Heathrow Terminal 3 parking by product, with prices and postcodes

Heathrow Terminal 3 parking covers four operational products plus the closed Priority Park & Ride. The cheapest is Park & Ride, two miles north on the Eastern Perimeter Road, shared with Terminal 2. The closest is Terminal Parking (the renamed Short Stay), attached to the T3 building with a 2 to 5-minute covered walk. Meet & Greet drops at Level 1 of the Terminal Parking car park with damage cameras present. Valet drops at the forecourt with the £7 drop-off charge waived. The September 2024 and 2025 renames (Long Stay to Park & Ride, Short Stay to Terminal Parking, Business to Priority Park & Ride) are now active on Heathrow's own site, though airport signage still shows the old names in places.

Pre-booked rates on Park & Ride and Meet & Greet are typically much lower than the drive-up gate rate; pre-book on Heathrow's own site for the best price. Heathrow is inside the expanded ULEZ; a non-compliant vehicle pays £12.50 a day to drive to the airport regardless of where it parks. See ULEZ and Congestion Charge for the rules. Forecourt drop-off costs £7 per visit since 1 January 2026; see Heathrow drop-off charges.

The Park & Ride for Terminal 3 and Terminal 2 is a single shared car park on the Eastern Perimeter Road at TW6 2SB. A T3 booking and a T2 booking sit in the same physical lot; the shuttle bus calls at both terminals on the outward and return legs, so the choice of T3 or T2 at booking simply tells Heathrow which terminal you intend to fly from. Park & Ride is the cheapest official Heathrow parking product and the right call for any trip of more than a day if convenience is not the priority. This is the editorial spine of the page: if you only remember one thing about T3 parking, remember the Park & Ride is the same car park as the T2 one.

Drive-up prices start at £46.80 for the first 24 hours and £37.40 for each additional 24 hours. Pre-booked online the daily rate drops to £11 to £15 a day depending on lead time. The free courtesy bus runs every 15 minutes between 04:00 and 23:30, with the door-to-door T3 transfer taking around 15 minutes. Outside the operating window, transfers run on request via 020 8745 6261. On return from your flight, leave the T3 arrivals hall and walk to the Park & Ride bus stop on the T3 forecourt, signed for the return shuttle.

The 29-minute free window is the most useful T3-specific point on this page for anyone collecting a passenger. Drive into the Park & Ride, take a ticket, drive out within 29 minutes and you pay nothing. This is the answer to "where can I pick someone up at Terminal 3 for free", because forecourt pick-up is not permitted and the £7 charge applies to any forecourt entry. Beyond 29 minutes the charge is £9.40 for stays up to 1 hour 59 minutes. Detail and current prices on the Park & Ride page.

Terminal Parking, the renamed Short Stay (effective 29 September 2025), is the multi-storey car park attached to the Terminal 3 building, with a covered, step-free walk of 2 to 5 minutes to the check-in hall or the arrivals exit. The postcode is TW6 1QG and the same approach road serves both the car park and the kerbside drop-off forecourt. Heathrow's hourly tariff structure applies and matches the rate at the other terminals.

Stays of 9 hours or more can be pre-booked online up to 2 hours before arrival; pre-booked rates vary by lead time and dates but are typically lower than the gate equivalent. Stays under 9 hours pay the gate rate on exit at one of the ticket machines or the exit barrier.

Terminal Parking at T3 is the right call for short stops where the door matters more than the price. A two-hour collection at the gate rate is £20, less than the £46.80 first-day drive-up at Park & Ride for the same window if you cannot wait for a bus. Twenty-four hours at the gate is £98, which is materially more than two days pre-booked at Park & Ride; the price flips against Terminal Parking once you cross a day. Full picture on the Terminal Parking page.

Meet & Greet at Terminal 3 drops at the dedicated reception on Level 1 of the Terminal Parking car park, not on the forecourt. Follow signs for Official Heathrow Meet & Greet from the car park entry. A valet meets you at the marked bay, takes the keys, takes 360-degree damage limitation photos of the car, and parks it at a secure on-airport compound. On your return, the car is brought back to the same reception at the time agreed at booking.

Drive-up rates start from £138.60 a day on Heathrow's own service. Pre-booked through Heathrow's site, the starting advance band is £143.40, with shorter stays often cheaper per day; third-party Park Mark accredited operators can run lower on advance bookings. The fixed 360-degree camera record is standard at every Meet & Greet reception (T2, T3, and T5); Terminal 4 has had no Meet & Greet since its multi-storey closed for redevelopment in June 2026.

The common confusion at T3 is between Meet & Greet (reception in the car park at Level 1) and Valet (drop at the forecourt). Both are operational at T3; the choice is whether you want the forecourt convenience and the £7 drop-off waiver, or the Meet & Greet damage cameras and the typically lower advance pricing. Detail on the meet and greet parking page.

Valet at Terminal 3 is the forecourt-drop variant. Drive directly to the dedicated Valet lane on the T3 forecourt, hand the keys to the valet, and walk straight into the check-in hall (Zone A for Virgin Atlantic, Zone J for American Airlines, other zones for the rest). The car is parked at the airport's official secure parking facilities. The £7 forecourt drop-off charge is waived in full for Valet bookings, which is the meaningful financial advantage versus Meet & Greet on a like-for-like stay.

Terminal 3 is one of three Heathrow terminals where Valet operates (T2, T3, and T5). Terminal 4 does not run Valet. On shorter stays Valet and Meet & Greet are usually priced close together on Heathrow's online quote widget, with Valet a little higher because of the forecourt convenience. There is no flat from-price; Heathrow quotes per date and length of stay. On return the car is brought back to a dedicated area of the Terminal Parking car park rather than the forecourt itself.

Priority Park & Ride at Terminal 3 is currently closed for operational reasons. The site that served Terminals 2 and 3 (formerly Business Parking, renamed Priority Park & Ride on 29 September 2025) is one shared facility, and the closure affects both terminals equally. The car park is not accepting new bookings, drive-up stays, or pre-booked stays. Passengers with affected existing bookings have been contacted by Heathrow about alternative arrangements. Heathrow has not published a reopening date for the T2/T3 site.

Only the Terminal 5 Priority Park & Ride remains operational at the time of writing. If your trip from T3 needs the Priority Park & Ride product specifically (a 5 to 7-minute covered walk for 1 to 5-night stays at the higher business-traveller rates), there is currently no T3 equivalent open. Detail and the live status on the business parking page. Verify the position on Heathrow's own Priority Park & Ride page before assuming the T3 product is bookable again.

Terminal 3 sits in the central terminal area on the north side of the airport, next to Terminal 2, with the same M4 J4 access road and the same Heathrow Boundary Tunnel approach. Access is from M4 Junction 4 via the M4 spur road and the tunnel, or from the M25 (via Junction 14) joining the M4 eastbound at Junction 4b. The A4 (Bath Road) is the older parallel route, useful when the M4 is blocked between Junctions 3 and 4. There are no tolls on any Heathrow approach.

The two sat nav postcodes you need at T3:

• TW6 1QG for the Terminal Parking car park, the kerbside drop-off forecourt, the Meet & Greet reception on Level 1, and the Valet lane. The same approach road serves all four. Follow signs for Terminal 3 Departures from the tunnel exit.
• TW6 2SB for the shared T2/T3 Park & Ride on the Eastern Perimeter Road. The car park sits two miles north of the airport. Take the courtesy bus to T3 from there.

The route to Terminal Parking from M4 Junction 4 in practical terms: exit at Junction 4, take the M4 spur road for around 1.5 miles, keep right in Lane 3, follow signs for the Heathrow Boundary Tunnel and Short Stay car parks. Through the tunnel keep right, past the Central Bus Station, and follow signs for Terminal 3 (the road forks for T2 and T3 after the tunnel exit). The Terminal 3 Departures level and the Terminal Parking entry are both signed clearly. The route to the Park & Ride is the same M4 J4 approach, but follow Park & Ride signs and stay on the Eastern Perimeter Road rather than entering the tunnel. The Heathrow postcode page covers every car park postcode at the airport.

The decision rule for picking the right T3 parking product, expressed as a sequence of questions. Each cuts the options down further.

Are you collecting someone, or parking a car? For a collection, use the Park & Ride 29-minute free window: drive in, wait for your passenger to take the free bus from T3, drive out within 29 minutes for no charge. For anything longer than a quick hand-off, pick a product below.

How long is the stay? Under two hours, Terminal Parking at the gate rate (from £8 for 29 minutes, £20 for two hours). Two hours to a day, Terminal Parking still wins if the door matters more than the price. One day to a week, pre-booked Park & Ride is significantly cheaper. Over a week, pre-booked Park & Ride still wins on the official products; off-airport operators on the perimeter roads sometimes come in lower, with the trade-off of a slower transfer.

How much does convenience matter? If you would rather hand the keys over than walk to a bus, Meet & Greet on Level 1 of Terminal Parking (with the T3 damage cameras). If you want the absolute fastest entry and the £7 drop-off waived, Valet on the forecourt. Otherwise the bus from Park & Ride is fine and saves £100-plus on a week's stay.

The T3-specific facts that change the answer for some readers:

• The Park & Ride is shared with T2; a T3 booking and a T2 booking sit in the same car park with the same shuttle. The choice of terminal at booking only sets which arrivals stop the bus drops you back at, not which lot you park in.
• Priority Park & Ride is currently closed at T3 (the T2/T3 site is one facility); if you are used to booking the Business product for 1 to 5-night trips at a closer walk than Park & Ride, the equivalent is not currently available and Terminal Parking is the closest replacement.
• Meet & Greet at T3 has damage cameras; T4 does not. If you have any past dispute with an airport valet, T3 is the safer of the four.
• Valet is available at T3; T4 does not have it. The £7 drop-off waiver makes Valet the only product where you can pull onto the forecourt for free.
• T2 and T3 share a covered footbridge on the arrivals side; if you somehow end up at the wrong central terminal on a return trip with a Terminal Parking booking, a walk of about 10 minutes between the two terminals fixes it.

Are you driving a non-compliant car? Heathrow sits inside the expanded ULEZ zone. A non-compliant vehicle pays £12.50 a day to drive to the airport regardless of which T3 car park it ends up in. Check your plate on the TfL site before booking. For the by-type products and the cross-terminal comparison, see the Heathrow parking overview; for the matching terminal information, see Terminal 3. For the comparison with the other terminal parking pages, see Terminal 2 parking (the shared P&R sibling), Terminal 4 parking, and Terminal 5 parking; the hotel and parking packages page and the parking FAQs cover adjacent questions.