stansted to gatwick

[Harriet Von Alkier]

Help, I need help again.Can anybody tell me the fastes way from Stansted to Gatwick airport. I have to ketch a connecting Flight back to Canada and they changed the time on me. I have only 3 hours now before I had 5. I know it takes over 2 hours by train. Is there a direct Bus? Thank you Harriet

 

[Dawn of a new Day]

bus

sorry to be the bearer of bad news. i did that trip, national express bus, had a direct bus between airports but i am sure it takes 3 - 3 1/2 hours. everything depends on traffic. there is the quick gatwick express, it goes from downtown london, and from stansted to heathrow is at least 1 1/2 hours. good luck.
dawn

 

[Peter Robins]

There is a bus between STN and LGW, but it goes via Heathrow, so takes nearly 3 hours and, as Dawn says, may be delayed by traffic. http://www.nationalexpress.com/

Train is via central London. STN to Liverpool St, then tube to Victoria and train to LGW. Allow at least 2 hours for connections.

Your only alternative is to get a quote for a taxi. However, don't expect this to be cheap, and with traffic delays might well not be faster than train. (It's around 75 miles by motorway.) http://www.stanstedairport.com/

 

[spursfan]

2 fast, frequent train services and a tube trip should be fine

Tfl journey planner gives a time of 1hr 40mins for the combined train and tube journeys - slight extra time for Sunday journeys and occasionally on Sundays buses might replace trains to Stansted but I think you can ignore the taxi or bus alternatives as they'll be slower

 

[William Marques]

Be especially aware of what 'spursfan' says in his second paragraph. Track work at the weekend can play havoc with the train schedules and when alternative bus services are provided as they follow the train route they take many times as long to cover the same distance.

Buen Camino
William

 

[Dawn of a new Day]

Harriet, i talked to you back in feb. my recommendation would be to change your arrival into london by a day. You were flying british airways?? How about to Spain. i would check, to see if this can be changed. there are great hostels in london for around 17 lbs. about $36 cdn. may be cheaper than worrying about if you are going to make it.

thanks peter for throwing in the bus website.
dawn

 

[Harriet Von Alkier]

Thank you everybody for your reply. After the Camino I am flying to Berlin and then take Air Berlin after a week. I will try to rebook but I am glad you told me there is no other way.Thanks again Harriet