Can You Get to Bournemouth Airport by Public Transport? | Bournemouth Travel Guide ✈️
Is there public transport to Bournemouth International Airport? That’s the question we’re answering today. Many passengers are surprised to discover that Bournemouth Airport has no regular bus or train service connecting it directly to Bournemouth town centre.
In this video, I test whether you can actually get from Bournemouth Central Bus/Coach Station to Bournemouth Airport using local public transport. Spoiler: it’s not straightforward. 🚶♂️
Here’s what we cover:
🚍 Bus routes: The Number 13 / 13A bus to Parley Cross (and why it only gets you halfway).
🕕 The two rare early-morning buses that go directly to the airport.
🚖 Taxi costs (around £18 plus the £5 drop-off fee).
🚶 Walking from Parley Cross to the airport terminal (about 40 minutes along busy roads).
💷 Drop-off and parking charges at Bournemouth Airport.
✈️ A look inside the terminal, with flights, cafés, and duty-free.
📊 Comparison with other regional UK airports (Southampton, Bristol, Exeter, Cardiff, Nottingham, Stansted).
👉 Key Takeaway: Bournemouth Airport is one of the few regional airports without its own direct public transport link. If you’re travelling light, the bus-and-walk option just about works. Otherwise, most travellers rely on taxis, drop-offs, or parking.
✨ Why Watch?
If you’re planning a trip through Bournemouth Airport and want to know the realistic ways of getting there, this guide will save you time, money, and hassle.
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Bournemouth Airport is one of the few regional airports that doesn’t have its own public transport service. What you can do is take the coach number 13 or 13A and that will take you halfway to the airport. Bus 13 or 13A from Bournemouth Central coach station will take you to a place called Parley Cross. The bus departs from here around about every half an hour and it takes half an hour to complete that journey and then you’ll be halfway to Bournemouth airport.
Well I’ve been walking for just under 40 minutes and at last we see the sign we’ve been waiting for. This place is what’s known as the airport crossroads and across there is a little lane where people get dropped off sometimes especially those of us on a budget. This is the way into the airport. They don’t like people walking up here because there’s obviously no money in it. There used to be lots of signs saying if you walk past here you will get fined and all sorts of stuff as far as i remember but they’ve changed this now to ‘for your own safety’ okay i’ll take the risk. You can see this is a well trodden path because people are just rejecting the idea of their friends having to pay £5 for a 30 second drop off. in fairness if you’re dropping off five people five suitcases then five pounds is very reasonable indeed. If you’re doing it solo with just a backpack it kind of feels like you’re being overcharged slightly. Personally i would rather spend that five pounds on a cup of tea on the plane.
This is the car park so we might just walk in here and have a look at the Bournemouth Airport Parking Charges. Public bike shelter, so potentially you could come up here on a bicycle and leave your bike here for the week. You should be alright. Parking for five days, £150. So is that £210 for seven days? Seems quite reasonable, doesn’t it? £70 for two days. Now, I’ve done a little bit of research on some of the regional airports in the south of England. Bristol seems to come up with the most transfers per hour to Bristol Airport. I think this is every 12 minutes or something. Exeter every half an hour, Southampton obviously has its own train station in the airport. Cardiff was every half an hour from centre of Cardiff. Nottingham which is known as East Midlands I think, had bus something like every half an hour and Stansted has its own train station, I think. So most of the other regional airports, they all have their own direct public transport to the airport but not Bournemouth.
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Here’s the question. Can you travel from Bournemouth Central Coach Station to Bournemouth International Airport using public transport? Hello YouTube friends and subscribers. That is the question we’re going to try and answer today. Welcome to Bournemouth travel and visitor information. Well, that was interesting. And a very kind and helpful gentleman in there explained that there are two buses to the airport, but they go at I think he said 20 to 6 and 5 7 or something in the morning. They’re the only two buses. Um there are no plans to have a bus service to the airport. He recommends going by taxi which is about £18 and then the taxi also has to pay £5 to drop you off. Now Bournemouth airport is one of the few regional airports that doesn’t have its own public transport service. Uh what you can do is take the coach behind me number 13 or 13A and that will take you halfway to the airport. Now, bus 13 or 13A from Bournemouth Central Coach Station will take you to a place called Parley Cross. Uh the bus departs from here every around about every half an hour and it takes half an hour to complete that journey and then you’ll be halfway to Bournemouth airport. Right, I’m at the bus stop, number 13 bus, which has dropped me at Parley Crossroads. So now I just need to uh walk to Bournemouth International Airport Terminal. Oh dear, it’s gone a bit cloudy. Just leaving the residential part of a paraly cross. Well, I’ve been walking for about 10 minutes. It’s all very nice at the moment. I’ve just hand luggage. We’re just coming up here in the sunshine past the uh uh garden centers that prevail in this area and uh making some progress. I’ve been walking for nearly 15 minutes now and at last I can actually see the airport. So uh that feels rather encouraging. Just got to get round to the other side. Quite a busy road this uh just going to have to pick our moment here. Seems to be a virtual non-stop queue of traffic. [Music] What’s this say here? Okay, I made it to the end of the runway. Good news. Nice little walk in the sunshine and what it’d be like if it was raining or it was dark. But anyway, not doing not doing too badly. It’s actually quite a busy road this and uh I suppose I could stick my thumb out and see what happened with the double yellow lines. I don’t think people would be very keen on stopping. There’s no shortage of traffic. If any kind soul did feel like assisting the weary traveler, [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] Service 737 will come past here at these times. 1337 1622 in 1801. Saturdays and Sundays nothing. Now Bournemouth is home to a company called European Cargo and they have uh got hold of some old Virgin A340s, Virgin Atlantics I think. And they actually do cargo flights to China. And that journey takes 12 plus hours. Well, I’ve been walking for just under 40 minutes, and at last we see the sign we’ve been waiting for. Okay. Right. This is what’s known as the airport crossroads here. And uh across there is a little across there is a little lane where people get dropped off sometimes, those of us on a budget. And this is the way into the airport. Now, they don’t like people walking up here because there’s obviously no money in it. There used to be lots of signs saying if you walk past here you will get fined and all sorts of stuff as far as I remember. But they’ve changed this now to for your own safety. Okay, I’ll take the risk. You can see this is a welltrodden path because people are just rejecting the idea of their friends having to pay £5 for a 30-second drop off. In fairness, if you’re dropping off five people, five suitcases, then £5 is very reasonable indeed. If you’re doing it solo with just a backpack, kind of feels like you’re being overcharged slightly. Personally, I would rather spend that £5 on a cup of tea on the plane. You know what? It actually looks as if they’ve decided that a footpath might be applicable here. Unless, of course, they think the uh crinkly rough stones would deter people from walking. This is the car park. So, we might just walk in here and have a look at the charges. public bike shelter. So potentially you could come up here on a bicycle and leave your bike here for the week. You should be all right. Right. 5 days 150. So, is that £210 for seven days? Seems quite reasonable, doesn’t it? £70 for two days. Let’s make sure I’ve got this right. So, I think that’s £120 for 7 days. Now, uh, I’ve done a little bit of research on some of the regional airports, uh, in the south of England. Bristol seems to come up with the most transfers per hour to Bristol airport. I think this is every 12 minutes or something. Exit every half an hour. Southampton obviously has its own train station in the airport. Um, Cardiff was every half an hour from center of Cardiff. Nottingham, which is known as East Midlands, I think, had something like every half an hour. Um, Stanstead has its own train station, I think. So, most of the other regional airports, Luton, I suppose, is kind of in town. Uh they all have their own direct public transport to the airport. Uh but not Bournemouth. Okay, let’s go inside and have a look and see what the airport’s like. cafe quite nice cafe loads of flights available and there’s a lovely airport actually it’s a lovely regional airport and lots and lots of flights to European destinations and there’s a there’s a great deal to like about Bournemouth airport. And um if you can accept the parking charges or you uh don’t mind coming by taxi, it’s just perfect. Now, in a way, Bournemouth is still growing into itself with the arrival of Jet 2 uh to the terminal with their multiple flights European destinations. is kind of uh a bit crowded here at the minute, but I know that there are extens extensions going on to this airport and people are backing it and they decided to put their money where their mouth is and really I would encourage anybody living locally to use Bournemouth airport. Can go to many, many destinations and when you come back you’re close to home. Now, while I’m here, I might just as well test my bag to see if it’s going to fit. In she goes. That’ll do nicely, sir. We might just as well check the Jet 2 bags. Let’s put the bag in here as well. She seems to fit in there a treat. Right. Once you’re through security, this is uh Bournemouth airport duty-free department. Only thing I can’t see is the gigantic toddler. The duty-free leads through to the seating area, which is exceptionally busy today, I must say. Must be a whole mob of flights. Well, thanks very much for watching everyone. Hope you found that moderately interesting. What we’ve been trying to do is discover if it’s possible to get to Bournemouth International Airport from Bournemouth Central Bus Station using public transport. If you’d like to subscribe to my channel, that would be nice. You’ll be able to see what else I get up to on my travel adventures. Thanks again for watching.
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