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Update: We're sorry but the park and ride on Saturday 9 January has been cancelled due to weather conditions

Our park and ride service runs every Saturday and on bank holidays. It's the easy, quick way for visitors and out-of-town shoppers to make the most of Portsmouth.

You can use the park and ride to get to Portsmouth city centre, Gunwharf Quays, the Spinnaker Tower and the Historic Dockyard. Buses go about every 10 minutes from the park and ride site at Lakeside, North Harbour.

They travel between the site and Gunwharf Quays, stopping at the city centre on the way. The last bus leaves Gunwharf at 6pm.

The service will not run on New Year's Day, but will run on Saturday 2 January.

The service can zip along bus lanes for much of the route, so it’s quick. From the site, buses take about seven minutes to get to stop 1 in Edinburgh Road - for the city centre shopping area, Commercial Road and Cascades indoor shopping centre. Please note that journey times may vary.

Stop 2, about five minutes later, is at The Hard, for Gunwharf Quays, for the Spinnaker Tower and the Historic Dockyard. You can hop between the two stops as much as you like.

Please remember to take valuables with you when you park your car.

Below are leaflets with all the details you need.

Also see below for:

• our weekend matchday service to Fratton Park
• a special ticket deal for passengers going to Southsea

Park and ride to Pompey games

Portsmouth FC have teamed up with us to give fans a great new way of getting to weekend home games.

Supporters from the north of Portsmouth or outside the city will be able to catch a bus to Fratton Park from the park and ride site three hours before kick-off.

This service runs for every weekend and bank holiday league game. We are hoping to run it for weekday evening games soon.

Buses go from the park and ride site at Lakeside, North Harbour direct to Fratton Park. And like the regular service, it costs just £2.50 per car.

Travel on to Southsea (£1 per adult)

Southsea's visitor attractions include Clarence Pier, Blue Reef aquarium, the D-Day Museum, Southsea Castle, the Pyramids centre, South Parade Pier, Canoe Lake, Cumberland House natural history museum and the Kings Theatre. Its characterful shopping areas have big high street names as well as independent stores. Top shopping streets include Palmerston Road, Albert Road and Marmion Road.

Here’s how the £1 Southsea ticket (50p for children) works:

• when you get on the park and ride bus at Lakeside, ask for a Southsea add-on ticket
• after you get off the park and ride bus, get on an ordinary First bus to Southsea
• show your Southsea add-on ticket to the driver

If you don’t ask for an add-on ticket at Lakeside, you can always ask a park and ride driver for one later.

You can make as many journeys as you like in the area bounded by the seafront, Pier Road, Kings Terrace, Kings Road, Elm Grove, Albert Road, Festing Road and St Helen's Parade.

Travel tips

• For Palmerston Road or South Parade Pier take a number 1C or 40 bus from stand C in Commercial Road, or a 5, 5A, 6 or 6A from stand H at The Hard, near Gunwharf.
• For Albert Road take a number 17 bus from stand B in Edinburgh Road in the city centre, or stand F at The Hard, and return on a number 18.

See the leaflet below for more information.

Associated documents:

  Park and ride leaflet  (0.52 MB)
Park and ride leaflet - travel on to Southsea  (0.52 MB)