Long Stay Parking

Three to five minutes by shuttle buys you on-airport pricing

EMA Long Stay Parking sits a short shuttle ride from Terminal T1, aimed squarely at week-long holiday trips where price matters more than walking distance. Official drive-up daily rate clocks in around £54.99, but almost nobody sensible pays that; this car park only really makes sense when pre-booked in advance. The transfer bus usually takes 3–5 minutes, runs regularly, and drops you close to the main departures area.

This is standard long-stay, park-it-yourself tarmac, not a meet-and-greet setup, and you keep your keys the whole time. Barriers read your number plate on entry and exit, and a lot of recent reviews call out how “very smoothly” it all runs when pre-booked. Long Stay is fully inside the airport boundary, so you’re not dealing with an off-site industrial estate or a 20-minute mystery transfer.

On price, the headline £54.99 per day is mostly there to scare you into booking early. Regulars almost always book EMA Long Stay 1 through brokers like Purple Parking or Holiday Extras and report paying far less than the on-the-day rate. The same reviews repeatedly mention that last-minute or gate-rate bookings hurt, especially on 7–14 day holidays where the bill stacks up quickly.

What regulars do: pick Long Stay 1 via a comparison site, lock it in as soon as flights are firm, then stick with the same broker every trip. Many say entry and exit take under 5 minutes each, with ANPR and pre-paid booking doing the heavy lifting. For most week-long trips, that ease plus the short shuttle beats the Premium Short Stay price jump.

Tip: book at least a week ahead through a broker, then aim to park near a shuttle stop so you’re not dragging cases across the whole car park after a late-night return.