How to Get from Heathrow Airport to Central London (Updated 2024)

Alright I'm here at Heathrow and I'm going to show you how to get from here into Central London

starting from when you land you'll want to follow the signs that say arrivals and baggage claim

if you're flying in from another country you'll need to go through passport control which I

wasn't able to film but if you're from one of the countries on the sign here on the left you'll be

able to go through e-gates then once you come out of passport control there's a screen that will

tell you which carousel your bag is at you'll grab your bag and then if you have anything

to declare for Customs you'll go through the red arch and then if you don't have anything

to declare which is most people you'll go through the green you'll just walk straight through and

then when you come out the other side you'll be in the arrivals terminal in the terminal there

are a bunch of places that you can grab a quick bite to eat there's also a grocery store on the

left that's M&S there are also toilets in here and then once you're ready to go you'll follow

the signs that say trains and underground they are the blue and yellow signs over here this time when

I landed there was flooding so they actually closed the main entrance from this terminal

to the underground but if it's not closed it'll look like this you'll just walk down this ramp

and you'll just continue following the blue and yellow signs that say trains in underground if it

does happen to be closed for any reason you'll just follow the signs to the exit there's also

some temporary signs set up that say trains in underground and you'll actually be walking

outside this is the main Concourse so all of the terminals kind of converge here and this

is actually what you'll see if you're arriving into any of the other terminals as well so just

walk outside and then you'll continue following the signs and you'll get to an elevator or lift

as we call it in the UK take that down and you'll be in the same hallway as you would be if you had

followed the ramp that we first saw so this is kind of where things meet back up depending on

where you're going in London you'll either take the picadilly line or the Elizabeth line or Heathrow Express

and we'll get to that later in the video if you don't know which one you're taking the first

part of the journey to both of those options is the same but right here is where it Forks so if

you're taking the Elizabeth line or the Heathrow Express you'll turn left and you're going to

start following the blue signs you'll enter into a ticket hall where you can purchase a ticket

or an oyster card but I would actually recommend just using a contactless credit card the benefit

of that is that there is a cap every day on how much it will cost you on public transportation so

it keeps track of it and you don't have to worry about getting the cheapest price or anything now

here you're going to want to double check the screens to see which platform you need usually

the ones to Central London are at platform 2 but just will check them on the day here you'll want

to start paying extra attention because the heathrow Express and the Elizabeth line both operate from

the same platform I wanted to take the Elizabeth line so I had to wait for the next train cause the

heathrow express was coming first and as you can see it gets very crowded on there so then I just

waited for the next Elizabeth line to come on the screen it tells you every station that the

train will be calling at so just make sure that the stop you want is on that list the Elizabeth

line goes to multiple stops the heathrow Express only goes to Paddington and once again we'll talk

about which one you should take later in the video but once you're on the train just pay attention