Weeze Airport Parking: a €4 Access Charge, Four Car Parks and a Dearer Online Price

At the end of 2003 the Higher Regional Court in Cologne (6 U 107/03) upheld a ban on Ryanair advertising the airport as “Flughafen Niederrhein (Düsseldorf)”, on the grounds that customers would expect an airport near Düsseldorf rather than one 70 to 80 kilometres away. On 16 December 2004 the Cologne Regional Court (84 O 136/04) went on to prohibit the variants “Flughafen Düsseldorf (Weeze)” and “Düsseldorf-Weeze” as well. Both rulings are documented by the Wettbewerbszentrale. The airport itself simply goes by Airport Weeze, and it is run by Flughafen Niederrhein GmbH.

The geography has not moved since. According to routefare.eu, the terminal is 82 road kilometres from Düsseldorf – a little over an hour’s drive without traffic – 62 from Duisburg, 64 from Krefeld and 99 from Essen. The airport describes itself as sitting within an 80-kilometre radius of Düsseldorf, Essen, Duisburg, Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Venlo. It is, in other words, a Lower Rhine airport close to the Dutch border, and that is the starting point for any parking decision. The same trick is familiar from the Hunsrück, where an airport carries “Frankfurt” in its name; a Frankfurt-eye view of what to know about Hahn before you book transfers to Weeze almost word for word.

Two million passengers, 7,000 spaces

In 2025, 2,245,735 passengers travelled through Weeze, up from 1,970,864 the year before. The airport cites more than 40 destinations and sees itself as a holiday airport for the Lower Rhine, the Ruhr and the neighbouring Netherlands. Its airline page lists Ryanair, SunExpress and Transavia; the airport has announced that SunExpress (to Antalya) and Transavia will both start in 2027.

To serve that demand the airport says it has around 7,000 parking spaces right by the terminal – enough in every tariff class, according to its parking page. The car parks are not guarded. The parking terms spell it out in legal language: supervision, safekeeping and insurance cover are not part of the contract, even when staff are present or cameras are running. The maximum stay is six weeks.

The barrier before the barrier

The real peculiarity comes before the car parks. On the airport access road, every vehicle entering pays €4 at one of four lanes – in cash with notes up to €20 or coins, or by credit or debit card. You get no ticket for it, but one hour’s parking in any car park is included. Drive on into P Terminal, P1, P2 or P3 and you pull a parking ticket there; the first hour is not charged on it.

For people dropping off and collecting, that is a fair arrangement: the €4 lets you wait up to 60 minutes on P Terminal, walk your passengers into the terminal and say goodbye without paying again. For anyone parking for a trip, it is a surcharge to add to every price comparison. With an online booking, the airport says, all barriers open automatically by number-plate recognition.

Four car parks between 50 and 600 metres

The airport’s booking system describes the car parks as follows:

• P Terminal – from about 50 metres’ walk, right by check-in, open-air.
• P1 – from about 150 metres, directly opposite the terminal, open-air.
• P2 – from about 300 metres, covered, with a height limit of 2.30 metres.
• P3 – from about 600 metres, open-air; the airport suggests allowing ten to fifteen minutes on foot.

There is no shuttle between the official car parks and the terminal; all four are within walking distance. Disabled bays are in the front row of P Terminal. Drivers holding a German disability card marked aG, H or BL who park there should use the help button on the pay machine on their return to reach the parking service, and then pay the lower P3 tariff. These bays cannot be reserved. For electric cars there are four Type 2 charging posts of up to 22 kW on P Terminal, plus six rapid chargers of up to 300 kW on the access road.

Drive-up tariff versus online price (as of 2026)

The airport publishes a price list for parking without a reservation, valid from 1 July 2025; in September 2026 it is still the version linked from the official parking page. One day means 24 hours. Alongside it, I retrieved online prices from the airport’s booking system on 25 September 2026, each for an arrival on Monday 12 October 2026 at 08:00. The system did not offer P2 for those dates.

Duration	P Terminal online	P Terminal drive-up	P1 online	P1 drive-up	P3 online	P3 drive-up
1 day	€39	€50	€32	€25	€30	€17
3 days	€109	€150	€82	€75	€63	€51
7 days	€154	€200	€106	€99	€82	€69
14 days	€254	€400	€176	€169	€102	€89

Add the €4 access charge to every drive-up figure. Even then, on P1 and P3 the online price in my searches was higher than the drive-up tariff. A week on P3 costs €73 at the barrier including the access charge, and €82 online. Only on P Terminal does booking save serious money – around €150 over two weeks. For P2 the price list gives €79 for a week and €109 for a fortnight.

The drive-up scale rewards a second look. On P3, four to seven days cost practically the same, €68 or €69, and from day nine to day fourteen the price stays at €89. Two weeks on P3 at the barrier therefore come to €93 including access – about €6.60 a day. Online prices, by contrast, move with the calendar: for seven days from 23 December the system quoted €73 for P3 and €86 for P2, and for a week in November €74 and €85.

The airport itself says the online allocation is occasionally sold out but that there are enough spaces on site, and that parking without a reservation is possible at any time. What a booking really buys you, then, is a specific car park and ticketless entry. It can be cancelled free of charge until midnight on the eve of arrival and allows only one entry and one exit. At Weeze I would not book P1 or P3 online by reflex; compare the displayed online price with the current price list first.

Shuttle parking in Weeze itself

Off the airport grounds, two operators with their own offer are easy to find. Easy Airport Parking runs a fenced car park at Holtumsweg 32, five kilometres from the terminal. Its shuttle runs daily from 03:30 to 00:30 every 30 minutes, with the last departure from the airport at 00:15; pick-up is at bus stop no. 4 opposite the terminal. There is no key handover, and the maximum vehicle height is 2.0 metres. Its published from-prices are €37 for one day, €49 for seven and €69 for fourteen – explicitly from a limited allocation.

ParkGate-Weeze at Industriestraße 11 advertises a seven-minute shuttle ride, both shuttle and valet parking, and no key handover for the shuttle option; on your return it collects you at the terminal using your inbound flight number. Its website shows no parking prices. The basic difference between self-park shuttles and handing over your keys is set out in our comparison of cheap self-park options at Düsseldorf Airport.

Measured against the official drive-up tariff, the gap is modest. €49 for a week compares with €73 on P3, and €69 for a fortnight with €93 – a saving of a little over €20, bought with a shuttle timetable and a five-kilometre detour. For a single day, P3 at the barrier, at €21, is much cheaper than Easy Airport Parking’s day rate.

Worked example: a week from Düsseldorf

A couple from Düsseldorf fly out for seven days. The Airport Weeze shuttle coach runs from Düsseldorf’s central bus station (ZOB, stop 8) to stop 1 at the terminal in 75 minutes, four to six times a day, with the earliest departure at 03:15 (timetable valid 29 March to 24 October 2026). A seat costs €24 per journey, so the couple pay €96 there and back. Alternatively, the RE10 regional train runs every 30 minutes during service hours from Düsseldorf and Krefeld to Weeze and Kevelaer, with airport shuttle buses covering the last stretch.

By car, the week costs €73 on P3 at the barrier or from €49 with Easy Airport Parking, plus some 164 kilometres of driving. Even for two, the parking fee is below the coach fare; whether the car wins overall depends on fuel. With three or more travellers it is clearly ahead. The more honest question for people in Düsseldorf, though, is: why Weeze at all? Their own airport is on the doorstep, and getting to Düsseldorf’s terminal without a car is a matter of minutes on the S-Bahn. Weeze makes sense when the fare saving more than covers the detour. Parking prices at Düsseldorf itself are in our overview of Düsseldorf Airport parking.

For anyone living in Kleve, Goch, Geldern or elsewhere on the lower Rhine, the sums look entirely different. Kevelaer is ten kilometres away, and the taxi distances and drive times from Weeze show double-digit fares for nearby towns. Here the car on P3 is the natural choice: a fortnight for €93, ten to fifteen minutes on foot, no shuttle, no key handover.

Before you set off

The airport asks passengers to be in the terminal at least two and a half hours before departure, citing queues at check-in, bag drop and security, particularly in the mornings. If your plan includes a 600-metre walk from P3 with luggage, three hours is the safer figure. And if you are flying Ryanair or another low-cost carrier, it is worth checking the hand-luggage dimensions by airline before you leave home.

The most direct comparison is another low-cost airport that borrows its name from a distant city: parking at Memmingen Airport costs around one and a half times as much for a week on its cheapest terminal car parks as P3 does at Weeze. Done properly, Weeze is an inexpensive airport to park at – provided you pay at the barrier, add the €4 access charge and allow ten minutes for the walk.