"London Stansted (STN)"

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:17 pm

Does anyone know what this mean?
Is it far from Central London/is it easy to get to central London from their?
It's an airport (I hope).

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:28 pm

Stansted is an airport, yep.
It's not in London, though

http://www.mapquest.co.uk/cgi-bin/ia_fi ... %11Y&pcat=

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:03 pm

I once flew there together with Dylan, visiting EmVee in 2002.

You can get a train to somewhere in central London. I takes one or 1.5 hour and costs a lot of money. It was around 23 pounds for a return (or a single) which was more than the flight had cost.

It's quite a big airport, they have shops and chocolate.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:50 pm

Oh hellsor

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:51 pm

Stanstead isnt to far outside greater London, its a few miles beyond the M25.
Its pretty large and modern and will be the UK 2nd biggest Airport soon replacing Gatwick.
Heathrow dwarfs them tho like a giant otter beating a fisherman to death with salty haddock.

Post by **snarl** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:19 pm

My dad lives about 25 mins drive from Stanstead, it's very close to London (Near Braintree in Essex, bout 20 odd miles from the Centre of London). I've got the train into Central London from Dtanstead before, cost £14 for a single, takes about 45 mins tops.

The City Flier (that's what the service is called) stops at Tottenham Hale before it gets to Central London. If you change to the Victoria Line at Tottenham hale, you can get to the centre in about half the time.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 9:29 am

yup, what he said

(except the bit about his Dad, that doesn't apply to me)

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 9:33 am

Coolness

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:10 am

I think there are also buses you can take: much cheaper but it takes much longer than the trains.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:28 am

I want it to go fast

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:10 am

Whats bringing you to these parts?

Post by **snarl** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:19 am

Bus will take fooking ages. Forget getting a bus from there.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:01 pm

Train it is!

spiderfrommars wrote:Whats bringing you to these parts?

I don't know. I've never been to London/England - and it costs 70€ to fly
there (and it takes one hour), so I thought "What the hell, why not!"
So hopefully I'll visit London some time during the next six months.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:07 pm

Cool!

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:07 pm

Cool, i sense drinkage occuring when you do...

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 6:51 pm

yeah wish it only cost ME that much. Id come visit all the time!

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:52 am

Obfleur wrote:So hopefully I'll visit London some time during the next six months.

Well, if you need somewhere to stay...

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:09 am

I think the Stanstead bus, when I took it, ended up at 15 pounds per person. Doesn't sound different from the train. The problem with them Ryanair and EasyJet flights was always that they go into really remote airports, like the one in Germany that's labeled "Frankfurt-Hahn" and is two hours out of Frankfurt.

But seventy euros beats six hundred dollars any day.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 1:47 pm

Thanks for the awesome response guys and girls!

I feel really welcome.