Family-Friendly Facilities at Major UK Airports

London Heathrow

Gatwick North

Gatwick South

Stansted

Manchester

Birmingham

Food

There are many child-friendly restaurants in each terminal at Heathrow, providing high chairs and children’s menus.  

Most restaurants and bars provide high chairs and children’s menus.

Tip: Garfunkel’s (after security control) has a full children’s menu complete with activity pack.

Most restaurants and bars provide high chairs and children’s menus.

Tip: Garfunkel’s (after security control) has a full children’s menu complete with activity pack.

Most restaurants and bars provide high chairs and children’s menus.

Tip: Colouring packs can be picked up free from Frankie & Benny’s or JD Wetherspoon.

All restaurants and cafes provide high chairs.

There are ‘parent points’ in the main catering outlets in T1 and 2 where cleaning materials are provided.

Tip: The Real Food Company in T1 and T2 offer a child’s Globetrotters meal for just £1.99.

There are many child-friendly restaurants available.

Most restaurants and bars provide high chairs and children’s menus.

Lounge

Passengers travelling from Terminal 4 can keep children entertained in the 4Deck lounge from £78.40. Have the run of two floors of this purpose-built lounge – the Flight Deck, with views of the runway, and the Main Deck, offering complimentary refreshments, magazines, interactive toys and games for pre-school children.

Servisair Wentworth Lounge helps families by providing service and hospitality for up to three hours before flights with facilities including:

• Comfortable seating
• Complimentary drinks and snacks
• Internet access
• Self-contained fun zone with a soft play area and video games etc.
• TV

Enjoy space to relax with the family at the Gatwick Family Lounge. Facilities include:

• Comfortable seating
• Complimentary drinks and snacks
• TV
• A selection of newspapers and magazines

There are a number of family rooms located throughout the airport.

The Escape Lounge in T1 is open to all and designed to suit everyone’s needs. Facilities include:

• Comfortable seating
• Internet access
• Video games including a wii, PS3 and a giant Scalectrix racetrack

There is also a Lounge in T2 but with less children’s facilities.

Lounge facilities are currently in the process of being redeveloped as part of the One Terminal project. Passengers should check with Servisair for the latest information.

Shops

Boots pharmacy supplies baby essentials including nappies, formula milk and baby wipes.

WHSmith offer a wide range of magazines, books, comics and puzzle books.

Boots pharmacy supplies baby essentials including nappies, formula milk and baby wipes.

WHSmith and World News offer a wide range of magazines, books, comics and puzzle books.

There is a branch of the Hamleys toy store.

Boots pharmacy supplies baby essentials including nappies, formula milk and baby wipes.

WHSmith and World News offer a wide range of magazines, books, comics and puzzle books.

Boots pharmacy supplies baby essentials including nappies, formula milk and baby wipes.

WHSmith and World News offer a wide range of magazines, books, comics and puzzle books.

There is a branch of the Hamleys toy store.

Boots pharmacy supplies baby essentials including nappies, formula milk and baby wipes.

WHSmith offer a wide range of magazines, books, comics and puzzle books.

Boots pharmacy supplies baby essentials including nappies, formula milk and baby wipes.

WHSmith offer a wide range of magazines, books, comics and puzzle books.

Entertainment

There are many areas where children can watch the planes take off and land.

There is a GameGrid arcade which provides arcade entertainment including computer games and table football.

There are also many areas where children can watch the planes take off and land.

Tip: Costa, Starbucks and Aqua Bar are good locations!

There is a GameGrid arcade which provides arcade entertainment including computer games and table football.

There are also many areas where children can watch the planes take off and land.

Tip: The Bridge Bar and Frankie & Bennys are good locations!

There is a Voyager Entertainment centre which contains arcade games.

There are also many areas where children can watch the planes take off and land.

Tip: Prêt A Manger is a good location!

There is a Voyager Entertainment centre which contains arcade games.

There is a brand new play area located in T2 and is marked out by a picket fence. It is free and open to children between 3 and 12 years. The area provides the perfect spot for watching aeroplanes. There is also bottle warming facilities available in the unit.

There is a GameGrid arcade which provides arcade entertainment including computer games and table football.

A new viewing facility is being developed for visitors.

Baby changing facilities

There are baby changing facilities in each terminal at Heathrow. Many are located alongside the toilet blocks.

Specially equipped rooms for feeding and changing babies are provided throughout the airport.  There are also fold down tables provided in some male and female toilets.

Specially equipped rooms for feeding and changing babies are provided throughout the airport.  There are also fold down tables provided in some male and female toilets.

There are baby changing facilities available in male and female toilets throughout the airport.

There are baby changing facilities available in or nearby female toilets throughout the airport.

There are baby changing facilities available throughout the airport.

Glasgow

Luton

Bristol

Newcastle

East Mids

Edinburgh

Food

Most restaurants and bars provide high chairs and children's menu.

A choice of restaurants and bars in the Departure Lounge includes Est Restaurant, Est Bar, The Real Food Company, Prêt a Manger, PIP, Starbucks Coffee and Krispy Kreme.

A family favourite has to be Dexters restaurant available on the mezzanine after security.  They offer most dishes in child sized portions for half the price and have a range of milkshakes.
Depending on the time of day, Dexters also have special offers including ‘Kids eat Free’.

Bar Zero9 after security, has a kids menu offering a hot meal and a drink for just £3.95. Bar Zero9 also have bottle warming facilities; simply ask the staff behind the bar.

All restaurants and cafes, including Burger King, provide high chairs.

Most of the food outlets cater for children's tastes with a range of baby feeding facilities and children's meals. Real Food Company has a pièce de résistance for children - a chocolate fountain where fruit kebabs or muffins can be dipped in molten chocolate.

The departures lounge provides snacks and light refreshments and there is also a Burger King.

There are many child-friendly restaurants available with most restaurants and bars provide high chairs and children's menu.

Lounge

The skylounge Holiday Wing welcomes children of all ages.

Children's entertainment on offer includes toys, games consoles, DVDs and digital TV. Adults can relax and enjoy the contemporary surroundings, plus complimentary drinks,snacks, newspapers and internet access.

Any accompanying children are allowed in Servisair Executive Lounge.

The Servisair Executive Lounge admits children of all ages.

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Any accompanying children are allowed in Servisair Executive Lounge.

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Shops

Baby essentials such as nappies, formula milk and wipes are available at Boots pharmacy.

At WHSmith you can find magazines, comics and puzzle books to keep children entertained in the lounges and in the air.

Baby essentials such as nappies, formula milk and wipes are available at Boots pharmacy.

At WHSmith you can find magazines, comics and puzzle books to keep children entertained in the lounges and in the air.

There is a great range of toys and games in World Duty Free located after security.
WHSmiths Books have a great children’s range with chart books on Buy One Get One Free, and colouring packs and Top Trumps in the main store. Claire's has lots of themed books and jewellery and is great for that last fairy wand or hair band. In fact the girls will spend hours in there!

Biza stocks an impressive range of sweets, travel games and toys for children, providing the opportunity to keep children entertained both on the ground and in the air. New offers are available in-store all the time, so make sure to check them out.

Baby essentials such as nappies, formula milk and wipes are available at Boots pharmacy.

At WHSmith you can find magazines, comics and puzzle books to keep children entertained in the lounges and in the air.

Baby essentials such as nappies, formula milk and wipes are available at Boots pharmacy.

Baby essentials such as nappies, formula milk and wipes are available at Boots pharmacy.

At WHSmith you can find magazines, comics and puzzle books to keep children entertained in the lounges and in the air.

Entertainment

International passengers will find a soft play area for young children after security on the international pier, near Gates 27A and 27B. It is unsupervised and suitable for ages two to six years.
Additionally, puzzle tables, Lego play equipment and Fingabox interactive screens can be found next to seating areas at several locations around the terminal.

There are many areas where children can watch the planes take off and land.

There is a range of books, toys and games guaranteed to keep children entertained.
There is an area on the mezzanine level where children can watch the planes take off and land.

There is a GameGrid arcade which provides arcade entertainment including computer games and table –football.

Within the departure lounge food court a wide screen TV runs CBeebies throughout the day.

A soft play area is currently under construction and is scheduled to be launched at the end of April.

There is a small unsupervised play area after security, near Gate 3, with toys and puzzles to help keep youngsters distracted.

Fingabox interactive play screens for children can be found at various locations in the terminal, including near Gates 2, 4, 9 and 11 and in UK Arrivals.

Some children's entertainments are also provided in the family area of the first-floor Food Village near Caffè Nero

Tip: The Gathering Restaurant and Lounge and EAT are good locations!

Baby changing facilities

There are three baby change rooms at Glasgow Airport, in the following locations:

After security, on the first floor by Starbucks

After security, in international departures beside Drum and Monkey and Bargo

In the international baggage reclaim hall (for arriving passengers).
In addition most toilets throughout the terminal, including those in T2 check-in, have wall-mounted baby changing units.

Special baby-care rooms, equipped with changing tables, nappy dispensers and other essential equipment are available to provide comfort and privacy for passengers travelling with young babies.

Superdrug, located after security, take pre-orders and requests for baby food, milk and nappies. Simply contact the Superdrug team on tel: 01275 475565 and place an order 48 hours before you fly and the team will have it bagged and waiting for you.

Baby changing facilities can be found throughout the terminals, either inside or nearby the ladies toilets.

There are four baby-change stations situated throughout the airport – two before security and two after security. They are all clearly signed and located alongside the toilets.

Baby changing facilities can be found either inside or nearby to the ladies toilets.

Edinburgh Airport has baby change rooms in the following locations:
Before security, in UK arrivals (near Costa coffee shop).
Before security, on the first floor near Borders book shop.
After security, near Gate 11.
In the international baggage reclaim hall (arriving passengers only).