If you search for Long Stay parking at Heathrow, two different products can appear under similar names. One is Heathrow’s own official car park, which heathrow.com now calls Park & Ride. The other is Air Park Pro’s Park & Ride, which is a separate booking-agent service and is not that official car park.
Air Park Pro is a booking agent for Heathrow and Luton airport parking, not the car park operator. The official details below come from Heathrow’s Long Stay parking page and Park & Ride page, read on 8 November 2026.
What Heathrow means by Long Stay
Heathrow says that from 16 September 2024 its Long Stay parking product was renamed Heathrow Park & Ride. The car park locations have not changed, and road signs around the airport may still say Long Stay. Heathrow says those signs should still be followed.
Official Long Stay (Park & Ride) car parks are listed for:
- Terminals 2 and 3
- Terminal 4
- Terminal 5
The usual pattern is: you drive in, park your own car, then take Heathrow’s free shuttle to the terminal. This post does not quote Heathrow’s own prices, because they vary by date and by whether you pre-book or pay on the day. Check live rates on heathrow.com if you want the official product.
How this differs from Air Park Pro Park & Ride
Air Park Pro’s Park & Ride is a different service. You book it through us, and the compound sits outside the ULEZ, which is a saving if your vehicle isn’t ULEZ-compliant. The shuttle takes about 15 minutes to T5 and about 20 minutes to T2 and T3, subject to traffic. It is offered for Terminals 2, 3 and 5 only, not Terminal 4. See our Park & Ride service.
That outside-ULEZ compound is the useful distinction if you are comparing “Long Stay” search results with our Park & Ride page.
If you are parking for a longer trip
For many travellers “long stay” simply means leaving the car for the whole holiday, not booking Heathrow’s official Long Stay product by name.
- Meet & Greet hands over at the terminal car park. Short Stay car park charges are included on every Air Park Pro Heathrow service. At Terminal 4, we say car park charges rather than Short Stay charges, because Terminal 4 Short Stay is closed.
- Business Class Meet & Greet covers the drop-off charge and car park charges, plus a complimentary EV charge and a car wash. It does not cover ULEZ.
- You would only pay Heathrow’s £7 terminal drop-off charge if you drove into a drop-off zone by mistake. See our Heathrow drop-off charge guide.
- Planning a Christmas or winter trip? Our Long Stay parking for Christmas and winter post covers the seasonal side.
Terminal 4
Terminal 4 is Meet & Greet only with Air Park Pro. Short Stay is closed, so the hand-over is not in that car park.
At T4 the hand-over is at the Long Stay car park, with a free shuttle (about 5 minutes, every 3 to 4 minutes).
That meeting point is Heathrow’s official Terminal 4 Long Stay car park. It is not Air Park Pro’s Park & Ride service, which is not offered for Terminal 4. More detail is on our Terminal 4 Long Stay meeting-point guide.
ULEZ and EV charging
Every Heathrow terminal is inside the ULEZ. The £12.50 daily ULEZ charge applies only if your vehicle isn’t ULEZ-compliant. It is your responsibility, and Air Park Pro never covers it. TfL runs the ULEZ every day except Christmas Day (TfL, read 8 November 2026).
Heathrow says it does not currently provide EV charging in any of its own car parks (heathrow.com Long Stay page, read 8 November 2026). On Air Park Pro’s Heathrow Meet & Greet services, EV charging is complimentary on Business Class and a paid add-on on the other Heathrow services. We do not state an EV price here; check live rates for your dates.
Our Heathrow service providers are IAPA certified. You get Insured drivers and timestamped condition and odometer photos at handover. Air Park Pro is the booking agent. Prices vary by date.
Sources (all read 8 November 2026)
- Heathrow Long Stay parking page, for the rename, signs, locations and shuttle pattern: heathrow.com
- Heathrow Park & Ride page: heathrow.com
- Terminal drop-off charge (£7): heathrow.com
- ULEZ: tfl.gov.uk