Getting to Gatwick Airport

If you need to travel through Gatwick airport you might want to spend a few days exploring the capital city of Britain. Staying in a hotel close to the airport itself means you spend less time travelling with luggage and makes the trip between airport and hotel a short and easy one.

There are plenty of airport hotels to choose from and, as the name suggests, an airport hotel lies in close proximity to the terminal buildings, saving you precious travel time and making the trip straightforward and hassle free.

You could also opt to stay in a town close to Gatwick airport. The airport itself is located on the southern side of London, south of the M25 ring road, so the towns of Horley and Crawley are both possibilities as they are a short car journey away.

Horley has a wide variety of good old fashioned English pubs where you can enjoy a leisurely drink and soak up some quintessentially English culture. There are also plenty of restaurants to choose from so you’re sure to find something to suit everyone.

Horley has an abundance of gardens where a lazy afternoon can be spent. There are also a few castles dotted around the area and there is even an old fashioned steam train which you can take a trip through the heart of the Sussex Weald on.

Crawley is renowned as a shopping town where the County Mall Shopping Centre, Queens Square and historic High Street combine to offer the best mix of stores in the area.

There is also a wealth of night clubs, cinemas, parks and restaurants as well as a theatre so you will not be stuck for things to fill your time with.

Due to the close proximity of Gatwick to the city of London, you may well want to take a trip into the city centre. London is well served with public transport links and the Gatwick Express train takes you from the airport to Central London in a mere thirty minutes so you could be at the heart of all the action in no time.

Once you set foot in centr