#HOPPA BUSES AT HEATHROW FREE#
WiFi is available in all areas and is free of charge. Ibis Liverpool Centre Albert Dock – Liverpool OneĪdditional charge, Special diet meals (on request), Snack bar, Bar, Restaurant, Good Coffee!īathroom emergency cord, Raised toilet, Toilet with grab rails, Wheelchair accessible Ibis Birmingham Centre New Street Station Hotel Ibis Birmingham International Airport – NEC Ibis Cardiff Gate - International Business Park Ibis Edinburgh Centre South Bridge – Royal Mile Ibis Edinburgh Centre Royal Mile – Hunter Square I know I can't be the only one who has trouble getting to the hotels at Heathrow.Ibis Glasgow City Centre – Sauchiehall St Just finding the bus stops at LHR is next to impossible. I can't understand why LHR has to make everything so difficult, and why do the hotels on bath road not have their own shuttles rather than these hoppa buses that should in principle be great, but I can only imagine the routes were dreamed up by some Castro loving socialist to control the population since they take so long to get anywhere. I now just stay at the hilton in T4 or head into london since the express is far quicker to a hotel! Daft i know since its a royal pain to get to T4 when flying to/from T5 (and the walkways to the rooms give me vertigo, i live on a flat island, heights do not work any more), but at least the shuttle works. Did the hoppa another time and it worked, but it took a long time. Return journey was much better since I knew where to get off. So i got off, told him where to shove his bus and walked up the road in a cream puff.
#HOPPA BUSES AT HEATHROW DRIVER#
Asked the driver which stop it was, he resolutely stared forward, not even a grunt. It was one of the regular scheduled buses. I took a bus once to the Hilton on bath road. You can move to UK & Ireland forum when ready. Some will claim they do, but invariably they mean they are on a Hoppa route. No hotel is allowed to operate its own shuttle service to Heathrow. Mods: posting in here because it's related to T5. They use bus stops on the main road and go to the Central Bus Station for T2 (and T3 if it reopens), whereas the Hoppas pick up at the hotel door and drop off at departures. It creates a bad first impression for arrivals into Heathrow. The Hotel Hoppa is bad for the image of the hotels (those tourists mentioned above initially blamed their hotel for not running a free shuttle until I explained they're not allowed to), it's particularly bad for those hotels on the route of the H56 which has more stops than any other.
They didn't think they'd need any British currency for an overnight in the hotel (same as I often didn't have Swiss Francs when overnighting in ZRX when flying LX), so they were surprised when first of all they needed to pay for the hotel shuttle and secondly the driver was unable to accept credit cards or euros/dollars on a bus that has to serve a lot of people whose final destination is not the UK.Įven TFL buses accept contactless credit cards (incl Amex) now in addition to cash and Oyster. They were transiting LHR going to 'Yurp' (which I believe uses Euros). I also encountered some American tourists who asked me about tickets (as they seen me with one in my hand - its slightly cheaper to buy at the National Express office in the terminal than it is to buy on board). Lesson learned: when there's no TFL service from your terminal head to the central bus station and go from there. As T4 is so out of the way it really should have its own shuttle service. The route of the H56 is made worse by adding the pointless stop at the Sofitel and going to T4. If the service was good most people would be willing to put up with paying for a hotel shuttle if the service is fairly quick and makes at most a couple of stops. Add to that the usual amount of people not familiar with the Hoppa and asking the driver multiple questions the journey took over 50 minutes! Quicker to get the HEX into Paddington and stay there, possibly almost as quick to get to Gatwick! Those staying at the Premier Inn had an even longer journey.
The first stop after T5 was the Sofitel! Is this some plan to rip off tourists? The bus then went to T4, Holiday Inn Ariel and Ibis before reaching the DoubleTree. This particular service must be the worst of all the Hoppa services. Staying at the DoubleTree (don't normally use it when coming from T5 and when in T3 I tend to get a TFL bus) and as there's no direct TFL bus from T5 to this hotel I thought I might as well get the Hoppa (H56).
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