One of the major failings about many of the London airports is that they are not within the city itself. This makes it very difficult to take the train to them as any journey will require you to go into the city itself and, after changing trains or even stations, you can then get yourself out to the airport. Naturally, this may not sound too bad; indeed, people have become defiant at this point and accused the questioner of calling them incompetent, yet in terms of the cost of travelling it is certainly not justified. Travelling into London is expensive but travelling back out again is even more so, and when you think that in getting to the airport to fly out, then away from the airport to get home you will be making the journey in and out of London twice, it doesn’t take long before you begin to realise that the cost is ever mounting.

Instead, if you decide to drive to the airport then all this is avoided. You can take all the motorways and not even drive through London; allowing you to avoid the congestion charge completely! You can then park at the airport which works out at under £1 per hour that you are parked there (provided you arte parking for over a day) meaning that you can save as much as 80% of the cost of taking a series of trains. Why pay more for a service that only results in you being inconvenienced?