The 2022 - 2023 LAX Parking Thread
 

From the LAX January 2022 Monthly Construction Update:

That discounted price to park an EV also works at P1. I did it this weekend.

Don't make my mistake and try to enter the first turn into P1. That's only for Premium and Valet. Not EV. The woman behind me was nice enough to back up and let me slip out.

At the second entry, I scanned my QR code and drove up to the 3rd floor, east end where the EV spots are. First one was red, so I re-parked in a blue one. The PowerFlex app never really updated to tell me that it was working, but I did get a bit of charge as my car verified. Note that these are L2 chargers - not DCFCs.

You do have to put $10 on the PowerFlex app to use the facility. I just set my charge amount to 25 miles since my car was already almost at 80%. Cost me a few bucks and now I have some $$ remaining for my next park there. The app doesn't actually show you how much you have left in credit, surprisingly.

So the price you see at the book.FlyLAX.com site is a tiny bit misleading since you also have to buy some overpriced electricity for your car (I think it was $0.45/kWh) but in my opinion, completely worth it for the convenience. If you only park there once, this effectively adds $10 to your bill.

Final note: to get out of the lot, scan your QR code again. I was expecting the machine to read my license plate and let me out, but that was not the case.

I had that problem with P5 in December. It read my plate and displayed it correctly, then it just sat there and I had to dig up the QR code.

It did work just as advertised in the Economy structure (ITF-West).

I started just printing the QR code, marking what dates it's for, and leaving it in the car until I'm back out.

So there's no issue tying up an EV charging station for a few days?

David

I just added the code to my Apple Wallet and that worked fine for entry and exit.

Apparently not. I was a little concerned about that also, but that seems to be the intention. These are up on the third floor - not really at a level where you'd park just to go pick someone up at luggage claim.

I do that too, as a backup, but I like to set my phone up with traffic display before I get going and it's easier to do that while parked rather than at the exit.

A couple quibbles I have with how they implement the Apple Wallet code is that it looks like it uses UTC, so it can give you a brief panic when it says "today" the evening before your trip. And it also expired the code a few hours after your entry time, rather than exit time, and you have to go dig through the "expired passes" and retrieve it.

Agreed - had to find it in "expired."

For anyone parking in the new Economy garage and who drives an EV and is wondering, when you enter if you drive to the back right, and go through the lift arm, there are some open charging ports available. I was gone over Christmas, and still not even half of them were used. The chargers are J1772, no Chademo/CCS/Tesla adapters that I saw. It throws you off when you enter since the vast majority of chargers still have plastic bags over them and aren't turned on.

One problem to watch out for if you drive a Tesla is that mine stopped charging about haflway through the 9 days I was gone, and I had Sentry Mode on, which drained my charge about halfway, and I couldn't get it to start charging again from the app, so I'd just keep Sentry Mode off to be safe.

Just received an email with a coupon code for LAX parking - I presume this can be used by anyone:

We hope your New Year's resolution was to travel more, because we have a great offer for you! Pre-book parking now for an arrival this January or February and get 25% off P1 Valet parking and 20% off all our other LAX parking options* - just use code LAXNY22.

Not looking to travel in January or February? Don't worry - use the same code for any arrival for the rest of the year and you'll save 15% on the online rates.

We offer free changes and cancellations before your booked arrival time, so you can guarantee your space now knowing that if your plans change, you'll get a full refund!

Got the same email! Parking there tomorrow, so I canceled and booked again. Just beware that you can't make a reservation for parking within six hours.

Here's the latest code:

Whether you're traveling soon or planning a trip later in the year, start your trip off the right way by pre-booking your parking online. Pre-book before Feb 28 and score 20% off P1 Valet parking and 15% off all our other LAX parking options* for any arrival this year - just use code LAXSB22.

Parking in the Economy lot now for the 4th time and it’s really not ready for prime time.

I had a reservation, which worked fine, but once in the structure there were no spaces. Not because it was full, but because half of level 2 and all of levels 3 and above were blocked off. The space indicators are also starting to be wrong already. I ended up in a space on 2 marked vanpool/clean air/ev, which was also poorly marked because they didn’t back the white paint with a black background like the numbers.

on top of that, the busses were picking up at the curb outside the structure where they normally wait on break, but there were no signs to indicate that, either. the signage overall still kind of sucks and they do a poor job of making up for it wit cones and temporary signs.

On the return on my last trip they had only 3 buses, all running close together and waiting as a group for an extended period at the structure- it would have been faster to walk.

would this be essentially 4 hr grace time - book start close to 2 hr after planned entry and leave up to 2 hr after reserved exit?

Yes- I don’t think I’ve used it at LAX yet, but I’ve done that at ONT a few times.

yep did it at lax last weekend - booked 5:30 to 5:30, entered 4 15 ish exited around 6 - no extra charges and very convenient.. very pleased with that lot