DTW Parking Garage - Full Midweek this summer
Heads up DTW travelers that now that it’s busy summer travel season the parking garage at the DL / McNamera terminal may be full at times midweek. i haven’t seen this happen in years, but I drove up at 11am today and all parking in the garage was full - Long term, short term, and valet. They were turning people away and redirecting elsewhere. i just went offsite to Airlines Parking which is my go to offsite lot. I would anticipate the garage may be full on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursdays at times this summer. Plan accordingly if cutting it close or coming in hot. |
Valet Connections is another great service for offsite parking!
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A good heads up. It's somewhat surprising (unless it used to be full all of the time in the past). Most airport garages are becoming increasingly deserted as a result of Uber/Lyft and similar services. Atlanta has even significantly pared down its plans for parking garage replacement due to it.
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Parking deck also full at RDU today. Welcome to summer.
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And yet the Blue deck at the North Terminal is rarely half full even though it’s $10 a day cheaper and has a free shuttle to McNamara... |
Originally Posted by HDQDD
(Post 31196049)
Parking deck also full at RDU today. Welcome to summer.
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I'd venture to guess that a combination of the geographic vastness of SE Michigan, the influence of the auto industry and attachment to personally-owned automobiles, and demographics of travelers flying out of DTW we are far more likely to drive to the airport than many other places.
It used to periodically fill-up midweek about 15 years ago in like 2004/2005 when the rates where like $12/day and a negligible difference in price versus the offsite parking lots. In the past 10+ years I haven't seen the garage ever fill-up due in part to the economic downturn initially, but also since the rates are now up to $26/day which off-site can be significantly less. That said, I wouldn't bother to park at the Big Blue/North if flying out of the McNamera, its easier to use one of the off-site lots off Merriman. The frequency and spacing of the shuttles between terminals, especially at off-peak hours, is pretty poor in comparison to the frequency of shuttles to the privately owned offsite lots. Plus you effectively have to navigate two ground transportation centers/parking facilities versus just being dropped to/from your car in the offsite lot. |
Originally Posted by ethernal
(Post 31196048)
Most airport garages are becoming increasingly deserted as a result of Uber/Lyft and similar services.
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I wish some valet service would come back to ATL...
Not rare to find the daily garages packed full by 8am on Mondays. |
Hah, you should try Portland, PDX close-in long term parking garage. It's often full by Monday afternoon and empties out by Friday midday. It is very common to see the full signs. Port of Portlands' response to a continually under sized long term parking facility? Build more parking? Nope. Raise the rates by an egregious amount and state that their intention is "To encourage the use of public transportation". Yes, that works for those of us who have NO public transportation options even vaguely close to where they live....
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Originally Posted by HDQDD
(Post 31196049)
Parking deck also full at RDU today. Welcome to summer.
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Originally Posted by zitsky
(Post 31196347)
What about the Economy lots? Were those full too? Do you know?
Edit: Just found this link which has a real time estimation of parking loads: https://www.rdu.com/parking/ |
Originally Posted by DTWflyer
(Post 31196528)
I'd venture to guess that a combination of the geographic vastness of SE Michigan, the influence of the auto industry and attachment to personally-owned automobiles, and demographics of travelers flying out of DTW we are far more likely to drive to the airport than many other places.
I could theoretically take the local airport (LAN), but it's typically way too expensive and way too inconvenient with schedules to make it worth not driving to detroit to catch a flight. There's bus service, but as soon as I hit about 2 people in the trip, it's cheaper to drive or rent a car. And this is Michigan, we don't really believe in public transportation. All that said though, I'd be hard pressed to park in the main parking lot anyways, so it's still surprising it fills up. It's just too expensive to deal with it, and the off-site places are efficient enough that they make it easy to choose to go with one of them. |
Originally Posted by timfountain
(Post 31197128)
Hah, you should try Portland, PDX close-in long term parking garage. It's often full by Monday afternoon and empties out by Friday midday. It is very common to see the full signs. Port of Portlands' response to a continually under sized long term parking facility? Build more parking? Nope. Raise the rates by an egregious amount and state that their intention is "To encourage the use of public transportation". Yes, that works for those of us who have NO public transportation options even vaguely close to where they live....
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Originally Posted by ethernal
(Post 31196048)
A good heads up. It's somewhat surprising (unless it used to be full all of the time in the past). Most airport garages are becoming increasingly deserted as a result of Uber/Lyft and similar services. Atlanta has even significantly pared down its plans for parking garage replacement due to it.
So much less of a hassle and fortunate my company will pay for it (would owe me mileage and then reimburse for parking where we are allowed to use short term parking so it’s a wash for the most part). |
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