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Asking for a friend, can anyone recommend parking near St Pancras please? Thanks to the strike, it's not feasible to travel to London by train as planned in order to get the Eurostar, so the current thinking is to drive down and park up for 2 weeks, then drive home again afterwards. Problem is, 2 weeks parking at St Pancras station is EIGHT HUNDRED POUNDS. JustPark is showing some spots up towards Camden for about £150 - £200, which is about 10-15 minutes walk from the station. Has anyone used that site? Can anyone recommend something please? Eurostar is not affected by the strike so a refund for that journey is not an option
Can't you get the bus in? That's what we did when I lived in Oxford. it was a good few years ago now though.
Can you get a long distance taxi/private hire/uber/friend with a car?
Is the car they're planning on using ULEZ compliant? Cos that's another £12.50 driving into the zone if not. Plus Congestion Charge.
I'd have a look at the possibility of using a driveway (several apps/websites for this, kind of like Airbnb but for parking) or just find a residential street with free parking. Getting increasingly difficult with Controlled Parking Zones but certainly possible.
And then from there, get a bus/tube/train/taxi into St Pancras.
Alternative might be to get National Express or MegaBus to Victoria then it's 5 stops northbound on the Victoria Line.
I'd park in North London - Hendon, Finchley, Ealing, etc and then get an Uber from there.
get an Uber from there
Remembering they do demand based pricing, so during a train strike this may well be as much as parking centrally.
Just park works fine but each spot is just someone's drive.
Could you head down the day before and just kip over? Not sure what date the strikes are on..
Just park is fine
Justpark is always my go to before getting gouged by an NCP or QPARK. I use it fortnightly at least - always been fab.
If there’s a tube strike get the train (Elizabeth & Crossrail), if there’s a train strike get the tube in from wherever
What about parking at Stratford, it’s much cheaper, https://stratfordintl.co.uk/parking, £44 a week.
not sure about getting into St Pancras, if the high speed from kent is running its easy but if a strike day then bus or tube.
Only this week we drove to Chorleywood, just off th'M25, parked for about a fiver a day and took the Metropolitan line into King's Cross. Tons of space, about 45 minutes into the city, although it has to be said, the car park entrance is not easy to find!
I’ve used just park and yourparkingspace, both fine (in about 10 times - read thru the space reviews, some spaces I decided not to use). I’d workout if anything was running to st Pancras and then try along the routes that can be used.
In normal times we park at Hillingdon (we’re west), easy walk to tube, Piccadilly line, sorted.
I've used JustPark with success but only for a few hours - is it possible to book a spot for weeks at a time?
It would probably be a lot easier and cheaper to get a friend to drop off and then meet on return.
I’d park in North London – Hendon, Finchley, Ealing, etc and then get an Uber from there.
This. East Finchley NCP car park would be about ~£60 for 2 weeks. Tube (if running) direct to St Pancras or taxi.
Half decent travel insurance should cover the cost of rectifying a cancelled, scheduled service, worth checking
get an Uber from there
Remembering they do demand based pricing, so during a train strike this may well be as much as parking centrally.
True, although would have to be very expensive compared to 2 weeks of parking centrally, and if you can time to be out of rush hour on a strike day that would make sense. If you knew where you were parking (PAMHouse / POMDrive, etc.) and can prebook a private hire might be cheaper still. Or get a bus / tube if they're running, the TfL app is pretty good for planning journeys.
Where are you travel into London from btw?
Thanks all for the suggestions and information. The plan was to get the train from Stockport to London, but the strikes have put paid to that and travelling from the north west means that getting a lift from a friends is not really an option, nor is getting a bus (it would mean going into That Manchester at stupid o'clock for a very long journey)
Based on the suggestions above a parking space has been found just a couple of minutes walk from a tube station on the northern line just off the M1 - thankfully there's no need to go into Central London. That leaves a 20 minute journey to Euston and there are services every few minutes. It's not ideal but it's sorted now.
Glad that your friend is sorted 🙂
Note Northern Line splits at Camden so to get to St Pancras you need to get on / transfer to a ‘via Bank’ train and not a via Charing Cross train. It’s less than a ten minute walk from Euston if you end up on the wrong branch, but hassle you can do without.
We tend to park at Stanmore if we are away for longer than 3 days or at Edgeware up to 3 days and take the tube in.
If going in from Stanmore you have to change at Wembley and get on the Metropolitan
Good thing about Stanmore you can pre book (but it doesn't guarantee a space you have to be early). But it works out at £5 a day.
I'm sure you can stay longer at Edgeware but it's more open as the car park also services a shopping centre.
But if there are stikes then none of that won't help you. A taxi from Edgeware is cheaper into London than Stanmore.
Handyside car park / not sure why closed in December but call them to see what rates are
https://www.kingscross.co.uk/kings-cross-car-park