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Old 23 Sep 19, 05:56 PM  
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Transfer from Gatwick to Heathrow.

Following on from the events of this weekend, we have had to change our flights to Orlando for next week. We are fine on the way out but had to go with a flight into Gatwick and out of Heathrow back up to Glasgow on the return flight. We land at 6:55 am in Gatwick and leave Heathrow at 11:55. We had read that we needed to give ourselves 4 hours, so we have 5.
Has anyone done this transfer and how did you do it. I know we have various options which we will look into tonight.
Been a stressful weekend.
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Old 23 Sep 19, 06:20 PM  
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Sorry can't help much as never done it but I saw this on LHR website when I was looking at flights into/out of LHR/LGW recently

heathrow/transport-a...tween-airports

Hope this helps and hope you enjoy your holiday despite the events of this weekend.
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Old 23 Sep 19, 06:31 PM  
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We did this in August. Took 2 hours door to door on the coach. Heathrow T5 check in was really quiet, when we got there so waltzed straight through

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Old 23 Sep 19, 06:48 PM  
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took us bout 80 mins at 10am when we went in august nd used blackberry cars

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Old 23 Sep 19, 07:12 PM  
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I did this in 2017 and had about 6hrs, we used BAtransfer (nowt to do with airline) and they were excellent, booked before we went, when I turned my phone on at Gatwick had a text with the drivers name, left customs and he was there, lovely new merc van, got to Heathrow in about an hour, cost £65 (ish) for the 5 of us.

Was a bus you can get or trains but after a transatlantic flight I didn't want any messing about.
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Old 23 Sep 19, 07:16 PM  
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Batransfers were terrible for us, and blackberry were cheaper too
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Old 23 Sep 19, 07:31 PM  
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I’m going to be doing this exact transfer in a few weeks! I booked with blackberry cars, you just put in how many people and how much luggage and they come back very quickly with a price. We were £60 total for the 3 of us.
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Old 23 Sep 19, 07:40 PM  
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We have used BATransfer.
Took five phone calls to get the car to collect us. Once in the car, the actual trip was grand.
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Old 23 Sep 19, 07:42 PM  
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That’s great folks, thank you. We are going to go with a car transfer that comes with a meet n greet to speed the process up.
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Old 24 Sep 19, 07:31 AM  
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There is also national Express which takes an hour but also depends on departure times
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