A genuinely dreadful Meet & Greet…
A genuinely dreadful Meet & Greet experience.
We booked Easy Parking through FHR (a company we've trusted for years) for Gatwick North Terminal.
On returning at around midnight with our two children, we called after clearing customs and were repeatedly promised a call back within 5–10 minutes. Nobody ever called us back. We made every call ourselves, sometimes getting no answer at all and finding their voicemail full.
Eventually, we approached an Easy Parking driver who was returning another customer's car. He checked his paperwork and, incredibly, told us our car had already been collected, showing us our registration crossed off his list.
We obviously hadn't collected it.
At midnight, with two tired children, we therefore had no idea where our car was or whether it had been given to somebody else. My wife was extremely upset and our children were crying.
The explanation subsequently changed to our return having been mistakenly "cancelled". We were eventually told to take a taxi home, which they agreed to pay for, and promised our car would be delivered between 12pm and 2pm the following day.
The next day brought more of the same: repeated promises of callbacks that never happened. Around midday we were told our car was ready and would leave within 30 minutes. It didn't. After numerous further calls, we finally received our car at around 4:30pm – approximately 16½ hours after we should have collected it at Gatwick.
The driver who returned it then told us our car had actually been ready when we arrived at the airport and had already been retrieved from the depot.
Easy Parking subsequently admitted that their staff had confused our live booking with a cancelled booking. They agreed to refund our booking and reimburse our £88 taxi fare.
Their response to our complaint included the extraordinary observation that while some customers are understanding when mistakes happen, "some customers only try to take advantage of every situation." We had asked for £250 compensation for the distress caused to our family. That request was ignored.
We reluctantly accepted the refund and taxi reimbursement and provided our bank details. Despite chasing again, we have received no acknowledgement or response and, at the time of writing, no refund. I called again today and was told refunds normally take 7–14 days. Given our experience of repeated promises that weren't honoured, unfortunately we have little confidence in that assurance either.
Mistakes happen. What earns this review isn't simply the original administrative mistake. It's the appalling communication afterwards, repeatedly promising calls that never came, telling us our car had already been collected, failing to return it when promised, the dismissive response to our complaint, and the continued lack of communication afterwards.
A Meet & Greet service relies fundamentally on trusting a company with your vehicle. Based on our experience, I simply couldn't recommend Easy Parking.
9. August 2026
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