TWA884

It expired at midnight October 7. I found out on October 8, when I booked a parking reservation for next week; I should have done it a day earlier. I need to pay attention to the fine print when I receive these promotional emails.

chrisl137

New code OCT20 for bookings that enter before Oct 31, 2022 in Economy, Valet, or Premium. 10% in CTA.

I redid one booking by using a dummy plate number, booking the new discount, then cancelling the old booking and updating the plate number in the new one.

TWA884

+1, except that I did not use a dummy plate number. Canceled the old booking just before finalizing the new one.

seigex

I just got an email that says it will now cost to use charging at the economy and terminal parking lots.

$2 service fee and $0.45/kwh.. that's quite pricy, there goes any real benefit to using these lots until the train is in place, I can find much cheaper charging elsewhere before I drive home.

josephstern

I got that email too, but weren't they already charging more? I thought it was $3 plus the $0.45/kWh. So this would be a reduction in price.

But, agreed, not cheap. I can see using it if you need it, but I can easily charge at home for less than half this cost.

TWA884

That's what I paid in early July.

seigex

Last time I parked there the chargers hadn't been enabled yet and the only enabled ones were the rear right that had no cost associated with them, I was assuming charging was included in the parking fee like most airports. Posting this for others who might not be aware that charging isn't free.

azepine00

short term parking is a royal mess now - needed to meet someone at Bradley yesterday, took 3 loops as arrival parking entrances at 3, B, 4 and 5 were closed for short term entry (a couple were available for reservations) and then 10 min to snake up the ramps and 3 floors of P6 in a long line of cars in a similar situation followed by a hike to B.. wasted at least half hour... perhaps departures level is better or just park at economy and take a bus

CaliTravelbug

Apologies if this has been discussed in the past, wasn't able to come up with anything on my searches.

For reserved prepaid parking, what happens if you have to stay beyond the reserved time period? I have a flight in November that was pushed back an hour, and now I'm looking at overstaying my parking reservation in P4 by about 30 minutes to an hour.
I considered changing my reservation, but it increases my total to $300 from about $100!

TWA884

From the Parking FAQs:It is item 7.a. under Pricing / Payments, not 1.1. They don't say how much; I suspect that it will be a lot less than $200. If parked longer than a day, the charges are for 24-hour periods, so you may end up not owing anything extra. You can call or email to verify, 310-646-2911, [email protected].

CaliTravelbug

Thanks for this. I will just take a chance and keep the current reservation. Appreciate the info.

TWA884

Just and FYI, I always have my parking reservation to enter in time as if I were to catch the earliest flight of the day and exit at 11:59 pm on my return date. If my return flight is due late at night, I'll make the reservation exit time the next day approximately an hour earlier than the reservation entry time (full days plus 23 hours).

CaliTravelbug

This makes a lot of sense. For some reason I had it in my head that I can get a better rate if I minimize the hours, but it obviously counts the number of days, not the hours.

chrisl137

You just answered a question that they don't address in the FAQ anywhere and I hadn't gotten around to asking: what if I show up late for my reservation? And how late can I show up without losing my reservation?

Once you're past 4-5 hours I think you can go all the way to 23:45 without getting a bump up in price.

It's ever weirder than that. Once you hit 5 days the total price (not price per day) stays constant until you hit 8 days, so when you're pricing it out, it pays to try adding even full days to your reservation to see if the price changes. Pricing is also dependent on how far out you book and I suspect how many bookings they already have for your days.

And to address your original question, I thought I read somewhere when they first started taking reservations that if you go more than 2 hours past your exit time they basically start it as a new entry at the drive-up rate. There shouldn't be any penalty other than paying the higher rate. If I can find it again I'll post a link. You should get a 2 hour grace period at the end of your reservation and I've used it to my advantage in the past. You also get one at the start - you can show up up to 2 hours before your booked entry time without paying extra.

ETA: found it on this FAQ page in the "Parking Reservation FAQs" section and it's better than I thought, you get the same rate as your reservation:
And another edit: The Terms and Conditions page gives information that's inconsistent with that, but it does codify the 2 hour grace period:

So worst case they'll charge you the $30/day drive up rate, and you can probably argue that it should be your daily rate based on the FAQ, but they'll probably fix the FAQ after you do that.

The CTA parking has been a total mess for quite a while. Even if you have reservations, they're coned off and you have to show your reservation to a person who then scans you in. And you block the traffic lane while that's happening. Kinda defeats the purpose of having it all automated.

I've talked to a few people on the bus who did exactly what you suggested - park at the economy lot and take the bus to meet their people. If you're picking people up, it's probably preferable to wait off-airport in the cell lot and have them call you when they're headed to the curb, then just do one loop. Or even better, have them take a bus out to meet you.

If you're parking overnight or a couple days in the CTA, unless you have some overriding reason to do so (and I sometimes do), then you'll probably get in and out of the airport faster by parking in the Economy Lot and taking the bus, because the bus gets to use the LAWA reserved lanes closest to the terminals. It can easily take more than 20 minutes to get from B to the airport exit in the free-for-all lanes, or 40 minutes to get all the way through the U.

CaliTravelbug

This is perfect. Exactly the info I was looking for and why I love flyertalk. But kinda embarrassed that I didn’t do a deep dive on the T&C or FAQ myself. Thank you for the research!