Hi Polly

You are right Heathrow is closest to Thorpe Park, then Gatwick, If you have a car then it takes about half an hour to get from TP to Chessington WOA, You might be better off booking a travel lodge family room or something for accomadation.
Gatwick to Chessington takes about half an hour too

HTH
Biff

Thanks Biff

Flying from IOM to Gatwick is turning out to be rather expensive and it would be cheaper for us to fly to Luton, can we get from Luton airport by rail (bus) whatever to Chertsey which is where I believe Thorpe Park is and roughly how long would it take.

Thanks

Polly

You probably could do it, but knowing where Thorpe Park is and where Luton is I think it might be a bit of a treck. There must be main line train services into Central London from Luton as it is commutable. Then you would have to get a train back out from Central London to Chertsey.

Hopefully someone will be able to put an accurate time to all this, but my quess would be anyhere between one and two hours.

If you take a look at the Thorpe Park Website, there is a 'How To Get Here' link. Unfortuantely it does not make reference to Air Transport, but there is a small map which may assist you.

Thorpe Park is situated in CHERTSEY in Surrey, if that helps.

http://www.thorpepark.co.uk/default.asp

Chessington is situated 12 miles from London on the A243, just 2 miles from the A3 and M25 (junction 9 or 10). Car parking is free.

From the South, take M25 junction 9.From the North, take M25 junction 10
From London, take the A3 to Hook - Chessington is sign posted on the A243. I would say that Gatwick was probably the closest Airport to Chessington.

Thorpe Park is about 17.9 miles away from Chessington. If you take a look here, http://www.theaa.com/travelwatch/inc/planner_places_redirect.jsp

You should find some more helpful information.

Thanks for all your help but we have decided that it is too much hassle going into London etc and will now look into staying in Luton or Gatwick and hiring a car, we were going to go in in Easter but are now looking at going first week in June as the kids on the IOM are off for that week (TT Races) but the kids in England are still at school (I think) so prices will be cheaper as well.

Will let you all know what we decide to do.

Polly

I think thats a good decision. Everyone here will be back at school so the parks shouldn't be heaving (they can get very busy at weekends and in school hols).

Dont know if you get them in the IOM but keep your eyes open for deals on the back of cereal packets etc where one child goes free for every paying adult otherwise it can work out expensive. If you can't get anything like that the next best thing seems to be a family ticket.

Have a great time.

One other thing Polly - the park maps you get have discount vouchers for the other parks in the group (or have done every year so far), so for example at Thorpe you will get vouchers for Chessington & Alton Towers - handy if you're going to do both Thorpe & Chessington while you're over. I can't remember the amounts, but it's worth having if you're going anyway.

hi,

can anyone tell me which airport gatwick or stanstead is better for going to thorpe park?

i know that heathrow is the best but it is very expensive to fly from shannon to heathrow

hope someone can help

thanks

Hi sarahnew .. I have merged your enquiry with this previous topic, which may contain the info you are looking for.

David

i agree thorpe park is a great place i went recently went there with some firneds , easy to find just down in surrey

I love Thorpe Park! I haven't been there in years.