AstraVanMan wrote:
"David F" wrote:
Hi Folks - hopefully someone can help me. I'm travelling to Gatwick
Airport on Thursday morning. My flight leaves at 12.30 and am supposed
to be there about 2.5 hours before departure. So I need to be walking
into the terminal at about 10am.

I don't really fancy taking the Gatwick Express and would prefer to
drive, likely to have lots of bags on the return is the primary
reason.

Probably not the answer you want to hear, but if I were you I'd forget
driving. Any hassle saved by having the car ready at the other end will be
far outweighed by the cost of parking, the journey itself, the fact that
you'd have to leave pretty early to get a reasonable run (as opposed to
about half an hour from London Bridge that takes you straight to the centre
of the airport, plus 15-20 minutes getting to London Bridge from home). Or,
thinking about it, you could go from King's Cross Thameslink - though coming
back London Bridge would probably be easier if you've got lots of bags.

This point should be emphasized--getting up to the surface at KXTL if
you have lots of bags is not fun.

Also at certain times of the day it might be difficult to squeeze a lot
of bags onto a Thameslink train.
--
Michael Hoffman

"Michael Hoffman" wrote:
Or, thinking about it, you could go from King's Cross Thameslink - though
coming back London Bridge would probably be easier if you've got lots of
bags.

This point should be emphasized--getting up to the surface at KXTL if you
have lots of bags is not fun.

Also at certain times of the day it might be difficult to squeeze a lot of
bags onto a Thameslink train.

Yup, KX Thameslink is underground, I'm fairly certain, and London Bridge is
a fairly easy cab ride from N1.

Though having said that, heading out via the Blackwall Tunnel wouldn't be
too bad either as you'd be against the flow all the way out of town, and
probably late enough to have missed the worst of the queueing around the
J5-Clackett Lane services stretch.

--
"For want of the price of tea and a slice, the old man died."

getting up to the surface at KXTL if
you have lots of bags is not fun.

It doesn't have to be bad... There's a bit of a secret route if you
don't want to go up the steps. Instead, when getting off a northbound
train, go to the front of the platform (past the steps), and find the
down staircase, pointing to the underground. At the bottom of this
there is then an escalator which takes you back up, all the way to the
top, to street level.