct car service.
Mind you, the Goring is sort of hotel that would send a limousine to collect you, if that's your style.
Mind you, the Goring is sort of hotel that would send a limousine to collect you, if that's your style.
Sep 29th, 2015, 12:48 PM
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>>Other than reserving a car through Just Airports or similar service, is there another or a better way <<
Other but not better:
• A driver from your hotel. Not faster than a car service and more money.
• The HEX to Paddington and a taxi to the hotel, which requires a long schlepp at the LHR end, a (usually) long queue at the Paddington and will cost more than a car service - and likely take longer.
• A very expensive taxi in from LHR (again no faster than a car service)
So your best bets are the tube or a car service. My guess, since you are staying at the Goring, you pick justairports or another car service.
Other but not better:
• A driver from your hotel. Not faster than a car service and more money.
• The HEX to Paddington and a taxi to the hotel, which requires a long schlepp at the LHR end, a (usually) long queue at the Paddington and will cost more than a car service - and likely take longer.
• A very expensive taxi in from LHR (again no faster than a car service)
So your best bets are the tube or a car service. My guess, since you are staying at the Goring, you pick justairports or another car service.
Sep 30th, 2015, 10:36 AM
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Other than reserving a car through Just Airports or similar service, is there another or a better way of getting from the airport to our hotel?> Another way - especially if your hotel is around Westminster/Waterloo Station - you can take an airbus from Heathrow to the nearby Feltham train station for trains direct to Waterloo - I have done that route before but a few years back - assume it is still operating as so - Feltham station is very close to terminal 4 - even within walking distance it seems.
Your hotel I think is near Buckingham Palace so not a good option for you.
Your hotel I think is near Buckingham Palace so not a good option for you.
Apr 9th, 2017, 08:08 AM
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"Travellers go by Tube - tourists take car shuttles"
I was looking for transportation ideas when I came upon this old thread and that stale line.
First of all, the travelers/tourists analogies are all BS. It's one of my great pet peeves. I guess a traveler sits in a park all day feeding the birds, smelling the roses while chatting with locals about Brexit and Queen Elizabeth, while we lowly tourists go to the Tower of London, cross the Tower Bridge, eat a 30,000-calorie toasted cheese sandwich at the Borough Market, check out Southwark Cathedral and other "touristy"places and then grab a pint (or three) at a pub (my kind of day).
By the way, after schlepping to LAX, waiting 2 1/2 hours at the airport eating overpriced processed foods, sitting on a plane for 11 1/2 hours listening to screaming children, people hacking up a lung, watching movies you'd never even think of streaming and eating crappy airline food, a car service that helps me decompress in the back seat beats taking the tube any day of the week. As Billy Crystal said in City Slickers, "I'm on vacation!!!!!!"
I was looking for transportation ideas when I came upon this old thread and that stale line.
First of all, the travelers/tourists analogies are all BS. It's one of my great pet peeves. I guess a traveler sits in a park all day feeding the birds, smelling the roses while chatting with locals about Brexit and Queen Elizabeth, while we lowly tourists go to the Tower of London, cross the Tower Bridge, eat a 30,000-calorie toasted cheese sandwich at the Borough Market, check out Southwark Cathedral and other "touristy"places and then grab a pint (or three) at a pub (my kind of day).
By the way, after schlepping to LAX, waiting 2 1/2 hours at the airport eating overpriced processed foods, sitting on a plane for 11 1/2 hours listening to screaming children, people hacking up a lung, watching movies you'd never even think of streaming and eating crappy airline food, a car service that helps me decompress in the back seat beats taking the tube any day of the week. As Billy Crystal said in City Slickers, "I'm on vacation!!!!!!"
