
Summer Airport Parking: Booking for the Six-Week Rush
Six weeks, most of the country trying to travel, and a car park inventory that does not grow to meet it. Here is how summer parking actually behaves.
Airport parking guides, terminal-by-terminal advice and practical tips to help you spend less and travel with less hassle.

Six weeks, most of the country trying to travel, and a car park inventory that does not grow to meet it. Here is how summer parking actually behaves.

Handing over your keys and flying away raises a fair question: who is responsible if something happens to the car? The answer is less alarming than you might fear.

Booking pages are full of terms that sound similar and mean different things. Here is what each one actually gets you.

You are leaving your car with strangers for a fortnight. Here is what the accreditation really guarantees — and the four questions that matter more.

Search for a parking discount code and you will find a hundred sites promising one. Most are dead. Here is where the working ones actually come from.

Manchester is the busiest airport outside London and its car parks reflect that. Here is which one belongs to which terminal, and when it is worth walking a little further.

Two terminals, two miles apart, linked by a shuttle. Parking at the wrong one is the most common Gatwick mistake — and the easiest to avoid.

Heathrow is really four airports sharing a name. Parking well starts with knowing which terminal you are flying from — and what that terminal actually offers.

Christmas at Gatwick compresses a great deal of travel into about ten days. Booking in October sounds absurd — it is not.

Airport parking prices follow a curve you can predict. Booking inside the right window is worth more than any voucher code you will ever find.

The two most popular ways to park at a UK airport, compared properly — including when the cheaper option is genuinely the wrong choice.

Airport parking can quietly cost more than your flights. These are the twelve things that reliably bring the price down, in order of how much they save.

Handing your car keys to a stranger at the terminal feels odd the first time. Here is exactly what happens next, and how to tell a good operator from a bad one.