Is it cheaper to park or get dropped off at Exeter?
If you're only dropping someone off at Exeter, the £6 forecourt charge is far cheaper than £280 to park for 7 days. But if you're parking for the trip anyway, £280 is the price — and one drop-off (£6) buys you about 216 minutes of drive-up parking.
- Drop-off (one visit): £6
- Drive-up parking (7 days): £280
- Drive-up gate rate: about £40 per 24 hours
- One drop-off ≈ 216 minutes of drive-up parking
- One drop-off
- £6Forecourt, per visit
- Park 7 days
- £280Drive-up gate rate
- Gate rate
- £40/dayImplied per 24h
At Exeter's drive-up gate rate (£40/24h), 216 minutes of parking costs the same as one £6 drop-off.
Should I park or get dropped off at Exeter?
It depends on the trip. Exeter charges £6 for a single forecourt drop-off, while drive-up parking is £280 for 7 days — about £40 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 216 minutes of that drive-up parking. Both figures are official, date-stamped snapshots read from the airport's own pages and verified 2026-07-03. We never republish unverified prices.
Exeter: one forecourt drop-off vs the official drive-up gate parking price by duration. Verified 2026-07-03.
| 3 days | 7 days | 14 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drive-up parking (gate) | £120 | £280 | £560 |
| One drop-off | £6 | £6 | £6 |
- 7 days
- £280
- 14 days
- £560
- 7 days
- £6
- 14 days
- £6
Short trip or long stay — which is cheaper, by the day?
At Exeter, drive-up gate parking costs the same £40 a day whether you're staying 3 days or 14 days — a short trip isn't cheaper per day than a long one at the gate here. We hold no verified pre-book price that beats it yet.
| Trip length | Gate (total) | Gate (per day) | Pre-book | Cheaper for this trip |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 days | £120 | £40/day | No verified snapshot | Gate (only verified figure) |
| 7 days | £280 | £40/day | No verified snapshot | Gate (only verified figure) |
| 14 days | £560 | £40/day | No verified snapshot | Gate (only verified figure) |
Gate prices are Exeter's official drive-up tariff at each duration. A pre-book figure is shown only where we hold a dated snapshot at that exact trip length — we never scale a snapshot from a different duration onto these rows. Verified 2026-07-03.
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Frequently asked questions
Is it cheaper to park or get dropped off at Exeter?
For a quick drop-off, the £6 forecourt charge is cheaper than £280 to park for 7 days. If you're leaving the car for the trip, £280 is what drive-up parking costs (verified 2026-07-03).
How much parking do I get for the price of a Exeter drop-off?
At the £40-per-24h drive-up gate rate, one £6 drop-off buys about 216 minutes of parking at Exeter.
Exeter: drop off vs park — when is each cheaper?
Drop off when you're only running someone to the terminal and leaving: the £6 forecourt charge is a one-off and beats paying for parking you won't use. Park when you're flying yourself and the car has to stay — 7-day drive-up parking is £280 (about £40 per 24h), and a single £6 drop-off only covers about 216 minutes of it. Pre-booking parking online is usually cheaper than the drive-up gate price. Both figures verified 2026-07-03 against the airport's own pages.
Is there a way to avoid the Exeter drop-off charge altogether?
Yes — the Car Park P4 free drop-off gives you 30 minutes free. Free for up to 30 minutes in Car Park P4 (then £2 for 30–60 minutes) (Verified 2026-06-10.)
Where do these Exeter 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.
Sources & method
- Official Exeter drop-off page — verified 2026-06-10
- Official Exeter parking page — verified 2026-07-03
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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