Once you've checked in for your flight and gone through security, there are a good range of facilities including variety of restaurants, book shops, duty free shipping and ample space to relax before boarding your flight. The terminal itself is very modern and particulary well geared up to disabled passengers.
Car parking is adequate for a busy airport such as Stansted, with short term and long term car parking spaces (last reported to be over 28,000 places), Stansted airport has the unenviable repution of one of the most expensive airports in the UK to park at.