Is it cheaper to park at Bristol Airport or take a taxi?

Return taxi, city centre pickup, against typical pre-booked parking. Parking prices move with demand, so treat them as the going rate, not a promise.

At the gate, Silver Zone is £100 for 3 days, £170 for 5 days and £35 for each day after that, so a week costs £240. Our return from central Bristol is from £78 fixed. Pre-booked parking is much cheaper but the airport quotes it dynamically rather than publishing a rate, so price your dates on Bristol Airport parking prices and compare with your fixed quote.

Bristol Airport prices its car parks by demand, so figures vary with your dates and how far ahead you book. Check Bristol Airport parking prices for your trip.

Two weeks is where it flips for nearly everyone: the taxi's price doesn't grow with your holiday and the car park's does.

Silver Zone is a transfer bus ride from the terminal, so add 15 to 25 minutes each way and a bus queue at 4:30am with your cases. Add the petrol both ways, and the pricing details that catch people out, like walk-up rates being double the pre-booked ones. Multi-storey is next to the terminal, but for a fortnight the cost climbs well past what most people expect.

And one nobody budgets for: coming home. After a red-eye landing, the bus to Silver Zone, finding the car in row K, and driving the A38 tired is the worst hour of the holiday. The taxi version of that hour is a nap.

Short trips if you live out where our pickup fare grows, odd hours with a car boot full of kit, or if you just like having your car. We're not going to pretend a 3-day trip from Bath makes taxi sense, the table's right there.