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Katrusja

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Depending on where in ED you are and if you have to leave at 6.30/7 or be there at 6.30/7, I recommend the train from Honor Oak Park/Forest Hill. You have to change at East Croydon, but it's pretty straight forward and only takes about 45mins in total. When we're too late/early for the trains, we have used Airport Direct Services (ADS), who are very good and you can book online. It cost us 42pounds last time, if I remember correctly.
Applespider

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Leaving at 7 isn't too bad. If I end up with a Gatwick flight before 8 though, I tend to stay over at the airport. If it's a ridiculously early flight, I book the Yotel by the hour for 5-6 hours which works out at around ?40 if you do it ahead of time. Or there's now a Premier Inn across the road from the South Terminal (walk out front door and up escalator ramp to shuttle station) which was ?53 last time I used it.
ed_pete

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Katrusja Wrote:

> When we're too late/early for the

> trains, we have used Airport Direct Services

> (ADS), who are very good and you can book online.

> It cost us 42pounds last time, if I remember

> correctly.


Seconded - I've used them a few times and they've always been reliable and friendly regardless of the time of night!

cle

cle

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The motorway isn't the problem - it's the crappy narrow routes through Streatham and Croydon to get to it!


How about Overground or cab to Clapham Junction, and then fast train? You can buy quite cheap advance tickets on Southern's website - sometimes ?2-4! Not ideal for the return though, as you have to pick a specific train.

polla2256

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I fly from there regularly its best to drive. The trains are always deayed if you return in an evening and will be rammed with tourists, the taxi drivers are either late, over priced, fall asleep on the way or all 3 on some days. Go for valet or short stay parking as the long stay car park is ages away, though if its for longer than a week and only a one off its 6 and 2 3's.


Personally its the consistent peak evening rail delays (on return) and the inhability to travel quickly anywhere other than into central london that form my choice. Really it depends on your mood an patience threshold.

polla2256

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???? Wrote:

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> That sounds like someone who only uses the Gatwick

> Express.

>

> Southern or FCC to London Bridge Via East Croydon

> give you regular, far less crowded reliable

> service. I did it weekly for nearly 3 years.


Exactly changing at east croydon is as bad. Any delay on the line also affects those services. Its one of the worst lines in the area.

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