Picking up from Birmingham airport at midnight

[lurchermummy]

As the title says I have to pick up DH around midnight - he booked the cheapest flight without thinking about me having to park and walk through a multi-storey car park at that time - I’m a bit creeped out - anyone familiar with Birmingham
airport who knows where the best and closest car park is for pick ups please? Thanks

@lurchermummy he can spend some of his ticket saving on a cab home.

I really don't understand why it is that men when they get married some how expect their wives to pander to them like their mothers.

ooh the wickle boy cant get home alone can he. diddums

I never expect anyone to pick me up from the airport because I think it's a waste of their time - it means 3 people journeys instead of one - 1. the collecting person there. 2. collecting person back. 3 the traveller back. instead of just one - the travelling person back. Unless it's very close and very easy or the person is bringing back an elephant or alpine horn or something they really need help with, it's just abusing a persons good will and babyish.

I really don't understand why it is that men when they get married some how expect their wives to pander to them like their mothers.

I don't think picking someone up from an airport is being their mother. It's kindness and helpful, I've done it plenty of time for others and vice versa. Same for train pick ups too, what a ickle womanly pushover I must be 🙄.

Premium drop off/pick up is £6 for 10 minutes (which is a bloody rip off!) Guessing you’re coming quite a way but careful where you wait - lots of lay-bys etc closed due to road works and if you pull over anywhere that’s not an official car park on the airport site it’s £100 fine 😬

I don't think picking someone up from an airport is being their mother. It's kindness and helpful, I've done it plenty of time for others and vice vers

You are totally missing the point. It's not about volunteering to do it willingly. If you want to use your time in that way do that, that's your choice.

It's about the expectation of a man that his wife will pick him up - in this case at midnight.

If you are an adult, your starting point should be that you are responsible for your own trips and travel and you get yourself home. Unless you really need help (injury for example), it's just selfish to expect other people to pick you up from an airport (them travelling there, waiting and back vs you travelling just back).

A man expecting his wife to pick him up is exactly as I said - like a baby wanting his mommy to sort out his travel for him.

A decent man would realise that expecting someone to inconvenience themselves in the middle of the night to hang around a likely desserted airport/walk from carpark/wait in the car park whatever it involves will likely be lonely, cold, miserable, probably depressing, possibly unnerving or frightening depending on your mindset or lighting. To ask this of a woman who - like it or not realistically is more vulnerable to physical attact in a car park alone at night - is very selfish. Worse if it's your wife who you are supposed to love. This isn't rocket science. It's not a two person job. We can all pay to get a cab even if it is more than you'd like to spend.

So if flight was cheap he can spend on a taxi instead
And a cheap flight might be delayed.
You might be 1.00 am in car park
He decided to book this flight. He can get taxi home.

The car park camera cars are out ALL the time at Birmingham. They are really shit hot on charging. We always organise a taxi and they actually park a good 10 mins away, wait for us to call, then direct us to stand under the main carpark light and wait for them. They are in and out it 5 mins and it still costs £6. They even charge for drop off unless you can prove you have a room booked at the Ibis or Accor.

like others have said, monorail to international, or if he is arriving between half midnight and 0330, it's bus stop C. It will only take him 10 mins and is free. It will cost £6 for you to pick up, and if you go over 10 mins it costs a lot more.

There’s a free wait place, 15 minutes brutally accurate.

I’ve just pulled up at the side of the road outside the monorail/train station before now, it’s not a problem when it’s not busy which it won’t be at that time. There’s a little parking/waiting area just past it that you don’t have to go through a barrier for, waiting time 20 mins but they didn’t have cameras or anything last time I went.

Agree with this!

Thanks all I’m here now, car park 1 is very close to the terminal, it was brightly lit and I got parked on the ground floor so no need to use the lifts. All is well! Thanks for the advice though.