Heathrow Terminal 4

This was our first time flying in and out of this airport. I always appreciate going through security when your don’t have to take your shoes off. Just after the security area, there are lots of duty free shops. A last chance to pick up items before leaving the country.
There are a few places to eat in this terminal, but the choices are limited. Our flight was on time, so that was a nice surprise. Pretty straight forward experience and we are looking forward to returning some day.

I’m always a bit disappointed whenever my flight departs from or arrives at Terminal 4. It’s not that there’s anything especially wrong with the terminal, just that it feels away from the action. You have take an extra train to get here, and you get the sense its playing little brother to the gigantic Queens Terminal. I often find myself here when visiting the UK because it’s where Malaysia Airlines flys from, and as a terminal it’s acceptable. It’s spacious, clean and easy to navigate through, although there’s not an abundance of places in which to stop and eat, or have a pre-​flight drink. You’ll breeze through here, but do so without finding much character.

This airport is a little confusing when it comes to directing passengers to where they need to go. The terminal departure screen that list all the connecting flights is not in any sort of order, so you have to scan/​search through the monitors for your flight with everyone else in the way. Once you find out which terminal your connecting flight is leaving from and head over there you are then faced with trying to find your departing gate. If you can’t find your gate or anyone to query your search but see a time in your gate # section that will indicate that your gate # will be posted at that time. Once it’s posted you may only have 30 mins to board so keep checking the monitor…

I really like Heathrow, any terminal I’ve used so far is convenient, well laid out and just works.
Fresh coffee and food is always available, it’s easy to reach by tube and everything just works!

Hello London Heathrow airport. The mighty mega airport that dukes it out with the best of them. Its big, bad and ever so busy, this airport is definitely one of the busiest airports in the world.
C’mon now, it services the shopping capital of the world. So you know you’re bound to get bombarded with retail and all sorts of other shops. There are restaurants as well, but I usually fly out of this airport in the morning time, so all I ever actually encounter is their coffee shops.
The terminals are rather spacious, spacious enough that even at its peak hours, it doesn’t seem too crowded at all. Plus there are shops around the Immediate gate area, to keep passengers busy until it’s time to board their flight.
Anyways, it’s just like any other airports. Your only responsibility is to arrive early enough to cover the stupid nonsense stuff that arises. Like, über long lines at immigration and security. Your tardiness is not their problem, it’s yours.
Anyway, life goes on and I like this airport a lot. Make sure you keep your patience hat on. This is a Major European hub you know.

Its Heathrow Airport, Its busy as its an international airport. I was quite disappointed at the food choices here as theres no restaurants that are substantial or filling. The Duty Free is good and I always do alcohol shopping from there as its well priced and doesn’t count towards my luggage allowance so can buy a fair amount! It is very accessible by public transport which surprised me though I personally would not want to travel on public transport with the amount of luggage I have when travelling! Its a great airport which serves its purpose well.

It’s clean, tidy and has free wifi. As fair as airports go Heathrow ain’t doing too bad.
There’s regular train services from London out to Heathrow which is a heaven send. The trains stop at either terminal 4 or terminals 1,2,3.
As far as shopping and eateries go there isn’t much happening here. Thankfully within the international departures at terminal 4 there’s a Pret Manager so you can get slightly healthy and affordable food.
Across the terminal you’ll find a whole heap of information boards which seemed to be updated regularly. Always nice when your waiting to find out which gate your flying from.

Smooth sailing when traveling. Slide through the long tubelike rooms and find your plane. Then search out nearest bar, drink beer until 5 minutes before checkin starts, pee and go to gate.

Wifi: Welcome Back Sandra! Yes! i do feel welcome. London is always a ‘foodfest’. But also when it comes to shopping and, if no rain, long walks.
And as my husband noticed too, the staff in restaurants and stores are so friendly! Take notes Amsterdam. Although I love you too!
But for Heathrow, noting more then good words. Enough shops at terminal 4, food, very clean and great staff.
Downside?
But that counts for every airport, terrible souvenirs… When will we learn people.

Great terminal for window shopping while you wait for your flight. But lots of walking and bus rides to get around to your terminal can be a pain. Security is tight, so don’t dare to bring anything you shouldn’t be. Safe travels!

GOOD:
— It’s a location in Terminal 4 where you can try to get real food.
BAD:
— I ordered their main burger and got a paddy that was no where as large as the buns. In two bites I would have eating all of the burger and left with much more buns. The burger was also very mediocre in taste.
— On the menu they advertise offering lemonade, but what I got was Sprite. When I inquired about it they said that their lemonade is Sprite. Why indicate lemonade when you’re going to give Sprite?
— It took for ever for someone to realized that I was done with my meal and to bring the check. Further to that they didn’t even check-​up on me to make sure the meal was to my liking.
Overall, not a good food option especially when they advertise themselves as a restaurant.

Comfortable terminal that does what it is supposed to do.
A few places to eat including Café Rouge at departures.

Easily the worst laid out departure area I’ve seen in a while.
Poor selection of eateries here and it’s all expensive or not tasty.
Dark in places and I don’t mean the areas under construction.
Needs a refreshen up and new design team on the case.

I went in March 2015 through Heathrow T4 and when I went, it was one of the most organized airports/​customs entry I had ever been in. One thing to note, the walk from the security checkpoint to the actual gate can be long. But for me, it was fine as it gave me a chance to walk before getting on the longhaul flight.
By the terminal, there are some small eateries, newsstands, drugstore for last minute needs.

Definitely NICE!
All the Skyteam airlines are here plus few other ones.
It is a big terminal, easy accessible with a good, not exceptional security checking area. it might take sometimes to pass trough if it is a busy time and you are unlucky to get in one of those slow motion queues… it happens :)
Passed the checking … SHOP. and Shop!!! A very very long corridor with shops on mostly both sides, and some internal ones also… very nice and all the brands are here… also nice PINK shirt shop which I love.
Service is good and looks like everyone is very nice.
A lot of food courses available… for any taste. and of course drinks everywhere… remember you are still in UK :)
Access to gates is good and monitors providing information are scattered all over the main concourse.
Seating in abundance but it can get very very full … so you might not seat right in front of the gate… they clearly want you to move around to shop for something.
Free WiFi which works… even if you need to provide your email.
It would be a 5 stars if it weren’t for the main walk way really too busy and messy due to the seating right in the middle and the one security checking gate which i think slows down a lot.
When you come in, if you hold an E passport. all the checking are automated, scan and go.

Getting through security and customs was easy, very nice and patient staff.
Then it was the duty free which is great, loads of shops including harrods with a wide range of jewelry and designer boutiques.
Other than the lounges available there are plenty of places to eat and have coffee from coffee shops to sushi and burgers restaurants.

Getting bored in the line up to check in for our flight. .why don’t they have auto check in???
Now that Terminal 5 is here, all the other Terminals are being ignore for upgrades.

This place is enormous. Just so long as you don’t have to go to a different terminal, things will be okay. But the fact that you have to use Heathrow Express (um, express = the opposite of what it actually is) to go between terminals is ridiculous. Provide a way for us to walk — we’d get there faster. Honestly a terribly designed airport. HOWEVER, if you are just coming/​going from one terminal, this place is fine. The fact that there is super-​short-​term free wifi is also ridiculous. People are coming in from all over the world, and may not have a way to get in touch w/​the outside world. Get a clue and give some free wifi. The food options are okay, the security line is pretty well organized, and the staff were quite friendly (I flew w/​Delta). Overall, this place needs some serious love… but there are worse airports.

Ah the elusive Terminal 4. You have to get off the Heathrow Express to get on another Heathrow Express to get here, or travel a little further on the tube to do the same. That alone makes me dislike this terminal more than the others, but simply because I am a man of convenience and to be inconvenienced makes me so angry my head nearly explodes.
Ok, that’s not true. And the extra journey isn’t that bad, just something to watch out for.
Besides that, easy enough terminal and much like the rest of Heathrow. They’ll get you in and out of security unless it’s a major travel day, where, in which case, the whole thing fall apart into chaos. Food is lacking besides a few fast food options and packaged items, but if you’re really starving, they’ll make do. And there are some plugs to plus in your equipment for pre-​flight charge if needed, but you’ll have to go searching.
Overall, not great, not horrible, happy to leave.

Let’s face it — a ginormous international airport isn’t all that different from any other. At least the security agents in the US are friendly and nice. The security agents in Heathrow? Mean and not friendly — at all. I had the equivalent of vegan goat cheese in my bag (and bread) because that was going to be my meal (since most airlines don’t really do vegan food, or any food, very well). When I took it out of the refrigerator in the morning, it was solid. It softened up a bit but it’s not at all what I would consider «liquid» and I rather doubt that actual goat cheese would be classified as «liquid.»
When my bag was searched — the mushroom pâté was set aside, and the suspect container of Shreese pulled out. I asked why it was a problem.
«It’s liquid.»
«That’s not liquid.»
«Look, I’m just doing my job — you can make it harder or let me just do it.»
«How do you determine whether something is liquid?»
«It’s PHYSICS — if it can be spread or poured, it’s liquid.»
«Most things are liquid if you have them at the right temperature — even you or me. This is the same as goat cheese — but it’s made from soya. It’s definitely not liquid at cooler temperatures but if we heat it up, I’m sure you can pour it.»
«I’m not the one who determines these things. It’s science — liquid is a liquid.»
«Actually, glass is liquid — it’s always moving, though at ambient temperatures it’s very slow — and you let it go through. So is aluminum, actually.»
Silence and a scowl.
My lip balm and mushroom pâté (both spreadable) were not considered liquid. My bag was returned for scanning.
Seriously. «Science» «Physics»? After having me taste it — the supervisor (who was friendly, apologetic and cheerful) gave approval.
Look, I know that the whole incident with liquids happened at Heathrow — but that was something that took YEARS of planning — required very specific mixing together of small quantities of liquids in a place where nobody could watch and the plan was never carried off. Do we really all have to suffer for this one stupid attempted criminal act?
I have some mixed feelings — while I don’t feel threatened by someone’s tube of mascara taking away the bottles of spray perfume from the old Italian ladies is probably a good idea before getting on a plane — whew!
Once through security — welcome to the Heathrow Terminal 4 Duty Free Shopping Mall! Lots of overpriced crap that you don’t need, pretend you are wealthy so you can indulge in «luxury» mass consumer products.
How about a nice organic café so we can buy a green smoothie and have a nice salad?