Don't overpay for Dublin Airport parking. Compare prices from 8 leading sites plus independent operators in one search to find the best deal.

How to choose the cheapest Dublin Airport Parking?

Used to just rocking up at Dublin Airport and paying as you enter? Perfectly understandable as you just want to relax and enjoy your holiday; however, by comparing the parking that is actually available to book through Airport Parking Shop and doing a tiny bit of planning, you can usually save money and find an option better suited to you.

A useful benchmark: Dublin Airport's current drive-up rates are up to €50 per 24 hours for Short Term, €25 per day for Express Red and €20 per day for Holiday Blue. Our lowest APS price last week was £56.42 for a 7-day stay.

Tempted? Then, whether it is the nearest car park or the cheapest, we give you the answers below in five bite-sized chunks.

1 – Understand Your Parking Type Options (and what's usually cheapest)

Quick Insights

The current APS Dublin range is mainly Park & Ride / Park & Fly, plus a Meet & Greet option. Park & Ride is usually where you will find the lowest prices; Meet & Greet costs more for the convenience of avoiding the shuttle.

A Deeper Dive

(but don’t worry you will be back to the surface in no time)

The parking types you can currently compare through Airport Parking Shop are:

• Park & Ride / Park & Fly — you park away from the terminals, keep your keys and take a shuttle to the airport. Current APS products are Park & Fly Dublin, Metro Hotel, Clayton Hotel and Park2Travel.
• Meet & Greet — you arrange the handover, leave your keys with the driver and walk the short distance to the terminal. APS currently compares Dublin Airport Meet & Greet.

What about official Dublin Airport parking? Dublin Airport also operates Short Term parking beside T1/T2, Express Red and Holiday Blue Long Term, T2 Surface and Drop & Go. Those are useful comparisons for price and convenience, but they are not currently sold through the eight APS booking partners, so we do not mix them into the live APS product table below.

Dublin Airport car park specifics

All five current APS products can be used for flights from either Terminal 1 or Terminal 2. The important differences are how far away you park, whether you need a shuttle and whether you keep your keys.

• Park2Travel — keep your keys; free shuttle to T1/T2 in about 6 minutes, running every 12 minutes, 24/7.
• Park & Fly Dublin — keep your keys; free shuttle every 30 minutes, 24/7, taking about 10–12 minutes.
• Clayton Hotel Park & Fly — keep your keys; free shuttle every 20 minutes, 24/7, taking about 7 minutes.
• Metro Hotel Park & Fly — secure underground parking; keep your keys; timetabled shuttle normally operating 04:00–23:45, with the hotel around 7 minutes from the airport.
• Dublin Airport Meet & Greet — leave your keys with the driver and walk to the terminal; no shuttle bus required.

Which parking type is cheapest?

Expect to pay more for convenience. The closest official Short Term parking and Meet & Greet-style services usually command a premium, while off-airport Park & Ride / Park & Fly is normally the place to start if price is the priority. Prices change by date and availability, so compare the live total rather than assuming one operator will always be cheapest.

Using Airport Parking Shop

Tip: By default, Airport Parking Shop lists prices from low to high irrespective of parking type. If you know which type you want, use Filter Results to narrow the live results rather than comparing products that work in completely different ways.

2 – Plan to Book in Advance

Quick Insight

Start looking at least two weeks in advance, and earlier around school or national holidays.

The Quick Dive-Down Part

Turning up without comparing first is an easy way to overpay. For context, Dublin Airport's current drive-up rates are up to €50 per day for Short Term, €25 per day for Express Red and €20 per day for Holiday Blue.

The current APS products are designed around advance booking through a booking partner. Park2Travel is the exception: it also accepts customers without a booking using ScanPay at the entrance, although it strongly recommends pre-booking.

Tip: Prices are dynamic and capacity matters. If your dates are fixed, checking earlier gives you more products and rates to compare.

3 – Compare Official and Third-Party Dublin Parking

Quick Insight

APS's current Dublin range is made up of independent parking products. Official airport parking is still useful as a benchmark, but compare like-for-like: shuttle parking against shuttle parking, and premium terminal handover against premium terminal handover.

A Deeper Explanation

Dublin Airport operates its own Short Term, Long Term and Drop & Go products. Airport Parking Shop's current Dublin range instead gives you five independent alternatives: Park2Travel, Park & Fly, Clayton Hotel, Metro Hotel and Dublin Airport Meet & Greet.

For shuttle parking, third-party products are often the cheaper place to look. Park2Travel has also publicly compared its pricing with Dublin Airport's official long-stay products and reported lower average prices in the CCPC analysis period. That does not mean it will always be cheapest for your dates, so the live search still matters.

What is the practical difference?

• Distance: official Short Term is closest to the terminals; APS Park & Ride / Park & Fly products use a shuttle.
• Keys: all four current APS shuttle products let you keep your keys. Meet & Greet requires you to leave them with the driver.
• Terminal coverage: all five current APS products can be used for T1 or T2.
• Price: compare products that provide a similar level of convenience. A 6-minute Park & Ride should not be judged against a terminal-side premium product as if they are the same service.

(Sorry, a quick rant — pricing is dynamic, so we try not to litter our pages with teaser “cheapest ever” prices cherry-picked from quiet dates. We do show recent live pricing, but otherwise the quickest answer is to run a search. We don’t collect your email just to show you the results. Okay… rant over!)

4 – Compare Parking Features to Find the Best Value

Once you have decided how you want to park, compare the details that actually change the experience:

• Transfer time & frequency: how long the shuttle takes and how often it runs.
• Keys: keep your keys or leave them with a driver.
• Operating hours: especially important for very early departures or late returns.
• Accessibility: accessible bays and whether the shuttle can accommodate your needs.
• EV / vehicle restrictions: charging availability, height limits and vehicle-size rules.
• Total price: include airport access fees, overstay charges and booking flexibility, not just the headline rate.

Using Airport Parking Shop

Tip: After searching, the important features are shown in the results and product details. Compare the transfer, keys, accessibility and booking terms as well as the price.

Different name, same site — or an old name

A different name does not always mean a completely different parking location. Dublin has two examples worth knowing:

5 – Compare Sites to Find the Cheapest and Save More

Quick insight

The same Dublin parking product can be sold by several booking sites at different prices or with different rate conditions. That is exactly why checking more than one matters.

The Detail

(I ran out of deep dive riffs)

So, you are ready to save money – you’ve even planned out how many more drinks you can get at the pool bar. But then you google for Dublin Airport parking, see a pile of booking sites, and your head starts to hurt. Which one is best?

Airport Parking Shop compares eight booking partners in one place: Holiday Extras, BCP, Essential Travel, Purple Parking, FHR, APH, SkyParkSecure and Park & Go. The important bit is that they do not all sell the same Dublin products.

Which booking sites sell which Dublin car parks?

The table below covers the five current APS Dublin products. A tick means the product is listed in that booking partner's current public Dublin range; an X means it was not found there. Availability for your exact travel dates can still vary.

On a phone? Swipe across the table to see all 8 providers.

✓ = listed in that provider's current public Dublin range. X = not found in that provider's current Dublin range. This is product coverage, not a guarantee of availability for every date.

Search more than one

The key therefore is to compare the sites that actually sell the product you want. You could open three or four tabs and check them manually. Or you might just give up!

All the comparison sites have a lowest price guarantee – isn’t that great?

Price guarantees can be useful, but they normally rely on you finding the identical product and qualifying rate cheaper elsewhere and then making a claim within the provider's rules. Comparing the live offers before you book is usually simpler.

How Airport Parking Shop Can Help

That is why Airport Parking Shop is here. We compare the car parks and the booking companies selling them. We are independent and do not own the Dublin car parks ourselves, so the aim is to show you the available options side-by-side rather than steer you toward our own inventory.

How we save time and money:

• Compare the current Dublin products in one search.
• See prices from multiple booking companies for the same underlying parking product.
• Compare like-for-like parking rather than mixing terminal handover with shuttle parking.
• Check transfer time, keys, accessibility and restrictions before choosing purely on price.
• Switch dates and re-run the live search when your travel plans change.

Dublin Airport parking practical information

Do you need to pre-book?

Accessibility

EV charging and vehicle restrictions

Dublin parking: important things to know

• Meet & Greet: €5 airport charge applies at both drop-off and collection. The current grace period is four hours at the operator's discretion; after that the published additional charge is €20 per day.
• Park & Fly: shuttle pickup/drop-off uses Zone 16. Current booking information gives a four-hour grace period at the operator's discretion, then €20 per day.
• Metro Hotel: the shuttle follows a timetable between 04:00 and 23:45. Park & Fly customers should arrive 15 minutes before the chosen departure. The operator currently suspends the shuttle from 14:00 on 24 December until 04:00 on 27 December.
• Clayton Hotel: current terms give a one-hour grace period; after that the published charge is €1.50 per hour, subject to change.
• Park2Travel: the operator currently gives a three-hour overstay grace period. Return shuttle pickup is at Zone 9 outside T1 and serves passengers from both terminals. Its contact page separately states that the car park is closed on Christmas Day, so check festive operating arrangements if travelling then.

Useful things to know when comparing Dublin Airport parking

The easiest way to make sense of the results is to separate who operates the parking, what type it is, which exact parking product you are booking, who is selling it and what rate you are buying.

What should you compare? First confirm it is the same underlying parking product, then compare the total price, transfer, key policy, accessibility, restrictions and cancellation/amendment terms.