Travelling with Children
Gatwick Airport has a number of facilities for looking after children and babies, including play areas, video games and facilities.
North Terminal Children's Facilities
Feeding/Changing: Specially equipped rooms for feeding and changing babies are indicated by either a bottle or a baby care symbol. Changing facilities are available in the check in area, on route to the gates, in the transfer area and after passport control on arrival. You may also look for fold-down tables in some male and female toilets.
Family Lounges:
No.1 Traveller have a fantastic new Super-Lounge in the North Terminal which has some superb child friendly facilities. These include a mini cinema room, games room, computers and a place to sit down and relax. Food and drink is included so you have no reason to leave the calm No. 1 Traveller lounge and enter the hectic departure lounge.
Servisair Wentworth Lounge offers a self-contained 'Fun Zone' area with soft play, video games, and toys. Other facilities include television, complimentary drinks, and a selection of magazines and newspapers.
Video Games: Video games are provided by Game Grid with branches both before and after security (in the Airside Departures lounge near the Red Lion Pub), as well as in the Arrivals area.
South Terminal Children's Facilities
Feeding/Changing: Specially equipped rooms for feeding and changing babies are indicated by either a bottle or a baby care symbol. Changing facilities are available in the check in area, on route to the gates, in the transfer area and after passport control on arrival. You may also look for fold-down tables in some male and female toilets.
Family Lounges:
No. 1 Traveller's lounge in the South terminal includes a lounge area, table football, living green room and much more. The lounge also boasts airport runway views so the children can remain entertained by watching the planes take-off.
The Lingfield Lounge available for families is located after security on the upper level in the South Terminal, Gatwick Family Lounge offers a number of facilities to keep your children entertained, including television, complimentary drinks, and a selection of magazines and newspapers.
Video Games: Video games are provided by Game Grid with branches both before and after security, as well is in the Arrivals area.
Shopping and Eating
Located in the Departure Lounge of the North Terminal, a branch of the world famous Hamley's toy store offers a range of innovative toys and games.
If you forget to bring colouring books, you can get them in both terminals from bookshops such as WHSmith. There are plenty of child-friendly restaurants and shops selling snacks in both terminals.
Inter-Terminal Transit Train
If you still have time before your flight, you can always take the kids for a free ride on the transit train which runs every 3 minutes at peak times between the North and South Terminal. The ride takes only about 2 minutes. You will find the transit station on the first floor of the North Terminal and next to the rail station in the South Terminal.