Overseas Students
Airport Arrival and Welcome
Your UK contact or relative will most likely be the person to meet you on arrival at London Heathrow or London Gatwick Airport.
If this is not possible, or you have no relative here, then you can utilise the college’s International Welcome Service (IWS). This must be pre-arranged with the college at least two weeks before you arrive. There is a fixed cost of £50 payable for this service. We will need to have the details of your arrival flight, terminal, time and any other information. Ensure that you have the proper address of where you will be going to in London. We will arrange to meet you and get you to your accommodation as long as it is within the London area. You will also get a mini-tour of London and pleasant welcome by the person or couple that comes to receive you.
Alternatively if you wish to travel into London by public transport, go to the airport information desk and ask for directions to take a coach, a bus or the underground train (“the tube”) into central London or elsewhere. Do not take a black London taxi or “black cab” as this will cost you a lot of money (around £70 to central London). Also, do not take an unlicensed taxi cab (“touts”). This is not a safe way to travel.
