Hitchhiking from London
Hitchhiking to London
Recent reviews mentioning London
51.45945, -2.58912
Layby at Moxy Bristol ( hotel on Newfoundland Rd BS1 ) IS NOW VERY GOOD ..for M4 West or East―Anonymous
51.43901, 0.05095
Fastest pickup ever . 1.5 mins straight to Maidstone services, now onto France!!―Anonymous
52.16245, 0.1062
Utterly miserable spot but has worked for us on 2 occasions with a sign for london―ActingOutColours
51.0213, 1.54041
(on the Dover -> Calais ferry) we paid £30 and joined the ferry as foot passengers. there were lots of people driving off the ferry. we were 3 people and did not find a lift for all of us, but split into 2 and 1, and both groups found lifts to London. we asked almost everyone on the ferry and found 2-3 offers.―Alifeee
52.61929, -1.20565
First person I asked at 6:30 in the morning agreed to take me to London.―treetoadman
51.49186, 0.27054
we were heading to Dover. it took a while to get a lift, but we were 3 people. our friends arrived to hitch after us and took a lift before us (cheeky). eventually found a lift to Maidstone after trying several spots (food court, fuel station, roundabout). Lots of French/German/Belgian/etc cars around.―Alifeee
52.96131, -1.2663
it's a services. pretty classic. took us a while because we were 3 people. eventually found someone going down to the south coast:]―Alifeee
52.17531, 0.1471
Nice place (but not that much cars),good place for parking,and I’m lucky get a ride after 20mins,maybe normally could be longer but worth to try I’m there is the Sunday morning 10.30―Anonymous
51.60546, -0.6933
A blind corner as cars are speeding up for the motorway. There is space to stop. Maybe try along London Road but there’s not many good spots to stop around the roundabout―Breno
50.57195, 2.38081
traffic is not crazy, but this is still my pick of choice to get to england from france. i've had varying luck ranging from rides in 2h to, this time, getting there at 18:30 and only getting a lift at 10:00, with only 4h spent sleeping. i strongly recommend asking around, maybe with a sign.not huge amounts of traffic but very solid proportion of UK cars (seasonally dependent). i've found that many english cars can be downright mean and are often full, but don't get discouraged! there are also some nice ones worth waiting for.
easy enough to give up and go to calais if you're in a rush.
indoor bits close at 22:00 but i believe the one opposite stays open.
someone called the cops and staff lady vouched for me so they apologised and left me alone
―atlas
51.87169, 0.19588
Had been waiting outside petrol station for a couple hours before we realised that 90% of the traffic was entering not leaving the services. Switched spots and got offered a few lifts until eventually we got one into london within half an hour―ActingOutColours
50.85391, 4.65821
Walked here from Leuven, asked around, two of them were going to Brussels and the third one happened to be a couple living near London, so I got a ride from here through Eurotunnel all the way to north of London. And they ended up being worried that I will get stuck hitchhiking out of the London bubble, so they bought be a crazy expensive train ticket to Manchester, so I got to my friend’s place by the evening! ☺️―anettlee17
51.4919, -0.28366
Had hear good things about this spot but after 2 hours with a sign to Bristol I decided to call it a day―ActingOutColours
52.20994, -0.94353
Stood at the entrance to the petrol station and got a lift heading into London. Also got offered a lift to Milton Keynes inside the services when seen walking around with sign. Not loads of traffic but decent spot―ActingOutColours
51.40485, 0.39537
Quickly found a ride into southwest London from here―daganzebuaatramper
51.87648, -0.37821
near the parking exit traffic light will be a good places find the car to goe hitchhike, but nowadays not everyone known it , hoping everything goes well, i find the paper board from the supermarket 1km away from airport―Joe
51.43415, -0.38821
Most people go to the ring road, but at the end i found someone who went to Exeter.―johan92
51.43415, -0.38821
It took a while to find someone, but at the end I asked someone who was filling his tank, going to Exeter.―johan92
50.84189, -0.15138
Me and a friend waited only 15mins at around 7:30am and got a lift going to London. We stood just before the petrol station. It worked well as people are slowing down because of the lights and can pull in to the petrol station easily if they want to pick you up. Staff also let us use the toilet there.―UkHitcher
51.57765, 0.0425
Have done thid spot a couple times and with a 'Cambridge' sign we(Male & Female) seem to get lifts faster than it took to make the sign―ActingOutColours