Victoria coach station...advice/info required : Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:06 pm  

Hi there
I'm after some local advice. I've got to travel down from Yorkshire to collect my daughter from Victoria coach station next Friday 24 April at noon.
My question is ...is it feasible to actually drive to the station and get parking there or am I better parking up on the outskirts of the city (and the question then is where?) and getting the tube or train in to meet her and her baggage and making the reverse journey back to where i've parked?
Thanks in advance.

Re: Victoria coach station...advice/info required : Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:15 pm  

the exile wrote:

Hi there
I'm after some local advice. I've got to travel down from Yorkshire to collect my daughter from Victoria coach station next Friday 24 April at noon.
My question is ...is it feasible to actually drive to the station and get parking there or am I better parking up on the outskirts of the city (and the question then is where?) and getting the tube or train in to meet her and her baggage and making the reverse journey back to where i've parked?
Thanks in advance.

tell her to get on a coach from victoria to yorkshire and pick her up from there.

Re: Victoria coach station...advice/info required : Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:18 pm  

Darthchris wrote:

tell her to get on a coach from victoria to yorkshire and pick her up from there.

That was one option but she's coming from France on a coach with a luggage and snowboard etc and likely to have seen enough of the inside of a coach.

: Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:18 pm  

There is no actual on site car parking at the coach station. There is limited metered parking in surrounding streets which is expensive for even 30 minutes. The wardens roam in packs!!! There is a multi storey car park nearby as far as I can recall. Sorry I can't be more helpful

Re: Victoria coach station...advice/info required : Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:34 pm  

the exile wrote:

Hi there
I'm after some local advice. I've got to travel down from Yorkshire to collect my daughter from Victoria coach station next Friday 24 April at noon.
My question is ...is it feasible to actually drive to the station and get parking there or am I better parking up on the outskirts of the city (and the question then is where?) and getting the tube or train in to meet her and her baggage and making the reverse journey back to where i've parked?
Thanks in advance.

The coach station is some way from the underground. Most probably a good 15 minute walk with luggage.

Possibly best to drive in and use NCP Car Parks or a meter but neither will be cheap and I believe the you have to use your mobile to pay for the meter parking using your debit or credit card. Dont forget to pay your congestion charge too!

If you do decide to go by tube then use the Jubilee Line from Stanmore. Parking available at station and just off Junction 4 ( I believe) of the M1. Change at Green Park to the Victoria Line for Victoria then walk along Buckingham Palace Road.

Good luck!

: Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:36 pm  

a better bet is picking her up from Golders Green Station.

National Express stop there and you can wait up front or surrounding back streets for her.

M1 come of for A1 turn down finchley road at henleys corner 2 miles to Golders Green Station. Save you a lot of Trouble trust me