Parking vs drop-off at Edinburgh: which is cheaper?
If you're only dropping someone off at Edinburgh, the £8.50 forecourt charge is far cheaper than £300 to park for 7 days. But if you're parking for the trip anyway, £300 is the price — and one drop-off (£8.50) buys you about 286 minutes of drive-up parking.
- Drop-off (one visit): £8.50
- Drive-up parking (7 days): £300
- Drive-up gate rate: about £42.86 per 24 hours
- One drop-off ≈ 286 minutes of drive-up parking
- One drop-off
- £8.50
- Park 7 days
- £300
- Gate rate
- £42.86/day
Forecourt, per visit
Drive-up gate rate
Implied per 24h
At Edinburgh's drive-up gate rate (£42.86/24h), 286 minutes of parking costs the same as one £8.50 drop-off.
Should I park or get dropped off at Edinburgh?
It depends on the trip. Edinburgh charges £8.50 for a single forecourt drop-off, while drive-up parking is £300 for 7 days — about £42.86 per 24 hours. For a quick airport run where you're not leaving the car, the drop-off charge is the smaller outlay. But if you're flying yourself and need to leave the car for the trip, parking is what you pay — and a single drop-off only buys about 286 minutes of that drive-up parking. Both figures are official, date-stamped snapshots read from the airport's own pages and verified 2026-06-10. We never republish unverified prices.
Edinburgh: one forecourt drop-off vs the official drive-up gate parking price by duration. Verified 2026-06-10.
| 3 days | 7 days | 14 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drive-up parking (gate) | £140 | £300 | £580 |
| One drop-off | £8.50 | £8.50 | £8.50 |
- 7 days
- £300
- 14 days
- £580
- 7 days
- £8.50
- 14 days
- £8.50
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Frequently asked questions
Is it cheaper to park or get dropped off at Edinburgh?
For a quick drop-off, the £8.50 forecourt charge is cheaper than £300 to park for 7 days. If you're leaving the car for the trip, £300 is what drive-up parking costs (verified 2026-06-10).
How much parking do I get for the price of a Edinburgh drop-off?
At the £42.86-per-24h drive-up gate rate, one £8.50 drop-off buys about 286 minutes of parking at Edinburgh.
Where do these Edinburgh parking and drop-off prices come from?
The drop-off fee is read from the airport's official drop-off page; the drive-up parking price is the airport's own published gate tariff. Both are date-stamped snapshots, re-verified on the date shown — never scraped from third-party sites.
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Sources & method
- Official Edinburgh drop-off page — verified 2026-06-10
- Official Edinburgh parking page — verified 2026-06-10
The drop-off fee and the drive-up gate parking price are read from the airport's own official pages and re-verified on the dates shown. The per-day rate and minutes-equivalence are exact arithmetic from those two figures. We never republish unverified prices.
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