Travel Issues

Talk about travel headaches! How is one to have a trip when it can begin with a lot of hassles? I'm referring, naturally, to departing through Heathrow airport. The airlines advise us to reach least 1 hour before our flights, 2 hours for international flights, holiday flights or weekend flights, so we're already heading out to the airport early. But that does not even start to look at the complications of navigating your way one of many terminals, finding (and paying for!) Airport parking at heathrow at the appropriate spot, after which gathering your luggage, your kids, your tickets, ensuring your car is locked and making your way among the throngs to check in.

It is easier to become delivered right at the terminal. Yet there are only so many times you want to impose upon a buddy or neighbor for a ride, since that person will need to cope with the high-traffic on M25 both into the airport and again on the way home. With few places to really pull over and stop around the terminals, you end up practically piling from the car and retrieving your luggage while the vehicle is still moving. Plus, you will need to call in another favour for pick up at the end of the trip. And then of course you will need to make yourself readily available for exactly the same favour when your friends travel. Everything makes for lots of driving back and forth from the airport.

Surely there must be a much better solution, right? There is. It is a service called "Meet and Greet." It cannot clear up the traffic heading into among the world's busiest airports, but it can resolve your Airport parking at heathrow problems. Meet and greet provides the epitome of convenience: you simply drive your personal vehicle towards the terminal, and you will be met be a driver who'll collect your vehicle and produce it to nearby offsite parking. Surely you can envision the advantages. If you're traveling with children, you don't have to attempt to corral them through shuttles and connections between the parking garage and the gate. If you're leaving for any short business travel, you don't need to double your travel time with trips backwards and forwards between the garage. Perhaps best of all, you won't owe a buddy the return favor of driving to Heathrow for his trip. (Simply pass on the number of the vehicle collection service!).

It's not going to clear up the crowds inside the airport, but you can go for the trip with one less hassle when you've got this type of convenient resolution for that parking problem.