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Public Transportation Options
Buses currently cost £1.75 each way.
Payment can be made with Oyster cards and contactless payment methods. No cash, no credit cards requiring signatures / PINs, etc.
From / To Terminal 5
Bus 423. Departs T5 local buses lane, bus stop 1. (outside on arrivals level, past entrance to Heathrow Express / Elizabeth Line / Piccadilly Line). Get off the bus at the bus stop called "Compass Centre", all London buses announce the next stop on the digital dot matrix screens. Bus stop is in front of hotel.
To return to T5, cross street at traffic light, bus stop is on the right. Bus stop BW (as indicate by the red sign with BW written in white above the bus stop sign). T5 is the last stop for the bus.
From / To Terminals 2/3
Bus U3. Departs Heathrow Central Bus Station. (Follow signs to London Underground station, then up stairs / lift to bus station) The bus stop for the Hyatt Place is called "Compass Centre" - across the street from hotel.
To return to T2/3, the bus stop is in front of hotel.
Buses currently cost £1.75 each way.
Payment can be made with Oyster cards and contactless payment methods. No cash, no credit cards requiring signatures / PINs, etc.
From / To Terminal 5
Bus 423. Departs T5 local buses lane, bus stop 1. (outside on arrivals level, past entrance to Heathrow Express / Elizabeth Line / Piccadilly Line). Get off the bus at the bus stop called "Compass Centre", all London buses announce the next stop on the digital dot matrix screens. Bus stop is in front of hotel.
To return to T5, cross street at traffic light, bus stop is on the right. Bus stop BW (as indicate by the red sign with BW written in white above the bus stop sign). T5 is the last stop for the bus.
From / To Terminals 2/3
Bus U3. Departs Heathrow Central Bus Station. (Follow signs to London Underground station, then up stairs / lift to bus station) The bus stop for the Hyatt Place is called "Compass Centre" - across the street from hotel.
To return to T2/3, the bus stop is in front of hotel.
Hyatt Place London Heathrow Airport - REVIEW - MASTER THREAD
Nov 11, 2016, 4:57 am
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Hyatt Place London Heathrow Airport - REVIEW - MASTER THREAD
A 2nd Hyatt Place to open at Heathrow airport early 2017, after rebranding the "Heathrow Hotel Bath Road".
This HP will be much better located than the HP Hayes location, alongside all the other major hotels on Bath Road.
https://www.businesstraveller.com/ac...eathrow-hotel/
http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/1...0/4079305.html
This HP will be much better located than the HP Hayes location, alongside all the other major hotels on Bath Road.
https://www.businesstraveller.com/ac...eathrow-hotel/
http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/1...0/4079305.html
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Nov 11, 2016, 11:37 am
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Doubletree LHR would be an example of a hotel that's too far East along the Bath Rd to be in the free travel zone - when coming from the airport, it's beyond the bus stop Harlington Corner, which is where the free travel zone ends.
Nov 12, 2016, 10:22 am
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This is great news. Although horrible for the HP Hayes, which is a pain to get to and will surely lose some business. Although perhaps that will result in even lower rates there, which makes it perfect for those of us based in Europe who need some local help to reach the 55/60 nights for Globalist.
I think this new property is an old Holiday Inn that was de-flagged awhile ago? Funny... I noticed this place the other day and wondered how an independent hotel could survive here.
This will definitely be within the free travel zone. However, the other day I saw a couple dragging 4 heavy suitcases onto a mostly full red bus and wondered if 5 quid was really so overwhelming for the Hotel Hoppa...
I think this new property is an old Holiday Inn that was de-flagged awhile ago? Funny... I noticed this place the other day and wondered how an independent hotel could survive here.
This will definitely be within the free travel zone. However, the other day I saw a couple dragging 4 heavy suitcases onto a mostly full red bus and wondered if 5 quid was really so overwhelming for the Hotel Hoppa...
Nov 12, 2016, 10:34 am
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Nov 12, 2016, 10:50 am
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This is great news. Although horrible for the HP Hayes, which is a pain to get to and will surely lose some business. Although perhaps that will result in even lower rates there, which makes it perfect for those of us based in Europe who need some local help to reach the 55/60 nights for Globalist.
I think this new property is an old Holiday Inn that was de-flagged awhile ago? Funny... I noticed this place the other day and wondered how an independent hotel could survive here.
This will definitely be within the free travel zone. However, the other day I saw a couple dragging 4 heavy suitcases onto a mostly full red bus and wondered if 5 quid was really so overwhelming for the Hotel Hoppa...
I think this new property is an old Holiday Inn that was de-flagged awhile ago? Funny... I noticed this place the other day and wondered how an independent hotel could survive here.
This will definitely be within the free travel zone. However, the other day I saw a couple dragging 4 heavy suitcases onto a mostly full red bus and wondered if 5 quid was really so overwhelming for the Hotel Hoppa...
Nov 12, 2016, 11:53 am
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Part of the problem with the Hoppa is that it isn't very frequent, IME every half hour to the terminal I needed the last time. Also, you must buy a ticket in advance for some particular time. I'd rather just jump on the local bus, which runs every ten minutes or less, when I'm ready to go to the airport.
Nov 12, 2016, 1:37 pm
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Part of the problem with the Hoppa is that it isn't very frequent, IME every half hour to the terminal I needed the last time. Also, you must buy a ticket in advance for some particular time. I'd rather just jump on the local bus, which runs every ten minutes or less, when I'm ready to go to the airport.
However the free zone's primary intention is to avoid traffic congestion by having staff take the bus to the airport instead of driving or being dropped off. It's not at all set up for tourists to drag loads of luggage. If you can't really manage your own luggage without bothering others, you shouldn't really be on the local bus. You can take the Hoppa or arrange for a hotel car...
Nov 12, 2016, 2:04 pm
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If LHR's owners weren't so intent on gouging money from pax wherever and whenever they can, local hotels would be allowed to operate their own free shuttles as they do at so many other airports around the world.
Nov 13, 2016, 4:17 am
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Which is why I am surprised that there isn't a no-luggage or some other discriminatory policy on the local buses, since BAA is paying for the free service.
Nov 13, 2016, 4:53 am
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There are some that are beyond the zone, but the policing of the free zone in one or both directions isn't all that tight.
There was a hotel one stop beyond the free zone that I sometimes used and I would get off within the free zone and walk a minute to the hotel. On the return to the airport, it was a bit more of a walk back to get back into the free zone, but I've seen the bus drivers not make an issue about people boarding one stop too early.
I avoid the Hotel Hoppa as much as I can. And given how cheap I sometimes get the Sofitel LHR, paying for the Hotel Hoppa is even more out of the picture for me than before.
There was a hotel one stop beyond the free zone that I sometimes used and I would get off within the free zone and walk a minute to the hotel. On the return to the airport, it was a bit more of a walk back to get back into the free zone, but I've seen the bus drivers not make an issue about people boarding one stop too early.
I avoid the Hotel Hoppa as much as I can. And given how cheap I sometimes get the Sofitel LHR, paying for the Hotel Hoppa is even more out of the picture for me than before.
Nov 14, 2016, 8:20 am
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