Getting from T5 to T3 at LHR
Oct 20, 2017, 12:43 am
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Oct 20, 2017, 2:53 am
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Oct 20, 2017, 4:24 am
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It's a wash really overall. The journey time is near identical. The Heathrow Express is less frequent (every 15 minutes compared to 10 for the Tube), although the walk from T5 to train platform and train platform to T3 is shorter than the corresponding distances to and from the Tube stations.
If there's a train due for the Express I'd take that - as it's less hassle getting to the platform and on the train if you have decent amounts of luggage, and there's more dedicated storage on the Express.
If there's a train due for the Express I'd take that - as it's less hassle getting to the platform and on the train if you have decent amounts of luggage, and there's more dedicated storage on the Express.
Oct 20, 2017, 7:11 am
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Heathrow Express - about every 15 minutes
London Underground - about every 10 minutes
Walking time - slightly shorter to HEX from T3 arrivals than to Underground station. At T5, train come in on parallel platforms so about same distance in lift to Departures.
London Underground - about every 10 minutes
Walking time - slightly shorter to HEX from T3 arrivals than to Underground station. At T5, train come in on parallel platforms so about same distance in lift to Departures.
May 29, 2018, 10:16 am
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I am traveling tomorrow and need to connect from T5 to T3. I see the two options above. I also see on the LHR website there is a bus.
Which is easiest? I don't have any local transit passes or anything like that. The Heathrow Express seems to be a paying train - I don't see where the free option is between T5 and T3 (or is the fare collected after T3 so I just get on at T5 and get off at T3)?
Minimal carry on, so baggage isn't an issue.
Thanks!
Which is easiest? I don't have any local transit passes or anything like that. The Heathrow Express seems to be a paying train - I don't see where the free option is between T5 and T3 (or is the fare collected after T3 so I just get on at T5 and get off at T3)?
Minimal carry on, so baggage isn't an issue.
Thanks!
May 29, 2018, 10:24 am
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The HEX is free as are the tube and the bus for intra terminal trips.
With the tube you need to tap in and tap out using a contactless debit or credit card but you will not actually be charged once TFL does it's overnight sweep of transactions. With the bus you just state your destination to the driver.
With the Hex there is a ticket machine at the platform level that will issue you a free ticket to be able to get through the ticket gates at both ends.
These ticket machines are new and part of the plan to allow the use of contactless on the HEX trip to Paddington.
With the tube you need to tap in and tap out using a contactless debit or credit card but you will not actually be charged once TFL does it's overnight sweep of transactions. With the bus you just state your destination to the driver.
With the Hex there is a ticket machine at the platform level that will issue you a free ticket to be able to get through the ticket gates at both ends.
These ticket machines are new and part of the plan to allow the use of contactless on the HEX trip to Paddington.
May 30, 2018, 2:26 pm
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unless you need to collect luggage there is no benefit to use any of the landside options over the free airside bus.
May 4, 2019, 8:34 am
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Hello everyone, first time posting here. Hope it’s okay to tag onto this thread with a related question.
We will arrive T3 from PMO at 22:50 (this is at the end of a two week driving in Italy vacation and plus I am just not a night person ��). We will need to transfer over to T5 where we plan to spend 2 nights at the Sofitel before our final flight home to the U.S. ultimately departs out of T5.
Should we go through immigration/passport control there at T3 (and presumably have to take the express train over to T5) or should we stay airside and take the flight connections shuttle bus to T5 and go through UK Arrivals passport control there? Can we even stay airside without an outbound boarding pass?
We have carry-on hand baggage only.
Our U.S. Passports won’t allow us to use the eGates (although glad to hear eGates rules supposedly changing on June 1st) so we will have to use the “”All Other Nationalities” lane at passport control— not sure what that will be like at T3 or T5 that late at night, but I know I will be exhausted.
I tried using the Heathrow app/website for planning Flight Connections but it doesn’t work with different departure and arrival dates. (I could maybe fake it with different flight numbers though.) But mainly I see this as a choice of where to go through passport control that late at night, plus convenience issue re: airside shuttle bus or landslide express train.
Thanks for any advice!
We will arrive T3 from PMO at 22:50 (this is at the end of a two week driving in Italy vacation and plus I am just not a night person ��). We will need to transfer over to T5 where we plan to spend 2 nights at the Sofitel before our final flight home to the U.S. ultimately departs out of T5.
Should we go through immigration/passport control there at T3 (and presumably have to take the express train over to T5) or should we stay airside and take the flight connections shuttle bus to T5 and go through UK Arrivals passport control there? Can we even stay airside without an outbound boarding pass?
We have carry-on hand baggage only.
Our U.S. Passports won’t allow us to use the eGates (although glad to hear eGates rules supposedly changing on June 1st) so we will have to use the “”All Other Nationalities” lane at passport control— not sure what that will be like at T3 or T5 that late at night, but I know I will be exhausted.
I tried using the Heathrow app/website for planning Flight Connections but it doesn’t work with different departure and arrival dates. (I could maybe fake it with different flight numbers though.) But mainly I see this as a choice of where to go through passport control that late at night, plus convenience issue re: airside shuttle bus or landslide express train.
Thanks for any advice!
May 4, 2019, 9:07 am
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Hello everyone, first time posting here. Hope it’s okay to tag onto this thread with a related question.
We will arrive T3 from PMO at 22:50 (this is at the end of a two week driving in Italy vacation and plus I am just not a night person ��). We will need to transfer over to T5 where we plan to spend 2 nights at the Sofitel before our final flight home to the U.S. ultimately departs out of T5.
Should we go through immigration/passport control there at T3 (and presumably have to take the express train over to T5) or should we stay airside and take the flight connections shuttle bus to T5 and go through UK Arrivals passport control there? Can we even stay airside without an outbound boarding pass?
We have carry-on hand baggage only.
Our U.S. Passports won’t allow us to use the eGates (although glad to hear eGates rules supposedly changing on June 1st) so we will have to use the “”All Other Nationalities” lane at passport control— not sure what that will be like at T3 or T5 that late at night, but I know I will be exhausted.
I tried using the Heathrow app/website for planning Flight Connections but it doesn’t work with different departure and arrival dates. (I could maybe fake it with different flight numbers though.) But mainly I see this as a choice of where to go through passport control that late at night, plus convenience issue re: airside shuttle bus or landslide express train.
Thanks for any advice!
We will arrive T3 from PMO at 22:50 (this is at the end of a two week driving in Italy vacation and plus I am just not a night person ��). We will need to transfer over to T5 where we plan to spend 2 nights at the Sofitel before our final flight home to the U.S. ultimately departs out of T5.
Should we go through immigration/passport control there at T3 (and presumably have to take the express train over to T5) or should we stay airside and take the flight connections shuttle bus to T5 and go through UK Arrivals passport control there? Can we even stay airside without an outbound boarding pass?
We have carry-on hand baggage only.
Our U.S. Passports won’t allow us to use the eGates (although glad to hear eGates rules supposedly changing on June 1st) so we will have to use the “”All Other Nationalities” lane at passport control— not sure what that will be like at T3 or T5 that late at night, but I know I will be exhausted.
I tried using the Heathrow app/website for planning Flight Connections but it doesn’t work with different departure and arrival dates. (I could maybe fake it with different flight numbers though.) But mainly I see this as a choice of where to go through passport control that late at night, plus convenience issue re: airside shuttle bus or landslide express train.
Thanks for any advice!
I suspect at 2250 there will be no airside buses to T5 as there will be no flights at this time from T5 so you will need to go landside at T3 and take the landside express train.
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