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Guide to London GATWICK Airport

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LONDON GATWICK AIRPORT Business Traveller Airport Guides 6 ContentsContents

03 AIRPORT OVERVIEW 21 USEFUL TIPS

06 GETTING THERE 22 HOTELS AND MEETINGS

07 PARKING OPTIONS/MAP 26 COUNTRY HOUSE HOTELS

08 WHO FLIES FROM WHICH TERMINAL? 28 AREA MAP

09 AIRPORT LOUNGES

11 TERMINAL MAPS

20 DINING AND SHOPPING

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GATWICK AIRPORT Business Traveller Airport Guides 2 An overview of GATWICK Airport

As the first “victim” of the BAA sell- North Terminal off, you would forgive Gatwick for feeling Interchange vulnerable, writes Michelle Mannion. Being removed from the bosom of the UK’s largest airport operator might have left another organisation feeling cut adrift but, in fact, the Sussex airport seems liberated. “Gatwick is fundamentally different in terms of the job we’re doing under the new ownership,” says Simon Edwards, airline business development manager for the airport. “We are competing for business in a way we weren’t before. The new owner [Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), owner of London City airport] wants a return on its investment, whereas with BAA, I think it’s fair to say the focus was very much on Heathrow. Doing my job before felt almost as if I had one hand tied behind my back, whereas now there is a real focus at board level. It’s such a refreshing change.” For Angus McIntyre, head of airline business development, the change of hands McIntyre says. For Gatwick, the corporate THE BILLION-POUND PROJECT entrance forecourt aimed at speeding up the in December 2009 has allowed Gatwick market encompasses not only the traditional When it comes to capturing the business passenger’s journey to check-in is due to be to take a fresh look at its raison d’être. “As full-service airlines but the low-cost sector – market, Gatwick has some distinct advantages. finished by the end of March. The moving part of BAA we were sort of happy with our Easyjet is now its largest carrier, with 33 per While it cannot compete with Heathrow walkways from the station (trains to Gatwick position in as much as it worked from a group cent of the airport’s total slots. Second and in terms of connectivity and frequency of arrive into the South) are being refurbished, perspective – Heathrow was scheduled third are BA and Thomson, with 17 per cent services, it boasts an affluent catchment area brighter flooring is being laid in sections, to business services, Gatwick was point-to-point and 7 per cent respectively, demonstrating the and excellent train links. What it hasn’t perhaps be finished by the end of the year, and £2.5 leisure, Stansted was low-cost. Take us out of three prongs of Gatwick’s business – low-cost, had is the state-of-the-art facilities to attract million is being spent on wayfinding, with that mix and all of a sudden it’s: ‘What do we scheduled full-service and charter. new carriers, but that is changing. unnecessary signage being taken down and want to be?’ Nobody’s saying we’re going to “Easyjet has come in and stolen the march In June last year, GIP announced it would the font sizes enlarged. be the next Heathrow because that would be on the traditional scheduled business market,” invest £1 billion in the airport’s infrastructure Plus, £170 million is being spent on a new an unreasonable aspiration. Equally, we don’t he says. “We’ve seen the low-cost model (building on a redevelopment project began baggage system that will allow passengers want to be Stansted, so it’s about finding that morph up from the no-frills offering of several by BAA in 2008). Scheduled to continue until to drop their case at any vacant space in middle ground.” years ago into a bit of a hybrid – you see that 2014, the works involve revamping the South the terminal (dependent on their airline’s What this means is a greater focus on the with Air Berlin and Norwegian.” The German Terminal, now more than half a century old, and stipulations). This is being put in place in business traveller – currently about 15 per carrier moved its Hanover and Nuremberg expanding the North Terminal, added in 1988. phases until late 2014. cent of traffic. “We’ve put far more emphasis routes from Stansted in February, while On the ground, construction is well under The airport has also reconfigured on the business-style/premium passenger,” Norwegian added a Helsinki service in May. way. In the South, a £31 million single- Norwegian’s check-in zone, with self-service

In association with Business Traveller Airport Guides 3 An overview of GATWICK Airport bag-drops and check-in kiosks so you can print your own label. Edwards says: “We worked hard to get Norwegian’s product right and they’re delighted.” (In the North, BA and Delta also have reconfigured check-in zones with kiosks, and the airport is talking to Easyjet about doing something similar.)

MAXIMUM SECURITY One of the centrepiece projects in the South is the spacious new security area. Some £45 million is being spent on security in total, with the three previous zones being replaced by a see changes afoot here too. Home to much single area upstairs. It is being opened lane of Gatwick’s scheduled traffic, the terminal by lane – four were operational as we went handles 14 million passengers a year and to press, and there will be 19 by the time it is the plan is to increase that to 17 million. The finished in October, including two premium forecourt has, consequently, been moved lanes. “This is going to be the best security further out, and the inter-connected £25 million area in the world,” says Steve James, South eastern extension, which will add ticket desks Terminal programme development leader for and circulation space, is due to be completed capital projects, who reports that the new lanes in August or September – at which time check- are processing 250 people per hour, up from in will be directly connected by a walkway to 160 with the old system. the fourth level of a new 1,200-space short- superjumbo with remote stands rather than First, passengers go through a “preparation stay car park, open since April. (This level will airbridges, which are a crucial component for area” with ironing-board-shaped tables for cost more to park in.) many carriers. repacking bags, then put their boarding pass Security lanes like those in the South Other additions in the North include a new through London Underground-style self-service Terminal are being added, with two new ones No 1 Traveller lounge (there is also one in the machines, where they can also scan mobile just open, four to follow next summer and South). Open since May, it’s a welcoming boarding passes. As James explains, lanes are the remainder to be converted after that. The space that costs £25 to access (£20 online), longer than before so people have more time to North Terminal’s southern extension (yes, with a business centre, spa, and free wifi, food take off their jackets and belts before reaching confusing…) will follow in October, adding and drink. the conveyor. They will also be colour-coded check-in zones, self-service kiosks and bag- Meanwhile, the train station is getting a £53 to indicate the shortest queues. Meanwhile, a drops, and more carousels in arrivals. million upgrade to improve its aesthetics and separate security area for families and those in By 2014, airside will have extra circulation add a platform, which will mean the Gatwick travellers, and is working on what McIntyre need of special assistance is in place to speed space, dining and retail. Aircraft stands Express will have two dedicated platforms. calls “a fast-track arrivals product”. up the process further. Airside, pier one will be and gate rooms will be added to pier six, The cosmetic work is due to be complete by replaced with a new fast-turnaround pier for and it’s intended that another level will be the Olympics, with the major construction ROUTE AHEAD short-haul aircraft by the end of 2014. added to pier five. Talks are ongoing about starting after. With all this in place, Gatwick should be in a Zoom over to the North on the speedy new how to boost the terminal’s A380 facilities The airport is also phasing in mobile printing stronger position to attract new routes. It is shuttle service, open since last July, and you’ll – the airport can currently only handle the facilities near gates heavily used by business well needed – the impact of the Open Skies

In association with Business Traveller Airport Guides 4 An overview of GATWICK Airport agreement, which saw much of its US traffic Beirut. He adds: “The problem with Gatwick New South Terminal forecourt defect to Heathrow, means Gatwick now has is that it’s now becoming a slot-constrained no direct link to New York, and Qatar Airways airfield – it’s the busiest single runway airport chief executive Akbar Al Baker told Business in the world. That is going to present some Traveller that the airline pulled its Gatwick issues so in terms of continued growth, it’s services in May because “all the American a question of us picking up slots as they feed we used to get there evaporated with become free.” Open Skies”. In the meantime, it is planning to improve Getting some of this market back is, its offering for business travellers at Gatwick understandably, a major focus: “The core by offering add-ons such as lounge access. markets we’re massively under-represented in “You can already purchase car parking online are the US and Asia,” McIntyre says. Edwards [with us] at a favourable price, and the same adds: “We’ve got active dialogue around thing is going to happen with lounges – we’re transatlantic routes. It’s one of our key targets talking to companies who wish to see if our and we’re having conversations about getting a passengers will purchase time in the lounges New York route here.” as an add-on.” As for Asia, the airport is shortly expected He adds: “For us, Gatwick is the intuitive to confirm a new four-times weekly Vietnam business place at an affordable price.” The Airlines service starting in December, with airport will no doubt be hoping a growing two flights to Hanoi and two to Ho Chi Minh number of frequent flyers agree with him. City. McIntyre says: “That is a gem of a route n Visit gatwickairport.com because it is a hotbed of both leisure and trade growth. We are excited because it will have a viral effect on that part of the world.” Other long-haul routes on the way include a daily Air Nigeria service to Lagos from September 1. The airport is also in discussions with BA franchisee Comair about launching a Durban route, which would be the only direct service from London. Easyjet, meanwhile, continues to grow its network, which now numbers 92 destinations. In March it added a thrice-weekly service to Amman, in April a four-times-a-week route to Seville, and in June a daily flight to Aberdeen. Jason Holt, Easyjet’s head of Gatwick, says: “The business take-up for Aberdeen is quite high because there’s a lot of oil business coming through the airport.” Other routes he says the carrier is pressing for are Cairo and

In association with Business Traveller Airport Guides 5 Getting to and from gatwick

Train ­­ online. Direct routes also operate as far afield of flight delays and move your booking There are various train services as Poole, Swansea, Bradford and Norwich. accordingly. Local taxi firms include Checker between Gatwick and the Easybus operates a direct service to and from Cars, which has offices inside both terminals, southeast. The Gatwick Express London Earls Court for as little as £2 one-way and Carline, based five minutes from Gatwick is the fastest option, providing when purchased in advance online, or £10 on airport. Driving to central London takes about a direct 30-minute service from London the day. Other routes include the Oxford Bus, an hour, but factor in traffic delays when Victoria every 15 minutes between 5am and which runs hourly throughout the day, costing calculating your journey time. 23.45pm (5.50am and 12.35am from Gatwick from £32 return, and the Gatwick Flyer, which n checkercars.com, roadrunnersgatwick. to London Victoria) and less frequently outside connects various Essex locations to the South co.uk, carlineprivatehire.co.uk these times. There is a set price of £27 for Terminal. Prices range from £36-£62 return a standard return ticket. Cheaper stopping depending on the route. Car services are run by several companies. First n nationalexpress.com, easybus.co.uk, Satnav postcodes are RH6 Capital Connect provides frequent trains to and oxfordbus.co.uk, gatwickflyer.co.uk 0PJ (North Terminal) and from central London and costs around £17 for RH6 0NP (South Terminal). an anytime return to St Pancras International Bike Gatwick is 45km south of (with a journey time of about 50 minutes) or National Cycle Route 21 London, linked directly to London Bridge (about 30 minutes). The line runs past the South Terminal the M23 at Junction 9 and to the A23 London- continues southbound to Brighton and north and the transit to the North Brighton road. It is a ten-minute drive from to Bedford. Frequent stopping trains between Terminal. Cyclists can use car Junction 7 on the M25. Gatwick and London Victoria – about five per park B for free, and more spots are being added hour – are also run by Southern Railway. An this year. Showers are available, landside and Chauffeur anytime return costs £25, although single fares airside, in both terminals. London-based company can be found for as little as £4 when paid for in iChauffeur serves Gatwick advance online. Trains also run to Hampshire Taxi as well as other city airports. and Sussex. Gatwick rail station is linked to the Road Runners UK – which Its selection of cars includes South Terminal and a free shuttle service will operates at the airport Mercedes, Bentley and Rolls- take you to the North Terminal in a few minutes. under the name Airport Cars Royce. It offers a meet-and-greet service and n gatwickexpress.com, firstcapitalconnect. Gatwick – was appointed as can accommodate groups of up to 16 in its co.uk, southernrailway.com Gatwick’s official on-airport luxury minibuses. A journey from central London taxi service provider in June. The firm will (postcode W1) to Gatwick in a Mercedes Benz Bus take you to central London for a pre-agreed S Class (up to four passengers) costs £150. Several coach companies link price of about £95, depending on where Executive Drive operates the free chauffeur Gatwick with major cities around you are dropped off (an £8 congestion fee service for airlines at Gatwick, including British the UK. National Express is the may be added if you are dropped within the Airways (Club World passengers), Virgin Atlantic biggest and has ticket desks in charging zone). Fares vary widely between (Upper Class) and Delta (Business Elite) – distance both terminals. It runs between Victoria and the cab companies and depending on where restrictions may apply. Executive Drive uses South Terminal hourly (departing London from you are travelling to, you may be charged Mercedes and BMW cars and serves destinations 3.30am-11.30pm and Gatwick 5.15am-9.40pm) extra for meet-and-greet services or if there anywhere in the UK. Individual quotes may be and takes about 2.5 hours. An open return is are delays at the airport. It may be worth arranged by contacting the company. £14 but cheaper fares may be found in advance checking if the company will keep track n ichauffeur.co.uk, uk-chauffeurcars.co.uk

In association with Business Traveller Airport Guides 6 PARKING OPTIONS

Short-stay Short-stay car parks are located a short walk from both terminal buildings. Prices increase by the hour, from £1 for 15 minutes up to £30 for one day, so costs can mount up if you’re Valet planning to do more than a quick stop. There Short Stay are some deals for one- or two-day stays North available with advance booking online via M23 parking.gatwickairport.com. Long Stay North Valet A premium fast-track service is available at the North Terminal, costing between £18 for up Holiday Parking North to four hours to £40 per 24 hours – it includes Terminal M23 a free porterage service from the car park to South Terminal the terminal between 6am and 6pm.  gatwickairport.com/parking Horley Rd GATWICK Summer Special AIRPORT Valet parking Short Stay A service is available at both terminals and the M23 South drop-off and pick-up points are both located in the short-stay car parks. If you phone from Long Stay Plus the arrivals hall once you land, your car will Long Stay be ready for you. The service can be booked South in advance or you can show up on the day. Prices start from £37 for one night. Your car will be waiting outside the terminal on arrival. Meet-and-greet company Meteor operates at both terminals. Prices start from about £36 for one night, with additional fees for services such as car washes. days, and the Summer Special car park – be found by pre-booking online. Seven nights’  meteormeetandgreet.com open year round for South Terminal passengers parking, booked one week in advance, costs POSTCODES FOR CAR PARKS and offering a more limited service to the just under £10 per day for a standard service. Long-stay North Terminal. Valet staff will park your car as  gatwickairport.com/parking South Terminal RH6 0NP Several options are available. Long Stay North you make the airport transfer. The free coach North Terminal RH6 0PJ and South are self-park facilities with free, five- to the airport takes four minutes from Long Off-airport long-stay North Terminal long stay RH6 0RN minute coach transfers to the terminals running Stay Plus and runs every ten minutes. The This is available at three Airparks sites, all every ten minutes throughout the day. As neither Summer Special service is slightly less regular, within ten to 15 minutes of the airport via free has a minimum stay limit, it could be more cost- with three coaches an hour making the five- shuttle. You’ll find the best value on stays of a effective to park here for shorter periods too. minute journey. week or more, which, if booked far enough in Other options include Long Stay Plus, The drive-up rate for all car parks is £11.50 advance, can cost less than £10 per day. which is available for stays of three or more per day but cheaper prices for longer stays can  airparks.co.uk

In association with Business Traveller Airport Guides 7 Who flies from where

Adria Airways JP Aer Lingus EI Norwegian DY Air Berlin AB Aerosvit VV Nouvelair BJ Air Seychelles HM Air Baltic BT Onur Air OHY British Airways BA Air Europa AEA Pegasus Airlines PGT Easyjet EZY Air Malta KM Rossiya Airlines FV Emirates EK Air Moldova 9U Ryanair FR Delta Air Lines DL Air Transat TS SAS SK Malev MA Air Zimbabwe UM SATA International S4 Meridiana Airlines IG Alnaser Airlines MHK Sky Airlines ZY Royal Air Maroc AT Astraeus Airlines AEU Strategic Airlines STU Thomson Airways TOM Aurigny Air Services GR Sun Country Airlines SY Belavia Belarusian Airlines BRU TAP Portugal TP SOUTH TERMINAL NORTH TERMINAL NORTH BH Air (Balkan Holidays) BGH Thomas Cook TCX Bmi BD Titan Airways ZT Bulgaria Air FB Torair OAI Cimber Sterling QI Tunisair TU Croatia Airlines OU Ukraine International Airlines PS Cubana de Aviacion CU United Airways Bangladesh 4H Easyjet EZY US Airways US Estonian Air OV Viking Hellas VKH Flybe BE Virgin Atlantic VS Hellenic Imperial Airways HT Iceland Express HW Jet2.com LS Monarch Airlines MON/ZB Montenegro Airlines YM

In association with Business Traveller Airport Guides 8 LOUNGEs

Emirates silver cardholders of any airline, get 10 per conditioned facility offers free snacks, a bar NORTH TERMINAL cent off. Bright and white with plenty of marble, offering soft and alcoholic drinks, free wifi, floor-to-ceiling windows and a stylish, retro- newspapers and magazines, phones, a fax Airside lounges in this terminal are boutique feel, the 930 sqm venue has ample machine, and a flight information screen. A located in the Lounge Pavilion, at seating overlooking the runway, a living wall, meeting area with business facilities is available the far end of the departure lounge. a games console room, pool room, children’s on request. It’s open 6am-9.30pm. play area, a mini-cinema, free wifi, a manned n servisair.com bar (all drinks free except for champagne and cocktails), a food bar with snacks such as Servisair cakes, fruit and cookies, a bistro area with table service and a menu of free light meals (there is a breakfast buffet in the mornings), newspapers and magazines, board games and departure screens. The spa, which offers Emirates massages (from £15 for 15 minutes), facials, Located on the floor below the No 1 Traveller manicures and fish pedicures (they nibble lounge, the Middle Eastern carrier’s facility No 1 Traveller your feet inside a tank), showers (£10) and a is spacious with a classic feel. Featuring hairdressers, can be used separately without touches such as potted plants and gold- paying for lounge access, as can the business plated Rolex wall clocks, it has lots of beige centre, which costs £15 to access on its own leather seating, two self-service bars with and has computers, drinks and two meeting soft and alcoholic drinks (staff are also rooms. The lounge is open 4am-10pm. on hand to serve you), newspapers and Sofitel arrivals lounge n no1traveller.com magazines, departure screens, a big business Located on the ground floor of the Sofitel centre with PCs, workstations, a printer London Gatwick hotel, directly connected British Airways First/Club lounges and phone-charging facilities, free wifi and to the North Terminal, this facility is a useful All of BA’s Gatwick flights fly from the North showers. A food station offers snacks – in the option for people arriving from night flights No 1 Traveller Terminal, so its two lounges are based there. morning hot and cold breakfast items are on and travelling direct to morning meetings. Both were refurbished in 2009 – the Club offer (eggs Benedict and French toast can Free to BA first, business and full-fare No 1 Traveller lounge is for silver Executive Club members be made to order), while options through the economy class passengers when they present Open since May, the No 1 Traveller lounge is an and can accommodate 168 passengers, day include soup, seafood pie, lamb curry, their boarding pass, it otherwise costs £20 attractive space in which to spend some time while First is for gold cardholders and holds cakes, cheeses and fruit. The lounge can be to access for four hours. Facilities include 19 before you fly. The paid-for facility costs £25 for 79. The lounges are similar in style, featuring used by Emirates first and business class shower rooms (you can have your clothes three hours (£20 if you book in advance online) furniture and chairs upholstered with Osborne passengers and Skywards gold members. It’s pressed while you freshen up), a seating area and is free for Delta Air Lines Business Elite and Little fabric, showers, a bar offering free open 6am-8.45pm. with leather armchairs and a fire, a continental passengers, Medallion members and Skyteam drinks and a variety of hot and cold snacks n emirates.com breakfast buffet, soft drinks, free wifi, four Elite Plus passengers. Travellers who have throughout the day, flatscreen TVs, computers PCs and four workstations, newspapers and bought a return first class Gatwick Express and a kids’ zone with TVs, games and Servisair Ascot Executive Suite magazines. You can even use the Sofitel’s train ticket can also access for free (this special Playstations. Wifi is free throughout. They are The newest of Servisair’s lounges at the gym, located on the same level. The lounge is offer is initially running until the end of August). open 5.30am-10pm. airport opened in 2008 and costs £16 to use open 5am-1pm. Star Alliance gold cardholders, and gold and n ba.com (£10 for children aged 11 and under). The air n sofitelgatwicklounge.com

In association with Business Traveller Airport Guides 9 LOUNGEs

SOUTH TERMINAL Virgin Clubhouse Virgin Clubhouse Located airside on the upper level of No 1 Traveller departures, Virgin Atlantic’s lounge is open to Open since 2009, the lounge is located Upper Class passengers and gold cardholders airside on the mezzanine level of departures, from 6am to 12pm. It was refurbished in by Frankie and Benny’s restaurant. Like No 1 2009 and features modern, sophisticated Traveller’s North Terminal facility, it costs £25 décor with splashes of colour. It is divided to access, or £20 in advance online – the into different zones, including a concierge Gatwick Express offer also applies to this and reception area with shoe shine and coat lounge. SAS, TAP Portugal and US Airways and baggage storage, a family lounge with business passengers can use it for free, while a playground and TV, and an entertainment Star Alliance gold cardholders, and gold and lounge and business area, where passengers silver cardholders of any airline, get 10 per can make use of the “Internet Forest” (wifi is cent off. It has a manned bar offering soft and free) or enjoy Wii and Guitar Hero. There’s also alcoholic drinks, various seating areas, a five- a Cowshed Spa, where showers are available, metre-high living wall, free wifi, runway views, along with treatments including massages, table football, newspapers and magazines, Servisair Lingfield manicures and barbering, an “Internal and a TV and flight information screen. A Rock Garden” (a bistro area serves continental buffet breakfast Servisair Lingfield relaxation area), 4am-11am, along with dishes such as eggs and “the Snug”, Benedict and Florentine, and a seasonal menu where TV shows during the day. A spa treatment room on the and films are mezzanine level offers massages, manicures screened. The bar and pedicures at a charge. Open 4am-10pm. and restaurant n no1traveller.com offer free food and drinks, which can Servisair Ashdown/Lingfield also be served at lounges various “waiter Servisair has two airside facilities in the South points” throughout Terminal – Ashdown is on the lower level of cereal bars, fruit and yogurts), soft and alcoholic the lounge. Dishes the departure area and Lingfield on the upper. drinks (champagne is chargeable), free wifi, on offer include a Ashdown has a capacity of 76, and children newspapers and magazines. Ashdown has a British breakfast, are 12 are not permitted. Entry is £18. Lingfield flight information screen and a meeting area, scrambled eggs accommodates 100 people and children of any while Lingfield has a children’s zone with a and smoked age may enter – £16 is the entry fee for adults TV, computer and Playstations. Lingfieldwas salmon, and and children aged two and above. Both have refurbished 18 months ago, at which time American runway views, a contemporary feel and a muted Ashdown was given new furniture. Ashdown is pancakes. colour scheme. They offer free snacks (including open 6am-2pm and Lingfield 5am-10pm. n virgin-atlantic. Virgin Clubhouse cheese and biscuits, crisps, croissants, cakes, n servisair.com com

In association with Business Traveller Airport Guides 10 MAPs - North TERMINAL To Gates 59 - 63 40

30 north Terminal - check-in 41 Public areas 29 Passenger areas 28 34 42 Lift 27 33 32 8 Amenities 31

Accessible toilet 11 Toilet men 25 Toilet women 26 24 3 Special 4 23 assistance services security Zone F Bureau de change Security Check-in 8 Postbox Zone E Public telephone Departures Tickets 2 1 Customs VAT office 1 Zone D 2T Travelex Bureau de Change 5 with cash machine 7 Train station and 3S Special assistance bus service to help point & Zone D 7 South Terminal reserved seating 4M Moneycorp Bureau 5 de Change Zone A Zone B 6 5B BA self-service check-in 10 6B BA customer services 9 7S Special assistance help point Zone A 12 8O Oversized baggage 7 9S Shipping and bag wrap 7 10 Worldwide baggage services 11 easyJet ticket desk 12 Self-service check-in 8

In association with Business Traveller Airport Guides 11 MAPs - North TERMINAL

north Terminal - The Avenue Public areas Arrivals Passenger areas from Lift Pier 5

Amenities

Accessible toilet Babycare Toilet men Toilet women

services 13 11 Bureau de change 20 Moneycorp Bureau de Change Passport Control 20 12 Public telephone 21 Special assistance help point 10 Seating 9 7 3 Excess baggage 14 5E E-mail post 8 7S Spectrum Internet 5 15 11 Cash machines 6 59 8 8 shops & food and Drink 8 7

Restaurant /Café 19 1J Joe’s Kitchen 4 2G Globe Freehouse 1 6B Bags Etc 20 8C Costa Coffee 3 9M Monsoon 2 10 Accessorize 17 21 18 12 Spectrum Internet 13 Game Grid 14 Rolling Luggage 21 15 Tie Rack Hotel & 17 M&S Simply Food car park 18 Boots 19 WHSmith

In association with Business Traveller Airport Guides 12 MAPs - North TERMINAL north Terminal - international departure lounge, lower level 37 Public areas 36 Passenger areas Lift 35 38 39 Amenities To gates 59 - 63 40 21 Accessible toilet 30 Toilet men 41 Toilet women 29 20 28 34 42 27 33 18 32 services 31 10 Bureau de change 31 Travelex Bureau de Change 19 with cash machine To gates 57 & 58 25 Information 9 17 26 24 3 Public telephone 4 6 Seating 23 5 7 Wireless hotspot 22 Security 4 12 19 Moneycorp Bureau de To flight Change with cash machine connections Departures 20 Shopping information 15 2 3 8 1 27 Flight information / special assistance 14 5 Z 2 13 28 Special assistance seating

Zone D shops & food and Drink 1 Zone A Zone B Bar / Pub 13 Hugo Boss Restaurant / Café 14 Mango Zone A 1W WHSmith 15 Shoe Studio To gates 45 - 55, 101 - 113 2B Boots 17 Ray-Ban & airline lounges 7 3B Best of the Best 18 Next Starbucks at gates 46 - 49 4 Dixons Travel 21 World Duty Free At gates 101 - 113 & domestic lounge (Starbucks), 5J Jo Malone 22 World of Whiskies WHSmith, World Duty Free, Wetherspoon’s Express 6T The Watch and Jewellery 23 Sunglass Hut Store 24 Ted Baker 7R Rosetta Stone 25 Tie Rack 34 Accessorize 8W World Duty Free 26 Rolling Luggage 35 Lacoste 39 WHSmith 9 Harrods 30 Dixons Travel 36 Game Grid 40 HMV 10 Hamleys 32 Fat Face 37 Red Lion 41 WHSmith Books 12 Seafood Bar 33 Rituals 38 Glorious Britain 42 JD

In association with Business Traveller Airport Guides 13 MAPs - North TERMINAL

north Terminal - international departure lounge, upper level 13 Public areas 5 Passenger areas Lift

Amenities

Accessible toilet 11 Babycare Toilet men 12 Toilet women services 9 Bureau de change Public telephone 8 Wireless hotspot 2M Moneycorp Bureau de Change and cash machine

shops & food and Drink 7

Restaurant / Café 1 Nike 3S Sunglass Hut 6 4 Café Rouge 5S Spectrum Internet 6 Lloyds No.1 7E En Toast 6 8S Shake-A-Hula 9E Eat 4 4 10 Caffè Nero 11 Garfunkels 12 Armadillo 3 5 13 Costa Coffee 2

1 12 10

In association with Business Traveller Airport Guides 14 MAPs - North TERMINAL north Terminal - Arrivals Public areas 14 Passenger areas Lift

Amenities 14 Accessible toilet Babycare Toilet men 13 12 To Chapel Toilet women and baggage 14 Baggage reclaim services 15 services 16 Baggage reclaim International arrivals Bureau de change 13 Information 11 Meeting point 17 4 10 Public telephone 3 Smoking area 9 4 To long term car parks Wireless hotspot Taxis and car rental 1H HM Immigration information telephone 4S Special assistance help point Entrance 5 National Express waiting area 2 7 6 8 7 Cash machine 8 National Express tickets Entrance 10 British Hotel Reservation 1 Domestic arrivals Centre (BHRC) 5 11 Travelex Bureau de Change 13 easyBus UK 4 Entrance 14 Shopping collection Channel Islands Ireland 15 Emirates Limousine Services arrivals Entrance 16 BA Solo Flyers meeting point 17 Seating Area To smoking area across forecourt shops & food and Drink

Restaurant / Café 9S Spectrum Internet 2C Costa Coffee 12 Gamegrid 3W World Duty Free Arrivals Shop 6W WHSmith

In association with Business Traveller Airport Guides 15 MAPs - south TERMINAL

south Terminal - check-in 4 20 Public areas UK domestic arrivals & Zone B check-in Passenger areas 4 3 10 Lift 9 3 1 5 2 Amenities 2 1 International departures lounge Special assistance Accessible toilet security 11 Toilet men Toilet women Zone A 6 Stairs/escalators services down to Zone B 14 13 Zone C 11 Buggy access Security Bureau de change 12 Chapel and prayer room Check-in Zone D 8 Departures Lift 15 Lost property Zone E 7 10 Public telephone 9 2 6 4 Smoking area 6 Tour operator / airline ticket desks Zone H Wheel chair access Zone G Up to Zone F 2M Moneycorp Bureau de Change Security Long & short stay car parks 4 4O Oversized baggage Zone J Car rental 12 5S Special assistance desk Coach station Zone K & reserved seating Taxis Hilton hotel 6S Self-service check-in Lift to platforms 13 7S Special assistance help point 8T Travelex Bureau de Change 14 Zone S 9 Cash machines Train station International arrivals 2 10 Photo booth Train station 7 Up to 11 HM Customs The Village 4 13 British Hotel Reservation Centre (BHRC) 3 2 15 Baggage repack and weigh zone Long & short stay car parks 1 shops & food and Drink Car rental Coach station Taxis 1B Bags etc. (Excess Baggage Company) Hilton hotel Lifts to 8 3W WHSmith Gatwick Train station and Arrivals Lounges 12 Boots north terminal shuttle 14 M&S Simply Food

In association with Business Traveller Airport Guides 16 MAPs - south TERMINAL

south Terminal - international departure lounge, lower level Public areas Passenger areas Lift

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Accessible toilet

Babycare To airline lounges Costa Coffee at Shower facilities 21 gates 23-28 and 31-38 Toilet men WHSmith and World Duty Free Toilet women at gates 31-38 To gates To gates 1 - 10 11 - 95 services 8 22 Bureau de change 6 7 25 Information 5 20 Seating 4 20 Security arrivals eck-in 19 Public telephone 24 Wireless hotspot 3 23 9 Travelex Bureau de Change 9 International and cash machine 2 departures lounge 18 1 10 Special assistance desk 10 17 & reserved seating 11 11 Moneycorp Bureau de Change and cash machine From flight connections 12 Customs VAT office 12 16 calators 15 Zone B 14 shops & food and Drink 13 Security Restaurant / Café 1 Sunglass Hut 16 Dixons Tax Free 2A Animal 17 Rolling Luggage8 3 Caviar House Seafood Bar 18 World of Whiskies Departures 11 4B Boots 19 Best of the Best 7 10 5 Fat Face 20 World Duty Free Promotions9 2 6 Watches and Jewellery 21 World Duty Free 8 Harrods 22 oSpectrumne H Internet 13 WHSmith Books 23 HMV Up to 14 Ted Baker 24 Hugo Boss The Village 10 15 Clarins 4 25 WHSmith Zone J

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south Terminal - international departure lounge, upper level Public areas Passenger areas View of Lift aircraft

Amenities 19 Accessible toilet Toilet men Toilet women 20 18 20 Airline lounge 15 17 Stairs to services Frankie & Benny’s Moneycorp Bureau de Change 5 View of aircraft and cash machine To airline 4 lounges Public telephone Lift to Seating 3 Frankie & Benny’s 16 Wireless hotspot (limited access) 2 7M Moneycorp Bureau de Change

shops & food and Drink 14 1 13 Restaurant / Café 7

1P Pret A Manger First aid 12 2W WHSmith 6 box 11 3 Next 10 8 4A Accessorize 5J JD –K ing Of Trainers 9 Entrance from Village 6S Shake-A-Hula security search 8J J D Wetherspoons ‘The Flying Horse’ To airline lounges 9M McDonald’s 20 10 Game Grid 11 World Duty Free and Sunglasses Security 12 Kurt Geiger 13 SuperDry 5 14 All Saints 13 15 Dixons Tax Free 1 16 The Bridge Bar and Frankie & Benny’s el 3 17 Apostrophe 8 14 18 Costa 19 Café Rouge 2

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Up to The Village 10 MAPs4 - south TERMINAL 12 Zone K 13 south Terminal - Arrivals To check-in 14 Exit from Public areas baggage reclaim Passenger areas 15 2 Lift Zone S 4 services

Up to No Security, Cafe. 4 entry Bureau de change 3 Chapel and prayer Meeting point room 2 Smoking area Lifts and stairs for local buses Wireless hotspot 1 International 5 1T Travelex Bureau de Change and cash machine arrivals south Terminal - The village Lifts to 2U UK Immigration Services phone Yotel 5O Onward Travel Centre –T rains, Public areas 14 1 easyBus, National Express d Passenger areas 7 13 7 6 t Lift 12 6 shops & food and Drink 11 Amenities 10 8 Restaurant / Café 3W WHSmith Accessible toilet 9 Entrance from Village Babycare Security Search 4W World Duty Free Arrivals Shop To airline Shower facilities lounges 6 Left baggage (and shop and drop) Toilet men 7C Costa Coffee Toilet women 30 World of Whiskies 1 Bags etc Security 31 Virgin Megastore Express 2 Travelex Bureau 32 Best of the Best 3 WHSmith 33 Hugo Boss services 4 Travelex 35 WHSmith 5 TTT 36 World Duty Free Bureau de change 6 Boots 38 Harrods 2 7 Game Grid Chapel and prayer room To Chapel 39 The Clarins Studio and prayer room 10 Whistlestop Lift 41 Goldsmiths 1 New Security area under construction Postbox including new refreshment facility. Public telephone Opening summer 2011 Seating Wireless hotspot

3 Photo booths 9 3 shops & food and Drink

Restaurant / Café Down to 1 Caffè Nero arrivals 2 Boots

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NORTH TERMINAL SHOPS Popular fashion brands include Ted SOUTH TERMINAL Arrivals Baker, Hugo Boss, Mango, Lacoste, Ray-Ban, Departures Landside JD Sports, Fat Face, Next and Tie Rack. There Departures Landside EAT Costa Coffee, Giraffe is a large World Duty Free offering tax-free prices SHOP Boots, WHSmith, World Duty Free, EAT There are branches of Costa Coffee, Caffe on a range of products, WHSmith and Boots EAT Giraffe offers a global menu ranging Travelex, Game Grid Nero and Marks and Spencer Simply Food if for essentials, Accessorize and Sunglass Hut from burgers (£9) to mezze plates (£8), while you want a quick drink or bite. Joe’s Kitchen and for holiday accessories, and HMV for music. sandwich bar Apostrophe provides fresh food Coffee House serves a variety of dishes, from a There is also a small Harrods outlet that provides all day. Both have departure screens for keeping traditional English breakfast (£8) to a Thai green a range of luxury products, and a Hamleys for an eye on your flight. There are also branches of curry (£9). The Globe Freehouse offers beers exclusive toys. Dixons Travel is handy for any Costa Coffee, Caffe Nero, the Gourmet Hotdog (£3.50 per bottle), wines (about £4 per glass) and last-minute electronics buys and Rolling Luggage Company and Marks and Spencer Simply Food. spirits, as well as a varied food menu. can also be found airside. Jo Malone and Rituals SHOP There are WHSmith, Accessorize, Boots, SHOP Popular high-street chains include Boots, provide premium beauty products, and Shoe Sunglass Hut, Moneycorp, Travelex, Game Grid Accessorize, Monsoon, Tie Rack and Sunglass Studio is there if you need extra footwear. Master and Rolling Luggage outlets. Hut. The Excess Baggage Company caters of Time has a variety of fashion accessories, for your last-minute travel needs and Rolling Travelex and Moneycorp provide currency Departures Airside Luggage offers top brands of travel luggage. exchange, World of Whiskies offers a range of 350 malts and Glorious Britain is the place EAT Outlets range from McDonald’s to the Flying Departures Airside for gifts and souvenirs. Game Grid offers fruit Horse, a family-friendly pub. There is Frankie machines and video game entertainment. and Benny’s for US/Italian-style food, and a Café EAT The North Terminal has many outlets to Rouge. The Caviar House and Prunier Seafood suit all budgets, ranging from Costa Coffee to Arrivals Bar offers a sophisticated dining experience, the Caviar House and Prunier Seafood Bar. The serving king crab (£20) and caviars such as Armadillo Cafe and Grill provides dishes inspired EAT Costa Coffee Tsarina (£19.50 for 15kg), Malossol (£70 for by the southern US such as tostada and sweet SHOP WHSmith, Boots, World Duty Free, Game 30kg) and Heritage (£125 for 30kg). The Bridge corn fritters. The Red Lion is a Wetherspoon Grid, Travelex Bar and Eating House serves pastas (from £8) bar offering a wide range of beers and wines and grilled salmon with pesto (£11). There are plus classic pub food (fish and chips is £9, as is branches of Caffe Nero, Costa Coffee, Pret a sausages and mash). There is also a Caffe Nero, Manger, Shake-a-Hula and Apostrophe. sandwich bars such as Eat and En Toast, and SHOP Fashion stores include Ted Baker, Hugo Shake-a-Hula, an American-style milkshake bar. Boss, Kurt Geiger, Superdry, Next, Fat Face, JD The terminal also includes Café Rouge, which Sports and All Saints. There is also a World Duty serves French-style cuisine, Lloyd’s No 1, a Free store, a small Harrods outlet, and branches stylish bar offering a selection of drinks, snacks of Sunglass Hut, HMV, WHSmith, WHSmith and meals (breakfast is served until noon), and Books, Dixons Travel, Boots, Rolling Luggage, Garfunkel’s, which offers options such as a World of Whiskies, Accessorize, Master of Time, classic burger for £9 or beef and ale pie for £11. Travelex, Moneycorp and Game Grid.

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If you want to see how the If you want to get If you have a question about airport will look when its some sleep between your flight, or are in the revamp is complete, look connections, the Yotel terminal and need help, it out for posters displaying a in the South Terminal might be quicker for you to huge bar code for the free offers cabins for four-hour tweet it as Gatwick uses Stickybits app. Android and periods. (See page 22.) Twitter as a customer service iPhone users can download tool and aims to offer swift it for an audiovisual peek Travelling economy but fancy assistance. The airport also behind the scenes. some pampering? The new tweets news and special No 1 Traveller lounge in the offers. See twitter.com/ If you’re looking for a North Terminal costs £25 to gatwick_airport hotel, don’t rule out access (£20 online), or you properties nearer the can opt to use only its spa Unless you are worried other terminal. The services, which are priced by about saving the entrance to the Sofitel, treatment. No 1 Traveller’s environment, don’t worry for example, is just South Terminal lounge also about fishing out an old by the North Terminal offers treatments, though you plastic bag for liquids shuttle drop-off so, will have to pay for lounge before you travel – free with the speed of the access too. (See page 9.) ones are supplied. transfer service (only a few minutes), could be Want the fastest way into If you need to access quicker than going to the airport? In the South the internet or print any a hotel near the South. Terminal, park on the first documents, there are banks (See page 22.) floor of short-stay car park of PCs and printers in both 3 to be on the same floor terminals, with web access Arrived off a night flight and as the entrance – though costing from £1 for ten going straight to a meeting? from March next year, minutes. The airport was also The arrivals lounge in the when the new forecourt set to install mobile printing Sofitel (open 5am-1pm; building will be complete, facilities at the exit of the free to BA first, business that will change to the North Terminal departures and full-fare economy second floor. In the North lounge by the end of June/ passengers when they show Terminal, park on the beginning of July. their boarding pass, £20 fourth level of the brand- for others) has 19 shower new short-stay car park Book car parking in rooms, and staff will press 6 – by August-September, it advance for the cheapest your clothes while you will have a direct walkway rates – visit gatwickairport. freshen up. You can grab to check-in (be aware that com/parking. (See page 7.) breakfast, too. (See page 9.) this level will cost more).

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Sofitel AT THE AIRPORT n South Terminal; tel +44 (0)1293 518 080; Hilton London Gatwick Airport hilton.com The 821-room Hilton is connected to the South Terminal and located next to the long-stay Yotel Gatwick car park. Its public spaces were revamped in Located underneath the November 2009, adding a restaurant, redesigned South Terminal arrivals lobby and atrium area, and Costa Coffee shop. hall, this was the first Amy’s bar in the centre of the atrium is a great Yotel to open when place to sip cocktails. You can drop your key it launched in 2007 through a post box in the lobby if you wish to (the brand now has make a speedy check-out, and there are live flight properties at Heathrow information screens. Rooms start from 23 sqm and Amsterdam Sofitel and have wired internet charged at £15 for 24 Schiphol airports, hours (there is wifi in the lobby). Executive rooms and in New York). It has 46 pod-style rooms a Le Méridien) and is built around a bright and come with thick white bathrobes and slippers that can be booked overnight, or for four-hour airy eight-floor atrium. Rooms start from 23 sqm NEAR THE AIRPORT and access to the Executive lounge, which offers stints if you are between connections and want and are modern with big windows – higher up a complimentary continental breakfast, snacks, to grab some rest. The white-walled, futuristic the building there are some good views of the Premier Inn Gatwick Airport Central drinks and free wifi. The hotel also has a business cabins are compact to say the least – 7 sqm for runway and surrounding area. Entry-level rooms The closest Premier Inn to the airport (until a centre, 21 function rooms and a small 24-hour Standard ones, which have single beds, and come with wired and wifi internet (£15 per 24 630-room one opens in late 2012/early 2013 gym. The hotel group is scheduled to open a 10 sqm for Premium ones, with doubles – and hours), a workdesk, 24-hour room service, with direct access to the North Terminal) is a 192-room Gatwick property under its Hampton have no daylight. Nevertheless, they have all the a tube TV (to be upgraded to a flatscreen by ten-minute walk around a ring road from the by Hilton brand in time for the 2012 Olympics. amenities you need for a short stopover, including October), fridge, tea and coffee-making facilities, North Terminal. At night, and with luggage in air conditioning, a rainshower, white towels and iron and ironing board and safe. Upgrade to tow, it wouldn’t be the nicest stroll, so you may Hilton linens, free wifi, flatscreen TV (in Premium rooms a Superior room and you get free internet want to use the round-the-clock shuttle bus you can connect your iPod to them), a small and bottled water, 10 per cent off food and (£2.50). Refurbished last year, it has 220 rooms fold-down table and chair with plug sockets, beverages and half-price movies, while Luxury decked out in Premier Inn’s purple and white and mood lighting. The reception is manned 24 rooms (which already have flatscreens) have colour scheme, equipped with double and sofa hours and has self-service check-in kiosks and a a minibar, robe and slippers, and access to beds, flatscreens with Freeview, wifi (£9 per phone-charging stand. A round-the-clock snack the Club lounge, which serves a continental 24 hours), workdesks, tea and coffee-making menu can be delivered to your room. breakfast and evening alcoholic drinks and facilities, and a combined shower and bath. An n South Terminal; tel +44 (0)20 7100 1100; canapés. There are also two bars, a café, a £8 buffet breakfast is served in Thyme – Premier yotel.com brasserie with private dining space, 11 meeting Inn’s new-concept restaurant – a pleasant space rooms – the largest of which holds 300 theatre- that also serves snacks and dinner. There’s also Sofitel London Gatwick style – a 24-hour gym, and a paid-for airline a business corner with two PCs in the lobby Accessed by a covered walkway from the North arrivals lounge open in the mornings (see page (£3.75 for 15 minutes) and internet is £9 for 24 Terminal Interchange, where the shuttle service 10 for more information). hours. Park and fly deals are available. from the South comes in, the 518-room, four- n North Terminal; tel +44 (0)1293 567 070; n Longbridge Way; tel +44 (0)870 238 3305; star Sofitel opened in 2005 (it was previously sofitel.com premierinn.com

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Courtyard by Marriott London largest of which holds 35 delegates. Park and and a PC in the lobby, where internet costs £1 exclusively for crew and pilots. Park and fly Gatwick Airport fly deals are offered. for 20 minutes. A shuttle bus service operates packages are available. The G23 shuttle bus to The UK’s only Courtyard opened in April n Buckingham Gate; tel +44 (0)1293 566 300; between 3.20am and 1am and costs £3.20. the airport visits the hotel every 20-40 minutes 2009 and is a ten-minute walk from the marriott.com Travelodge has also taken over the Mercure and costs £3. South Terminal (the shuttle bus that serves London Gatwick Airport north of the airport, n Crawley Business Quarter; tel +44 (0)871 the Premier Inn Central also stops here). Travelodge and is to expand the property’s room count 527 9214; premierinn.com The 218-room new-build features a bright, Located a ten-minute drive from both terminals from 257 to 400. attractive lobby with floor-to-ceiling windows, is the 185-room Travelodge. Open since n Church Road, Lowfield Heath; tel +44 (0)871 Premier Inn Gatwick South a bar, a restaurant overlooking a garden area, 2001, it is divided into old and new, and the 360 2020; travelodge.co.uk Ten minutes from the South Terminal by car, and a “courtyard” – essentially, a white-walled newer, 58-room part was refurbished four this Premier Inn has a countryside feel. Built atrium area with potted trees and seating. years ago. Rooms are basic but are all family- Premier Inn Manor Royal within the grounds of the former 14th-century Rooms are a decent size and have an earthy sized, so offer a good amount of space and Situated in the Manor Royal business park, Gatwick Manor, the original moat with its lilies colour scheme featuring a leaf motif. Facilities a sofa bed as well as a double. They also two miles from the South Terminal, this Premier and ducks is a pleasant feature. The hotel include a workdesk with leather seat, a have desks, tea and coffee-making facilities, Inn opened in June last year and is very has 105 rooms equipped with wifi (free for 30 flatscreen TV with Freeview, wifi internet flatscreen TVs, a shower over the bath and well-presented, with a stylish bar and Thyme minutes, then £10 for 24 hours). The layout charged at £12 for 24 hours, tea and coffee, double-glazed windows. Wifi costs £10 for restaurant that serves Costa coffee. There and amenities in the rooms are identical to a laptop safe, iron and ironing board, air 24 hours. Rooms in the older part of the hotel are 204 bedrooms with blackout curtains those of Premier Inn Manor Royal, except there conditioning, a combined shower and bath, have the same layout but feel more dated – it and comfortable beds. They come with a are no safes (there is one at reception). Guests and room service served 12pm-10pm. It’s is one of Travelodge’s properties earmarked laptop safe, shower over a bath, and tea and are served breakfast in the Gatwick Manor’s worth paying £24 to upgrade to one of the for refurbishment, but no date has been set coffee-making facilities, and wifi costs £10 Chef and Brewer pub-restaurant across the spacious Junior suites, which offer espresso for this yet. An all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet for 24 hours. There are seven meeting rooms path. The 17th century pub also offers an all- machines, robes, free internet and 10 per served in the on-site bar/café is £7.65, and this with daylight on the ground floor, the largest day menu with mains costing about £8, and cent off food and drink. There’s also a good- Travelodge is the only one in the UK to serve of which holds 60 people. The hotel has a there is outdoor seating. There are function sized gym, a business corner with three PCs, it from 5.30am-10am. Other facilities include a 24-hour reception, self-check-in kiosks, and rooms available that are managed by Gatwick a snack bar, and three meeting rooms, the 24-hour manned reception, vending machines a lounge/kitchen area and gym which are Manor, the largest of which can hold 160 people theatre-style (visit gatwickmanor.co.uk). Park and fly packages are available, and the Courtyard by Marriott Premier Inn Gatwick Central Premier Inn Gatwick South G23 hopper bus also serves the hotel. Other Premier Inns in the Gatwick area include the Crawley (Pound Hill), Crawley East and Crawley South (Goffs Park) properties. n London Road; tel +44 (0)871 527 840; premierinn.com

Best Western Gatwick Moat House The 125-room Best Western is next to the Longbridge roundabout, just off Junction 9 of the M23, and a five-minute drive from the South Terminal. Open since the early 1970s,

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the building feels a little dated, and while its from 5.30pm, in addition to a full lounge menu rooms). The sophisticated Brasserie restaurant operates every 30 minutes between 5am and rooms are functional, their décor is quite drab from 11am till late), and 24-hour room service serves breakfast and dinner, and the lounge 11.30pm. The local G23 bus also serves the and uninspiring. However, they are reasonably is available. Park and fly packages are offered bar has an all-day food offering. The Chequers airport from here. sized, and wifi is free. The TV offers a good and a shuttle service operates on request Bar retains its original 15th-century bar and n London Road; tel +44 (0)1293 590 300; selection of channels, and there is a workdesk around the clock, costing £3.50. character, and contrasts with the modern feel ibishotel.com and tea and coffee-making facilities. There are n Longbridge Roundabout; tel +44 (0)871 of the main hotel, which was originally built eight meeting rooms with varying amounts 2261 931; bestwestern.co.uk as an extension of the bar during the 1960s. Crowne Plaza London Gatwick Airport of daylight, and a Conference Café where There are eight air-conditioned meeting rooms, Less than 15 minutes by taxi from the airport refreshments are available for delegates. The Holiday Inn Gatwick Airport the largest of which holds 80 theatre-style. is the Crowne Plaza, with 294 rooms that hotel’s restaurant offers a variety of dishes Across the road from Best Western, the Park and fly packages are available, and a taxi have all been refurbished in the past three (breakfast is 6am-10am and dinner is served Holiday Inn caters well to business clientele. ride to the airport takes ten minutes. Despite years. The hotel has a classy feel with a The Academy conference centre offers being closer to the North Terminal, the road grand, sleek marble reception area that 12 meeting rooms with a capacity of 300, system means it is slightly quicker to travel to leads on to the Cube restaurant. Here, a in-house AV, natural daylight and a central the South. buffet breakfast is served, along with evening breakout area. Internet is charged as in the n Brighton Road; tel +44 (0)1293 766 750; meals, while the Cube Lounge serves food hotel’s rooms – £15 for 24 hours (Executive menzieshotels.co.uk all day. There is also a separate bar that has rooms have internet included and wifi is a pool table and shows sports matches in available in the lobby). It’s also possible to IBis London Gatwick Airport the evenings. Standard rooms come with convert the ground corridor of bedrooms into The Ibis’s 141 rooms were refurbished in complimentary water, robes, slippers, an meeting rooms for interview sessions. The early 2010, and there are plans to refresh ironing board, flatscreen TV and a large Traders restaurant is reserved for conference the ground-floor open-plan lobby, restaurant desk. Upgrading to a Club room gets you Menzies Chequers guests at lunchtime, but for breakfast and and bar. Rooms are modern with a pod-style a bigger bed, a walk-in shower and access in the evening it is open to all, and the bathroom and curved furniture that uses to the Club lounge, which has turquoise cosmopolitan Hub bar serves food all day. space efficiently. The Philips TV comes with and chocolate furnishings, individual booths The hotel has 216 modern bedrooms, and a wireless keyboard and can double up as with TVs and a PC area with printer. The Executive rooms come with free water, robes a PC. For £10 you can access the internet conference suite has 11 meeting rooms, the and slippers, a trouser press, iron and ironing (via the TV or cable provided) and watch largest of which holds 300 for a reception. board, and tea and coffee-making facilities. A movies. Wifi is available, but is charged Leisure facilities include a 15-metre pool, shuttle bus serves the hotel every 15 minutes and set up via Orange’s website. Rooms steam room, spa bath and gym, open from and stops at both terminals (£3). also have tea and coffee-making facilities, a 7am to 10pm. n Povey Cross Road; tel +44 (0)871 9429 walk-in shower (no bath) and an air-cooling n Langley Drive; tel +44 (0)1293 608608; 030; holidayinn.com system. A hot buffet breakfast is served from crowneplaza.com 6.30am to 10am, and a continental breakfast Menzies Chequers Gatwick AiRport from 10am to 12am. There is a 24-hour Ramada London Gatwick Refurbished in 2009, the Menzies Chequers snack service, which includes pizza, curry One of the nine Ramadas that is now being has a fresh, well-kept feel. The 104 rooms and jacket potatoes – this is served in the managed by BDL, the Gatwick hotel has have a splash of muted colour and have restaurant, although you can also take the recently been upgraded from a Jarvis to a flatscreen TVs with Freeview, free water and food up to your room. The hotel is ten minutes Plaza. A sweeping marble staircase leads Menzies Chequers wifi (Superior ones also have walk-in wet from the North Terminal and a shuttle service to six conference rooms on the first floor

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Arora Arora Hotel Gatwick Felbridge Hotel and Spa A towering water feature, palm trees and glass This four-star, 120-room property is located atrium ceiling give Arora’s lobby and lounge a on a busy section of the A22, about a tranquil ambience. The hotel has 432 rooms 15-minute drive east of Gatwick. Modern in equipped with a fridge, laptop safe, iron and style, it underwent a £7 million refurbishment ironing board, trouser press, tea and coffee- in 2007. There are two restaurants – Bay making facilities and complimentary toiletries. Tree brasserie, a relaxed, attractive space The Gallucci restaurant serves contemporary that seats 60, and Anise, an intimate fine- Italian food, and there is a 24-hour gym and dining establishment seating 30 – while Qube health club with a steam room, jacuzzi room cocktail bar can be used for conference and treatment room, open 8am-8pm. The lunches. A ballroom with its own entrance 13 meeting rooms are on the ground floor, holds 330 for dinner – it opens on to a central the largest of which has a capacity of 270 landscaped courtyard, which the property is theatre-style and backs on to a terraced area. built around in a horseshoe shape. There are Park and fly packages are available and the eight other meeting venues, two tennis courts hotel has a private gate to Crawley station, an and a 1,500 sqm field where teambuilding eight-minute train-ride from Gatwick. It’s a ten- activities such as duck herding, falconry and minute drive. archery can be held. Guestrooms are smart n Southgate Avenue; tel +44 (0)1293 530 000; and have free wired internet, Egyptian cotton arorahotels.com sheets, flatscreen TVs, safes, Elemis spa Arora products and 24-hour room service. The spa (there are further syndicate rooms on each Holiday Inn Express Gatwick Crawley has a kidney-shaped pool, relaxation room, level), all with natural daylight and free wifi. A 15-minute drive from the airport, the hotel’s spa bath, sauna, steam room, five treatment The 151 bedrooms have good amenities 138 guest rooms were refurbished last year. rooms and a gym. and a corporate feel. There is a decent-sized The rooms are clean and convenient and n London Road, East Grinstead; tel +44 desk, trouser press, ironing board, tea and feature flatscreen TVs with Sky channels, large (0)1342 337 700; felbridgehotel.co.uk coffee, air conditioning and triple-glazed power showers, continental plug sockets and windows. Internet is £5 per hour or £10 for 24 tea and coffee-making facilities. Wifi internet Felbridge Felbridge hours (wifi is available only in the first floor bar). costs £10 for 24 hours. A continental buffet The Arts Grill restaurant offers a sophisticated breakfast with sausages and scrambled eggs menu that can be delivered to your room 24/7, is served in the ground-floor restaurant from and the Club bar is open around the clock, 6.30am to 10am during the week – this is as is the kinetic room with treadmills and the only food the hotel serves, but there are cross-trainers. The hotel operates a shuttle restaurants in walking distance. A tiny bar service (£3.20) every 30 minutes from 3am to extends from the reception desk and offers 12.45am, and it is ten minutes from the airport a small selection of wines, and there is a by taxi. 25-capacity meeting room. n Tinsley Lane South; tel +44 (0)1293 561 n Haslett Avenue; tel +44 (0)1293 525 523; 186; ramadahotelgatwick.co.uk hiexpress.com

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Langshott Manor Copthorne London Gatwick

Copthorne London Gatwick

and two bars, a domed conference suite holding 6 KILOMETRES 8 KILOMETRES 11 KILOMETRES 600 people, which was re-carpeted earlier this year, and a selection of other meeting rooms. Langshott Manor Copthorne Hotel London Gatwick Copthorne Effingham Gatwick Other facilities include a nine-hole golf course, Built in the 1580s and developed into a hotel Originally a 16th-century farmhouse, the Copthorne’s other property in the area is set two tennis courts, a croquet lawn that can be in the 1980s, this Grade II Listed building Copthorne is set within 40 hectares of in 40 acres of grounds just a few kilometres used for teambuilding, and a health club with a has three acres of land, a croquet lawn and woodland and landscaped gardens, despite northeast of the London Gatwick hotel. The good-sized gym, treatment room, sauna, steam beautiful gardens and is about a ten-minute being only a ten-minute drive from the airport. 122-room property was once a stately home room and 20-metre pool. There is extensive car drive from the North Terminal. The medieval The hotel’s White Swan pub has original and the lobby points to more glamorous times, parking and the number of vehicles parked up property is covered in creepers and maintains beams, and a country-house style runs with its large central chandelier and grand around the property suggests that many guests original features such as stained glass throughout the 227 guestrooms. Club rooms piano, but the hotel feels tired and in need of are taking advantage of its park and fly offers. windows, roof tiles, beams and a bell tower. have large double beds, a spa bath, robes, renovation. The corridors look a little sad and n West Park Road, Copthorne; tel +44 (0)1342 The hotel is divided between different mews tea and coffee-making facilities, and wifi the rooms, while functional and good-sized, 714 994; millenniumhotels.co.uk houses, with 22 rooms in total. Each has costs £12 for 24 hours. Décor in the rooms is would benefit from a refresh. They are traditional unique special features, but all are luxurious, traditional and pretty, but the hotel also has 34 in style and have tube TVs (you can access the with Egyptian cotton sheets, Temple Spa more modern rooms with the same amenities internet through these), tea and coffee facilities 13 KILOMETRES products, tea and coffee-making facilities, a (except the spa bath). There are 15 meeting and a trouser press. Club rooms (£20 extra) are desk and free wifi. There are three meeting rooms with good light, the largest of which nicer and come with wired internet, robes, free Nutfield Priory Hotel and Spa rooms, a gourmet restaurant and a homely accommodates 100 theatre-style. There is movies and a drink voucher (the Club lounge is Easily reachable from Gatwick and the M25, lounge furnished with medieval furniture with also a fine-dining restaurant, a brasserie and a no longer in operation). New beds have been Nutfield Priory is a luxury, tranquil property a modern twist. The hotel is available for library-style bar. One minute’s walk away is an installed throughout the property in the past few positioned high on a Surrey hillside and offering exclusive hire for corporate groups. LA Fitness leisure club, which is free for guests. weeks. In-room internet access costs £12 per wonderful views of the rolling countryside. n Langshott; tel +44 (0)1293 786 680; n Copthorne Way; tel +44 (0)13 4234 8800; night, and wifi is available in the lobby (£2.50 for Accessed via a driveway off the A25, the 60- alexanderhotels.co.uk millenniumhotels.co.uk one hour/£7 for 24 hours). There is a restaurant room neo-Gothic building was constructed in

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Nutfield Priory Nutfield Priory Alexander House Lingfield Park Marriott Hotel and Country Club Not a country house hotel but a modern new-build set in 180 hectares of parkland, overlooking Lingfield Park racecourse. Open since May last year, the 116- room property is an excellent proposition for groups wishing to combine business with pleasure of the countryside. Built in the – there are extensive meeting facilities across 1700s and set in 49 hectares of the hotel and racecourse, along with an 18-hole grounds, it was the family home golf course, spa, and teambuilding activities of Percy Shelley and has been such as orienteering and 4x4 driving possible a hotel for about 30 years. With in the grounds. Some £30 million has been 38 rooms, it is a member of the spent on building the hotel and upgrading Small Luxury Hotels of the World, the racecourse’s facilities, which include a and attention has been lavished 450-capacity conference suite. There are 14 on the interiors, a mixture of meeting spaces in total – four of these are in 1872 as a private house for an MP, and retains biking, off-road driving, archery and fishing. traditional and contemporary chic – quirky the hotel, which is linked to the grandstand by many of its original features, with furnishings There is also a lawned/forested area that furniture and art pieces sit alongside lovely a covered bridge. Combined racing/meeting that merge traditional and boutique styles. experiential training company the Holt uses to original features. The lounge room off the packages are offered, with a conference in the The homely lounge, featuring a beautiful old run leadership-focused games. Located in a lobby, in particular, is beautiful, and opens on morning followed by lunch and an afternoon organ and stained glass windows depicting building next door, the two-floor health club to a terrace and lawn where gatherings can of racing being a common option (there are 83 the crests of the Knights of the Crusades, is and spa has nine treatment rooms, a saltwater be held. Guestrooms are individually designed race meets taking place this year). Guestrooms a nice place to linger, but in warm weather pool, a good-size gym, two squash courts, and with plush furnishings, marble bathrooms are smart with a racing-style colour palette of take a seat on the outdoor terrace leading a big bar-café and garden area that can also and free wifi. There is a fine-dining restaurant, green, brown and red, floor-to-ceiling windows, from the bar and library, and enjoy the view. be used for group events. a brasserie, a champagne bar, a library and a workdesk, media hub, free wifi and flatscreen Bedrooms are elegantly decked out in shades n Nutfield; tel +44(0)845 072 7485; six meeting rooms, the largest of which of aubergine, cappuccino and blush and have handpickedhotels.co.uk accommodates 120 delegates. Teambuilding flatscreen TVs and free wired internet (some can also be arranged (motorised activities are have wifi) – the 15 suites are particularly lovely. not permitted). The luxurious two-level spa Cloisters restaurant seats 62 and offers a 18 KILOMETRES has 25 treatment rooms, a Grecian-style pool, modern British menu. There are seven meeting spa bath, outdoor hot tub, sauna and steam rooms, all with daylight, the largest of which Alexander House Hotel and Utopia Spa rooms, and a hair and nail salon, as well as a holds 100 people. Teambuilding can be held About a 15- to 20-minute drive southeast of big gym and a fitness studio. There’s a tennis in its 5.5 hectares of grounds, and on the 100 the airport, this luxury boutique property has a court, too. hectares owned by neighbouring company true country retreat feel, accessed via a curving n Turners Hill, East Grinstead; tel +44 (0)1342 Lingfield Park Priory Events, with activities including quad tree-lined driveway and offering amazing views 714 914; alexanderhotels.co.uk

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Brighton Rd HOLIDAY INN Racecourse Rd BEST WESTERN Eastbourne Rd MOAT HOUSE Horley Rail Station Balcombe Rd LINGFIELD PARK PREMIER INN Newchapel Rd MARRIOTT HOTEL GATWICK CENTRAL AND COUNTRY CLUB SOFITEL M23 HILTON

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AIRPORT Gatwick Airport Rd Eastbourne Rail Station Antlands Ln TRAVELODGE PREMIER INN CRAWLEY South Lodge Hotel London Rd FELBRIDGE COPTHORNE EFFINGHAM HOTEL AND SPA IBIS London Rd TVs. Cyprium bar and grill is an airy space with PREMIER INN PREMIER INN GATWICK SOUTH MANOR ROYAL Copthorne Way a terrace. The racecourse’s carvery restaurant Crawley Ave COPTHORNE looks on to the winning post and can host 200 RAMADA London Rd LONDON GATWICK Beeching Way CROWNE JARVIS East Grinstead PLAZA Rail Station

for lunch, while the main grandstand bar can Copthorne Rd Balcombe Rd Balcombe be used for drinks, and the corporate boxes EAST GRINSTEAD for breakout sessions. You can even do horse Crawley Ave Northgate Ave Worth Ifield Rail Station Park riding on the course (if you bring your own HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS Ave Three Bridges M23 Rail Station steeds). The spa has four treatment rooms, a Turners Hill Rd ALEXANDER ARORA HOUSE HOTEL PREMIER INN Crawley CRAWLEY EAST AND UTOPIA SPA gym and a pool. PREMIER INN Rail Station CRAWLEY SOUTH n Racecourse Road, Lingfield; tel +44 (0)1342 Crawley Ave

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SOUTH LODGE HOTEL South Lodge Hotel Turn off the busy A281 road up a tree- with original features including stained glass in the original Victorian cellar. There are 89 12 meeting rooms across three levels – all have lined driveway to South Lodge and you’ll windows and a big stone fireplace, and there rooms and suites, the property having been daylight and the largest holds 168 delegates immediately feel tucked away from it all. About are various lounges for relaxing in. Dining and extended a couple of years ago, and all are and has access to an outdoor terrace. There a 25-minute drive southwest of the airport, drinking options include the Pass, a small, luxurious and elegant, with the rooms in the is also a champagne pavilion, a five-hectare this grand five-star property is a member of ultra-modern fine-dining restaurant, Camellia, main house having a more traditional feel. activity field, a croquet lawn in summer, a the Small Luxury Hotels of the World. Built as a more traditional venue serving breakfast, Many have great mosaic-tiled bathrooms, tennis court and small gym, and in-room a family home in 1883, it became a hotel in lunch and dinner, with an outdoor terrace and standard facilities include Bose sound treatments can be arranged. the early 1980s and is set in 38 hectares of offering wonderful views of the South Downs, systems, flatscreen TVs, free bottled water n Brighton Road, near Horsham; tel +44 (0) grounds. The lobby is large and welcoming, and the Cellar, a newly opened wine bar and free wifi. A dedicated conference wing has 1403 891 711; southlodgehotel.co.uk

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