Five long pieces on spending a Heathrow connection in London: which format to book, how the hours actually fall, doing it without a tour, what it costs per head, and what winter does to the whole calculation.
Four formats, twelve products, and the thing that decides it is not the headline price. It is how many of you there are, where you want to be picked up, and whether you would rather be driven or walked.
Read the guide →Four hours, six hours, eight hours. Built from the stop times the operators publish rather than from a wish, including the drive each way and the buffer that gets you back through security without running.
Read the guide →Four ways in, all of them published by the airport, and an honest account of when the train is the better answer. Sometimes it is. The arithmetic is here rather than the sales pitch.
Read the guide →Some are priced by the car and some by the head, and the winner swaps the moment there are two of you. Worked through with the real figures, including everything the fare does not cover.
Read the guide →London loses eight and a half hours of daylight between June and December, and a one o'clock landing in December leaves you under three hours of light. Month by month, with what to do about it.
Read the guide →Shorter answers to single questions are in the London Layover blog. The practical rules that sit under all of these are on the timing rules page, and the products themselves are on the London Layover tours hub.
