Too late for your trip, but just found that shopping thru ebates.com at PNF gives you 20% off ($14.32 a day uncovered, self park) plus 3% cash back. I coupled that with the Amex $15 back on $75 spend and got 5 days at $73.11 or $14.62 a day, all-in. Not as good as Costco vouchers, but they don't seem to be available anymore.

Haven't driven to SFO in years, but I have to pick up folks this week who are arriving internationally and need help with luggage.

I'm assuming Garage A or G makes no difference for arrivals?

Is there a specific level I should be parking at or does it not matter?

Thanks.

Yes. G3 is the best. But good luck finding a parking spot.

Well I guess ParkSFO has finally worked out the difference between business travel and personal travel! Rather than only being able to use coupons for a specific stay, you can now bank the free days for future stays. ie, make your expense account pay full price, and use the free days for your own personal travel.

There doesn't appear to be anything about it on their website, but the email is at Untitled Document

It'll be interesting to see how tax is implemented on the free days. They had some screwy rules back when they used to do the free day coupons without a minimum stay, but I forget exactly what they were as I haven't seen one of those coupons for close to 10 years...


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Pretty sure there are lots of parking spaces available at SFO right now.

I got the email but, as you say, not on the website. The email mentions a free, i.e. no $100 fee, signup. But I don't see how to get that to work on the site.

Cheers.

We have to leave a car at/near SFO for two weeks in late October. I don't want to pay astronomical airport parking fees, but I'm also a bit leery about relying on a cheaper off-airport service because I can't imagine they're all that busy these days and so have probably reduced their shuttle services. Does anyone have experience with a good and reasonably priced option in Covid times?

One possibility is a Stay-and-Park rate at a local hotel. One night stay and then extended parking., I would think that someone would have a 2-week model And it's generally less and their normal daily rate.

Cheers.

Try way.com (or the app). Last year, I parked for 2 weeks at the Embassy Suites lot for about 8 bucks a day. Prepaid through the app. Drove up to the check in circle, presented my Way paperwork at the front desk, received a parking pass to get into (and out of) the lot. And took their shuttle to SFO. We timed it out for when we wanted to be at the airport. It was seamless.
Also, though I didn't need it, I asked at the desk and if you're going to stay near the airport the night before departure or after arrival, you can use the discounted Way parking and stay that night without paying the hotel parking fee ( I think it was 29.95 a night!). (I wouldn't recommend staying at the Embassy Suites (parking was fine), but there are quite a few parking deals at better hotels as well.)

Thanks. Embassy Suites looks fairly cheap via Way.com, but it also says "no shuttle" in the app. I guess we could call an Uber though.

That's a change from last year. They run a scheduled shuttle. Maybe the hotel wants to charge you a fee. I'd call the hotel. I suppose the Uber would only add a few bucks to the total. You can certainly grab the shuttle back from the airport.

I stayed at Burlingame Airport Parking, next to the Hilton, this last weekend, at $9 a day plus a 5% tax (some other airport area locations in different cities charge higher taxes). Shuttle is on-request but there were already others waiting for the 5am shuttle when I walked up to the front of the hotel. On return, called the Hilton and the shuttle was there in about 15 minutes. Their lot was less than 25% full and had plenty of spaces. One reason I keep going back here is that I feel my car is reasonably secure - have never seen anyone walk in from the street. When you factor in Uber costs on a lower per-day stay, you might come out pretty close to their rates. I know they used to offer lower weekly rates, and the daily rate could jump as high as $15 in peak times, but I'd input your dates there and see what it prices at.

The Holiday Inn in San Mateo did for a few years, as I regularly stayed there with two weeks of parking on international trips. Think too many of us were doing that as now it's only 7 days (plus they're currently closed and due to reopen in October).
I've seen this website mentioned before for stays that include parking:
https://sanfrancisco.parksleepfly.com/
Did a random search for 14 days starting in mid-September and there were four hotels starting at $259 for a one night stay and 14 days of parking.

Aren't the rooms typically around $180 to $200 without the parking? So, $259 is good value if you need the room.
My international flights often /edit to add - man, I miss those/ have one leg at least where that's very convenient. But it's expensive - $18+ a day - if you really don't need the room.

Hotel pricing is so variable with Covid it's hard to say. There are rates this Friday (Labor Day weekend), using Google hotels without parking, that would be very attractive for a one night stay, and then drive off and park somewhere else (or park somewhere else the night before). The Hilton is $84 and the Crowne Plaza is $79. There's a HIX at $66 and the Hyatt Regency at $97.