From the SFO website :

I just booked 9 days at BART for $24 (plus $10 return for the train), so they still aren't exactly competitive...

I would be reluctant to leave my car at BART for 9 days, even with this cheaper price. But that's me.

Cheers.

no, they aren’t and one is much safer

I'll bite. Which is safer?

Yes, BART parking isn't perfect, but the stations on the peninsular are significantly better than others in the system. SFO airport parking also isn't without it's issue - there's been numerous reports of vehicles being stolen, broken into, wheels stolen, caught on fire, etc.

My car has spent collectively months of nights at Millbrae/San Bruno BART stations as airport parking, and I've never had any problems. Of course that's just one datapoint so hardly meaningful - but at a saving of >80% that's a fairly significant amount of money saved!

FYi. I had booked a pre-paid Long Term Parking at the airport, and because *reasons* we ended up taking BART instead. I emailed customer service and they refunded my parking with no issues. So thats nice.

Great to hear! Rare that companies are willing to do this anymore. Looking at you PGE that wants to charge me estimated rates for power that are 10x what normal usage is because their meter stopped connecting to their network and they won't come out and manually read it.

Note that you can cancel until two hours before arrival, and with four hour grace period on entry (and setting arrival time accordingly), there’s usually plenty of time to cancel unless one forgets about it entirely.

Great terms!

SFO Long-Term Parking
 

There are two parking structures at SFO long-term parking; one is connected to AirTrain while the other is closer to the main entrance.

Questions:
1) The last handful of visits during the past 2-years I noticed the parking structure with the AirTrain has orange cones to block off ingress into lot. However, there are cars parked in there and I have noticed, while walking by it, there were parking spaces available. How does one get access to this parking structure?

2) The parking structure, near the entrance, doesn't allow access to parking level 5. It is coned off while traveling up the circular ramp. I see cars park there and there are at least 90% of slot free (at least from the handful of times I been there). How does one get into level 5?

3) Parking structure near entrance: the circular exit ramp blocks off access to all levels; one has to exit the building and circle back into the parking building. Are there other ramps that can go between floors?

Just ran the numbers again, ParkSFO was cheapest for a 5-day trip and Anza was better for a 8-day trip. BAP (Burlingame) has many horrific reviews on Yelp so I can't see why anyone would park there unless they are retired with hours to kill. Westin/Aloft are decent though I am not sure if the shuttle service has improved.

I checked the SFO international lots but the price ($25/day) was absurd (even with discount) and the long term lot was also more expensive at $15/day. Does not seem worth it.

Does Westin/Aloft offer parking without having an associated hotel stay? I have noticed in past few months that the Westin has been offering some pretty attractive rates (relatively small upcharge from standard rate) that include parking for a week or two.

LTP at $15/day is below average in last year or so.

1) Complete luck of the draw. At some point in last 1-2 years they seemed to start to cone off certain garages and in some cases some entire levels in order to direct vehicles to specific levels where there was ample parking. Good news was that I didn’t have to spend time circling the garage looking for a space. Bad news was that it could end up being a random floor in the old garage.

The few times I’ve been there this year, the new garage (the one with the AirTrain station) and all levels were accessible. Seems occupancy is below average this time of year, probably not surprisingly.

2) I’ve noticed the same ever since the old garage reopened. That’s a desirable level since there’s no elevator ride or stairs needed to cross over to the new garage.

3) I actually haven’t noticed this. In fact, I thought I’ve used it to exit to one of the lower levels without having to go all the way down to ground level, but not 100% sure. I’m thinking of the ramp on the NE corner of the garage.

$25 a day for the A or G garage is a fantastic deal, since you're on airport. Those garages are typically $36/day.

I like the theory of direct air train to LTP, but the reality is it's both more expensive and less convenient than ParkSFO. It's typically a pain to find an open spot, the spots are tiny (door ding city), there's often a long walk to the elevator and then air train station, and the ride itself is too long. ParkSFO is now super easy with pay-by-app.

What is the amount or percentage of fee does ParkSFO add to the listed price?

I just booked a reservation today for 9 days. Total base rate is $170.55 (prior to discount) or $18.95/day. Not sure if the fees are all percentage or by day or flat in some instances. Fees listed are $13.64 for city parking tax (equals 8% of base rate), airport access fee (8.53, or 5%) and 3.41 ‘fuel surcharge, which I assume is for shuttle (seems to equal 2%, but if this is to cover fuel for bus to/from airport, seems it would make sense if it was flat rate, but who knows?). I suspect the airport access fee is same everywhere and taxes are probably different somewhat based on location of the lot (Burlingame vs. Milbrae vs. San Bruno).