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Park & Ride
Off-airport secure compounds with regular shuttle to the terminal.
Compact site with the cheapest meet-and-greet rates in the South.
Live operator prices for a sample 7-day stay. Sort by price, transfer time or rating. Click through for your exact dates.
| Type | Park Mark | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Airparks Drop and Go Airparks Drop and Go | Park & Ride | £88.97Cheapest | £10.94/day | 12 min shuttle | Yes | 4.5(378) | View |
Airparks Self Park Airparks Self Park | Park & Ride | £113.97 | £14.06/day | 12 min shuttle | Yes | 4.5(102) | View |
Airport Parking Bay, Luton Meet & Greet Airport Parking Bay | Meet & Greet | £131.81 | £16.29/day | At terminal | — | New | View |
Luton 247, Meet & Greet Luton 247 Airport Parking | Meet & Greet | £131.81 | £16.29/day | At terminal | — | New | View |
Luton Official Mid Stay Luton Official Mid Stay | Park & Ride | £133.47 | £16.50/day | Shuttle | — | New | View |
Maple Parking Meet & Greet Luton Maple Parking Meet & Greet Luton | Meet & Greet | £153.97 | £19.06/day | At terminal | Yes | 5(24) | View |
Enjoy Parking Meet & Greet Enjoy Parking Meet & Greet | Meet & Greet | £236.48 | £29.37/day | At terminal | Yes | 5(1) | View |
The two most popular ways to park at LTN. Meet & Greet saves you time; Park & Ride saves you money. Here is how they compare on today's live prices.
A major short-haul leisure and budget hub.
At London Luton today, Meet & Greet starts about £5.36/day more than Park & Ride, in exchange for skipping the shuttle at both ends.
London Luton is one of the UK's busiest short-haul leisure airports and the original home base for easyJet. It sits on a hillside above the town of Luton in Bedfordshire and operates from a single, recently-expanded terminal handling around 16.7 million passengers a year (2024).
The route map is short-haul Europe-heavy with a small selection of long-thin routes (Tel Aviv, Dakar, Kuwait), and the carrier mix is led by easyJet, Wizz Air, Ryanair and TUI. Luton is busy from before dawn, with first flights routinely scheduled before 6am.
The airport's compact footprint makes parking a particular focus. On-airport supply is constrained by terrain, which has driven a thriving off-airport market in Slip End, Caddington, and along the A1081 and Sundon Road.
All the practical access info, by car, train, coach and otherwise.
Leave the M1 at junction 10 and follow the A1081 dual-carriageway directly to the airport. The approach road bypasses Luton town, cutting 5-10 minutes from the journey for traffic from London or the Midlands.
Luton Airport Parkway is on the Thameslink network, with frequent direct trains from St Pancras (the fast EMR Luton Airport Express takes around 22 minutes; Thameslink around 30) and East Midlands services to/from Bedford, Leicester, Derby and Nottingham. The DART (Direct Air-Rail Transit) automated people-mover links Parkway with the terminal in around 4 minutes.
National Express, Green Line (route 757) and easyBus all run regular coaches to/from London Victoria and the surrounding region.
Official car parks at Luton are graded Short Stay (next to the terminal), Mid Stay (a 5-minute walk) and Long Stay (a 5-minute shuttle). All three are operated by the airport itself.
Off-airport operators cluster south of the airport along the A1081 and west around Slip End. Many run 24/7 shuttles with intervals of 7-15 minutes. Meet-and-greet operators tend to be a touch cheaper at Luton than at the larger London airports because the drive from drop-off to compound is shorter.
The questions our 24/7 team gets asked most about flying from London Luton.
8 days costs from £88.97 (about £11.12 a day) at London Luton right now, based on live prices from 7 car parks we compare. The cheapest option today is Airparks Drop and Go (park and ride). Prices move with demand and rise sharply in the last fortnight before travel, so booking early is what actually saves money here.
Today the cheapest is Airparks Drop and Go at £88.97 for 8 days, about £11.12 a day. There is no single car park that is always cheapest at London Luton, because operators reprice constantly, so the honest answer is to compare the live table above for your own dates rather than trusting a fixed list.
It's an automated people-mover that runs between Luton Airport Parkway station and the terminal. Journey time is 4 minutes; tickets are sold at a flat rate per direction. Fares are now bundled into many through-tickets from London.
Luton has more frequent rail (Thameslink runs every few minutes), but Stansted has the dedicated express. By time, they're roughly comparable from central London.
Yes, meet-and-greet drop-off is at the Mid Stay car park, with operators meeting you there. The terminal forecourt is restricted to short stops and incurs a fee.
Yes, long-stay options (both official and independent) accept bookings of up to 12 months. Independents are typically cheapest beyond 7 days.
First flights routinely depart before 6am. Plan to arrive at the airport by 4am for the first wave; security often opens at 3:30am.
Yes, DART has step-free access and the terminal has assisted-travel desks at all entrances. Notify your airline 48 hours ahead.
Off-airport secure compounds with regular shuttle to the terminal.
Hand keys at the terminal, your car parked in a secure compound.
