Reviews - Purple Parking - Gatwick Airport

We have collected 165 reviews for Gatwick airport parking with an average rating of 4.5 out of 5.

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Frequent minibus transfers to and from Airport, 15 - 20 min journey.


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ELEANOR HORNE

"I don't like to leave negative reviews so this is intended to be informative more than anything else. First the good stuff, the staff up to and including the bus driver were all very pleasant and efficient. HOWEVER this car park is a good twenty minutes more on to your journey. Add to that there is no signage (or none that I could see) and you go further and further away from the airport down smaller and smaller rural lanes with no indication that you are still going the right way or that there is going to be any car park in sight as the minutes tick away, which is stressful. Then you get there and the procedure for handing in keys is efficient but still - add time for that - add time for a 15 minute wait for the bus - add time for a 10-15 minute bus drive - add a short walk from the drop off point to the terminal and you are looking at adding a minimum of 45 minutes each way to your journey time. Is a saving of maybe £6 or £7 worth an extra 1.30 - 2 hrs extra time total to your travel time. For me, no. In addition when leaving the car park, again the signage was impossible to see (perhaps they are putting up new ones) but I was told to refind my car at "G" well when I came out I could see no letter signage at all only numbers! Eventually with fortunately some others also looking we saw in the distance (I arrived at 9pm) something that looked as though they may be letters and wandered over there and indeed there were letters: four (or maybe six I can't recall exactly) of them all together D,E, F,G with no indication as to which line should be D, E, F or G. With more wandering around finally one couple yelled out "I have found my car!!" to which I yelled back "Which line were you?" as luck would have it they were G so I went that way and also found my car. So just BEWARE if you cut this fine or don't add an extra 45 minutes minimum on to your journey time, you might well miss your flight! That said, my car was there - and I made my flight but is it worth the extra £5 saving or so to go so far away, when it is so badly sign-posted and adds so much extra time on to the whole travel time - I would say no."
Confirmed purchase:
01 August 2016

Published on:
10 August 2016
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