Gatwick Long Stay South Parking
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Long Stay Parking (formerly Parking Express) is Gatwick's Official Long-Stay car park, providing 2 minute transfers to and from the South Terminal. This car park provides excellent security, so you'll have peace of mind while you're away.
Long Stay Parking is 1 of 20 Gatwick Parking options and has been rated 88% by 900 previous customers.
Arrival Procedure
This car park operates an Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system, so it is essential that you enter the correct vehicle registration when making your booking.
Upon entry, a ticket with your booking reference will be issued. Follow the signs to the zone indicated and park your vehicle. Make a note of your parking zone, lane and nearest bus stop number. If your ticket does not have your booking reference number, but instead has "Cashier" printed on it, report to customer services upon your return. PLEASE NOTE: At peak times it may be necessary for car park officials to park your car.
Departure Procedure
Within Gatwick Airport Terminal: Follow signs to "Courtesy Coaches" and then "Long Term Parking Buses". Courtesy transfer coaches will pick you up from the Long Stay Parking (or Summer Special) Bus Stops on the Upper Forecourt. Please ensure that the coach you take is going to the car park/zone that you require.
Once at Long Stay South car park: If your booking reference is printed on the entry ticket, drive to the exit barriers and insert your ticket to depart. If the word 'Cashier' appears on your entry ticket, park outside the car park's customer service office, located by the exit, to exchange your entry ticket and booking confirmation (or quote your booking reference) for an exit ticket.
Transfers
Transfers run 24 hours a day to and from Gatwick South Terminal every 7-10 mins, and take around 2 minutes. A monorail service runs every 3 minutes from Gatwick South Terminal for passengers requiring the North Terminal.
Security at Long Stay South Parking
- Monitored 24 hours a day by a comprehensive network of CCTV security cameras
- Floodlit at night
- Parking area is enclosed by high security fencing
- Automated entry and exit barriers
- Frequent mobile patrols operated by Security Officers
Disabled Facilities
Gatwick Long Stay Parking South have a number of dedicated disabled parking spaces located throughout the car park. Press a Customer Service Intercom point on one of the ticket dispenser machines at entry to be directed to a disabled parking spaces. Please note: Bus stops with disabled parking bays nearby have ramps for ease of access. The car park's coaches are also designed to accommodate wheelchair access.
Insurance Details
Gatwick Long Stay Parking South indemnifies customers for damage resulting from any proven act or negligence on part of its servants or agents.
Vehicle restrictions
An additional space should be booked for vehicles with a trailer.
Other Important Information
Please note that the Inter Terminal Transit System (Monorail) has closed to passengers. A new track will reopen on the 28th April 2010, and the second in July 2010. A replacement bus service will run from the North Terminal forecourt to the South Terminal forecourt within this period.
Directions and Map
Further details can be found on the directions and map tab.
Long Stay South Parking Reviews
Overall Rating: 88% based on 900 Reviews
| Customer Service | 85% |
| Value for Money | 87% |
| Facilities | 89% |
| Transfers | 83% |
| Overall Rating | 88% |
Your feedback is immensely important to us at gosimply™. Your comments and reviews provide us and others with an honest perspective on using Long Stay South Parking for Gatwick Airport. We invite all previous customers who have used our service to review the product they had booked.
| Positive Reviews: 87% | Neutral Reviews: 12% | Negative Reviews: 1% |
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Frequent transfers between car park and airport with friendly helpful drivers. A little bit confusing when I first arrived at the car park. The signs could be clearer.
Simple & effective service without fuss or hastle. I will recommend this parking facility.
outward we had to wait 15 minutes and then were on a dangeroursly overcrowded bus - the driver couldn't see properly to pull out of the car park when there were empty buses waiting at stop 14 (we got on at stop 15). Coming back we had to wait over 20 minutes at south terminal. We used this car park as we thought it would be quicker than one of the smaller off-site operators that we have used before. I don't think it was any quicker and we had to wait much longer than the advertised service. Frankly it was appalling and I probably wouldn't use it again.
"Does what it says on the tin". It was easy to find the car park and then follow the internal directions to find a suitable parking slot. The coach transfers were punctual. I have given a neutral rating for customer service as the only contact I had with staff was for less than 10 seconds when I validated my ticket on exiting the car park - which is as it should be.
everything was straight forward and very easy to use.i can't think of anythind that needed improvement!
This worked very well. It was efficient, didn't cost us that much more time than valet parking and cost us substantially less money.
When we arrived back at Gatwick we couldn't leave through the barrier gate immediately - we had to go and get the documentation verified over the counter. No problems though and we were on our way quickly.
Quick transfer to terminal building due to close location of car park. Good service.
I have never used this car park before and I asked a member of staff where section C of the car park was and he said "Can't you read, it's on the notice board over there". That comment I felt was rude and unhelpful. On our return from holiday we found signs for the buses for every car park except Long Stay Car Park South. We spent 20 minutes wandering around going up and down the floors asking people where we got the bus for this car park and eventually someone pointed us in the right direction. We attempted to follow the instructions printed on our correspondence but it led us around in circles. The female member of staff on our exit was very polite and helpful. I would think twice before using this car park again.
It's wise to fill in the parking location on the revers of the ticket, this makes picking up your car straight forward, hassle free.
The only issue we had was on leaving the carpark. We had booked and paid online but on leaving the premises our card that was issued on arrival from the machine was not recognised and we had to reverse up from the gate and take both the card and our booking reference number into the office for verification. This does make one wonder why we bothered to try and make life a little easier and previously paid online when we had to prove it at 3am in the morning anyway. I think the facilities are great but this issue needs to be addressed. We were not the only ones either !!
arrived at night found car park very easy from directions given we had travelled 200 miles to get there got on the bus and was dropped at airport in a matter of minutes. On returning was taken very quickly back to car park and dropped within a few meters of our car. Unfotunately we had a breakdown in the car park and had to call the RAC while waiting for these we went to the customer service building who were very polite and friendly they also made us a drink we used the toilets and was even offered the oppetunity to stay there until the RAC arrived.
Easy to park, great transfer service, easy to use and great value for money.
The short and relatively prompt transfers with friendly srtaff infused with a secure area for parking was exactly what we were looking for,and for fractionally more than inferior competitors we were very satisfied, the only possible downside (but not really a problem) was the fact that the car park being in the flight path meant the car was quite dirty on our return. many thanks
Your numberplate recognition 'system' is non-existent. I have to question why, when your instructions say that the numberplate will be logged and a personalised ticket issued at entry, I then had to go to Customer Services to get the ticket verified on exit. Surely this is not difficult to sort out when customers are paying £70 plus for a car park? Your Customer Services staff seemed equally frustrated. Do not market the numberplate recognition facility when it clearly does not exist.
After booking my holiday I found this provider to be the best value for money. After experiencing problems with my flight tickets I had to shorten my holiday stay and I contacted the team at Long Stay South Terminal and they provided a no hassle service and were happy for me to make amendments to my parking details. Overall a very pleasant experience! I will definitely be using again.
Nothing to it - park near a bus stop wait a few mins for the pick-up. Small delay waiting for return bus on Sunday evening but not unreasonable. Good value overall.
We use the onsite car park 4/5 a year and have found it to be the most efficient & easy way of parking our car with excellent quick transfers.
We couldn't of had a better experience of this service. We managed to park the car about 10 spaces away from a bus stop. A bus was just leaving as we parked, so we thought we would have a 10 minute wait for the next bus, but one arrived within a couple of minutes. On the return to the car park, we left the terminal and waited about 15 seconds before a bus came into sight. I don't think we could have been given any better service.
I was really impressed with the service provided. It was so easy to use and really organised. No fussing around waiting for someone to take details/show you where to park. It was all done automatically by scanning your number plate. Regular bus services. Would definately recommend to others.
Directions to Long Stay South Parking
We recommend using the directions provided and an up-to-date map to locate the car park. Please be aware that satellite navigation systems vary and are not guaranteed to take you directly to the car park.
- From the North:
- The advised routes to use to access the M25 from the North of the country are the M40 (Birmingham, Midlands), and the M1 or A1 from the Northeast.
- Once on the M25, head for Heathrow and Gatwick until Junction 7.
- Leave the M25 at Junction 7 and head south onto the M23 (signposted Gatwick).
- Follow Directions from the M23 below.
- From the West:
- Take the M4 east in the London direction and then join the M25 towards Heathrow and Gatwick.
- Turn off the M25 at Junction 7 and go south along the M23 towards Gatwick.
- Follow Directions from the M23 below.
- From the Southwest:
- Take the M3 and then the M25.
- Head eastbound towards Gatwick until Junction 7.
- Take Junction 7 and join the M23 south, heading for Gatwick Airport.
- Follow Directions from the M23 below.
- From the South:
- Take the A23 north towards the M23 and London.
- Get on the M23 and carry on to Junction 9.
- Follow Directions from the M23 below.
- From the Southeast:
- Take the M20 and head towards London.
- At Junction 3, turn onto the M26 signposted for Heathrow and Gatwick.
- Join the M25 at Junction 5, then turn onto the M23 southbound at Junction 7.
- Follow Directions from the M23 below.
- From the East:
- Join the M25 from the A13 (Essex), or the M11.
- Head in the Dartford direction, staying on the M25 until Junction 7.
- Leave the M25 at Junction 7 and take the M23 south towards Gatwick.
- Follow Directions from the M23 below.
- Directions from the M23:
- Exit at Junction 9 and head west towards Gatwick Airport.
- Carry on along the motorway until you reach a roundabout.
- Take the first exit, signposted for Gatwick South Terminal.
- Take the second exit on the left, signposted Long Stay Car Park.
- Follow the signs for Long Stay South and bear right until you reach the entrance barrier for the car park.
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Long Stay South Parking,
Gatwick Airport,
South Terminal,
Gatwick,
West Sussex
RH6 9TZ


