Hitchhiking from Luton
Hitchhiking to Luton
Recent reviews mentioning Luton
51.94825, -0.50127
It took me quite a while to find a truck going past London towards Dover, but with a bit of luck, you can do it easily. It's a big rest stop on both sides, so it's not hard to find a car going anywhere.―martih
51.94825, -0.50127
I walked around and got a truck all the way to Leicester truck stop. This is a large rest stop and definitely a great place for going norh. Free toilets, Wi-Fi and power outlets. A lot of cars and even trucks.―martih
51.68859, -0.22354
From here you can find a cars going in all directions. That makes it easier and harder at the same time. But it's still a great spot. I just needed to go for a better gas station near Luton on my way north. You can charge your phone inside and there are free toilets inside. As around and you will find someone.―martih
51.94825, -0.50127
A great spot, but if you are heading towards Cambridge, be aware that you can use both the part going north and south. There is a bridge between them for easy crossing. I needed to go for Bedford, but got a ride just to the ramp and continued from there.―martih
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
51.89361, -0.47058
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51.89361, -0.47058
Roundabout just by the entrance to M1 junction 11. This is not a great spot by any means - I only used it by necessity. However, I guess if you're starting your journey in Luton this might be a decent spot. Alternatively try Flamstead services just off the motorway at junction 9. A trucker told me he thought that would be a better bet.―Anonymous
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51.94825, -0.50127
Very big service station, lots of cars, all heading for London. Also a bridge over the road, so you can switch lanes here (as I did, I arrived from the South with a lift which took me around London and took a lift back into the Northern part of London)―Anonymous
51.8764, -0.38024
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52.01352, -0.20103
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51.71766, -0.27813
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51.87664, -0.37823
Nice spot, spent around 5min saturday early morning and got a ride to Oxford (so not exactly the main cars' target probably). Might have been luck, but on the other hand many cars were passing me.―Kub
52.01352, -0.20103
Got stuck here for hours at 5pm in the winter (in the dark) heading south. Seemed to be a lot of local traffic, but too close to london for many long-distance travellers to be stopping. Might be better in the light, but ultimately fairly quiet and unpromising.―Anonymous
51.71766, -0.27813
Direction London - got a ride within 10 minutes (had a sign, but maybe was just lucky). The guy said he stopped because the roundabout slows the speed down enough.Should be also able to go the other direction of M25. The cars passing by were enough (end of the weekend, May, 7pm)
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51.87664, -0.37823
Entrance/exit of a large parking.―Anonymous
52.02857, -0.21519
Motorway service station, not possible to walk to/from.Not too trafficed on a Sunday morning in January 2023. Extremely nice staff at the café gave me a coffee for free and said I could just go inside if I needed to warm up.
Unfortunately Netflix launched a documentary about a hitchhiker and axmurderer right before I went on a hitchhiking trip, so a lot of people in England said they were to scared to pick me up.
Two middle-aged women wasn't going my direction but bought me a sandwich.
Eventually some guys from Romania going to Leeds picked me up and dropped me off at the station outside Newark-On-Trent.
Unfortunately neither of us was completely familiar with the left driving and I was headed towards Lincoln, so I ended up in an inconvenient spot and ended up finding a car into Newark-On-Trent from there, but that was mainly my fault.
―V
51.92153, -0.21458
Bus stop - sign probably necessary. Possibility for the cars to stop without problems. I got a ride out to the first service station heading north fairly quick in January 2023. The motorway ahead goes both way so probably possible to get south as well.―V
51.89361, -0.47058
Waited 1h30, trying all types of techniques. Oue driver told us that they are not allowed to stop on this type of motorway entry―Anonymous
51.48952, -0.537
We spent a long time in the gas station speaking with people, but everyone was going to London, so when it stopped raining we crossed the road and got a car to Luton.The M&S crew is lovely and can help you
―Anonymous