Most of this site is about leaving a car somewhere for a fortnight while you fly. This page is about the other thing people ring us for: somewhere secure to keep a vehicle that is not being driven at all — for a winter, a season, or the length of a job. It is a different problem and it deserves its own page rather than a paragraph tacked onto a parking guide.
Read this first. This is an enquiry page. We have not published a storage price, we are not telling you there is space today, and we are not promising that any particular vehicle can be accommodated. Those three answers depend on your vehicle and on what is on site the week you ask, so they come from a phone call. Any storage page that gives you all three from a template is guessing on your behalf.
Who tends to ask us about this
The enquiries fall into a handful of shapes, and they are not really about parking:
- A motorhome or caravan over the winter. It is used for six months of the year, it will not fit on the drive, and the estate or the neighbours have opinions about the other six.
- A van between contracts. The work has stopped for a few months, the van is worth too much to leave on a residential street, and it needs to be somewhere with a barrier across the entrance rather than a padlock on a gate.
- A second car while you are working away. Six weeks offshore, a posting, or a stint abroad that keeps getting extended, and no one at home who needs the car.
- A project or classic car with no garage. Off the road, possibly on a SORN, and currently taking up the only sensible parking space at the house.
What all four have in common is time. Once a vehicle is standing for months rather than days, where it stands starts to matter more than what it costs to put it there.
What a staffed compound is, and what it is not
There are three broad options for a vehicle you are not using, and they are genuinely different products rather than three prices for the same thing.
A field or a yard let by the acre is the cheapest and it is exactly what it sounds like: you leave the vehicle, the gate is locked, and nobody is there between the day you drop it and the day you collect it. A self-storage unit gives you four walls and a roof, which is the right answer for a car worth restoring, but the sizes that take a motorhome are scarce and access is usually inside opening hours.
What we run is the third thing — a staffed compound. The description that travels with our own parking products is the same one that applies to the site itself: secure compound, CCTV, barriers and 24-hour staff, with uniformed, insured drivers on the Meet & Greet side. That is the whole of it — we are not going to dress it up with a perimeter specification or a headcount, because the useful distinction is simpler than that. The difference between a field and a compound is that somebody is there. A vehicle that has stood for four months and needs to be shifted, or a gate that needs opening at an odd hour, is a conversation rather than a problem.
Whether that difference is worth paying for depends entirely on the vehicle. For a trailer worth a few hundred pounds it probably is not. For a motorhome, it usually is.
What we need from you before we can answer
We would rather ask five questions and give you a straight answer than quote blind and renegotiate at the gate. Have these ready and the call takes two minutes:
- What the vehicle is, and its actual dimensions. Length, height and width in metres, off the handbook rather than estimated by eye — a motorhome with a roof box, an A-frame or a bike rack is longer and taller than the model name suggests. If it is on a trailer, the trailer counts.
- How long. A number of months, even an approximate one, and whether it is a fixed end date or open-ended. These price very differently and it is not a detail.
- Whether it needs starting or moving while it is there. Some owners want a vehicle left completely alone; others want it started periodically, or moved so it is not standing on the same patch all winter. Say which, because it is not something we will assume.
- Its road-legal status. Taxed, SORN, MOT in date or not, and insured or laid up — this matters for whether the vehicle can legally be driven on or off the site, and it is the detail people most often forget until collection day.
- Access. Whether you expect to visit it, how often, and whether you might need it out at short notice. That is a real constraint, not an afterthought, and it is far easier to arrange at the start.
If you already know the answers, put them in one email and we will come back with something specific. If you do not know the dimensions, measure before you ring — it is the single thing that decides most of these enquiries.
What we will not put on this page
Three things, and it is worth saying why rather than leaving gaps you have to notice for yourself:
- That space is available. A compound fills and empties, and a page written in September cannot tell you about November. Anything that says “spaces available” permanently is decoration, not information.
- A price. We do not know what your vehicle is yet. A seven-metre motorhome standing for six months and a hatchback standing for six weeks are not the same job, and publishing one number for both would mean overcharging half of you and quoting a figure we could not honour to the rest.
- That your vehicle type is accepted. Until someone has read the dimensions, that is a guess. We would rather say no on the phone.
None of that is us being cagey. It is the same reason we do not print a pre-booked airport parking price anywhere on this site: a number that is wrong by the time you read it is worse than no number.
Ask about a vehicle. The quickest route is the phone — 07960 011047. If it is easier to write it down, email bookings@parkingbristolairport.co.uk with the vehicle, its length and height, roughly how long you need and whether it has to be accessible while it is with us. There is no form to fill in and no deposit to pay to find out — you will get a yes, a no, or a price, and if the answer is no we will say so.
If you are actually flying, not storing
Worth separating, because the two get confused. If the vehicle is a car and you are leaving it while you fly out of Bristol — even for a month or two — that is ordinary airport parking rather than storage, it is priced by the booking engine, and you can see the figure for your own dates in a few seconds. Start on the main parking page, or read what a month at Bristol Airport really costs first — it covers the airport’s own tariffs and what standing still for thirty days does to a car.
Storage is the other case: the vehicle stays, you do not fly, and there are no dates to type into a search box. That one is a phone call.
Frequently asked questions
How do I find out whether you have space for my vehicle?
Ring 07960 011047 or email bookings@parkingbristolairport.co.uk with the vehicle, its length and height, and the dates you have in mind. Nothing on this page tells you whether there is room — space changes week to week and the only honest answer comes from someone looking at what is actually on the ground when you ask.
What does long-term vehicle storage cost?
We do not publish a storage rate, because there is no single one to publish. What a vehicle costs to keep depends on how much space it takes, how long it stays and whether it has to be moved or accessed while it is there. Tell us those three things and you will get a figure rather than a range.
Do you take motorhomes, caravans or boats on trailers?
That is a question we will answer for your vehicle rather than in general. Length, height, width, weight and whether it is on a trailer all matter, and so does what else is on site at the time. Send the dimensions and we will tell you yes or no. We would rather turn you down on the phone than at the gate.
Is my vehicle insured while it is stored with you?
Do not take an answer to that from any web page, including this one. Two separate things are involved: what your own policy covers while a vehicle is off the road and kept somewhere other than your home address, and what arrangements the site itself carries. Ask your insurer about the first, in writing, and ask us about the second before you commit to anything.
Can I get the vehicle out at short notice?
Tell us at the enquiry stage if you need that, because it changes the answer. A vehicle that has to come out on a few hours notice needs different handling from one that is going to sit untouched until spring, and it is easier to arrange at the start than to renegotiate later.