Gatwick is 28 miles or 45km if you prefer, south of London with the M25 London orbital motorway just a ten-minute drive away, providing connections to the national road and motorway networks.
If you are looking to hire a car at the airport and wanted to pinpoint its' exact location by using a satellite navigation system then here are the postcodes for the 2 terminals which hopefully will be of some help: South Terminal: RH6 0NP North Terminal: RH6 0PJ Make sure that you check with your respective reservation counter as to where the best dropping off point of your rental car is.
As a general rule though the airport has the following restrictions in place when it comes to picking up and dropping-off of passengers: "Drivers may set passengers down in the designated areas on the terminal forecourts.
However, for security reasons there is a strict no-waiting policy on the forecourt.
If you do wish to accompany passengers into the terminal you must use the Short Stay Car Park.
If you are picking passengers up from the airport, you must use the Short Stay Car Park.
Car Park 3 (South Terminal) operates a special tariff of 15 minutes' parking for £1.
" All the major car hire companies have desks near the entrance of each terminal including Hertz, Alamo, Enterprise, Dollar and others.
Rates vary from one to other, with a typical 3-day weekend rental costing around £39 approximately.
The downside of booking at the airport is that if you have just come off a long flight then the last thing that you'll want to be doing is checking from one desk to the other for the best deals available.
Knee-deep in queues, these kiosks are often understaffed at the busiest times ensuring a rather annoying wait in being served.
So the real name of the game is in beating the long queues and lengthy form filling! Personally, I would rather book in advance and preferably online as there are most probably cheaper and better offers off the main terminal forecourts.
That being said, booking online is certainly no guarantee in being served quicker, as you will most likely be collecting your vehicle from one of the kiosks aforementioned.
On the plus side though it will save you time from filling out hire contract forms etc.
, Searching for the best deals online can be a somewhat tiresome and frustrating task.
To help, I have listed 3 rent companies that I have used on a regular basis and have found them in the main to offer exactly what I'm looking for.
Here's a quick run-down of these 3 hire companies.
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the longer between my departure date and the booking, the cheaper I found the rental prices to be.
If you are looking to hire a car at the airport and wanted to pinpoint its' exact location by using a satellite navigation system then here are the postcodes for the 2 terminals which hopefully will be of some help: South Terminal: RH6 0NP North Terminal: RH6 0PJ Make sure that you check with your respective reservation counter as to where the best dropping off point of your rental car is.
As a general rule though the airport has the following restrictions in place when it comes to picking up and dropping-off of passengers: "Drivers may set passengers down in the designated areas on the terminal forecourts.
However, for security reasons there is a strict no-waiting policy on the forecourt.
If you do wish to accompany passengers into the terminal you must use the Short Stay Car Park.
If you are picking passengers up from the airport, you must use the Short Stay Car Park.
Car Park 3 (South Terminal) operates a special tariff of 15 minutes' parking for £1.
" All the major car hire companies have desks near the entrance of each terminal including Hertz, Alamo, Enterprise, Dollar and others.
Rates vary from one to other, with a typical 3-day weekend rental costing around £39 approximately.
The downside of booking at the airport is that if you have just come off a long flight then the last thing that you'll want to be doing is checking from one desk to the other for the best deals available.
Knee-deep in queues, these kiosks are often understaffed at the busiest times ensuring a rather annoying wait in being served.
So the real name of the game is in beating the long queues and lengthy form filling! Personally, I would rather book in advance and preferably online as there are most probably cheaper and better offers off the main terminal forecourts.
That being said, booking online is certainly no guarantee in being served quicker, as you will most likely be collecting your vehicle from one of the kiosks aforementioned.
On the plus side though it will save you time from filling out hire contract forms etc.
, Searching for the best deals online can be a somewhat tiresome and frustrating task.
To help, I have listed 3 rent companies that I have used on a regular basis and have found them in the main to offer exactly what I'm looking for.
Here's a quick run-down of these 3 hire companies.
- CarTrawler - An award-winning site, trawling through 450 online providers in real time to find the best deals available
- EasyCar - Part of the Easyjet group offering good prices, special offers and hot weekend deals
- AutoEurope - Established for about 50 years or so and 'up there' with the rest of them in terms of pricing, choice of vehicles, locations served and customer care
e.
the longer between my departure date and the booking, the cheaper I found the rental prices to be.
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