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from £2. A taxi to central daily between the airport and
London can take 1 hour 30 London Victoria Coach station,
minutes and cost £90 to £100. with adult fares around £10
(see p369); easyBus has frequent
services to Victoria via Baker
Luton (LTN)
Street, with tickets from £2.
Luton airport lies northwest of National Express runs from
London near the M1 motor way, Luton to Heathrow, Gatwick,
and is used almost exclusively Stansted and other destinations.
by charter flights and low-cost A taxi into central London will
airlines, especially easyJet. cost around £90, and take about
A shuttle bus connects the 45 minutes.
terminal with Luton Airport
Parkway train station (about a Airport Hotels
5-minute drive), from around Relaxing bar of the popular
5am to midnight daily. Given the long check-in times Sheraton Skyline hotel
Thameslink has about four at the main airports, it can be a
trains each hour to London St good idea – or even neces sary – buses to the airport terminals –
Pancras – a journey of around to stay nearby the night before in budget hotels this may be
25–40 minutes for an adult departure, especially if you have charged extra. The Premier
single fare of £14. East an early-morning flight. There Inn, Travelodge, Sofitel and
Midlands Trains operate on is a large number of hotels Holiday Inn chains have cheap,
the same route, and are a little in the vicinity of Heathrow functional rooms close to the
cheaper, at £12. Green Line and Gatwick; many of these airports. A selection of airport
buses (route 757) run every frequently have discount offers. hotels is listed below, but there
15 minutes almost 24 hours All of them provide shuttle are many more to choose from.

DIRECTORY
Major Airlines Virgin Atlantic Stansted Southern Railway
∑ virgin-atlantic.com Tel 0844 335 1803. Tel 0845 127 2920.
Air Canada ∑ stanstedairport.com ∑ southernrailway.
∑ aircanada.com Travel Websites com
Air New Zealand ∑ cheapflights.com Airport Transport Stansted Express
∑ airnewzealand.com Abellio Greater Tel 0845 600 7245.
∑ ebookers.com ∑ stanstedexpress.
American Airlines ∑ expedia.com Anglia com
∑ aa.com ∑ flights.com Tel 0345 600 7245.
∑ abelliogreater
British Airways ∑ orbitz.com anglia.co.uk Hotels
∑ britishairways.com ∑ priceline.com Holiday Inn London
∑ travelnow.com easyBus Heathrow Ariel
Delta Airlines ∑ travelocity.com ∑ easybus.com Tel 0871 423 4901.
∑ delta.com East Midlands Trains ∑ ihg.com
easyJet Airport Tel 08457 125 678. Premier Inn
∑ easyjet.com Information ∑ eastmidlandstrains. Heathrow (Bath
co.uk Road)
Emirates Gatwick
∑ emirates.com Tel 0844 892 0322. Thameslink Tel 0871 527 8508.
∑ premierinn.com
∑ gatwickairport.com Tel 0345 026 4700.
Iberia ∑ thameslinkrailway. Sofitel London
∑ iberia.com Heathrow com Gatwick
Tel 0844 335 1801.
Lufthansa ∑ heathrowairport.com Gatwick Express Tel 01293 567 070.
∑ lufthansa.com Tel 0845 850 1530. ∑ sofitel.com
London City Airport Travelodge Gatwick
Qantas ∑ gatwickexpress.com
∑ qantas.com Tel 020 7646 0088. Heathrow Connect Airport
∑ londoncityairport. Tel 0871 984 6031.
Ryanair com Tel 0845 678 6975. ∑ travelodge.co.uk
∑ ryanair.com ∑ heathrowconnect.
Luton com
Singapore Airlines Tel 01582 405 100,
∑ singaporeair.com 0906 211 500 00 (flight Heathrow Express
Tel 0845 600 1515.
United Airlines information). ∑ heathrowexpress.
∑ united.com ∑ london-luton.co.uk com

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