The 16 Best Hotels Near Gatwick Airport (2026)

The North Terminal: a walkway or a road to cross. Four hotels sit at the North Terminal, two of them joined to the building and two a few minutes away on foot. Sofitel London Gatwick is the one I'd book for an early North Terminal flight. A covered walkway runs from its lobby into the terminal, five minutes by the hotel's count and two by Google's. It's a 518-room full-service hotel with 24-hour room service, a bar serving food until 10:30pm and an eighth-floor executive lounge that looks over the runway. A Classic room was £143 non-refundable for Tuesday 10 November, £159 flexible, or £135.85 with the free ALL Accor membership.

It's also the only hotel at the terminal door that publishes a park-and-fly price. Park, Sleep & Fly was £239 with four days of parking, £259 with eight and £279 with fifteen, all cancellable, although the car is kept at a site within ten miles rather than under the hotel. Breakfast adds about £40 for two, and recent Google reviewers say the restaurants are slow and uneven when the hotel is full; one suggests buying dinner at the terminal's M&S instead. The railway station is at the South Terminal, two minutes away on the free shuttle train.

Hampton by Hilton London Gatwick Airport is the other hotel joined to the North Terminal, and the better buy of the two if you want breakfast. Every rate for Tuesday 10 November included it, from £131 non-refundable on Booking.com to £154 cancellable until the day. Gatwick Airport times the covered walk to check-in at two minutes, and Google agrees. It has 194 rooms, a gym and a bar, plus queen rooms with a sofa bed for a third person.

It's a compact mid-range chain hotel rather than a full-service one, which is the trade-off against the Sofitel next door, but breakfast for two comes included for less than the Sofitel charges for the room alone. Recent Google reviewers praise the bar staff and a turn-down laid on for a late arrival. For parking, Gatwick Airport sells the hotel together with its own Long Stay or valet car parks.

Premier Inn London Gatwick Airport (North Terminal) is the budget bed right at the North Terminal. It stands opposite the terminal's drop-off point: there's no covered walkway, just a road to cross, and Google puts the walk at three minutes. On Tuesday 10 November a double cost £63 non-refundable or £83 with full flexibility, and a runway-view room £70. It's also one of three hotels here that start breakfast at 4am (continental from 4am, the full breakfast from 4:30am), up to two children eat breakfast free with a paying adult, and the bar serves light bites until 3am.

It's big (701 rooms, by Gatwick Airport's count) and it feels it: one recent reviewer waited a long time for small, crowded lifts, and another found the room small. There's no car park of its own. Guests get a discounted £25 per 24 hours in the airport's short-stay car park 5 or 6 opposite, only for the nights they stay; anything longer goes through Holiday Extras. For a dawn flight from the North Terminal on a budget, this is the one.

Premier Inn London Gatwick Airport (A23 Airport Way) is the cheaper Premier Inn, on Longbridge Way behind the Shell garage and about a ten-minute walk along the road to the North Terminal (Google says nine). A double was £56 non-refundable for Tuesday 10 November, £77 flexible. It has 220 air-conditioned rooms, a Thyme restaurant and 98 parking spaces at £27 a night, and the hotel lists a paid transfer bus, with fares of £3.50 to £5 on its page, so check the fare and first departure at reception.

The walk is along the pavement beside the A23, not under cover, which is worth knowing with cases in the rain. Parking is only for the nights you stay (longer stays go through Holiday Extras), and Premier Inn says its airport hotels usually start breakfast at 6:30am, too late for a dawn check-in; for that, pay the few pounds more at the North Terminal Premier Inn. For a cheap night before a mid-morning flight, it does the job.

The South Terminal: inside it or on a walkway. Gatwick's railway station is at the South Terminal, so a hotel here also works after a late train in. Hilton London Gatwick Airport is the big full-service option, 826 rooms joined to the terminal by a covered walkway. Google times the walk at four minutes; Gatwick Airport says ten to check-in. It has restaurants and bars, a 24-hour gym, a hair salon and meeting rooms, and a double was £122 room only on Booking.com for Tuesday 10 November (£135 cancellable until 6 November, breakfast £21.50 a person extra).

It has the lowest Google rating of the hotels at the airport, 3.9 from more than 5,200 reviews, and the recent complaint is about age: one reviewer found the hotel ordinary and a little dated, and the room dark, with lamps but no ceiling light. A regular guest praises the breakfast. The first reviewer points out that the nearest cheap food, a McDonald's, means a path through woods and a busy road, so eat at the hotel or in the terminal. If you're flying from the North Terminal, the shuttle train is two minutes.

Bloc Hotel Gatwick is as close to your flight as a bed gets at Gatwick. It's inside the South Terminal on level 3, landside, with reception opposite the entrance to security, so a 6am departure means a very short walk. Rooms are small and modern, with drench showers and a phone for a room key. The cheapest, Sleep, has no window; a Vista room with a soundproofed window was £125.10 paid upfront for Tuesday 10 November, against £116.10 for Sleep (£139 and £129 with free cancellation, and about 10 per cent less with the free VIP+ membership, which also gets you Fast Track security).

There's no restaurant, no bar and no breakfast, so you eat in the terminal (Bloc gives guests discounts at a few outlets). The standard rooms are about 9.5 square metres with the bed against the wall, so one of you climbs over the other, and reviewers complain that the wet-room bathroom soaks everything. For one night before an early flight none of that matters much. Bloc also sells Official Gatwick Parking with the room, priced for your dates when you book.

YOTELAIR London Gatwick Airport is a cabin hotel in the South Terminal's arrivals area, landside, under a minute from international arrivals, so it suits a late landing best. There are 46 soundproofed, windowless cabins, food and drink brought to your cabin at any hour, and a £7.95 continental breakfast you can collect on the way out. You book by the hour (four hours minimum) rather than by the night. A Premium Queen cabin was £115 for 6pm to 9am on Tuesday 10 November, refundable up to 24 hours ahead; the same cabin from 2pm to noon was £185.

Pick the cabin carefully. The £85 Standard has a single bunk-style bed about a metre wide, and one reviewer who booked for two was given a single bed with one pillow. Cabins are 7 to 10 square metres, and a recent reviewer says the furniture and charging points need a refresh. There's no parking (the hotel points you to the airport's own car parks), and passengers changing planes must pass through UK immigration first, since it sits outside security.

Courtyard by Marriott London Gatwick Airport is the value pick for the South Terminal. It's on Buckingham Gate, a walk rather than a walkway: nine minutes by Google's timing, fifteen by Gatwick Airport's. A king room was £110 room only on Booking.com for Tuesday 10 November, £129 cancellable, with breakfast £16.95 a person. It has 218 rooms, a restaurant, a gym and an outdoor terrace bar, and family rooms with two double beds.

The walk is the catch: it's outdoors beside the airport roads, so on a dark morning with cases, allow twenty minutes or take a taxi. One recent Google reviewer found the restaurant good and cheap for a hotel, and another was glad the car stays where you park it and you keep your keys. Parking prices and any package are on marriott.com for your dates.

Off the airport: Povey Cross Road and Crawley. The next ring of hotels is seven to eleven minutes' drive from the terminals, with no sensible walking route, so you ride a paid shuttle bus or take a taxi. Holiday Inn London - Gatwick Airport on Povey Cross Road is my pick of them for a park-and-fly. Its Park Stay & Go rate was £173 for a night with four days of parking, £178 with eight and £203 with fifteen on Tuesday 10 November, all flexible, with the car kept on site. A room alone was £102 non-refundable, £127 flexible.

The Gatwick Hoppa bus leaves the hotel every 15 to 20 minutes around the clock (less often after midnight) and costs £5 a person each way by the hotel's figure, from stop 9 at the South Terminal and stop 11 at the North, so a couple pays £20 for the round trip. Room service runs all night and breakfast opens at 6am, fine unless you're checking in at dawn. Without a package, parking is £20 a day.

Travelodge Gatwick Airport Central, also on Povey Cross Road, was the cheapest room here: £39.99 non-refundable for Tuesday 10 November, £44.99 flexible. It serves an unlimited breakfast from 4am every day, the bar café does dinner until midnight and there are snacks at reception around the clock. The Hoppa stops here too, at £5.25 an adult, £3 a child or £13 for a family of two adults and two children each way, by the hotel's figures.

It's a Travelodge, so expect a plain room, and it doesn't allow long-term park-and-fly: guest parking is £11 per 24 hours in winter, for five nights at most, with no guaranteed space, and one recent reviewer's daughter got a £145 charge from the car-park operator. Don't try walking from the terminal; another describes a footpath through the woods with suitcases. For one cheap night and a 4am breakfast before a dawn flight, it's hard to argue with.

Crowne Plaza London - Gatwick Airport is in Crawley's Manor Royal business district, about eleven minutes' drive from either terminal, and it's the most complete hotel off the airport: 302 double-glazed, air-conditioned rooms, a restaurant and bar, 24-hour room service and a gym. The hotel's shuttle costs £5 a person each way, from stop 11 at the North Terminal and stop 10 at the South. Park Stay & Go was £214 with four days of parking, £239 with eight and £264 with fifteen for Tuesday 10 November; parking alone is £12 a day.

It was also the dearest room off the airport that night, £171 non-refundable (£153.90 with the free IHG membership), so I'd only book it for the parking deal or for work. Register your car at reception or the car park's cameras will fine you, and ask for a room away from the road side: a reviewer found the busy road noisy at night with the window open. Another recent guest complained that the whole hotel smelled of the day's cooking.

ibis Styles London Gatwick Airport on London Road at County Oak, eight to ten minutes' drive from the terminals, is the one I'd pick for a light sleeper on a budget. The hotel says every room is triple-glazed and air-conditioned, the breakfast buffet starts at 4am on weekdays (5am at weekends), and the bar stays open to guests all night. A Standard Double was about £93 on the non-refundable Saver rate for Tuesday 10 November, £83.70 with the free ALL Accor membership, and about £109 flexible. Rooms with two double beds sleep four.

Getting to the airport costs extra. The hotel runs a paid shuttle but doesn't publish the fare or the times, and a recent reviewer paid £5, so ask when you book and set the timings against your check-in. Parking is charged too, and the hotel mentions off-site long-stay packages without listing prices. If a shuttle ride and a timetable put you off, the North Terminal Premier Inn costs less and you can walk.

Horley: guest houses near the station. Horley is the small town just north of the airport, and its station is one stop from Gatwick, two minutes by train for £2.10. Massetts Road has a run of family-run guest houses that have made park-and-fly their business. The Corner House Hotel is the biggest and best equipped: 34 rooms, a restaurant, a bar and a conservatory lounge, a self-service continental breakfast from 6:30am (£9.95) and a full English from 7am (£12.95). Its Park & Fly rate was £123 for a double with four days of parking and £148 with seven on Tuesday 10 November; the room alone was £68.64 non-refundable, £88 flexible.

It has no shuttle of its own. The hotel will book you a taxi at any hour, buses 20, 100 and 420 stop nearby for £3, and Horley station is a 14-minute walk. A few rooms share a bathroom, so check what you're booking, and the breakfast and restaurant hours differ between the hotel's own pages, so confirm them the evening before an early flight.

The Lawn Guest House is my pick of the Horley guest houses for a couple. It has a dozen rooms, which a recent reviewer calls spotlessly clean, it's an eight-minute walk from Horley station by Google's reckoning, and November holiday parking costs £7 a day on top of the room, so a week away adds £49 to a £71 double (cancellable up to 72 hours ahead, or £80 with breakfast for two). If breakfast is included and your flight is early, the continental breakfast is out from 3am for you to help yourself.

The house's own car runs to the terminals on request from 9am to 3pm and 4pm to 9pm, at £20 a journey for up to four people; outside those hours its partner taxi firm charges a fixed £20, or buses 20 and 100 leave from two minutes away for about £3. There are no evening meals, and the rooms come with a fan; air conditioning isn't mentioned.

Gatwick Turret Guest House, further along Massetts Road, has the cheapest park-and-stay in Horley. A double with four days of parking was £86.60 and with eight days £106.60 for Tuesday 10 November, or you can add parking at £5 a night to any room (a double was £66.59, £78.52 with breakfast, and the attic double £62.10). It has ten rooms, including ground-floor twins, a full English or continental breakfast, and a 24-hour bus stop outside for buses 20 and 100 at about £3. The house says aircraft are rarely heard.

Its own car runs to either terminal or Horley station from 7am to 8pm for £19 each way, which doesn't cover a dawn departure, so plan on the bus or a taxi for that; Horley station is a ten-minute walk. Late arrivals get in with a door code, and one guest who never received it spent the night at the airport, so check you have it before you fly.

Further out: Langshott Manor. Out beyond Horley, there's one hotel worth the taxi, for a last night that still feels like part of the holiday. Langshott Manor is a Grade II-listed Tudor manor house on the edge of Horley, parts of it dating from 1580, with 22 rooms, gardens and the Mulberry restaurant, which holds two AA rosettes. It's about twelve minutes' drive to either terminal. A Cosy Double was £153 on the advance room-only rate for Tuesday 10 November, £170 flexible; parking is free, and a Park and Stay rate with eight days of parking was £220.

There's no shuttle, so budget for a taxi each way (the hotel names two local firms). Breakfast starts at 7am on weekdays, which rules it out for a very early flight, and recent reviews are mixed: one guest found breakfast poorly run, another had a disappointing afternoon tea. It also hosts weddings and exclusive-use bookings, so some nights won't be available. For dinner and a proper bed before an afternoon flight, it's the one I'd choose.