Gatwick Parking Amendment Rules: What the Official Terms Say About Changing Dates

If you have already booked parking at London Gatwick Airport and need to move your dates, the starting point is the airport's own terms and conditions. This article summarises only what those published terms say about amending a booking. It does not add rules, fees or deadlines that are not written in the source, and it flags clearly where the evidence is silent and where you must check with the official page.

The terms that govern amendments

The London Gatwick Airport Terms and Conditions are the controlling document. Within the section on parking, clause 18.8 states: "Please see section 11 for the terms that apply to amending or cancelling your booking." That is the cross-reference the terms themselves provide. In other words, the parking clauses do not set out the amendment rules directly; they point the reader to section 11 of the same terms and conditions.

This matters for anyone trying to answer the practical question "can I change my dates?" The evidence bundle used for this article contains the clause 18 text and its pointer to section 11, but it does not contain the text of section 11 itself. So the specific amendment rules — the ones that would tell you whether a date change is permitted, on what conditions, and at what cost — are not reproduced in the evidence available here. A reader who needs the operative amendment terms must open the official terms page and read section 11 in full.

Can I change dates?

On the evidence available, the terms do not answer this question directly in the parking clauses. Clause 18.8 does not say "you may amend" or "you may not amend"; it says the terms that apply to amending or cancelling a booking are in section 11. The honest summary is therefore: the official terms anticipate that amending a booking is a subject they address, and they direct you to section 11 for the rules, but the content of those rules is not stated in the evidence bundle.

What the parking clauses do make clear is the scope of what a booking covers. Clause 18.7 states: "Your booking is valid only for the times, dates, price, car park, terminal and airport shown in your booking." This is a statement about validity rather than about amendment, but it is the clause most relevant to a date change, because the date is one of the elements that defines the booking. If your booking is valid only for the dates shown, then moving to different dates is not something the booking as issued covers — which is precisely why an amendment process, if one is available, would matter.

Two further clauses bear on the question. Clause 18.6 states: "You cannot transfer your booking to someone else or between different car parks." That is a restriction on transfer, not on date amendment, and the terms treat them as separate matters. Clause 18.5 describes the booking reference: "When you book car parking through the website, we will email you a unique booking reference number (your booking reference)." If you do amend or cancel, that reference is the identifier the airport would use to find your booking.

Is there a fee?

The evidence bundle does not state an amendment fee. No clause in the available text says that changing dates costs a particular amount, or that it is free. This is a point where the bundle is silent, and it should not be filled in by assumption.

What the bundle does contain about charges is specific to other situations:

• Clause 18.4 concerns bookings made through the customer contact centre: "When you book car parking through the customer contact centre, we will add a booking fee of £5 per booking to your final cost. If you later cancel the booking, we will refund the full value of your booking (excluding the £5 fee and any non-refundable fees under these terms)." This is a booking fee and a cancellation refund rule, not an amendment fee rule.
• Clause 18.1 concerns pricing generally: "Quotes are valid at the time of issuing only and prices may change on booking." This tells you a quote is not held open, but it does not say what happens to the price if you later change dates.
• Clause 18.2 states: "All prices shown are in pounds sterling and include VAT at the rate that applies to your booking."
• Clause 18.3 states: "Part of the charge you pay includes a 'public transport levy', which is used to develop public transport initiatives at the airport."

So the correct reference answer on fees is: the official terms as evidenced here do not state an amendment fee. Whether an amendment attracts a charge, a price difference, or nothing at all is a question for section 11 of the official terms page, and possibly for the booking channel you used. Before you pay anything in connection with a change, check the official terms and, if the position is still unclear, check with the airport's customer contact centre.

How late can I change?

The evidence bundle does not give a deadline for amendments. There is no stated cut-off — no number of hours or days before the booking start — in the clauses available. Clause 18.8 points to section 11 for amendment terms, and section 11's text is not in the bundle, so any deadline that exists would be found there or in the booking confirmation, not in the material summarised here.

Readers should be careful about assuming a deadline by analogy with cancellation rules. The only cancellation wording in the bundle is clause 18.4, and it is tied to the contact-centre booking fee and to "any non-refundable fees under these terms." It does not set out a time limit, and it is about cancelling, not amending. Those are different actions under the terms, as clause 18.8 itself implies by naming both.

What to check before you pay

Because the operative amendment rules sit in section 11, the practical checklist before paying anything is short and specific:

1. Read section 11 of the official terms. Clause 18.8 directs you there for "the terms that apply to amending or cancelling your booking." This is the primary source for whether a date change is allowed, any conditions attached, and any charge.
2. Check your booking confirmation. Clause 18.7 makes clear that your booking is valid only for the times, dates, price, car park, terminal and airport shown in it. Confirm exactly what your booking currently covers before requesting a change.
3. Have your booking reference ready. Clause 18.5 describes the unique booking reference number emailed when you book through the website. Any amendment or cancellation request will need to identify the booking.
4. Note the transfer restriction. Clause 18.6 states you cannot transfer your booking to someone else or between different car parks. If what you actually need is a different car park rather than different dates, the terms treat that as outside what a transfer can do.
5. Check the channel you booked through. Clause 18.4 shows that contact-centre bookings carry a booking fee of £5 per booking, with cancellation refunding the full value excluding that fee and any non-refundable fees. If you booked by phone, that clause is part of the context for any change or cancellation you discuss.
6. If the terms do not resolve it, ask before you pay. Where the amendment rules do not answer your situation, the airport's customer contact centre is the route the terms themselves reference for contact-centre bookings.

Comparing options before you commit

If your dates are still flexible, it can be worth reviewing the range of parking products before you book, because clause 18.7 ties validity to the specific car park, terminal and dates in your booking, and clause 18.6 rules out moving between car parks. Our comparison pages set out the products side by side so you can match the booking to the trip in the first place. For background on how this reference site works and how we handle sources, see about us.

Summary

The London Gatwick Airport terms and conditions do address amendments, but they do so by cross-reference: clause 18.8 sends the reader to section 11 for the terms that apply to amending or cancelling a booking. The evidence summarised here does not include section 11, so it does not state whether dates can be changed, whether an amendment fee applies, or how late a change can be made. What it does state is that a booking is valid only for the times, dates, price, car park, terminal and airport shown in it (clause 18.7), that bookings cannot be transferred to another person or between car parks (clause 18.6), that website bookings generate a unique booking reference (clause 18.5), and that contact-centre bookings carry a £5 booking fee with cancellation refunding the full value excluding that fee and any non-refundable fees (clause 18.4). For the amendment rules themselves, read section 11 of the official terms page before you pay.

Checked 2026-10-06. This source check uses Terms and Conditions. It is not a live availability check, booking or personal test.