Parking Prices Getting Out Of Hand
So glad I like to walk.
Man, for $40 at SFMM, I'd park on the street here and walk about the same distance as I would if I'd parked in their lot: https://goo.gl/maps/7r3zB2FKWRPsfyLZ8.
That's stupid in Seattle. Public transportation is pretty solid there. You could park at the airport for less during the day and ride to and from.
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The last time I went to a Cal game, I ended up staying in SF and just took BART across the bay for the game. They run a game day shuttle from the BART station up the hill to Memorial. It might not have been free, but it wasn't enough that I even remember paying for it.
Often times people paying for high priced parking aren't doing so because of a lack of other options (perceived or real).
Bingo. I'm one of those people that will usually opt to drive over the ills of public transportation. 90% of the last several arena events I attended in DC, I drove and paid for public parking. And DC's Metro is one of the nicer subway systems in the country. Sometimes.
Yeah, I could have driven to the game that day and parked where I lived as an undergrad (two blocks from the stadium, no elevation change). But there are reasons one might want to go to a college reunion tailgate without the car keys.
Adjusted for inflation, $10 in 2001 would be somewhere around $17 today. So, yeah, $40 is quite the mark up from a couple decades ago.
Pretty sure they were up to the $20 range by the end of the decade (although I'm not in a position to provide a citation at the moment), but even at that jumping off point, you only get about $28 with inflation.
I guess it's safe to say there is little correlation between inflation and Six Flags parking prices. 🙂
We've discussed this a million times in the past, but just advertise the **** out of free parking and make it up at the gate.
Conversely, you could just advertise the **** out of free admission, but charge $69 per person for parking.*
Sliders.
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*and then you'd have everyone filling their trunks with people to get in free like at the drive-in
Lord Gonchar:
make it up at the gate
...but charge $69 per person for parking.
You just described Great Adventure in a nutshell.
$120 Just to park in downtown Seattle ???? Id rather watch Marjorie Taylor Greene give a b_______b to Mitch McCoonell before I pay that type of money!!! A friend of mine told me last night that parking for the last Beyonce tour was $80. Just to park the car....Nevermind the $300 they spent on the tickets! Thats my point though. Its almost not even worth going to some of these venues and events if the parking prices are gonna start rivaling the price of admission!
Coasterhound36:
$120 Just to park in downtown Seattle
That's just some random parking lot near the stadium. There are other options if you're willing to walk a block or two.
In Pittsburgh it costs upwards of $60 to park near the stadium for a Steelers game. OR you can park across the river, walk or take the free trolly, and avoid the traffic jams for $6.
eightdotthree:
park across the river, walk
That's what we used to do for Steelers/Pirates games at Ye Olde Three Rivers. Evening/weekend rates downtown were cheap. (And that was as much to avoid the traffic cluster getting home as it was anything else.)
Last time we saw a Steelers game, we just spent the weekend at the Renaissance and walked to the stadium. (which is admittedly probably more expensive than $60 parking, but we're coming from a distance 😉)
We did have dinner at Monterey Bay Fish Grotto after the game and about halfway through our dinner, Dwayne Haskins came in with a party of 7 or 8 that got seated right next to us. He was with a girl with the biggest ass implants I've ever seen in person.
I dunno. I'm kinda numb to the parking thing. We've been in a lot of city hotel situations the last couple of years and mandatory valet is getting more common. (or at the very least the cost/convenience of valet compared to the cost/inconvenience of finding parking makes it a reasonable alternative)
And you kinda gotta tip those guys. And then it adds up. *shrug*
I did score parking at the United Center in Chicago this past June for AEW: Forbidden Door in Lot H (the one that leads right into the atrium with the Jordan statue) for $40. That felt like a steal to me.
(I got nothing. Slow afternoon. Hence, the links.)
Here is a GOOD story. I was pretty happy with Orlando during the Cheez It Bowl (FSU...but they hosted two bowl games at Camping World stadium). The City (or the Bowl Committee) provided free bus transportation from the Amway Arena (a couple of blocks from a significant number of downtown parking garages) to the Stadium curb. I don't think I paid more than $25 to park inside the garage. It was a steal relative to what they were charging for the unpaved surface lots around the stadium...so it was a no brainer.
Most of last season if you arrived at Six Flags Great America after around 2-3pm the parking booths were empty. They were only staffing it the first few hours the park was open. After that it was free parking.
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