Compare Parking Deals Bewertungen 

DO NOT USE THEM!!
We booked airport parking through this company and we purchased 6 days at Heathrow Meet and Greet. A company called Mayfairparking was chosen by them. From the documents it looks like these 2 companies are joined. So I’m leaving a review on both accounts.
As instructed we told them when we were near the airport. They said they would be there is 5 minutes. 35 minutes later they arrived. The guy who took our car was rude and arrogant… he said they had been calling us - no missed calls. They told us we were lying that we hadn’t been there on time - saying they had already arrived to collect the car - they hadn’t - no one was there! As we waited the other parking attendants warned us to take a photo of our mileage and all around the car - they suggested they were a doggy company.
They handed us a scrappy piece of paper with a number to call when we got back. I worried the whole holiday…
They took an hour to bring the car back to us.
And just handed us the key and walked off.
Please don’t use this company!

This is not a meet & greet service.
You do not get dropped off outside the drop off area. You are directed to short stay where you pay for £8.50 for short stay & thats in & out for them to collect & pick your car up. All this information is given after you pay for what is meant to be drop off & pick up service.

Do not trust Compare Parking to vet their suppliers. I booked a Meet & Greet service through their platform, and they assigned my car to a rogue operator using the phone number 07754 647575 (linked to Gregg Maurice Parking). The service was atrocious, leaving me waiting over an hour both ways. Worse, I found another customer's paperwork left inside my vehicle, raising major security concerns about how my car was handled. Compare Parking allows cowboys on their site and pockets the fee. Avoid this website entirely and book directly with reputable firms.

I booked my parking through compareparkingdeals.co.uk at New Farm Parking in Elsenham (Stansted) from 19/9-26/9. This was my first ever booking with this website, and with extra charges, long waits and a flat battery this was also the worst parking experience I’ve had in my life.

I booked the parking at Compare Parking Deals for an advertised £60. On arrival at New Farm Parking I was told airport transfers cost another £20. When I questioned this, staff said the charge was disclosed in my confirmation email. However, that email only arrived AFTER I had booked and paid. I subsequently checked: the very small print actually stated £26 for transfers, rather than the £20 demanded on arrival. This additional cost should have been clearly displayed before payment.

We waited approximately 30 minutes for the transfer in each direction. That waiting time was not made clear when booking.

Before leaving, I disconnected my car battery to prevent it draining during the week and told staff I had done so. During the stay they reconnected it to move the car (nobody gave them permission to do anything with my battery!) but then did not disconnect it afterwards. When I returned, the battery was flat.

I had to use a spare battery to start the car. The EPC warning light then came on and the car was in limp mode. I eventually managed to get it running properly, but this added considerable stress and delay.

My car had also been moved to a rear area that was essentially a field. It was so heavily covered in earth dust that I had to clean all the windows before I could safely drive away.

Between the extra charge, transfer waits, battery problem and condition of the car, this was the worst parking experience of my life. New Farm parking service is appalling: it’s well worth paying £20 extra to park in a regular Stansted Long Stay where you keep your keys and have a bus every 7-10 mins.

It’s a disgrace that the website compareparkingdeals.co.uk where I booked this parking continues to promote parking places like New Farm with their appalling service: I will not use compareparkingdeals.co.uk again, and i believe nobody else should

Read carefully the airports car park was 29 mins away they leave every 45 mins so give yourself an hour before you arrive no customer service to help farmers track with deep holes don’t bring a low car 4x4 or van ok 20 mins from the airport and nearly impossible to find for pay for what you get

We used this company to book airport parking. We chose Park 247, unaware that they were serviced by Sapphire Parking, this not clear until we actually booked parking. Clearly they do not perform any check on the parking services they show on their site. Suffice to say the total cost of parking at Gatwick cost us almost £800. DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE AND DO NOT USE PARK 247/SAPPHIRE PARKING LTD!!!!!

Avoid this company — an extremely poor and stressful experience
I would give zero stars if I could. I have only given one star because that is the minimum allowed.

From start to finish, our experience was incredibly stressful. When you eventually manage to get through to someone, they are rude, dismissive, and, in my experience, give conflicting information rather than taking responsibility for their mistakes.

We were instructed to turn up at Heathrow and hand the car over. When we arrived, there was no desk, no representative, and nobody from the company waiting for us.

I called the office number and also the mobile number provided, but nobody answered for over half an hour. Eventually, the mobile number was answered and a member of staff arrived fairly quickly — but with a very poor attitude.

I asked why nobody had been there to meet us. I was told that I should have read the instructions, as apparently they stated that we needed to call 20 minutes before arriving. I showed him the confirmation and instructions and asked him to show me where this was stated. It wasn't there. He simply told me that he had worked there for years and knew how to do his job, but refused to show me where the instruction appeared.

I had read the confirmation and instructions thoroughly, more than once, and there was no instruction telling us to call 20 minutes before arriving to drop the car off.

Because nobody was there as instructed, we ended up having to pay for the car being in the drop off car park for almost an hour. We handed over the key and barrier ticket and were told to call the same number when we returned.

Unfortunately, the problems continued when we arrived back at Heathrow.

The member of staff's phone was switched off. The company number didn't ring, and repeated calls to the mobile number on our confirmation went unanswered. It took around 50 minutes just to get hold of somebody, followed by another 35 minutes before our car was actually brought to us.

The person who eventually delivered the car was different from the man I had been repeatedly trying to contact. When I questioned why nobody was answering the phones, I was told that the office phone only operates between 9am and 12pm, five days a week.

That is completely impractical for a company providing an airport meet-and-greet service. What happens when customers have weekend flights or return after midday? In our case, that was exactly the situation. When I explained how unacceptable this was, the member of staff simply looked at me as though he couldn't understand why we were frustrated.

In addition to all of this, I tried contacting the company through the deals website we had booked through. The agent I spoke to was extremely rude and refused to help because our booking had been made through the deals website rather than directly with them.

Even more confusingly, the different telephone numbers we were given all appeared to lead back to the same office.

At one point, after repeatedly being unable to contact anyone and having no idea where our car was, I was seriously considering contacting the police to report it as potentially stolen. The whole experience felt incredibly suspicious and, at times, very much like a scam.

A service that is supposed to make travelling easier instead caused us stress and anxiety immediately before, during and after our holiday.

I strongly recommend avoiding this company. I genuinely wish we had never used them and will certainly never use them again.

Please don't make the same mistake we did. Choose a reputable company instead.

⭐ 1 STAR — ALL TERMINAL MANCHESTER PARKING MEET AND GREET — BE AWARE BEFORE YOU BOOK
This review relates specifically to ALL TERMINAL MANCHESTER PARKING, booked through Compare Parking Deals / Parking4You for Manchester Airport.
Our experience dropping the car off was absolutely fine. Unfortunately, collecting it on our return was anything but.
When we dropped our vehicle off, we were handed a Return Voucher which states in large, bold lettering:
“WE ENDEAVOUR TO DELIVER YOUR VEHICLE WITHIN 60 MINUTES OF YOUR CALL DEPENDING ON TRAFFIC AND WEATHER CONDITIONS.”
The same voucher specifically instructs customers to “Please call us once you have collected your luggage.”
That's exactly what we did.
After collecting our luggage from the carousel, we called immediately as instructed. We were told we would receive a call when the driver was approximately five minutes away.
Around 10 minutes later I called again, partly to clarify exactly where we needed to go and to ask how long the vehicle would be. I was then told 25–30 minutes.
We went to the collection point and waited.
After a further 40 minutes, with still no car, I called again and was told:
“He's on his way, not far, about 12 minutes away.”
As I understood that the car was being stored only around three miles away, I questioned why it was taking so long.
The response I received was quite unbelievable:
“Have you got a problem with your hearing? I just told you it's about 12 minutes away.”
That is genuinely how I was spoken to as a paying customer simply for asking where our vehicle was.
Our car eventually arrived EXACTLY 60 MINUTES after our first telephone call.
I then spoke to the driver and asked when he had actually left with our vehicle. He told me he was just a driver and had only been given the job around 15 minutes earlier.
That was particularly frustrating because we'd spent the previous part of the hour being given the impression that our driver was already on his way.
To be completely fair, the vehicle was returned within the company's stated “within 60 minutes” period — by the absolute skin of their teeth.
But here's what I think anyone considering booking this service needs to know:
This is advertised as Manchester Airport Meet & Greet parking, yet their return voucher says you could be waiting for your vehicle for UP TO AN HOUR AFTER you've collected your luggage and called them.
I certainly don't remember that being made anywhere near as prominent when we actually booked the service as it is on the voucher you're handed after leaving your car with them.
We had previously used a more expensive VIP Meet & Greet service but chose this option because the other service had become considerably more expensive.
Unfortunately, on this occasion the saving simply wasn't worth it.
The hour-long wait was frustrating, but what really turned this into a one-star experience was the conflicting information we were given and, above all, the completely unacceptable way I was spoken to on the telephone.
Thankfully, we were collecting our car on an August evening. Imagine doing the same thing late at night in December, standing around with your luggage and family waiting potentially an hour for what you've booked as a Meet & Greet service.
We will definitely NOT use All Terminal Manchester Parking again.
If you're considering booking because it's cheaper than some of the alternatives, my advice is simple:
Read the small print and be aware of that 60-minute return window before deciding whether the saving is worth it.
In our case, they used every single minute of it.

Just terrible.

Our experience with Sapphire Parking booked on Compare Parking Deals was surprisingly crap.

The email they send you instructs you to call them 30 minutes before your arrival to the airport. The guy somehow only managed to pick up the phone on the third attempt. Still managed to be late to meeting us at the airport. Literally how? I struggle to understand the why, except for being petty time-wasting losers.

Anyway, that was only slightly annoying.

The 'meeting' and 'greeting' after we landed back at Gatwick was significantly more irritating.

They ask for your flight details so they can track you. Hmmm, sure!

They ask you to call them when you land so they can 'meet' you. Hmm, sure.

When they finally pick up the phone, they say they will be at the airport in an hour. Hm, sure...

(Even an hour is too long! What could they possibly be doing??? Time-wasting turnips.)

So. We're waiting outside our agreed pick-up point and eventually the long-awaited hour mark arrives. Nothing. At this point we're not really that surprised but give them a ring anyway. On the third attempt they finally pick up. They tell us that they will check with dispatch and call back? Okkaaayyy...

Nothing. Nothing until we call them 20 minutes later.

10 minutes they say. And, in all fairness they do turn up in 15!

We get a call a few minutes after seeing the car being driven past the agreed meeting spot and up to the next floor. I quote; "How long are you gonna be?". Are. You. Kidding?

By this point, we just want to get out of the concrete hell of Carpark 3 and go to the floor above to find the car. Lucky we found it so quickly... with nobody in it. Thoughts are racing through our minds! Where is this guy? Where is the key? Where is the ticket to get out of the carpark?

Oh! Of course! He had to go to the toilet (hopefully with a very bad case of diarrhoea! He totally wasn't just too cowardly to show his face to the people he had kept waiting for 90 minutes!

Oh! Of course! He ever so considerately put the key on top of the front tyre! How safe! Why thank you kind sir!

Oh! Of course! He's left the parking ticket in the glove box! How intuitive! How caring! Oh, how stupid are we for having to waste his time calling to ask where all these things are!

Now, I'm perfectly sure they do this to everyone.

And this is all speculation but I imagine a more classier car might get illegally rented out - given the other reviews saying they've lost a tank of petrol and clocked up hundreds of miles.

More specifically to Compare Parking Deals:

1. It's frankly just a scam website. Drop-off fees are not included in the 'low, low price' they offer you.
2. Reviews on the website are falsified. I am yet to figure out a way to leave a review on the service that we used. 4.7 stars? Fat chance.
3. Just God awful

Awful service. I was told to ‘wait in MacDonalds’ when I was trying to drop my car off. Now trying to collect it. No one seems to know where it is. I have been waiting for almost an hour and no sign of it.

Returned from holiday and despite having to wait over 2 hrs and being continuously lied to, the car could not been delivered due to no drivers being available. Had to get a taxi to where the car was parked off site to collect. Attempted to complain but phone numbers are not answered or non existant. DO NOT USE THESE PEOPLE. Complete rip off and should not be allowed to operate.

I booked meet and greet with Fly Away Parking Gatwick through Compare Parking Deals and it was a disaster. I waited over 2 hours to get my car back and the person on the end of the phone continually lied about when my car would be returned.

We arrived at Gatwick and although we had car park charges included, the driver said he wouldn't give us back our car or let us go until we paid him £8 car park fees. He said we can claim it back from them after. We had to catch our flight so we had no choice but to pay. On return we waited an hour an half for our car to be delivered back to us so we could go home, with a 9 month old 7 a 2 year old in tow who were both tired!! We called them numerous times to see where the car was. They were rude and finally turned up and said we had to pay another £8 to leave. We had to get the babies home and there was no one answering the phone. 'Claim it, claim it, nothing to do with me', he said. I have emailed and called the number so many times and still no reply. THE WORST service ever and ripped me off.

Provider awful (ipark) lied, didnt pay for the short stay fee having said they had. Dropped car off on a different floor purposefully and left key on wheel, said they would stay when I said I needed to speak to them. Agreed and unsurprisingly gone when I got to the car. Neither ipark nor compare parking deals have responded. The latter is as bas as the former and a previous iteration looks to have been dissolved. I presume this one will go the same way. Dont touch with a barge pole.

Told me 30 minutes - then 45 - then an hour. They told me car park 6 level 4 but lied that 4 was shut - it was actually so busy!!!! - so left it in 3 but didn't tell me.

AVOID or report to Stansted security, and your bank. This is NOT meet & greet short stay parking at Stansted Airport. It's missold and most likely a scam. Staff have no ID and operate under false names, multiple mobile phone numbers (most of which are unreachable for long periods, good luck not missing your flight because of it). On arrival they ask you to park in a disabled bay(?!) in one of the short stay car parks. They come and collect your vehicle in person and drive it offsite (making you pay the entry/exit charge on top).

Their comms involve multiple company names - Travel Extra Deals Ltd, Compare Airport Parking, SC Parking Services Ltd, and email addresses that don't correspond with any of these company names.

I was about to report them to the police for stolen vehicle after waiting nearly 1hr with two tired kids for my car to be returned to a car park I had not booked it for (further distance than the one booked), after multiple calls to a mobile number was strung along by different people. Went on hold when we started recording the call. Noticed mud/dirt on the car that wasn't there on drop off. Absolute scammers. And if this is barely legal then their customer service is at minimum absolutely appalling.

Currently on hold to Stansted Airport to see if any additional fines have been logged using my reg plate during my holiday, and I will be reporting to my bank for missold services.

I was travelling with my 3 children to Barcelona when I called 30 minutes ahead as requested to be speaking to a lady who speaks very little English and was unclear! She then hung up! After several calls back. I was directed to the wrong designation despite me repeating back the given instructions and i occurred a 15 car park charge.

I was told once I reached the correct drop off zone the driver would be 5 minutes after several calls every 5 minutes with empty promises they arrived 28 minutes later resulting in a £95.00 parking fine and just making out flight.

The service i received was rude and unprofessional. The stress and anxiety this company put myself and my 3 children was appalling.

Despite several written complaints to different email addresses I have been given not one person has replied!!!

DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY.

NEVER book with this website - the company they 'recommended' never turned up for our stansted collection. Customers we stood with had been waiting 3 hours for their car to be dropped off.
We had to dump our car in order to fly - so a huge charge will greet us on our return to the UK

The specific company we booked with were called 'Stansted meet & greet' obv vague title to avoid too many reviews their number is 07907658823

NEVER US THIS SITE - with 30 mins notice of drop off we waited for 50 minutes and they answered the phone once. THIEVES and this site does not vet any businesses they promote

I booked airport parking through Compare Parking Deals and was assigned to LGW Executive Meet & Greet (linked to iPark Gatwick). What followed was one of the most stressful and unprofessional experiences I’ve ever had.

We called 15 minutes before arriving at Gatwick as instructed and were told to go to Car Park 6, Level 5. Naturally, I expected someone to be there ready to meet us and take the car. Instead, no one showed up. I had to call again to ask what to do, and was told to just park in any space and someone would come to collect the keys.

We waited 10 minutes — nothing. Called again — “someone is on the way.” Another 10 minutes passed — still nothing. We were now at risk of missing our flight, and the lack of urgency or professionalism was shocking.

Eventually, a random man appeared out of nowhere to take the keys. He had no uniform, no ID, no paperwork, no receipt — nothing to prove he was legitimate. We were extremely uncomfortable handing over the keys and only did so because another customer nearby confirmed he had taken theirs too.

The real nightmare started when we returned from our trip. We called to have the car delivered back and were told, unbelievably, that they had LOST OUR KEYS. We were asked if we had a spare key with us. Apparently, our key had been left in another car that was now on its way to Bristol.

At this point, I completely lost trust. I asked for proof that they even still had my car. After multiple calls demanding photos, they were dismissive, rude, and repeatedly hung up on me, telling me they didn’t understand why I was worried and that my car was “safe.”

They told me to get a taxi home (I live 2 hours away) and said they would reimburse me — which I had zero confidence in. I was then told my car might be delivered the next day or they’d “sort a replacement key.” I gave them until 12pm the following day.

The next day — still no key. After pushing them, I finally got the location of my car: it was sitting in a field at The Greyhound pub in Crawley, with no visible security, among many other cars. I had to go and collect it myself — and I am STILL without my key.

Communication has been appalling. Every time I call, the “manager” is unavailable. I’ve been told I’m “p****** them off” by calling and even told not to “f****** call again.” This is how they treat paying customers.

I strongly believe this operation runs under multiple names, including Secure Park and Gatwick Premium Parking. They all share the same phone number and identical instructions. This feels like a coordinated scam operation.

I have reported this to the police, Action Fraud, and Trading Standards. After reading other reviews, it’s deeply concerning how many people are experiencing the same issue — especially “lost keys.” It raises serious questions about what is happening to customers’ vehicles.

Avoid at all costs. This company is not professional, not secure, and not trustworthy.

Scam - avoid at all costs.
They allow completely unregistered con artists to advertise on their site.