Book Your Airport Parking And Airport Hotels Early For Christmas
Gatwick, Heathrow, Manchester and Stansted airports are busy most of the year and no more so than at Christmas and New Year
. At this festive time, children are off school for nearly three weeks and families take the oppotunity to grab a quick week away looking for some winter sun or a spot of sking on the continent.
In addition, to these travellers there are many ex-pats living all round the world and their families fly out from these airports adding greatly to the numbers travelling from these airports.Despite the econonomic recession the demand at this time is second only to July and August and whilst flights will have been booked many weeks or even months ago for some unknown reason travellers leave booking their airport parking or airport hotel to the last minute and often find themselves paying far more than they anticipated or unable to stay at their preffered hotel.
Off airport car parks tend to fill up first and anyone wanting to take advantage of their better value pricing needs to book as soon as they know the date they will be flying out. Exact times are not required at this stage with the objective being to guarantee your place, departure and arrival times can be easily added later.This is probaly more important if you are looking to book an hotel because demand will always outsrip demand especially if bad weather is forecast.
The recent snow and icy roads has caused choas on our roads with traffic jams and thousands of cars left stranded at the road side.This resulted in an avalanche of reservations for hotels offering parking as part of the deal this week with travellers taking the view that they would have a better chance of making their flight if they travelled down the night before.
Clearly, this switch from parking to hotels quickly limited availability and left many vacationers who had been intending to use an hotel left with no option but to park their cars at the airport or use far more expensive hotels or hotels that are further from the airport.