{"id":375,"date":"2008-08-31T03:35:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T17:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=375"},"modified":"2008-08-31T03:35:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T17:35:23","slug":"overnighting-at-london-heathrow-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/britain-ireland\/overnighting-at-london-heathrow-airport","title":{"rendered":"Overnighting at London Heathrow Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Our Malev flight to Odessa, via Budapest, departed London at 7:50 a.m.\u00a0 We had to spend a night at an hotel in Heathrow and the only hotel that is within the Heathrow Airport terminals is the Hilton.\u00a0 Much as we loved the idea of having direct access to Terminal 4 via a covered walkway, \u00a3115 for a brief night&#8217;s sleep was a bit pricey. With a bit of research, I managed to find a deal at the <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.ian.com\/index.jsp?generic=true&amp;position=8&amp;streetAddress=&amp;location=HEATHROW+AIRPORT&amp;locale=en_AU_AU&amp;room-0-adult-total=2&amp;mode=2&amp;mode=2&amp;city=Heathrow+Airport+%28Lhr%29&amp;departureDay=30&amp;destinationID=BB8CF007-55A5-4504-8500-103325B7E8B5&amp;postalCode=&amp;arrivalMonth=10&amp;stateProvince=&amp;requestKey=128A62213006241788&amp;pageName=hotAvail&amp;currencyCode=AUD&amp;showPopUp=true&amp;hotnetrates=true&amp;star=4&amp;numberOfRooms=1&amp;cid=238416&amp;arrivalDay=28&amp;hotelID=230125&amp;country=Gb&amp;supplierType=E&amp;showInfo=true&amp;propertyType=H&amp;departureMonth=10&amp;showPopUpMap=false&amp;additionalDataString=vrBookingSource%7Cnull\" target=\"_self\">Renaissance Heathrow Airport <\/a>at \u00a365.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Heathrow hotels, and there are many of them, are not allowed to offer free complimentary shuttles. However fixed route &#8220;Hotel Hoppa&#8221; buses operate to several hotels and it costs \u00a34 per trip, no matter how close or far your hotel is along the route.\u00a0 What is not well publicised is that there is also a free local bus service linking nearby towns to all the terminals.\u00a0 These buses are free as long as you get on or off the buses on the perimeter roads of the airport, which is where many hotels are. Even if you went past the perimeter roads, the maximum fare is \u00a32.00.<\/p>\n<p>We decided to give this free bus transfer a go and it worked very efficiently.\u00a0 Some of the services run 24\/7 so there&#8217;s no problem if your flight is an early one as ours was.\u00a0 We were leaving from T5 and managed to explore this new terminal.\u00a0 It is huge and impressive and our only issue is that there are no trolleys to be had.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not very passenger friendly as there&#8217;s usually quite a bit of distance to be covered when you&#8217;re getting from point to another.\u00a0 Anyway, this Heathrow experience was much than any others that we had in the past, so that&#8217;s a positive.<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Malev flight to Odessa, via Budapest, departed London at 7:50 a.m.\u00a0 We had to spend a night at an hotel in Heathrow and the only hotel that is within the Heathrow Airport terminals is the Hilton.\u00a0 Much as we loved the idea of having direct access to Terminal 4 via a covered walkway, \u00a3115 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,68],"tags":[1158,1924],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain-ireland","category-travel-tips","tag-london-heathrow-accommodation","tag-transfers-in-odessa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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