London Forum: Parking at Stratford - Olympic Park

You'll want to be aware of the price of parking at Westfield, it's designed to discourage long stays. 3.5 hours will cost you £10.

I just had an e mail from John Lewis -offering one day of free parking at Westfield 12-27th Feb.

--with a coupon

suggest you explore their web site-might a available to all

The car park charges for the shopping centre are here. Not sure how long your test event will last, but the rates really do ramp up steeply to deter longer stays.

All local roads are controlled parking, so I don't think that will work.

…westfield.com/stratfordcity/…

Possibly park at somewhere like Epping tube station, just off the M11 - then the central line will take you directly to the Olympic park.

Thanks for four really useful comments. I'm not desperate to drive (and if I did, I would usually expect to park further out and get the Tube in) but I was just intrigued about how the Olympics organisers are able to claim there's no car parking while pretending the huge great shopping centre doesn't exist.

Perhaps because there isn't car parking at the Olympics Park and the car parking at the shopping centre is really meant for bona fide users of the shopping centre, which is recognised by the suggestion to walk through the shopping centre?

" Olympics organisers are able to claim there's no car parking "

During the Olympic period, there will be no public access to the Westfield car parks, so they're not being entirely disingenuous with that message. And to be fair to them, they need to test the public transport facilities as part of the test events, hence the encouragement for spectators to come by train.

(As an aside - what's rather annoying is that the Olympic organisers are hiring the entire Westfield car parks to store all those BMWs that the VIPs will be swanning about in. grrrrrr)

That explains a lot! Thank you.

As an aside, there's a direct train from my station (Cambridge) to Stratford. It's a shame it's not running on the day of the forthcoming event because of engineering works. I hope they manage to get *those* sorted for the Real Thing in the summer.