The quantity I used to be charged for parking after I went to see Peter Kay Reside on the O2 in London earlier this month was no laughing matter.
The automobile park charged me £40 – greater than the £35 for a fundamental ticket.
Such sky-high costs have gotten frequent apply – with venues showing to cynically exploit a captive viewers who’ve usually not deliberate forward so have nowhere else to go. We uncover some key offenders and reveal FIVE nice methods you possibly can dodge their charges.
Toby Walne was charged £40, greater than the £35 for a fundamental ticket, to park when seeing Peter Kay on the O2
The worst offenders
Silverstone in Northamptonshire has one of the vital costly automobile parks – £60 for its official Automotive Park 1 for the System 1 Grand Prix on July 7. One other is the Glastonbury Pageant in Somerset with a ‘pledge to scale back carbon emissions’ by charging £55 for a automobile go between June 26 and 30. The Championships tennis at Wimbledon in London between July 1 and 14 desires £40 for a day area – similar because the O2 – whereas the Co-op Reside venue in Manchester that opened in Might is demanding £25. Analysis by vacation property supplier Final Minute Cottages has discovered theme parks are additionally more and more eager to money in on prospects who really feel they haven’t any alternative however to pay, although costs are decrease. Alton Towers in Staffordshire costs £20 for its advance booked ‘specific parking’ by the doorway, whereas Thorpe Park in Surrey and Legoland in Berkshire each demand a £10 charge. Legoland parking was once free till 14 years in the past.
Silverstone has one of the vital costly automobile parks, at £60 for its official Automotive Park 1 for the System 1 Grand Prix on July 7
Ebook upfront
Ebook a day upfront with the O2 for a £10 low cost and pay £30. Reductions are usually not out there on the day in a bid to cease folks attempting to economize by reserving on-line on their solution to the venue. Legoland gives a £2 low cost by charging £8 when you guide upfront. Venues corresponding to Wimbledon are solely out there when you guide upfront – so you could guide forward to get only a area with no low cost.
Stroll from one other automobile park
Depart the home half an hour earlier and you aren’t solely giving your self time for delays, corresponding to site visitors jams, however offering a possibility to park additional away for much less.
The Silverstone Faculty Parking donates proceeds to the native Silverstone Main college and native village charities. You pay £27 to park on a village grass automobile park (plus a £2.70 reserving charge). You then take a 25-minute stroll to get into the System One Grand Prix paddock.
For Glastonbury the principle possibility is to park on website however only a 15-minute stroll away is Ashcombe Park that desires £50. The principle enchantment is that it permits a fast getaway.
The O2 desires folks to make use of its official Automotive Park 1 for occasions however different close by official spots, Automotive Park 2, 3 and 4, enable pay-and-display for as much as 4 hours at a price of £11 and are only a ten-minute stroll away from the world. Alton Towers gives cheaper off-site parking for £10 – although you could consider a 25-minute stroll to the venue.
Park and experience
Silverstone gives a free shuttle service from Automotive Park 2 that prices £40. You can too pay £16 for a return park and experience shuttle service from both Milton Keynes, Northampton or Banbury practice stations taking 25 minutes. Parking at Milton Keynes station is £5.70 for the day.
Guests to the O2 can park at Stratford Multi-Storey automobile park pays £10.20 for 4 hours, then take a 15-minute experience on the tube to North Greenwich, 5 minutes from the venue. The journey is £1.80 off-peak every means. The newly opened Co-op Reside venue in Manchester has a ten-minute tram service from the town centre to the venue that runs each six minutes costing £3.80 every means. You possibly can park on the Manchester metropolis centre Q-Park Deansgate North for a four-hour keep costing £9.
There may be additionally a park and experience service to Legoland from the Legoland Windsor resort and Windsor city that prices £2 every means and takes quarter-hour.
Ebook a personal area
By tapping in a postcode, apps corresponding to JustPark reveal automobile parking areas on a map
Smartphone apps corresponding to JustPark and YourParkingSpace allow you to seek out houses near a venue which have automobile park areas they rent out.
By tapping in a postcode they reveal automobile parking areas on a map, together with costs charged. You pay upfront on-line by way of the app and by no means must see the house owner. The apps work greatest in areas with numerous homes close by. You possibly can park a 20-minute stroll away from the O2 on Tunnel Avenue for £6 utilizing JustPark. A 20-minute stroll from Co-op Reside on Dysart Avenue prices £11 on the identical app. You possibly can park on a drive in Queens Highway for £10.88 and take a 20-minute stroll to the tennis courts at Wimbledon by reserving by way of YourParkingSpace. For £5 you possibly can pay for a spot on Corderoy Place that could be a 15-minute stroll to Thorpe Park. That £5 additionally pays for a spot on Perrycroft, a ten-minute stroll from Legoland. Each of those choices have been discovered on YourParkingSpace.
