Overnight at STN

In message <6647prF2j3sqnU1@mid.***************>, at 17:04:31 on Wed, 9
Apr 2008, "tim (not at home)" <tims_new_home@yahoo.co.uk> remarked:
>Does anybody have any recomendations?
>
>The Holiday Inn (Express) seems to be the only one that's near enough to be
>worthwhile,

The Radisson SAS is closer (actually on campus).

In practice the Hilton, by the long term carpark, is no less convenient.

>but does anyone have any other suggestions? And if that is the
>'best' option, is their bus shuttle reliable?

Yes, but they charge you (£3 I think) for the trip from hotel to
terminal, which is a damned cheek. (Hilton charges too.)

How are you getting to the airport/hotel. In the past I've been let down
by their fly-drive where the parking wasn't on the hotel site but in a
nearby mid stay carpark; which means that in practice you have no access
to the car in the morning and 20 minutes extra hassle in the evening.

>I need to be at the airport by 08:00.

No problem.
--
Roland Perry

In message <664cg5F2i8l7gU1@mid.***************>, at 18:24:42 on Wed, 9
Apr 2008, "tim (not at home)" <tims_new_home@yahoo.co.uk> remarked:

>>>Does anybody have any recomendations?
>>>
>>>The Holiday Inn (Express) seems to be the only one that's near enough
>>>to be worthwhile,
>>
>> The Radisson SAS is closer (actually on campus).
>
>but is 50 pounds more expensive

You didn't mention price :)

>> In practice the Hilton, by the long term carpark, is no less convenient.
>
>OK

>> Yes, but they charge you (£3 I think) for the trip from hotel to terminal,
>> which is a damned cheek. (Hilton charges too.)
>>
>> How are you getting to the airport/hotel.

>By train

The evening trains are a bit patchy, and the last through one is pretty
early. (arr Stansted 20.05).

Something I hadn't noticed is they seem to have scrapped the weekday
shuttles [there are still a few at weekends] between Stansted and
Cambridge that Central used to run after the last through trains (and
the latest to leave Stansted is 20.20). So you'd have to go via Bishops
Stortford.
--
Roland Perry