touchthesky Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Trying to budget as well as possible this year. We are driving down and just wondered if anyone knows of any cheap or dare I say free places to park? Doesn’t have to be super close just close enough to get a tube or whatever. And we’d have to be able to leave our car from Saturday to Monday. ty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raylenth Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Can I suggest you add which direction you are coming from Sky, no point people reccing somewhere if it's the other side of London to you. You probably aren't going to find any official car park or anything near a station where you can leave your car for that amount of time. Most roads around stations have parking restrictions to prevent that happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
touchthesky Posted April 12, 2018 Author Share Posted April 12, 2018 Haha sorry. We are coming from Aberdeenshire. So north! Very very far north. Honestly anywhere is fine as long as our car won’t get stolen haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
touchthesky Posted April 12, 2018 Author Share Posted April 12, 2018 I know places up here do overnight parking and weekend parking etc so figured it was worth an ask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris1970 Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Plus I could guess the bike race will upset things for ppl coming by car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
touchthesky Posted April 12, 2018 Author Share Posted April 12, 2018 We will park at the hotel if we have too but I’m trying to be cheap haha. We Contemplated a bus but I can’t do it unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raylenth Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 I would suggest, and I haven't done this myself so my suggestion may be bad, that you pick a national rail station somewhere outside London on your route and look at parking there, it's not going to be cheap, no parking will be unfortunately but I think you might have difficulty finding cheap/free and safe. At least that way your car will be in a monitored car park, then you just get the train in. An example and you might have to talk to them about how you would book and pay for parking for a few days but St Albans car parks come in at just under £8 a day it looks like https://www.thameslinkrailway.com/travel-information/plan-your-journey/car-parking/car-park-charges. So if you like that idea you'd have to choose what station you want to park at and what the rail fares (and times and to see if the trains are running) and then you can look at the prices but it's an option. There's always airport parking as well, they will all have a good train service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raylenth Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 5 minutes ago, touchthesky said: We will park at the hotel if we have too but I’m trying to be cheap haha. We Contemplated a bus but I can’t do it unfortunately. I've replied above Sky but I really think cheap and safe aren't going to exist. Any roads near stations usually have parking restrictions so you won't be able to leave your car on a side road. You can do as I suggest and park at a station but you will need to work out the costs of parking and train tickets. It may well work out that there's not much difference and it'll be more convenient to park at the hotel - other considerations are if you park somewhere else you have to lug all your stuff with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
touchthesky Posted April 12, 2018 Author Share Posted April 12, 2018 That’s great advice thank you! I’ll look at my options when I’ve done tidying and see what’s the best. It is an absolute pain. If flights weren’t so expensive we’d fly. If the bus didn’t take 13 hours on a good day t would be more attractive. Haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
extremeladders Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 We always drive and park in the London west 12 shopping center, it's about a 20 minute walk from the venue and it's £10 all day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurdamoni Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 I’ll book myself a taxi to Olympia, like last year, worked like a charm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
touchthesky Posted April 14, 2018 Author Share Posted April 14, 2018 Haha I think a 9/10 hour taxi fair would be a bit much for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spengler Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 On 13/04/2018 at 12:45 PM, extremeladders said: We always drive and park in the London west 12 shopping center, it's about a 20 minute walk from the venue and it's £10 all day Isnt that car park shut now? (The ncp one) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stassy Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 Have a look at this. I've used this service a few times, its a guaranteed parking spot, usually on someone's driveway. They're a good alternative to public car parks and I always find them safe and secure. Just Park 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XIII Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 https://en.parkopedia.co.uk/ Parkopedia is another good one to use, its pretty accurate with the prices, Used that to find parking in various places Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
extremeladders Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 3 hours ago, spengler said: Isnt that car park shut now? (The ncp one) I called the west 12 shopping center because it's not longer on the NCP website, they said their contract with them ran out. The car park is now run by a different company, you can't prebook spaces anymore but we always found there were loads of spaces anyway 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurdamoni Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 9 hours ago, extremeladders said: I called the west 12 shopping center because it's not longer on the NCP website, they said their contract with them ran out. The car park is now run by a different company, you can't prebook spaces anymore but we always found there were loads of spaces anyway Lucky you get there early enough then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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