Airport hotels blog

Passengers are stranded at airports across the UK as a volcanic ash cloud moves across Europe.  It’s unsafe to fly in these conditions, so hundreds of planes have been grounded until the situation improves.  This is the second day of disruption and the flight ban will remain in place until at least 1 pm on Saturday, making further delays and cancellations over the weekend inevitable.

So far 600,000 UK travellers have been affected.  Floods of stranded passengers are looking for somewhere to stay, meaning that many on-site airport hotels are already full to bursting.  Airport Hotels.com can help with this because it searches both on-site and off-site hotels to find vacant accommodation within a few minutes’ drive of the airport.  It has a database of 1800 hotels near UK airports – that’s more than any other UK airport hotel website.  Price comparison technology looks for the best deals on accommodation, pooling the results from 10 different booking websites, including Expedia, LateRooms, ebookers and Hotels.com.  This means a bigger selection of rooms, more availability and cheaper prices on Airport Hotels.com.

You can see where the hotels are on a map, look at photographs and read Tripadvisor reviews before making your decision and booking online.  If you’re affected by the flight cancellations and need to find an airport hotel with vacancies, Airport Hotels.com can help.

A search for Stansted Airport hotels will bring up 30 options within 5 miles of the terminal.  There are plenty of guest houses and B&Bs that won’t blow your holiday budget.  Manchester Airport hotels are mainly 3 and 4 star properties but they also feature the budget hotel chains of Premier Inn and Travelodge.  There are several large Birmingham Airport hotels within a few minutes’ drive of the terminal and many of them are still showing availability for tonight.  Those stranded at the UK’s main airport and looking for Heathrow Airport hotels can find 25 different accommodation options on Airport Hotels.com for an unexpected overnight stay, including serviced apartments and hotels of all standards from 1 to 5 stars.

The volcanic eruptions have caused disruption to passengers at airports across Europe. It’s the worst meteorological situation Eurocontrol, the European air traffic control organisation, has ever dealt with.  A volcano erupted in Iceland on Wednesday, sending up a cloud of ash that then drifted across Europe.  It contains particles of rock, glass and sand which can jam aircraft engines.  This has caused planes to crash in the past so flight bans have been put in place for safety reasons. UK airspace was closed on Thursday afternoon as the cloud enveloped the country.  Only a tiny number of services have been allowed to fly since then, as gaps appeared in the cloud, and this situation will continue until Saturday afternoon at least.  News teams have been vox popping stranded passengers across the UK, and some of them are clearly more upset about it than others, judging by this live clip from Sky News.