The areas this desk covers, road by road around the runways
Twelve pages, one for each stretch of road this desk works. They are written the way a driver would describe them rather than the way a hotel website does: which building is where, which station is actually near, and how long the transfer takes at nine at night.
If you know your hotel, go straight to the page that holds it. Everything out here begins at three hours, and the ladder is on the rates page.
Every road and village on the list
- Heathrow
Reached in twenty to forty minutes from the moment the length and the address are agreed.
TW6 - Airport Hotels
Reached in twenty to forty minutes from the moment the length and the address are agreed.
- Heathrow Terminals 2 and 3
Reached in twenty to forty minutes from the moment the length and the address are agreed.
TW6, UB3 - Heathrow Terminal 5
Reached in twenty to forty minutes from the moment the length and the address are agreed.
TW6, SL3 - Bath Road
Reached in twenty to forty minutes from the moment the length and the address are agreed.
TW6, UB3, UB7 - Harmondsworth
Reached in twenty to forty minutes from the moment the length and the address are agreed.
UB7 - Cranford
Reached in twenty to forty minutes from the moment the length and the address are agreed.
TW5 - Sipson
Reached in twenty to forty minutes from the moment the length and the address are agreed.
UB7 - Longford
Reached in twenty to forty minutes from the moment the length and the address are agreed.
UB7 - West Drayton
Reached in twenty to forty minutes from the moment the length and the address are agreed.
UB7 - Hayes
Reached in twenty to forty minutes from the moment the length and the address are agreed.
UB3, UB4 - Colnbrook
Reached in twenty to forty minutes from the moment the length and the address are agreed.
SL3
Inside the fence
The perimeter covers the TW6 ring as a whole and sorts the hotels by the terminal each one truly serves. Terminal 5 has the walkway hotel and two more that carry its name from a few minutes away. The central terminals hold the only building here you can genuinely walk to.
The airport hotel comparison sets the whole category side by side, with honest drive times attached.
The road north of the fence
The Bath Road is the hotel strip, and the address this desk is named after. East along it, Cranford is where the frontages give way to houses. North east, Hayes is a town with a station, eight minutes from the central terminals by train.
The villages and the towns behind it
Sipson sits behind junction four and goes quiet off the main road. Harmondsworth kept its High Street, its church and a six hundred year old barn. Longford is four streets and a stream with Terminal 5 over the hedge.
North of them, West Drayton is a proper town with an Elizabeth line station three minutes off the high street. West over the motorway, Colnbrook is in Berkshire and has no station at all.
The three hour rule, in one paragraph
Every companion on this site travels out from central London, and even the quickest journey is the better part of an hour each way. So bookings here run to three hours or more, with her travel counted inside the figure rather than added afterwards.
If your hotel is not on any of them
Send the name anyway and Hester will tell you which page you actually want, since the title on a building out here is no guide to where it stands. Or pick a face from the hall and give the hotel afterwards.
Read the sign, then pick the hour
Send a length, a time and the road or the terminal you are staying near, and a name comes back with a travel window on it.