Yeah, the number of different companies/apps/cards/etc. for EV charging even just within the Bay Area is definitely an irritation; the space seems ripe for some consolidation :p

I'm sure it will come in time just like how there's only really a few fuel station brands today vs the earlier days. What's even more irritating is the whole 'you have to give us hooks into your bank account to do business with us' and then their TOS buries how they're essentially not responsible for billing mistakes. Why people keep signing up for this stuff is beyond me...

So for long-term parking, fastrak does nothing. Since the feature setting seems to be removed from fastrak, I believe they silently cancelled the program without letting anyone know. :rolleyes::td:

Cost of long-term parking is also wrong everywhere--it's $25/day now.

Not so much EV-specific, but my last few trips they've not only been directing incoming traffic to a certain garage, but to specific floors on garages (using cones and/or attendants). Possible there was a detour for those with EVs.

I found this cut down on time searching for a spot since the floor they were directing to had plenty of spaces available. In the past, I've often spent more time than I wanted to searching for a space across multiple levels of a garage (once I gave up and switched to the other garage) due to the unreliable sensors.

https://www.flysfo.com/passengers/pa...ayment-options

Yep, that's the drive-up rate. Can still get $21/day when booking online, at least it's still there for the dates that I've checked.

Yes, they had coned off all the floors except 5 when I was there. All the ev spots were full.

Thank you for that link. Every search I did for sfo parking and fastrak led me to pages were said it was possible.

I checked the flysfo.com page again and you're right--I didn't see the first box of rates was online and the second was driveup. Thank you for the added clarification.

To give someone a sense of timing, I spent more time in the train and walking to t1 than I did driving into the garage and parking. Definitely leave some time for the walk--it was nearly as long as the train ride.

T1 is the worst from standpoint of getting in/out (especially out) of the airport quickly.

Arriving on AA and heading back to LTP is a particularly dreadful experience. It's about a 1/2 mile walk just to get to the nearest AirTrain station, followed by long train ride around the terminals. Even just exiting T1 to get to the domestic garage/rideshare pickup is a pain.

I knew it felt long from B26, but didn't know it was that long!

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...806c40796a.jpg
Thank you for letting us know. I used to use FasTrak for parking at SFO before moving away from the Bay Area in 2018.

I guess credit cards are the wave of the future. :D

Some additional throughts/questions about long term parking at SFO.

Had a quick weekend trip and parking at the long term garage on the right, not the one directly in front and wife found an ev spot with a 110v plug. We didn't have our charger with us, but I took a look at the plug point on the return and it's pretty stout--not just a regular outlet like I was expecting, and it is actually 20a vs just 15a. Would have been good for charging for sure. Still not sure about leaving what is now a sought after tesla accessory where it could be stolen though.

Also, I forgot that both Anza parking and Burlingame Airport Parking (across the street from Anza) are right by my office. I read some of the experiences in this thread, but does anyone have any recent data points for either of these?

https://www.reddit.com/r/BAbike/comm..._for_43_hours/

SFO bike parking thread on Reddit.

How recent do you need? We have used Anza at least annually the past 5 years and nothing ever changes (except masks). Shuttle is always waiting when we drop car at lot. Shuttle always seems slow when we are waiting at SFO (always call to request it). And the drivers seem to have blinders as they don't stop when people are waiting and running toward the bus. Reserve online (no prepay required) and print bar code for discount.

ParkSFO is similar but farther from your office. Shuttles seem more frequent but time to/from SFO is usually same as Anza. I do not like their "coupon" system and the price is never any better than Anza.

Never used BAP.

We used Anza once and not again. We were disappointed - driver apparently didn’t hear me say ‘Air Canada’ when he was asking for airlines on the way to the airport, and so went right by T2 (I know he should have because my wife did and she was standing next to driver at the time). He came back around…eventually, but went to T3 and international first, setting us back about 15-20 minutes. On return, we called for shuttle and said it was coming…had to call back twice and wait close to 30 minutes for it in early afternoon. This was after arriving back 2-stop from SIN, so not the time for us for an extra-long wait.

we have been consistently happy with ParkSFO - it’s a bit more of a pain to get to shuttle at garage since you have to go down elevator, but busses are much more frequent (IME) and never have to call at SFO - they are consistently there every 5’ish minutes from our experience. We also are fine with SFO long-term, who we used when they had the great deals of the pandemic (I think it was half a day free for each paid day in like late 2020 or early ‘21) - but since they got rid of that they continued to raise regular prices and just not worth the premium over ParkSFO after that.

Thank you both for the feedback on Anza. Interesting to hear such divergent experiences, but I saw the same previously in the thread as well.

I guess I'll be the first to try bap as it seems like I can go to the hotel and talk to them first about it. I see shuttle buses for both companies regularly on my way to and from the office so both are definitely making regular runs and staying busy.