London Stansted Airport (STN)
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Stansted
"Awesome airport because is in London city.."(64 Tips)
"Ryanair u"(56 Tips)
"Take the Stansted Express - the free wifi is great"(15 Tips)
"You get an hours free wifi in the area where the checkin desks are"(29 Tips)
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SamSeptember 16, 2014£3.50 for fasttrack security (from the parking booking website) seems like a bargain when you see the queues at 6am!
M KMay 20, 2012Be sure to leave extra time to get through security. Liquids 100mls and less must be placed in a 20cmx20cm resealable bag and kept out of your bag separately.
Dublin flights have a tendency to change from the normal Ryanair departure area - keep an eye on the boards before moving to gate. Don't assume ull make ur flight if u get it wrong - it's a long walk!
Victoria RedshawOctober 30, 2013The queues for security are incredibly long and are staffed by unfriendly, unsmiling individuals. I will be travelling to Heathrow in order to fly next time, thank goodness.
Nice airport, fast security and good range of cafes and shops
4 hours free Wi-Fi internet. Free plastic bags before security. Good restaurants choice in food court ✈️
Super busy super cheap. Have a pint in Wetherspoons any time of day.
Max WilsonNovember 30, 2015Don't eat here. Eat at the Ash Pub, 10mins drive round back of airport. Amazing food. Good prices. Own beer.
Łukasz TyrałaMarch 29, 2018Passengers area is like a IKEA store—you just have to pass all the duty free shops. This makes reaching gates more time consuming.
SandrasticaAugust 22, 2014Really far from London, what you save in your flight, you spend it on the train!
This is one of the most annoying airports ever.. A place where low cost airlines degrade you to a piece of luggage but at the same time will bully you into spending as much as possible on the site..
Very nice and easy routes out of the airport! Baggage reclaim is quick too
Cate TJanuary 29, 2015Don't spend £1 on mini plastic bags... Scan your boarding pass and go through the gates, and they'll give you some for free when you get into the security queue
Mark HenwoodFebruary 5, 2016On crummy Vodafone and without signal in departures? There are dribbles of 4G available by the shuttle trains behind the Windmill (Wetherspoons)
Andrew ClarkDecember 15, 2014Get there even earlier than you think you need to. The queues through security are always huge.- Mark ClulowSeptember 28, 2015Arrive with LOTS of time to spare. They charge £3 just to drop people off now which results in a massive queue out front. Secondly, pay £5 for fast track security lane once inside to save an hour.
Dimitris KotsiosDecember 12, 2014This airport is not so good ! Only 1 hr. wifi! There are many people sleeping there but they can't sleep because there are no chairs or place to sit! The cheapest way to go to the center is easybus!
Bilal Al MokaddemMay 12, 2018We landed on time and immigration was fast but we had to wait 55 minutes to know on which belt our Baggage will come. That is disappointing at nice airports like Stansted.
Robin MolnarOctober 25, 2019This is not an airport, it's a bloody shopping mall that is attached to an airport. I need you guys to understand that while travelling from A to B all I want is to get from A to B. That's it.
Luke MarshSeptember 25, 2014Very modern and quick check in process of you have printed your own boarding pass 👌
One day Stansted will be an airport of the 1st world and we will have a way to keep in transit inside Schengen space!!
Eric FeldmanOctober 7, 2017Come at least 3 hours before your flight. Took me 40 minutes to have a boarding pass, 15 minutes wating for my bag after passing him at the clearence machine and about 20 minutes running to my gate
Adam QRAugust 17, 2014You can park, collect your pickup and depart from the red zone car park in less than 25-minutes. Don't bother with the expensive pickup zone.
eDreamsApril 16, 2012After security check head to Pret A Manger where where you can enjoy a coffee as you watch the planes land and take off through the giant windows.
Crammed with not enough seating, forced to walk through the shopping area, an airport that used to be ok and is now a tacky budget hub.
Jake SmithJanuary 4, 2015You can check into your flight using the automated kiosks - even if the departures board says for you to "wait".
Erik BrockwellOctober 23, 2014Save 20-30 min by using the e-passport line. Watch out for competing bus and train companies scattered through the airport.
Now again, the 20x20 plastic bags for toiletries in your hand luggage is available for free.
I love Stansted airport .. easy in, easy out. Everything centralized in one place so there's no confusing different terminals and whatnot ...
Eirini KmNovember 13, 2017Very organized airport. But don't be late, it's big and you need up to 15mins to go to gates.
Don knock Stansted. Travel weekly from here and compared to Heathrow it is easily the best London airport. Although if anyone works in border control can you sort that out as it manned by numskulls
Nas JacksonSeptember 29, 2024Fairly nice experience but we had one guy come up to us and ask to see our tiny Spaniel pup. We said no and he just crouched down and went "exactly my problem", seeming to slowly weep- Don't take Terravision Coach. Pay couple of pounds more for National Express and save yourself some stress (and in my case £110 for missed flight)
Sumeet KaeleyMay 21, 2023Your holidays start from the airport. Always crowded, decent range of duty free shops and eateries.
1 hour of free WiFi avaliable. And if you need to charge your phone/laptop/netbook/etc there are sockets and charging points throughout all the airside.
Cracking wetherspoons after the zoo of duty free stores
Internet works great near burger king and leon plus there are less people here :)
Decent airport with lots of shops and choices to eat. Total con that you have to pay £3.50 for up to 10 mins drop off!
Tatsu PLOctober 9, 2013Finally you can benefit from those new biometric passports and it saves you 10+ minutes in regular line
Sarah KertonOctober 28, 2014Make sure you visit the visa desk if you are flying Ryanair or they kick off at the gate.
Jeremy ParsonsOctober 23, 2011If you're heading on to the M11, the services off the roundabout include a small Waitrose: perfect if you're heading back to an empty fridge!
Freddie DaniellsJanuary 19, 2013Efficient service at STN airport and yet another on time flight with Ryanair (despite the snow)! What's not to love.
There are two No 1 lounges at Stansted. One by gate 74 which is a good 15 min walk from the main terminal and one at satellite 1 for gates 11 through 19. The second is much nicer.
Patricia WolmerFebruary 9, 2011If you're planning to spend the night to catch an early flight, be sure to arrive around 10pm, otherwise all the good seats to sleep on will have already been taken!
Rob KniazMarch 28, 2010If non-EU passport and flying Ryanair you must visit the visa check desk or you WILL be denied boarding. No exceptions.- Fundació MiesJuly 25, 2014Winner of European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 1990.
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London Stansted Airport serves 200 destinations across Europe, Middle East and Africa. It is the fourth busiest airport in the UK after Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester handling 28 million passengers in 2018.
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"Very clean, comfy chairs, free wifi and sockets for laptop/phones. What else could u ask more ?"
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"You can get shuttles here to the nearby hotels like the Premier Inn and the Holiday Inn. They tend to go every half hour. The to get to then you will have to go underground from the airport."
Chris Haines- 6.9
"Nice and friendly hotel, the Chef though needs vacation."
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