National Express Hotel Hoppa
Encyclopedia
Hotel Hoppa is a network of bus
services owned and operated by National Express Group
, connecting major hotels near Heathrow Airport with Terminals 1, 2 and 3 and the new Terminal 5. A free shuttle service links Terminal 4 to 1, 2 and 3.
buses, which were branded with a blue version of the old National Express circles livery.
In 2008, a new batch of 8.9m Alexander Dennis Enviro200 Dart arrived to run the routes, in the new National Express Group corporate bus livery, with silver in place of the standard red.
Bus
A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...
services owned and operated by National Express Group
National Express Group
National Express Group plc is a British transport group headquartered in Birmingham that operates bus, coach, rail and tram services in the UK, the US and Canada, Spain, Portugal and Morocco and long-distance coach routes across Europe...
, connecting major hotels near Heathrow Airport with Terminals 1, 2 and 3 and the new Terminal 5. A free shuttle service links Terminal 4 to 1, 2 and 3.
History
The network was originally run using Wright CrusaderWright Crusader
The Wright Crusader is a single-decker bus body built by Wright on Dennis Dart SLF and Volvo B6LE chassis. The Wright Crusader 2 was built on the B6LE's successor, the Volvo B6BLE....
buses, which were branded with a blue version of the old National Express circles livery.
In 2008, a new batch of 8.9m Alexander Dennis Enviro200 Dart arrived to run the routes, in the new National Express Group corporate bus livery, with silver in place of the standard red.