UK Travel Options

When booking a holiday one area that is often overlooked is travel to your local airport, we book our flights and airport transfers for our destination but overlook costs associated with getting to the airport and also parking the car at the airport.

As with other travel options, advance booking can save you money on coach, train, bus and taxi services to the airport.

You can often find by using public transport and local taxi companies the costs can be lower that paying for airport parking, you can also have the benefit of leaving your car safely locked up at home and also being free from the driving allowing you to enjoy your journey more.

A good place to start planning your journey to the airport is the website www.transportdirect.info choosing your start point and destination will give you various options of train, bus and coach services. The transport direct website also has a wealth of other information including latest travel news, and car parking.

Local taxi companies frequently have offers for 'airport runs' and it is worth searching Google for your local companies on the web to see what rates they are offering. As an example at time of writing my own local taxi company 'Stevenage taxis' offer Stevenage to Luton airport for just £15 and £20 back, which is a big saving on just the cost of parking at Luton airport itself.