Checked 2 August 2026. Bristol Airport's parking pages list five bookable car parks — Silver Zone, Multi-Storey, Meet & Greet, Short Stay and Mid Stay. There is no Long Stay car park among them. Every car park it does list is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with the airport's own caveat that some may close for works or maintenance. The authority on this is the airport's own parking page, and if it disagrees with us, believe it and tell us so we can correct this.
Why this question is so hard to get a straight answer to
Because the sources contradict each other, and one of the contradicting sources is the airport.
Bristol Airport's transformation page — the one describing the changes made on 16 July 2025 — still carries a line reading “Long Stay — Remains closed until Spring 2026”. That page has not been updated since it was written. Meanwhile the airport's parking prices page, which it date-stamps itself and which read 30 July 2026 when we checked, does not list a Long Stay car park at all.
Aggregator and affiliate pages have then copied one version or the other, at different times, without dating anything. That is how you end up with the first page of results confidently telling you it is closed until spring, reopened in spring, renamed, or replaced — all at once.
What we will not tell you. We cannot verify that Long Stay has reopened, that it will reopen, that it has been renamed, or any date for any of that — so we do not say it. In particular, Mid Stay is not confirmed to be the old Long Stay under a new name. It is a car park the airport now sells for stays of eight days plus. That is all anyone can honestly claim about the relationship between the two.
What the airport does list, as at 2 August 2026
| Car park | Airport's recommended stay | Getting to the terminal |
|---|---|---|
| Silver Zone | Stays of 3 days plus | Bus transfer the airport quotes at 7 minutes, every 15 minutes |
| Mid Stay | Stays of 8 days plus | Walk the airport quotes at 8–12 minutes |
| Multi-Storey | Stays of 3 to 8 days | Walk the airport quotes at 3–10 minutes |
| Short Stay | Up to 8 days | Walk the airport quotes at 8–10 minutes |
| Meet & Greet | 2 to 14 days, advance booking only | Walk the airport quotes at 3–5 minutes |
The transfer figures above are the airport's own published numbers, quoted rather than measured — we have not timed them and neither, in all likelihood, has anyone else who publishes them. Alongside those five it also operates the Drop Off & Pick Up car park, the free-for-an-hour Waiting Zone, a Minibus & Over Height zone and a Bus & Coach Park, none of which are bookable and none of which are for leaving a car in.
If you were going to use Long Stay, what should you use instead?
For a long trip the airport's own answers are Silver Zone, which it sells from three days and where you drop your keys at a self-service kiosk for staff to park the car, and Mid Stay, which it sells from eight days and where you keep your keys. Mid Stay is the one you walk to; Silver Zone is a bus.
Which is cheaper depends on how long you are away, and the crossover is worth knowing: on the published gate tariff Silver Zone is cheaper for the first week or so, and Mid Stay is cheaper beyond it — Silver Zone charges £35 for each day past the fifth, against £30 for Mid Stay past the fourth, so the two are level at around nine days and Mid Stay pulls ahead after that. The 30-day table below shows where that ends up. Those are turn-up rates, and pre-booked prices are dynamic, so treat this as the shape of the pricing rather than as your quote.
Off-airport is the other half of the market, and it is the half this site exists to compare — Park Mark assured compounds and meet & greet operators that are unaffected by whatever the airport does to its own estate. If the reason you were looking for Long Stay was price, that is the direction to look: our comparison of the four parking types sets out the trade-offs, and the board prices every operator for your actual dates.
Careful with the words “long stay”. Several off-airport operators — including some listed on this site — use “Long Stay” in their own product names. Those are private compounds near the airport, not Bristol Airport's retired Long Stay car park, and booking one does not get you on-airport. If a page anywhere lets you think otherwise, it is a badly written page. Check the postcode and the operator name before you pay.
What a long trip costs at the gate, so you can sanity-check a quote
Nobody should publish a pre-booked airport price, ours included: those are dynamic and any fixed figure is out of date the moment it is written. What the airport does publish is its turn-up tariff. Thirty days, worked from it:
| Car park | 30 days at gate rates | Working |
|---|---|---|
| Mid Stay | £940 | £160 (4 days) + 26 × £30 |
| Short Stay | £955 | £175 (4 days) + 26 × £30 |
| Silver Zone | £1,045 | £100 (3 days) + 27 × £35 |
| Multi-Storey | £1,250 | £210 (4 days) + 26 × £40 |
Inputs are the airport's published gate tariff, correct on its site on 30 July 2026; the arithmetic is ours and shown so you can redo it when the rates move. These are turn-up prices and nobody should be paying them — the airport's own marketing puts a 15-day Multi-Storey stay at £187 booked online against £650 at the gate, on a booking it says was made on 30 May 2025. Use the table as a ceiling to measure quotes against, not as a price. Note too that Silver Zone gate use is “subject to availability and authorisation from the Silver Zone team”, so turning up is not guaranteed to work at all.
Two things that catch people out on a long booking
- Overstaying costs £35 a day in every airport car park on a pre-booked stay. On a long trip with a connecting flight home, that is the risk worth insuring against — check the cancellation and amendment terms before the price.
- Amendments are free up to 48 hours before your stated car park arrival time, and £5 after that, on the airport's published terms. Off-airport operators set their own; we show each one's terms on its listing before you pay.
How to check this yourself, in under a minute
- Open bristolairport.co.uk/parking and read the list of car parks it offers to sell you. That list is the answer.
- Open the parking prices page and look for the date stamp on it — the airport puts one there. If that date is recent and Long Stay is not on it, it is not open.
- Ignore anything undated. On a question like this, a page without a date on it is not information.
How this page is maintained
The status above sits in one place in this page's source, so re-checking it is an edit rather than a rewrite. The date at the top is the date we last checked it against the airport's own live pages — if that date looks old to you, treat it as old and use the one-minute check above instead. If you find it stale, or find it wrong, tell us and we will correct it. We would rather carry a correction than a confident answer that has quietly expired — which is the failure mode of every other page competing for this question.