Just thought I would start a new thread for anyone using airport long stay parking (or train station for that matter).
Just spent 9d in Portugal for half term with the family and flew out of Birmingham airport. In the past I have used a long stay car park but this time I decided to use Airparks (www.airparks.co.uk) off site parking.
Nine days parking cost £36 and included a full charge (an extra £2 on top of the normal parking fee of £34). I dropped my M3P off with 12% SoC and checked every day to make sure it wasn’t dropping too low. I did notice that a couple of % dropped off overnight (battery icon had a * symbol showing battery cold) but then as the day warmed up the range came back again. Over the 9d it only seemed to lose 3%. I did have sentry mode switched off as it was secure parking.
Yesterday Airparks plugged my car in and charged it at 7kW up to the 95% I had set the charge level at in anticipation of my return today. By my reckoning this is about 60kWh and at £0.25 at a supercharger has saved me £15.
If it was a shorter trip (say an overnighter) then potentially your parking would be free or even quids ahead in electric.
The Airparks experience was professional, seamless and would definitely use again. The only downside is there is a 15 minute transfer to the airport via a shuttle bus (which runs every 15 minutes).
I noticed that my car stayed where it was in the drop off lane for the first 24hrs after leaving it. Presumably until someone came on shift who knew how to unlock and move it
. It took me a couple of minutes to convince the customer services lady at drop off that the card I was giving her was in fact the car key and I wasn’t trying to pay twice! I left her trying to work out how she was going to attach the string tag to the key (hope she doesn’t use a hole punch ).
Anyone else got any experiences - good or bad?
Just spent 9d in Portugal for half term with the family and flew out of Birmingham airport. In the past I have used a long stay car park but this time I decided to use Airparks (www.airparks.co.uk) off site parking.
Nine days parking cost £36 and included a full charge (an extra £2 on top of the normal parking fee of £34). I dropped my M3P off with 12% SoC and checked every day to make sure it wasn’t dropping too low. I did notice that a couple of % dropped off overnight (battery icon had a * symbol showing battery cold) but then as the day warmed up the range came back again. Over the 9d it only seemed to lose 3%. I did have sentry mode switched off as it was secure parking.
Yesterday Airparks plugged my car in and charged it at 7kW up to the 95% I had set the charge level at in anticipation of my return today. By my reckoning this is about 60kWh and at £0.25 at a supercharger has saved me £15.
If it was a shorter trip (say an overnighter) then potentially your parking would be free or even quids ahead in electric.
The Airparks experience was professional, seamless and would definitely use again. The only downside is there is a 15 minute transfer to the airport via a shuttle bus (which runs every 15 minutes).
I noticed that my car stayed where it was in the drop off lane for the first 24hrs after leaving it. Presumably until someone came on shift who knew how to unlock and move it
. It took me a couple of minutes to convince the customer services lady at drop off that the card I was giving her was in fact the car key and I wasn’t trying to pay twice! I left her trying to work out how she was going to attach the string tag to the key (hope she doesn’t use a hole punch ).Anyone else got any experiences - good or bad?
