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[Sir Tigger KC]

I use onsite purely for the convenience, having time and time again suffered the inconvenience of offsite parking, particularly those private company offsite ones (which are the ones we can get very, very good discounts on via work).  I might not like spending more than necessary, but sometimes its just worth the extra £20-30 for the reduced hassle.

You seem to be very unlucky in much of your dealings with UK companies TB, as the experiences you frequently describe here rarely match mine. 

[TheBoy]

I use onsite purely for the convenience, having time and time again suffered the inconvenience of offsite parking, particularly those private company offsite ones (which are the ones we can get very, very good discounts on via work).  I might not like spending more than necessary, but sometimes its just worth the extra £20-30 for the reduced hassle.

You seem to be very unlucky in much of your dealings with UK companies TB, as the experiences you frequently describe here rarely match mine. 

The last one - the 90 minute wait for the coach to take us back to the car in the early hours was a killer.  We'd been on one of those Nile cruises to see the ancient sites, and I forgot one morning to use bottled water to brush my teeth  .  After 90mins waiting for the stupid bus, the poo-glue tablets were definitely wearing off.

I think we actually landed at something like 1am, and got home at 6am. Its a 90-100 minute journey at that time. Had I parked onsite, I would have been at home by the time I started the car in the offsite parking.


It was after than one that I started being less tight and paying for onsite parking, and what a revelation it was.


Obviously, at some airports you have no choice. You'd have to be mentally retarded to use an offsite carpark at Luton for a morning flight.  That's why onsite parking is so outrageously expensive there - prebooked, £85 a week (8 days), £207 without booking in the Mid term.  Even the offsites are £50...  ...although even the airlines warn of using offsites there, allow an additional 2hrs

Guess who's using an offsite at Luton next month (I'm not driving, so just had to go with the flow)

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I only used off site parking once at Gatwick. A few weeks later I received a parking ticket from council local to Gatwick, due to the fact my car had been parked on a local street for a fortnight.
Not long after this I was speaking to a local businessman who told me he had parked his new XJ6 with the same people. While he was sunning himself in foreign climes they wrote his car off.
Last time I flew from the dump they call Gatwick, we stayed overnight at a nearby hotel, and then used their carpark (for free iirc) while we were away for a long weekend.

[Lazydocker]

Not picking fault with Nick, Lazydocker or TheBoy then... only my contribution 

must be something about you then

biggriffin put it best and more bluntly:  "But wooioo, betide anybody who doesn't do as you say, a complete rant, as per normal, yes you can put your opinion over, but you don't need to go on about it, and by the way I use purple parking, at Luton, no problems or issues, o we had to wait 5 mins for the bus, "my world ended, with such a wait" should have put a rant on trip advisor, or paid double and use the airport parking. There finished."

Actually, it's getting rather tedious that several people, yourself included, seem to run "hate" campaigns against individuals... This isn't the first time either

[Lazydocker]

I only used off site parking once at Gatwick. A few weeks later I received a parking ticket from council local to Gatwick, due to the fact my car had been parked on a local street for a fortnight.
Not long after this I was speaking to a local businessman who told me he had parked his new XJ6 with the same people. While he was sunning himself in foreign climes they wrote his car off.
Last time I flew from the dump they call Gatwick, we stayed overnight at a nearby hotel, and then used their carpark (for free iirc) while we were away for a long weekend.

I've used the hotel option a few times... Still got the inconvenience of the bus but at least most of them leave your car in the space you put it in and let you take your keys