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The Best Western is the one to phone. It sells an overnight package with breakfast, a transfer and parking for the length of your holiday — but its page names flights and ferries, not cruises.
If it covers Tilbury, that’s the whole sail morning solved. If not, it’s a hotel about 9 km out with no lift and no dinner on Friday to Sunday nights.
It doesn’t score for the package until it says cruise. Ask before you book.
Book it if
- The package covers Tilbury when you ask
- You arrive early; check-in is from 14:00
Look elsewhere if
- You need a lift
- You arrive Friday to Sunday and want dinner in
- You’re bringing a pet
Your night before, from here
From check-in to the gangway, using only what Best Western Thurrock publishes and our own map estimates.
Scholars Restaurant serves dinner Monday to Thursday only, per Best Western, so on a Friday to Sunday night plan dinner elsewhere. Scholars Bar is open.
No ride to the ship is listed. The terminal is about 9 km in a straight line. Ask about the package transfer; otherwise book a taxi.
A hot plated breakfast or grab-and-go, but Best Western says it’s included only on some packages. Check your rate.
The Tilbury terminal is about 9 km away in a straight line, so it’s a ride, not a walk. Your boarding documents set the check-in time, not the hotel.
Best Western lists charged on-site parking with no price. It also sells an overnight package with breakfast, a transfer and parking for your holiday, but names only flights and ferries. Ask whether it covers Tilbury.
Night-Before Score: 28 of 100
Every point comes from Best Western’s own page for the hotel; the hub explains how the Night-Before Score works.
Getting here, and on to the ship
By our map estimate Best Western Thurrock is about 48.1 km from Heathrow in a straight line, and about 9 km from the Tilbury terminal. Every question mark below is a ride you book yourself.
No airport shuttle is listed. The overnight package includes a transfer, but the page doesn’t say to where.
No ride to the ship is listed. The terminal is about 9 km in a straight line. Ask about the package transfer; otherwise book a taxi.
From LHR without a hotel shuttle
A booked car from Tilbury to Heathrow is listed from £156.91 for a saloon, about 1 hour 15 minutes, by City Airport Taxis. By rail it’s the Elizabeth line from £13.90, per Heathrow, then c2c from West Ham to Tilbury Town from £5.80 off-peak, per c2c, then about a mile to the terminal. The airport page has the fares and the timing.
Best Western lists charged on-site parking with no price. It also sells an overnight package with breakfast, a transfer and parking for your holiday, but names only flights and ferries. Ask whether it covers Tilbury.
Parking for your stay: Charged, on site; no price published (Best Western).
No ride to the ship is listed. The terminal is about 9 km in a straight line. Ask about the package transfer; otherwise book a taxi.
Flying in the morning you sail? Heathrow is about 1 hour 15 minutes from the terminal by car on a transfer company’s estimate, and you’ll be coming off an overnight flight, so we’d land the day before; the airport page has the landing check.
Which quay
the Tilbury terminalShips turn around at the London International Cruise Terminal at Tilbury, 22 nautical miles down the Thames from Tower Bridge, per Capital Cruising. Best Western Thurrock is about 9 km from our pin for it in a straight line. Some lines use the Greenwich mooring instead, so check your documents; the London (Tilbury) cruise guide has the rest.
Source: capitalcruising.co.ukDistance
~9 km, straight lineAbout 9 km from the Tilbury terminal in a straight line between our map pins. That’s a ride, not a walk.
Airport bus
Not statedThere’s no airport bus to Tilbury. From Heathrow it’s the Elizabeth line, a change for West Ham and the c2c train, or a booked car.
Parking while you sail
Cruise parking
Cruise parking unconfirmedBest Western lists charged on-site parking with no price. It also sells an overnight package with breakfast, a transfer and parking for your holiday, but names only flights and ferries. Ask whether it covers Tilbury.
In town
Terminal long stay, £11 a nightCapital Cruising runs long-stay parking at the terminal: £11.00 a night including VAT, booked in advance, with a lower rate for cruises of 30 nights or more. When it’s busy you’re sent to an overflow area with a free shuttle bus. None of our hotels prices parking for a cruise.
The evening and the morning
The evening
Food or bar on siteScholars Restaurant, breakfast 07:00 to 09:30, lunch, and dinner Monday to Thursday 17:30 to 21:00, and Scholars Bar, per Best Western. No dinner Friday to Sunday.
Breakfast
Check your rateA hot plated breakfast or grab-and-go, but Best Western says it’s included only on some packages. Check your rate.
Address
Ship Lane, AveleyShip Lane, Aveley, Purfleet RM19 1YN
Hotel website
The fine print, in one place
Times, fees, rooms and the small stuff, from Best Western Thurrock and the sources named under each fact. We couldn’t confirm whether the package covers a cruise from tilbury, the parking price, the number of rooms, so ask when you book.
Check-in and check-out
Breakfast
A hot plated breakfast or grab-and-go, but Best Western says it’s included only on some packages. Check your rate.
Parking for your stay
Charged, on site; no price published (Best Western)
Pool
No pool mentioned on the pages we read
Pets
Not accepted, except guide dogs with prior consent, per Best Western.
Food and drink on site
- Scholars RestaurantDinner Mon–Thu only
- Scholars Bar
Rooms
The room count isn’t published on the page we read.
Accessibility
There’s no lift, per Best Western, so ask for a ground-floor room.
On site
- GymNot stated
- Sauna or spaNot stated
- Family roomsNot stated
- Pets allowedNo
Also worth knowing
- Package with breakfast, transfer and parking for the length of a holiday, for flights or ferries
- Check-in from 14:00, an hour earlier than most here
Before you book
Worth knowing
- No lift, per Best Western.
- No dinner Friday to Sunday.
- Parking charged; no price.
What we couldn’t confirm
- Whether the package covers a cruise from Tilbury
- The parking price
- The number of rooms
Every hotel fact here comes from Best Western’s own page for the hotel, read October 2026, unless we name another source. Distances are straight lines between our own map pins; the terminal pin and the hotel pins are our estimates.
Worth a look alongside it
Before you book Best Western Thurrock: the London (Tilbury) cruise guide and London (Tilbury) as a port of call.
Ask about the package; it could solve the morning.
Tell us your sail date and we’ll check Best Western Thurrock for the night before. No payment on the form.
Best Western Thurrock FAQ
Does Best Western Thurrock offer park and cruise?
Its page sells an overnight package with breakfast, a transfer and parking for your holiday, for flights or ferries. It doesn’t mention cruises, so ask.
Is there a lift at Best Western Thurrock?
No, per Best Western.
Is the restaurant open every night?
No. Scholars Restaurant serves dinner Monday to Thursday, per Best Western.
Booking the cruise too?
Tell us the sailing and we’ll line up Best Western Thurrock, the ride to the ship and the cruise itself. No fee, no obligation.
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