Posted 9 April 2023

Edinburgh to Edinburgh Airport for £2 each by tram @ Edinburgh Trams

With rising costs you can travel to the stop BEFORE Edinburgh Airport @ Ingliston Park n Ride for only £2.
Walk the remaining 300m down to the airport terminal or stay on and pay the full cost of 1 stop of £7.50.
Bottom line is Edinburgh Princes Street to Ingliston Park n Ride for 2 adults is £4.
Stay on one extra stop to the airport and it will cost you £15.
Get in a taxi for £25.


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  1. mellowkenny's avatar
    This is over a half mile walk and from memory I don’t believe there is a path next to the road for most of the walk. Not ideal for the early flights.
    Cleanrug's avatar
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    Sorry to correct you but there is a pavement down to the airport on the right hand side. Exit the park n ride and turn right down Eastfield Road. Half a mile in metres is 804m. Distance is nothing like that. (edited)
  2. Muig1972's avatar
    As others in the thread have pointed out, this is nothing like a 300m walk. The map below shows it's 0.8 miles, plus another 200m to walk from the tram stop (marked in blue, bottom-right) to the starting point in the car park, so that's almost a mile to walk with your luggage.

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  3. featch's avatar
    It's about a mile if you walk on the pavement. 1km if you walk directly up the tram track.
    kashiboi's avatar
    can you walk next to the tram track or is this a joke?
  4. Jackalb's avatar
    This has always been the case and 8n no way a deal. Edinburgh Airport gouge travellers with drop off charges. £4 drop off at the terminal for 10 minutes. If travelling by car get dropped off at the long stay car park, it's about a 10 to 15 minute walk and free.this is also the best place to pick someone up. (edited)
  5. CleopatraNo.2's avatar
    Does this work for heading back to Edinburgh from airport one way? My son is heading back to Uni tomorrow.

    Great Post OP. Will save him a few £ every time he comes home.
    redrhino's avatar
    Buses to Edinburgh airport are brilliant, if going to Haymarket for train then the #100 bus goes every 10 mins. (Free with his bus pass)

    If he is going to Edinburgh Gateway for train to Dundee then tram is the only option, but booking train ticket to Edinburgh Airport includes tram and is minimal increase on train fare to Edinburgh Gateway (and certainly cheaper than any add on fare). If not booking thru ticket, he could get the #200 or #400 bus from Airport to park and ride, free with bus pass, then change to tram (to save the hike from airport).

    There is also an Xplore service from Dundee city centre to Edinburgh airport that is non-stop, and therefore any combo of train from Dundee to Edinburgh (if Gateway) and then to airport is going to struggle to be much quicker than direct bus. Direct bus being free with national entitlement card.

    Summary - lots of ways to leverage bus pass to save 💰 from dundee or to avoid the walk to park and ride.
  6. kashiboi's avatar
    did you update the title because I swear when you first posted this I don't recall reading the "by tram @ Edinburgh Trams" in the title.

    Anyways, so my dumb ass misread this whole post as taking the 100 Airport bus from Princes street and jumping off at the park n ride. Since the OP had written "With rising costs you can travel to the stop BEFORE Edinburgh Airport " (In my head I thought he was talking about the bus as I've always just taken the bus)

    So I took the 100 Airport bus from the city center at 04:00 and when I asked the driver to drop me off at "Ingliston Park n Ride". He said "sorry I don't go there, but I can drop you off at the Hilton hotel."
    I was confused and I wasn't expecting him to say that.
    Anyways I agreed, and paid by card, only for the ticket to be printed which showed I had been charged £5.50!!! I was angry and decided, I may aswell get off at the airport then!

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    On the way back, I walked from the Airport to the "Ingliston Park n Ride".
    I remember thinking there the 100 bus doesn't even go into the Ingliston Park n Ride.
    I saw that the 200 and 400 bus did but neither of those goes to Princes street.
    So I was very still confused.

    It was only when I got home and I re-read this post and realised the OP was talking about the tram!

    This is what happens when you miss a key detail.

    But in my defense I had an early morning flight so had to head to the airport at 04:00 and the first tram of the day starts at 05:32 so this would not have worked for me anyways (edited)
    Cleanrug's avatar
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    Yeah it’s a deal for the TRAM. However keep an eye out for the timetables as they are possibly expanding the timetables in June as the line is extended to Newhaven at the other end . Local fares on the 100 end at the Maybury bus stop . On the Tram it’s Ingliston Park and Ride which is definitely within walking distance provided of course it isn’t lashing of rain .
  7. jim_Smith75n's avatar
    One stop to help fund the council vanity project...... Doesn't even operate 24 hours to service the airport....
    As for £4 drop off....
    Welcome to Scotland......
  8. zenyboy's avatar
    Yeah, best to park at Islington Park and Ride and grab the bus or walk to airport. It’s extortionate and shocking that 1 stop costs that much. Also, the parking prices at Edinburgh Airport are extortionate. Every airport in the US and Dubai etc offer free drop off and pick up, yet every visit to Scottish airports is £4 a go. It costs more to park at the airport than to fly.
    azzap's avatar
    Is it an easy and obvious walk from Islington Park to the Airport terminals?
  9. hooray.henry's avatar
    Saving a couple quid when youve just spent hundreds to get out of Edinburgh.
  10. GeneralTactifer's avatar
    If you're going to be stuck, sitting down on the plane for ages, a little bit of exercise beforehand would be a good idea!
  11. aerotec's avatar
    Maybe not a deal as such but defo good to not pay this extortionate add on. So much for trying to promote public transport. They should force the pick up/drop off fee be used to subside the tram. I get off at the park and ride stop and walk it if a nice day. It takes me 12 minutes to walk to the terminal which is fine when you know you'll be sitting down for the next many hours.

    When you get off the tram and walk up to the car park keep in a straight line. Past all the car charging points to the end. You then have to walk along a bit of the entrance road to get to the main road and then it's pavement all the way. I wouldn't do it if laden down with luggage but with a roll on its easy to do.

    Other option is the airport bus. Was £7.50 return but recent price rise has made it maybe £8?
    featch's avatar
    £9.50 return on the tram. £8 for the airport bus. Bus is usually at least 5 minutes quicker.
  12. stevelong77's avatar
    Is this a deal ?
  13. walio's avatar
    And if going to airport by a car/taxi I always get dropped at DoubleTree Hilton and just walk to the terminal. Same on my way back, walk from the terminal to DoubleTree Hilton hotel and book my transport from there. £4-5 saved.
  14. happenstance's avatar
    Should have never built this silly tram in the first place.
  15. Maria_VR's avatar
    Thank you.
  16. sox5's avatar
    Great idea getting off the bus stop before and walking to the airport
  17. kashiboi's avatar
    Thank you for sharing this as I was wondering if there was a loophole to this.
    The prices have shot up a few days ago and I fly alot.

    So yeah if what you are saying is true, then thank you alot.
    Cleanrug's avatar
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    You can DEFINITELY save cash by doing this . Pay more if you want to . The cash savings would buy you a meal deal.
  18. StevoHervé's avatar
    Isn't the bus quicker or have they slowed the buses now?
  19. tusk1979's avatar
    All very good in nice weather. Imagine doing this in winter or if it's lashing down with rain?
    bigchipper's avatar
    Rain in Scotland........
  20. Cleanrug's avatar
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    Another thing that you could do would be to park up at the Ingliston park and ride for FREE.
    Walk down to the airport and walk back up when your flight returns the same day . ( no overnight parking). I’ve seen it done by many people.
    smokedsausage's avatar
    Glasgow Prestwick airport (when it was used more perhaps) had problems with people parking cars free at Prestwick small train station fortnight saving £80 and buy a ticket £2 for the 4/5 min train journey to Prestwick airport station..
    As long as they were ScotRail customers then not breaking any rules.. however it was all changed
    Also some of the private housing estates people were parking car free street for a fortnight. If l remember correctly residents were letting their tyres down.
    Again no rules broken but police weren't happy about it and advised against parking anywhere but airport.
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