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From

Stands R and S at the airport bus station, in front of the terminal exit

To

Victoria Coach Station on the A1 and A31; Paddington on the A2; all three via Baker Street and Marble Arch

Luggage

One large suitcase (or two medium) and one soft hand bag per person, in the hold.

Runs

All night

Journey

60–90 min

First coach from the airport is 00:10 (Victoria 01:37), last is 23:35 (Victoria 01:00), running around the clock with up to 49 a day; the airport also says every 30 minutes overnight. Nothing is timetabled to the minute for the small hours, so check the day you land.

Sixty to ninety minutes to Victoria on the operator's own estimate; its "fastest journey of just 40 minutes" is to Golders Green, at the top of the Northern line, not to the center.

Three routes, three sets of stops. The A31 is described as calling only at Baker Street, Marble Arch and Victoria, though it may also stop at Finchley Road & Frognal and St John's Wood; the A2 ends at Paddington rather than Victoria except overnight, when it serves both. The group discount does not apply to the A31.

A Standard ticket boards any similar coach within three hours either side of the one booked; Change & Go, £5 each way, widens that to twelve hours. Every ticket has a guaranteed seat.

The airport and the operator disagree about how many A1s and A2s run each day — 13 and 31 against 43 and 16 — so neither figure is repeated here.

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National Express · National ExpressNational Express coach to Gatwick

From

Airport bus station, stands N, P or Q, outside the terminal

To

Gatwick North Terminal, then the South Terminal, on the lower forecourts

Luggage

One large suitcase or two medium cases and one soft hand bag per person.

Runs

00:10–19:00

Journey

130–170 min

The coach goes by way of Heathrow, which is why it takes about two and a half hours where the distance is 115 km. It calls at the North Terminal first and the South Terminal ten minutes later.

National Express advises being at the airport three hours before a flight.

Change & Go, £5 each way, lets you take any coach within twelve hours either side of the one you booked.

National Express coach to Gatwick: price for every party size