University of Leeds open day

[Philandbill]

Hello. We're heading to this with DD2. Which is the best park and ride to use? I've trawled maps and Google and Elland Road seems to be what's suggested but it's still 45 minutes from there to the university. Am I missing something? Thanks all.

Yes, the P&R is at the south of the city and Boar Lane, where the bus stops are, are still a good walk from the University. If you don't want to walk 20-30 mins across Leeds, uphill, then you'd probably best get a taxi or another bus to the University.

You might do well to drive right into the city and park in the Woodhouse Lane Multi storey, which is just across the way from the university, reasonable cost and accessible from the inner ring road, so not actually city driving.

Woodhouse Lane multi storey is closest. P&R will drop you miles from the uni, though would be worth checking their 'how to get to us' section on the open day correspondence to see if they have a shuttle bus from the city centre? Alternatively there are LOADS of busses that head up that way. From my experience last year all the unis had travel stuff on their open day leaflet/website

Thanks all. Compared to other universities we've visited there is a paucity of info on Leed's website. Don't appear to be any shuttle buses, which is different from the other universities we have visited.

Def use woodhouse lane multi-storey. We parked there for the open day last year and it was busy but we got a space (and we weren’t particularly early) and it’s just 5 mins walk to the campus.

Park in Woodhouse Lane car park. Cheaper and closest.

We were a long way from Leeds and booked in overnight in a hall of residence. Parking on site. Is this an option? It was easy.

Thank you. Woodhouse Lane looks like the best option. @MeetMeOnTheCorner we're several hours away so we've booked a Premier Inn for the Friday night so we can be there at the university nice and early. I've done a few open days now (this is DC2) and being there at nine is definitely worthwhile.

oh dear, this is our first open day, and we're not getting there until late morning. Any tips?? We can stay until the bitter end, for various reasons staying in Leeds on Saturday night. I think we need to be better prepared

Sounds like you are sorted for parking. I'm just reflecting on how times have changed.
One Wednesday afternoon in 2000 I saw an advert for an open day in Leeds the next day. I got up, informed my parents I was off to Leeds and hopped on the National Express (on my own) and rocked up grasping only a paper map printed out the day before. Somehow managed to find the uni having never visited Leeds (or Yorkshire) before. Imagine my suprise to see everyone else there with their parents 🙈
It was the one and only uni I visited and my parents never stepped foot inside it until the day I graduated.
I still live in Leeds now having earned a qualification from every Uni in the city!
Leeds is great and bloody good
on you for planning this for your kids.

We parked on Springfield Mount both times we went to Open days at Leeds. It’s the road I lived on when I went to the Uni in the 90s!

@Pigriver yes, things really have changed. I started at university in the late 1980s, I don't think that there were open days then, you just went to an interview if the course had interviews. I drove myself to one -where I eventually went - in my mum's very basic mini metro. My parents took me to another because it was in Canterbury just before Christmas and they fancied a day out. They dropped me at the college and went off to explore the cathedral etc. 😀

You'll be fine if you can stay late. My top tip would be to get DC to book onto talks if they want to attend them. At Bath there was a massive line for he psychology course for those who hadn't booked online. It was a full lecture theatre and I'm sure people wouldn't have got in. At some places you can book on the day but there have been long queues for that too.
And, after we went with DC1 to an open day where she'd mixed up the universities and the uni she was actually interested in wasn't having an open day but the other one was, I'd say get DC to forward booking details to you. We've not let DC1 forget that yet ...

Leeds is not well served by park and ride options, unlike most other large cities. Would you not consider taking the train instead?

@Philandbill Taxi?

There are shuttle buses being laid on from the train station - is your Premier Inn anywhere near that OP?