PLASA08

Hotel Bookings

Making your accommodation arrangements for the show this year has never been easier. Please use the link below to access the PLASA Travel Desk, giving you discounted rates at many hotels in the area. The online booking system is easy to use and allows you to make reservations, without pre-paying, until one month prior to the event.

View a list of hotels and rates.

Traveling to Earls Court

PLASA08 takes place at Earls Court Exhibition Centre in West London and has excellent travel connections whether you are travelling from overseas or from within the UK.

• By air
• By train
• By tube
• By car

For more details on travelling within London, please visit www.tfl.gov.uk and for up to the minute information on what London has to offer take a look at www.visitlondon.com.

By air:

Heathrow Airport

Take the Piccadilly Line to Earls Court. Alternatively take the Heathrow Express to Paddington and change onto the District Line to Earls Court.

Heathrow airport general enquiries: +44 (0)870 0000 123

Website: www.baa.com/heathrow

Gatwick Airport

You can take the Gatwick Express to Victoria and change onto the District Line to Earls Court.

Alternatively train services run through Clapham Junction where you can change onto a direct train to West Brompton station (opposite the exhibition centre).

Gatwick airport general enquiries: +44 (0)870 000 2468

Website: www.baa.com/gatwick

Stansted Airport

You can take the Stansted Express to Liverpool Street and either take the central line to Holborn and change onto the Piccadilly line, or the Circle Line to Edgware Road and change onto the District Line to Earls Court.

Stansted airport general enquiries: +44 (0)870 0000 303

Website: www.baa.com/stansted

City Airport

Take the Docklands Light Railway from City Airport to Canning Town. Change onto the Jubilee Line Westbound to Westminster. At Westminster, change onto the District Line Westbound to Earls Court.

City airport general enquiries: +44 (0)020 7646 0088

Website: www.londoncityairport.com

By train:

Silverlink and Southern trains run direct services to West Brompton for Earls Court. Direct services run from Clapham Junction, Gatwick Airport, East Croydon, Watford Junction, Willesden Junction and Stratford.

For National Rail enquiries please visit www.nationalrail.co.uk or call +44 (0)8457 48 49 50.

You can also purchase rail tickets online at thetrainline.com.

The entrance to the venue is directly opposite the exit at West Brompton station.

By tube:

For Earls Court One, exit at the Warwick Road exit of Earls Court station and the entrance to the venue is directly opposite the station.

Earls Court station is on the District and Piccadilly lines only 10 minutes from the West End, and with easy access to a few mainline stations.

For Earls Court Two, exit either at Earls Court station or at West Brompton station.

West Brompton Station is on the District line on the Wimbledon Branch from Earls Court. The entrance to the venue is directly opposite the tube station exit.

By car:

From M1/A1/M11/A10 take the A406 westbound to A4. Continue on A4 over Hammersmith Flyover until A4 becomes West Cromwell Road and follow signs.

From M4/A4 follow directions as above.

From A3/M3 follow signs for central London, take Wandsworth or Putney Bridges.

From Wandsworth Bridge, turn left onto New Kings Road, turn right onto Fulham High Street, which becomes Fulham Palace Road, turn right onto Lillie Road and follow signs.

From Putney Bridge, turn left onto Fulham Palace Road and follow directions as above.

From M2/M20/A2 follow signs to central London, take Blackfriars, London, Waterloo, Vauxhall, Southwark, Chelsea or Battersea Bridges, turn left along Embankment and follow signs.

From A12/A13 follow signs for central London towards Tower or London Bridge. Do not cross bridge, instead continue along Embankment and follow signs.

Information about parking at Earls Court.

Congestion Charging and LEZ information:

The Western extension to the London congestion charging zone has now come into effect.

Whilst Earls Court and Olympia are not situated within the charging zone, the venues are now on the edge of the zone and customers are advised to take care when navigating through the surrounding roads.

You can view a map of the new zone and boundaries at www.cclondon.com.

Earls Court and Olympia are within the Low Emissions Zone (LEZ). This zone covers the whole of London.

For more information on the Low Emissions Zone (LEZ) please visit www.tfl.gov.uk.