Luggage storageLeicester

Storage across Leicester

Plenty of visitors to Leicester arrive by train from London or Birmingham, then find themselves with hours to fill before a holiday rental is ready or a coach leaves for the airport.

The station itself has no left-luggage desk, so it pays to know which venues will actually take a bag off your hands. Several attractions offer only small lockers or tight bag limits rather than full luggage storage, while getting around by bus means your suitcase rides at the driver's discretion — if you take the bus, your suitcase can be carried only if space allows and the driver agrees. The city draws a significant number of business tourists alongside leisure visitors. With Stasher, you can store bags from £1.49 per bag per day.

Some top Stasher locations in Leicester include:

• Local shop, 11-minute walk from Leicester city centre
• Hotel reception, 13-minute walk from Leicester Train Station · rated 5/5 (800+ reviews)
• Local office, 40-minute walk from Evington Road

⁣Hosts include local shops, hotel receptions and local offices. Every booking comes with the Stasher Guarantee, which protects your bags up to £10,000. Stasher storage in Leicester can be booked through the website or app.⁣

Luggage storage at the station and airport

Leicester Station on London Road is the city's main rail arrival point, run by East Midlands Railway, and connects directly to London, Birmingham, Sheffield and Nottingham. With no left luggage on-site, arriving early for a train or waiting on a late connection means carrying bags until you have another plan. If you're heading to East Midlands Airport, the Skylink bus from St Margaret's Bus Station in the centre gives you a direct link there.

Bag rules at attractions and venues

Leicester Museum & Art Gallery has £1 lockers in the entrance hall, but only for small items — large luggage won't fit. Newarke Houses works the same way, with £1 entrance-lobby lockers and no space for big bags.

Leicester Racecourse is more generous: The Kube offers free left luggage, though every bag gets searched on entry. Some venues are stricter, so check before you go — Leicester Arena permits only A4-sized bags and bans backpacks, travel cases, laptop bags, camera bags and large totes, while O2 Academy Leicester on the university campus has the same A4 limit and no on-site storage. Leicester Haymarket Theatre also has no cloakroom and allows nothing larger than 35cm x 25cm x 15cm.

Getting around Leicester with luggage

First Bus services carry luggage free at the driver's discretion, as long as there's space and it doesn't block or endanger other passengers. Roberts Travel Park & Ride buses generally don't take bicycles or bulky items, so call ahead if you're unsure. On Leicestershire FoxConnect services, one suitcase or package of reasonable size rides free, provided it doesn't occupy a seat or interfere with the driver. For a longer run, National Express coaches link St Margaret's Bus Station with Heathrow Airport in as little as 2 hours 55 minutes, serving the Central Bus Station for Terminals 2 and 3 plus Terminal 5. The King Power Stadium sits about a 25-minute walk from Leicester Train Station, useful to know on matchdays when you'd rather not carry a bag the whole way. If your visit falls between 19 October and 1 November 2026, Leicester Restaurant Week runs citywide across those dates. Leicester is the resting place of King Richard III, and also offers the National Space Centre.