Stansted Airport Long Stay Parking
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This official Long Stay car park (formerly Pink Elephant parking) is just a short courtesy bus ride away from the terminal, and features regular security patrols. Park your car and take your keys with you! Long Stay is 1 of 14 Stansted Airport Parking options and has been rated 84% by 1548 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. Please bring your printed booking confirmation to the car park. Drive up to the entry barrier and wait 15 seconds while your vehicle registration number is read. A ticket will be printed showing your booking reference and the barrier will lift automatically. If you are not issued a ticket within 15 seconds, press the button for a ticket. Park your vehicle and board a transfer bus to the airport.
Departure Procedure
On return, go to the pick up point on terminal forecourt to board the transfer bus. Once you have collected your vehicle, drive to the exit barrier. Insert the ticket you were issued upon entering the car park and the barrier will lift. If you have any problems, or if you had to press the button for a ticket upon entering, show your booking confirmation and parking ticket to a parking attendant, or press the call button for help. DO NOT insert a credit/debit card at the exit barrier as you will be charged again at the standard gate rate.
Transfer information
Transfers operate 24 hours a day, every 15 minutes, and take approximately 10 minutes.
PLEASE NOTE: There are three transfer buses, and each bus goes to only one area of the car park. Match the colour of your entry ticket (red, yellow or blue) to the corresponding bus to ensure you are returned to the correct car park area. On your return, the bus stops outside the terminal are also colour-coded.
Security at Long Stay Parking
- Comprehensive CCTV security camera coverage
- Car park is enclosed by security fencing
- Automated entry and exit barriers with automated ticketing system
- Frequent security patrols operated
Disabled Facilities
Disabled car parking spaces for Blue Badge holders are available and are adjacent to the car park bus stops. All transfer buses are equipped for easy access to accommodate wheelchairs. Should you require assistance there is a button to press on arrival.
Insurance Details
Long Stay parking (formerly Pink Elephant Stansted) offers free cover for damage resulting from any act or ommission on the part of its servants or agents.
Vehicle restrictions
Stansted Long Term Parking has no height restrictions and accepts trailers at no extra charge. All oversized vehicles and vehicles with trailers must park in Zone Q.
Directions to Long Stay 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.
- Exit the M11 at Junction 8a (from direction of London) or Junction 8 (from direction of Cambridge), and follow signs on the roundabout for Stansted Airport.
- At the first roundabout, take the first exit signposted "Long Stay Car Park".
- Go straight over the next roundabout, pass the Hilton Hotel, and take the next turn on the left into the Long Stay car park.
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Address
Long Stay Parking,
Round Coppice Road,
Stansted Airport,
Essex
CM24 1SE
Long Stay Parking Reviews
| Customer Service | 83% |
| Value for Money | 81% |
| Facilities | 86% |
| Transfers | 79% |
| Overall Rating | 84% |
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 Parking for Stansted Airport. We invite all previous customers who have used our service to review the product they had booked. 1548 customers have left a review.
| Positive Reviews: 82% | Neutral Reviews: 18% | Negative Reviews: 0% |
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Had no problems at all everything worked as planned,good value for the money, transfers worked really well. I managed to park next to a bus stop so no problem finding the car in the dark..
Received helpful emails and directions beforehand. Allwas straight forward and hassle free.
Great service, car park was well signposted, easy to navigate and really reasonable for the stay! Plus it's really not very far to the airport with a regular bus service so I wholeheartedly recommend and would use it again if I'm flying from Stansted.
will def use again easy hassle free just what you want when going and coming back from holidays..
Easy pick-up/ drop-off from Stansted. The courtesy coaches were available every few minutes. Their drivers were really helpful, especially when I realised I as not so sure where I had left my car.
We found the car park easy to find and value for money and not too far from the terminal with easy bus transfers
transfer time is about 15 mins and bus stops fairly close by in the car park and directly outside the terminal building, I would park there again the number plate recognition is good and means there is no need to stop or pay on the way out.
Best value for long stay safe and secure parking. Hassle free entry to and when leaving the car park, especially welcome when arriving home after a nearly 2 hour flight delay on a cold and frosty February evening. I am already booked in again for a weekend break in May. Many thanks.
By far the best parking experience I've ever had. Excellent service, great value for money and highly recommended.
On arrival back in the UK the car was coverd in a deep layer of frost.Not anybodys fault - It was just the weather. A tip - bring with you de-icer in winter - we did and it was fine.
easy to use parking, with a good availability. Only downside on exiting ticket read out sum owed was incorrect and said i owed twice as much - however this was sorted out on departure.
On arrival, the photographing of the car number plate did not work so it was a bit difficult to know what to do. On departure,it was not quite clear whether we had to go through pre-booking or which channel. That led to confusion, which is not much fun after a long journey. Then the machine did not recognise us at all and demanded payment. This meant that we were very frustrated and then we had to reverse and find the attended cabin, where the chap was very friendly and helpful and soon found our booking on his computer and waved us through. It all seemed a bit fraught and as though it should have been clear and straightforward.
We used the long-stay car-park in mid-February. Access was straight-forward, there were ample parking-spaces available, the transfer-bus came within 5 minutes and seats were available. We were inside the terminal within 20 minutes of parking. Upon return a transfer-bus was waiting with seats for all, and the driver was extremely pleasant and helpful. By logging the zone letter and number, and the number of lamp-posts between the bus-stop and our vehicle, we were able to find our car without any problems, and could exit the car-park easily. We booked online at pretty much the last minutes, and saved some money over the daily rate. My only reservation is that it ought to be possible to alter some details of any booking once made, in order for example to let people switch the car they decide to use because of, say, a mechanical problem.
All went as described in the information supplied. Drove straight in and parked, a bus was there when we got to the pick up point. And the same coming back. All went smoothly. I will be using this service again.
Although we were delayed 2 hours on the return trip, this caused no problem. Even the bus driver was cheerful and helpful - at 1 in the morning ! !
Disappointed that on phoning your company,because of the above complaint,we could not get a refund for the remaining 9 days that we did not use.Why is this so, when all you have to do is rebook another car, after all you do have the extra car space???? Our Travel insurance,think that you are being very unreasonable.What ever has happened to customer services??
The car park was well situated and the buses both to and from the airport were waiting for passengers. My only moan is that we drove around the car park several times as the exit signs were not clear
I've used the number plate recognition method twice, it worked the first time but not the second - however, there was someone on duty in one of the checkout kiosks when I wanted to leave, and there was no problem with the pre-pay.
Upon my return I did not arrive until late due to bad weather and I was concerned as I had run over the 6pm departing time. I went to the manned kiosk and my ticket was checked and I did nothave to pay an extra charge. I think this should be clarified in the instructions.
Numberplate recognition failed but easily sorted on the way out. However parking cost is high compared with other UK airports
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