Hilton London Gatwick Airport

Comfort and convenience

If you prefer your travel unruffled, choose the Hilton at Gatwick. Even as a casual stroll, a covered walkway gets you to the South Terminal in minutes. In fact, your holiday starts here: there are two excellent restaurants, two relaxing bars, a Costa coffee shop, a swimming pool, a fully-equipped business centre and a gym. Every room has internet access, satellite TV and pay-per-view movies.

"Hilton Hotel is all that you need and more before going on holiday” Mrs Kiberd

Easy to find, hard to beat

Driving? Leave the M23 at Junction 9 exit, following signs for Gatwick Airport. At the first roundabout, turn left towards the South Terminal and move into the right hand lane. The Hilton at Gatwick is on your left and clearly sign-posted. Park right outside the hotel for 10 minutes while dropping off bags and passengers.

Gatwick Hilton car park, unloading luggage upon arrival

Hassle-free airport parking

There’s a number of airport parking options when you book the Hilton at Gatwick. The first: drop your car off at Purple Parking, the car park that offers excellent value. The second: park it yourself in a North terminal car park. And the third: Meet & Greet, booking Maple Manor’s service which collects your car from the hotel, takes it to a secured car park, and returns it at the end of your holiday. And, with our Best Price Guarantee, you cannot find cheaper parking anywhere else.

Gatwick Hilton double room

Bedrooms at the Gatwick Hilton

Whichever option you choose, the initial impression is identical: deeply-carpeted silence. And, having tried it ourselves, we can vouch that triple-glazed, sound-proofed windows prepare you for a sublime night’s sleep, with the added surprise of waking in the middle of Gatwick airport.

Standard room: all the Hilton’s standard rooms are of the quality you’d expect from the famous hotel chain: elegant, sumptuously fitted and air-conditioned. The plasma screen TV features pay-per-view movies. You have internet access, a phone, radio and MP3 player dock. There’s a hairdryer and tea and coffee. There’s also an en-suite bathroom amply supplied with La Source toiletries.

Double rooms: standard double rooms are spacious (23 square metres) and luxurious. Comfortably upholstered, they offer every opportunity to unwind. Every up-to-date convenience is at your fingertips. And there’s a large double bed for blissful sleep.

Family rooms: these rooms are large (52 square metres) and have a large bathroom and masses of storage. Standard family rooms are fitted with one double and two single beds, plus the option of adding a cot or a roll-out bed so three children can be accommodated as well as the adults.

Compact family rooms: at 32 square metres, larger than standard doubles. Fitted with one double bed and two bunks, offering ample space for two adults and two children.
Connecting rooms: a sensible arrangement for maintaining privacy while keeping the children near at hand.

Triple rooms: fitted with three single beds and highly suitable for three adults.

Elegant, intimate dining in Amy's Restaurant

To whet your appetite

Where would you plan to eat at the Hilton at Gatwick? There’s no shortage of choice with Amy’s and the Garden restaurant, plus two bars serving food and a Costa coffee shop stocked with cakes and hot drinks. And with the Hilton’s splendid breakfast buffet, you’ll never have to fly hungry.

Breakfast and dinner are served daily in light and spacious surroundings. Useful tip: you can save money on all your meals when you book through Holiday Extras. Also, if children under 10 eat are dining with you, they eat free, from a special menu created by Annabel Karmel, child nutrition expert.

Breakfast menu: whatever your preferred breakfast, it’s included in the Garden Restaurant’s extensive breakfast buffet. Help yourself to English or Continental breakfast. Dip into the deliciously broad range of cold meats, cheeses, fresh fruit salads, cereals, toast and jams. Not forgetting fresh tea, coffee and fruit juices. In a hurry for your flight? We promise you can be in, out, fed and refreshed in under 10 minutes.

Full English breakfast in the Garden Restaurant

Dinner menu: the nightly buffet, an elaborate banquet of over 100 dishes, will delight you. You’ll find succulent seafood starters and savoury soup of the day. There are steaming roasts from the carvery and crisp, fresh salads. And, come dessert, an entire counter of temptation. All accompanied by the extensive Hilton drinks menu.

A la carte menu: plenty of choice: the scrumptious Hilton burger, flash-fried tiger prawns, juicy Scottish steaks, four different curries, pizzas and a mouth-watering list of pasta dishes.

Sophisticated travellers will appreciate this elegant, intimate restaurant serving a la carte cuisine and an impressive list of excellent wines and beers. If you’re eager to dine extremely well the night before you fly, we recommend booking your table at Amy's now to avoid disappointment.

Bars, snacks and other dining options

Amy's Bar: the crucial meeting place in the atrium where cocktail meets wine bar meets café. A good spot to chyeck email over coffee in the afternoon and there are few cooler spots to round off a pleasurable evening’s dining until 2.30am every night. Amy's does light lunches like Cajun chicken salads, hot sandwiches and plenty of vegetarian options until 5.00pm.

Charlie Fry’s Sports Bar: the popular Hilton ground floor pub with a fine range of beers, wines, spirits and cocktails, where sports fans can keep up-to-date with events on big screen TV and news over a drink in a truly relaxed environment. The atmosphere is friendly and the bar staff very accommodating (when asked to change channels for the football one evening, they happily switched one of their screens over for the match). Liveliness builds when hotel guests start to unwind. Charlie Fry’s offers typical bar food between 5.00 – 22.45pm.

Guests upgraded to executive rooms: the executive lounge serves free canapés every evening from 6.30pm and a free continental breakfast between 6am and 10.30am every morning.

The Hilton at Gatwick was lovely, from the staff to the meal in the evening. It was worth every penny. Ms Bullio