APH

What to know about shopping at APH

APH (Airport Parking & Hotels) is one of the UK's longest-established airport parking specialists, trading since 1980. It lets travellers pre-book parking at all major UK airports — Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham, Heathrow, Stansted, Luton, Edinburgh and more — across a range of options from budget park-and-ride through to Meet & Greet, where your car is collected at the terminal. Alongside parking, APH books airport hotels, combined hotel-and-parking packages, airport lounges and travel extras, so a single booking can cover the whole start of a holiday.

What sets APH apart from pure booking aggregators is that it owns and operates three of its own car parks, serving Gatwick, Manchester and Cardiff. It is a Which? Recommended Provider and a repeat winner at the British Travel Awards, with a strong Trustpilot rating — useful reassurance when you are leaving a car for a week or two. Prices are shown in pounds and there are no hidden booking charges.

Airport parking pricing is heavily demand-led, so timing matters more than for most purchases. The cheapest rates almost always come from booking well in advance, and prices climb sharply in the school holidays, at Christmas and over summer peak travel weeks. Booking early is the single biggest lever on the final price.

To book well: compare the parking types rather than defaulting to the cheapest — a slightly dearer on-airport or Meet & Greet option can be worth it for a short trip or an early flight. Apply any APH discount code at the booking summary before payment, check whether a hotel-plus-parking package undercuts booking the two separately, and look for student rates via Student Beans if eligible. For non-urgent trips, lock in early-booking pricing as soon as your dates are fixed.

— MoneySaverCodes Team