Plan A, the obvious answer, is to stay at a hotel in the airport There are ways of avoiding this fee, which adds up to £22 to your overnight costs for a couple. How can you avoid the £11 return Hotel Hoppa fee? Taking the local buses means that you may have a short walk to your hotel, and may have to cross a busy road. The ONLY redeeming feature of the Hotel Hoppa is that you are dropped on the hotel forecourt.
Up to 10 local bus services going in the same direction could pass whilst you are waiting for your over-priced Hoppa. If you are lucky and are the first to be dropped off, all that means is that you will face a longer trip in the morning.Įven worse is the fact that services are currently reduced to as little as one bus per hour. Most will visit 3-4 other properties before depositing you at yours. To add insult to financial injury, most Hoppa routes involve a circuitous drive around the area. There is a 50p saving if you book in advance or use a kiosk at the airport. It currently costs a ludicrous £6 per person one-way or £11 return if you pay cash to the driver.
However, like any monopoly, Rotala has not been shy in exploiting it. We all know from experience at other airports how chaotic arrival terminals can be with hotel and car hire shuttle buses all jostling for space. To be honest, I have always been happy with the idea of not letting the Heathrow Airport hotels run their own shuttle buses. Instead, Rotala, which bought the business from National Express a few years ago, has a monopoly contract to operate the ‘Hotel Hoppa’ shuttle service to 34 different hotels around the airport. Unlike virtually all other major airports, at Heathrow hotel shuttle buses are banned.
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