Zipcar is popular where I live and there is virtually always an available Flex car within five minutes walk of my house. It is an altogether more pleasant experience and certainly makes sense if you are travelling as a group, providing you don’t have too much luggage! Back to the review …. I can drive to Heathrow within an hour, assuming the traffic is average. Heathrow Express makes little sense for me, as it offers virtually no time saving versus taking the Picadilly Line. It normally takes upwards of 90 minutes and three tube lines, including a particularly long walk to connect at Green Park. I live in South London and getting to Heathrow is not the most pleasant experience. Zipcar Flex can make more sense than a taxi or public transport You drop off your Zipcar in the Terminal 5 short stay car park (Zipcar is owned by Avis and uses some of their parking bays) next to the Sofitel, allowing you to walk directly into the terminal. Update: the drop off fee has now increased to £7.50. Whilst there is an additional £5 drop off fee, it is still substantially cheaper than taking a taxi to the airport. It is perfectly fine to drop off the car in a different zone to the one you collected it in: The following boroughs now allow you to pick up or drop off a Zipcar Flex car. To make life a little easier, you can put a 15 minute ‘hold’ on a vehicle via the app, giving you time to get there before it is released for another user.
It obviously requires another Zipcar user to have dropped off a Flex car near you. The downside with Zipcar Flex is that you can never be certain that there will be a car near you. You don’t need to drive it back to where it came from. You can take a car and leave it wherever you want, within a designated local authority zone. It lets you take flexible one-way trips without pre-booking. This is how Rob uses Zipcar, to save the trouble of owning and parking his own car in Central London. Trips should be pre-booked via the app to ensure a car is available.
The traditional Zipcar business model is based around picking up a car from a designated street parking bay and returning it to the same spot when your trip is finished.
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