Arriving, the customs, immigration line can be long. They do have a Kiosk scanner, but you have to…read morelay in there correctly because if you don't, staff sends you to the waitlist line & you have to check in with a customs agent. Be prepared for lots of wait-time & questions. Ok, from there you go around to see the luggage carousels. Grab them then over to the shops, lounge & pick up spots Departures: First find your airline terminal. Second find your section (usually a letter) your airline is assigned. Go that way &'prepare for TSA style check. Solo travelers go through quickly. I was allowed to move up in the line & got glaring looks. Put your items in a bin, get the body scan & retrieve your items. You're in like Flin & the rest is a waiting game for your flight or enjoy the shopping & the restaurant

We used the Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 Underground Station Tube (Subway) stop to get to our hotel…read morefrom Heathrow Airport in London. Specifically we took the Elizabeth Line to get to Stratford Station. Had to wait about 15 minutes for our train to arrive. It is helpful that there is a monitor showing folks when the next train is scheduled to arrive for whichever train line they are waiting for. It was less expensive to travel to our hotel this way as compared to using a taxi , bus, or other means of transportation. It was smooth trip that took about 30 minutes. Faster than the other modes of transportation. The Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 Underground station is convenient to use and easy to navigate even for tourists like us. The signs give good direction and instructions. If you have questions, there are attendants all over the station to help. Just ask.

Decent station hugely improved by recent works which have made the platforms accessible and…read moreimproved the facilities, getting onto the trains is another matter unfortunately due to the height difference between platform and train carriages.

Given my choice of airline, I don't often fly out of Terminal 4, but it still has a lot going for…read moreit when I have. Fast security times due to multiple entry points allows you a little pre-flight buffer if you arrive closer to departure. Use some of that saved time to hit up the quick or slow dining options before you depart: The Commission, Star Light, Caviar House for you high-rollers, Prince of Wales for the rest of us, and of course (of course) Pret! Pro tip 1: since they never put flight gates up until 1 hour before, walk down toward gate 14 to hang out in a less-crowded space instead of right beyond security. Also kids will love the play area there, and head up the stairs to the birds eye runway view (everybody loves that--even an elevator). Pro tip 2: T4 by TfL means train transfer (Piccadilly and Elizabeth) unless you get the every-30-min T4 direct. You know I'll return, because if my ticket says T4 what else am I gonna do?

The other cities in Europe have something to learn from London. When you land in a new city, it can…read morebe daunting to try to figure out how to utilize the public transportation. But in London, things are made much easier because you can use your apple pay to tap in and tap out. Easy peasy lemon squeezie! The airport is far from the city center- about an hour ride. So get ready to get comfy!

A small suburban station that has slow train stopping at it (fast trains stop at Staines). Two…read moreplatforms, a ticket office with limited opening hours, very old station. Trains on this route are currently South West Trains until the franchise is bid again.

A regular suburban tube station which has been here for approximately 60 years now. A large car…read morepark which is almost always full that you have to pay for. At the weekends a market takes place in part of the car park. A lot of bus options from outside the station which makes it a useful transport intersection.

My local railway station offers a good service to London Waterloo and in the other direction ends…read moreup at Shepperton. The station needs a bit of a revamp, but you don't go there to party! For those with mobility issues, it's stairs only to either platform I'm afraid.

My local underground station gets me either to Heathrow Airport in one direction, or into central…read moreLondon in the other, with connections across the network. If you are disabled there is a chair lift, but it's no use for people in a wheelchair.

I've always found this station to be fine but I know a lot of women find it quite eerie as you're…read moreunderground, the walk to the platform is unnecessarily long, why they didn't build the station 30 yards further back I do not know, and there's not that many people there late at night. Quite a few people get off he waiting to switch for a different Heathrow train. A few signs explaining the different trains would be helpful, I'm forever explaining to confused tourists which train to get.

Hampton Station is on the Shepperton branch, serviced by South West Trains. It is a tiny station,…read morewith only two platforms, one ticket window (which is only open part time) and a couple of ticket machines. There are no toilets, though there is a little shack on the London bound side housing Cafe Nemo, selling coffee, cold drinks, baguettes and newpapers. There is no inside waiting room. There is a pay phone. The station is kept clean enough, and has a board on each platform telling you when the next train is, where it's going, whether it's delayed, and summary details of the two subsequent trains. These usually work. Shepperton is a branch line, so for most of the day, there are only two trains an hour in either direction going to and from Waterloo via Kingston. This takes about 45 minutes. However for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening (between 7.09 - 8.09 in the morning and leaving Waterloo between 5.43 - 6.43 in the evening), extra services run via Richmond, which is a shorter journey (though in the morning, you have to change at Twickeham to avoid a seven minute wait there and a full stopping service. At Twickenham, you can pick up a fast train). There is no parking apart from street parking. Despite the fact that Hampton is one of the more popular stations on the line, it is woefully under serviced, both by trains and facilities. To top it all off, South West Trains are proposing cutting the ticket office hours even more, opening only for a couple of hours on weekday mornings. Let's hope that doesn't happen.

The penultimate station on the west end of the Piccadilly Line, Hatton Cross is the last stop…read morebefore the line splits to Heathrow's Terminal 5 or Terminals 1-2-3 and 4. I've spent a good bit of time here in the past, since it seems that no matter which time I'm flying out of LHR, the train is always going the OTHER way! It's Underground, so it's out of the rain and the cold. There is plenty of seating for waiting. Upstairs is a rather functional and boring building with waiting areas for the bus stations to local places and a good amount of room for dropping off/picking up friends. It might actually be easier to get here, compared to the regular places at the airport! I did spot a taxi stand. There is no step-free access, which can be a challenge if you have heavy luggage. The station is in Zone 6.

The station opened on 19 July 1975 in the first phase of the extension of the Piccadilly line from…read moreHounslow West to Heathrow Airport and it remained the terminus until Heathrow Central opened on 16 December 1977. The platforms at Hatton Cross are in a cut and cover tunnel. The platform tiling on the central columns features patterns derived from the British Airways Speedbird logo. The station building is a single-storey "bo"x and has a bus station immediately outside which serves the airport and surrounding area.

Beautiful Terminal with so many high end shops. If you didn't get to Harrods you can stop in the…read morestore here. Security was very picky. Make sure you have ALL your liquids in a plastic bag or they will go through your bags. The terminal has a few nice Priority Lounges and clear visible signage. You can also catch the Elizabeth line to take you right into London here.

We took a hotel shuttle to Terminal 5. Do allow 30 minutes for the shuttle to arrive at the…read moreairport. The shuttle makes a number of stops at various hotels to take other passengers. There is a charge for the shuttle. We were given complimentary boarding tickets so no worries. The bus is comfortable and stops at Terminal 5 home to British Airways. Security here was a breeze. It was however early in the day.