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Cycling to Heathrow T5
Are there any bike-parking facilities at T5? Also, what is the best
route coming from the eastern end of the airport? I have to meet my brother on Saturday to pick up some documents before he catches his connecting flight and I am considering whether to use bike or tube. |
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"icogs" wrote in message
... Are there any bike-parking facilities at T5? Also, what is the best route coming from the eastern end of the airport? I have to meet my brother on Saturday to pick up some documents before he catches his connecting flight and I am considering whether to use bike or tube. http://www.heathrowairport.com/portal/controller/dispatcher.jsp?CiID=3b59508dcbc83110VgnVCM10000036 821c0a____&CtID=448c6a4c7f1b0010VgnVCM200000357e12 0a____&ChPath=Heathrow^Terminal5^To%20and%20from%2 0Heathrow^Bicycles&location=Terminal5 www.heathrowairport.com Choose "To and from Heathrow". Choose "Bicycles" on the left hand pane. Choose T5. That's it :-) (hey, bizarre - it actually looks pretty helpful!) cheers, clive |
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:41:15 +0100, Clive George wrote:
http://www.heathrowairport.com/portal/controller/dispatcher.jsp?CiID=3b59508dcbc83110VgnVCM10000036 821c0a____&CtID=448c6a4c7f1b0010VgnVCM200000357e12 0a____&ChPath=Heathrow^Terminal5^To%20and%20from%2 0Heathrow^Bicycles&location=Terminal5 www.heathrowairport.com Choose "To and from Heathrow". Choose "Bicycles" on the left hand pane. Choose T5. That's it :-) (hey, bizarre - it actually looks pretty helpful!) "Bikes can also be safely stored in the left baggage office in the terminal for up to 90 days." Now that's a good idea. It doesn't say if it's free or not though. peter |
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Cycling to Heathrow T5
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:13:00 +0100, Terry wrote:
In article , (naked_draughtsman) wrote: Now that's a good idea. It doesn't say if it's free or not though. It does if you click on the link. So it does! £6.50 seems a lot, but I suppose when compared to the car parking prices it's ok. peter |
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:55:40 -0500, naked_draughtsman
wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:13:00 +0100, Terry wrote: In article , (naked_draughtsman) wrote: Now that's a good idea. It doesn't say if it's free or not though. It does if you click on the link. So it does! £6.50 seems a lot, but I suppose when compared to the car parking prices it's ok. Does it cost £585 to park a car for 90 days in a long term car park? No. The cost is under £200. |
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Cycling to Heathrow T5
Tom Crispin wrote:
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:55:40 -0500, naked_draughtsman wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:13:00 +0100, Terry wrote: In article , (naked_draughtsman) wrote: Now that's a good idea. It doesn't say if it's free or not though. It does if you click on the link. So it does! £6.50 seems a lot, but I suppose when compared to the car parking prices it's ok. Does it cost £585 to park a car for 90 days in a long term car park? No. The cost is under £200. Well, it says it's free at either end of the terminal. That's somewhat cheaper than both the short stay and long stay. How much to park a car inside the terminal? Pete |
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Cycling to Heathrow T5
On 29 Apr, 14:35, icogs wrote:
Are there any bike-parking facilities at T5? Also, what is the best route coming from the eastern end of the airport? I have to meet my brother on Saturday to pick up some documents before he catches his connecting flight and I am considering whether to use bike or tube. I went for a sight-seeing trip last Sunday afternoon. I used the Northern Perimeter road to get there following the signposts to T5 (but the white paint road markings still only say "CARGO"). I would not reccommend it ! Coming back I used the bus/bike only route that links this perimeter road to the roundabout on the A3044 and then through the pleasant village of Longford (hadn't appreciated the thatched house there before) on the Old Bath Road before it got to the modern road where the Bath Road joins the Colnbrook bypass. Then back along the off-road/ shared with pedestrian (but there aren't any apart from a few bus- stops) bike path along the Bath Road. More interesting and preferable to the perimeter road for me. The bike-paths / pavements at the North End of T5 lead directly to a small-ish covered bike shed ? space for 50 bikes ?) that is next to one of the best bits of the terminal I saw for "land-side" sightseers. This was the comparatively attractive "smokers area" (well that is what is was used for) with good raised ovals of box hedge and tall trees in a glass-sided canyon with T5 on one side and its associated car-parks on the other. Doors lead directly into the Arrivals area (which seemed pretty boring and semi-squalid). Signage to indicate what is a bike-path and where it may lead to was disgracefully lacking last weekend ! The tube and Heathrow Express arrive two floors below ground floor (which makes life interesting when you arrive as Departures are three floors above ground floor - you are advised not to use escalators to get to departures, but to take the lift. There are four of them and they do work at the stations (lifts don't work in the terminal itself !) but that doesn't really satisfy the demand when the trains arrive disgorging their passengers !). The departures hall on the top floor is worth seeing and that is the other bit I liked - but amazingly empty on a Sunday afternoon - perhaps no-one wants to fly in or out of T5 these days. |
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:48:55 GMT, Pete
wrote: Tom Crispin wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:55:40 -0500, naked_draughtsman wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:13:00 +0100, Terry wrote: In article , (naked_draughtsman) wrote: Now that's a good idea. It doesn't say if it's free or not though. It does if you click on the link. So it does! £6.50 seems a lot, but I suppose when compared to the car parking prices it's ok. Does it cost £585 to park a car for 90 days in a long term car park? No. The cost is under £200. Well, it says it's free at either end of the terminal. That's somewhat cheaper than both the short stay and long stay. How much to park a car inside the terminal? It will cost you your life. http://a.abcnews.com/images/Internat...070702_ssh.jpg |
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In article ,
e (Tom Crispin) wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:48:55 GMT, Pete wrote: Tom Crispin wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:55:40 -0500, naked_draughtsman wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:13:00 +0100, Terry wrote: In article , (naked_draughtsman) wrote: Now that's a good idea. It doesn't say if it's free or not though. It does if you click on the link. So it does! £6.50 seems a lot, but I suppose when compared to the car parking prices it's ok. Does it cost £585 to park a car for 90 days in a long term car park? No. The cost is under £200. Well, it says it's free at either end of the terminal. That's somewhat cheaper than both the short stay and long stay. How much to park a car inside the terminal? It will cost you your life. http://a.abcnews.com/images/Internat..._070702_ssh.jp g To be fair, one cannot expect to flout the terminal's no-smoking policy with impunity. |
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