Depends what terminal you are using and what bus route you use.
Yes, if you're going to T4/5 there's less advantage to Hoppa as TfL routes drop outside the terminal as well.
Depends what terminal you are using and what bus route you use.
The cheekiest of all hotels in the area must however go to the Thistle, who charge a £6 each way “gate supplement,” allowing customers to use the Pods to and from Terminal 5 to take a shortcut through a gate to the hotel from the car park where the pods drop you off.
There is no charge for using the pods to the business parking, I did in 2019, just as an out and back from the terminal.It would appear, to be fair, that this charge is levied by the airport for use of the pods, and not by the hotel (but the hotel collect it for them) - it might be that you can "fare dodge" by walking round another way of course:
Airport Pod Transport & Parking Cost | Heathrow Terminal 5 | Thistle Hotels
Travel between Thistle London Heathrow T5 Hotel and the airport’s Terminal 5 in just five minutes with the Heathrow Pods parking and shuttle service.www.thistle.com
Nonetheless it is, I would agree, utterly outrageous.
There is no charge for using the pods to the business parking, I did in 2019, just as an out and back from the terminal.
Agree, £1.50 is still a bargain.
You do get the added convenience of boarding at the hotel door (rather than traipsing to a bus stop) and then alighting at the terminal (rather than the Central Bus station). And enough people seem happy to pay it.
It's been horrendously communicated in public but yes, the preliminary retrenchment of sponsorship from HAL covers non-London Bus routes.AFAIK it is only TfL buses, though I could be wrong.
EDIT:
Seems like all are included though trains and LU are only available for transferring between terminals.
https://www.heathrow.com/company/te...ransport/changes-to-heathrow-travel-subsidies
Free travel only as far as the first stop beyond the tunnel?Plans are still being poured over how to proceed next but we can't be more than a couple months away from another switcheroo.
Where? All I can find is saying it’s suspended from 1/1 (which it’s obviously not been).Confirmation now finally in the public domain that HAL sponsored route agreements on TFL London Bus routes will end from Monday 1 March 2021.
It was cancelled on the 1st of January for the non TFL routes included in the scheme (as planned) and then the cancellation of the rest of it was always planned for a later date.Where? All I can find is saying it’s suspended from 1/1 (which it’s obviously not been).
Granted I’ve only had a quick flick on Google.....
When I said public domain, I was eluding that this was no longer commercially sensitive information and it was appropriate to disclose in a public setting such as an online forum for example.Where? All I can find is saying it’s suspended from 1/1 (which it’s obviously not been).
Granted I’ve only had a quick flick on Google.....
My country is, I am sorry to say, an expert at cheating the travelling tourist - Heathrow has been as exception as it lies on TfL bus routes, but looking at a flight magazine some years ago at the cost of getting into the city centre at various European destinations was an embarrassment - the airline didn't do Heathrow but Gatwick, Luton and Stansted were all subject to tourist rip-offs. Similar situations exist at Edinburgh, where the last stop into the airport incurs a fare way above the rest of the network, and Bristol, with a dedicated but expensive bus service. Manchester has always been OK for local journeys, maybe because the local authorities own the airport and the airport is so close to housing estates, likewise Liverpool, but on National Express the fare from Manchester Airport going south was more expensive than from the city centre despite the shorter journey. There seems to be a philosophy in the UK that people who can afford to use aeroplanes can be conned out of money when they touch down as they won't know any better.
Welcome to the Real world. People who live here also pay it, so it can't be that bad.No it isn't but people from overseas consider the UK to be some bastion of integrity and honesty and the first thing we do when they arrive here is to consider how much we can rip them off before they have time to get acclimatised to the cost of things.
Heathrow is the worst because if you land in the centre terminals, you can not physically get out of the airport without using a bus, taxi or tube so people are forced to pay.My country is, I am sorry to say, an expert at cheating the travelling tourist - Heathrow has been as exception as it lies on TfL bus routes, but looking at a flight magazine some years ago at the cost of getting into the city centre at various European destinations was an embarrassment - the airline didn't do Heathrow but Gatwick, Luton and Stansted were all subject to tourist rip-offs. Similar situations exist at Edinburgh, where the last stop into the airport incurs a fare way above the rest of the network, and Bristol, with a dedicated but expensive bus service. Manchester has always been OK for local journeys, maybe because the local authorities own the airport and the airport is so close to housing estates, likewise Liverpool, but on National Express the fare from Manchester Airport going south was more expensive than from the city centre despite the shorter journey. There seems to be a philosophy in the UK that people who can afford to use aeroplanes can be conned out of money when they touch down as they won't know any better.
Heathrow is the worst because if you land in the centre terminals, you can not physically get out of the airport without using a bus, taxi or tube so people are forced to pay.
£1.50 on the bus is hardly a scam!Heathrow is the worst because if you land in the centre terminals, you can not physically get out of the airport without using a bus, taxi or tube so people are forced to pay.
Depends how long that stays in for.Yes you can; inter-terminal transfer to T4 (when open) or T5, and then out from there.
Depends as people NEED a card though, no cash.£1.50 on the bus is hardly a scam!
Depends how long that stays in for.
If I was an employee I would be pissed at paying £1.50 to leave my workplace.
It appears virtually every house on the bath road has airport employees in it . Plus how many employees live within cycling distance.How many employees are going to be living within walking distance?
FWIW I do think they need to bring back the pedestrian/cycle tunnels and instead restrict cars and taxis. It seems completely against modern ideals not to be able to walk to the terminal.
How many other empoyees around the world have to pay to get to and from work?If I was an employee I would be pissed at paying £1.50 to leave my workplace.
I don't think many employees have to pay to get a bus to leave or enter their workplace or to go to where they have parked their bike.How many other empoyees around the world have to pay to get to and from work?
It appears virtually every house on the bath road has airport employees in it . Plus how many employees live within cycling distance.
I don't think many employees have to pay to get a bus to leave or enter their workplace or to go to where they have parked their bike.
Employers have a choice weather to drive in or not or what mode of transport they take to work there doesn't appear to be a choice herePretty sure there's a "cycle hub" with a shuttle bus, isn't there? There are also dedicated staff car park buses.
It's not really any different to employees who have to pay their employer for car parking, to be fair. But they are paying TfL, not their employer.
Employers have a choice weather to drive in or not or what mode of transport they take to work there doesn't appear to be a choice here
Heathrow commuter says that 20 000 colleagues live within a three mile distance of the airport, A distance that the heathrow commuter appears to think is walkable.Well, one choice (foot) isn't provided for, but I'd venture that the vast, vast majority of people who work at Heathrow don't walk there, and as mentioned cycling is provided for.
I can't imagine foot is viable if you work in a motorway service station either. Sure, you technically can if you walk in the back way, but they are in the middle of nowhere.
Of course there's a choice... either catch a bus or train or you drive and catch the staff busEmployers have a choice weather to drive in or not or what mode of transport they take to work there doesn't appear to be a choice here