| # | Author | Message |
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| Hans Reinhardt
Wed 5/7/2008 12:14p | "Isn't the resort fee $12, that is crazy?"
How much are the day rates in parking garages in downtown Los Angeles or around urban areas of Orange County? $12 doesn't seem like a lot to me. |
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| Hans Reinhardt
Wed 5/7/2008 12:17p | For kicks I just checked the day rate for the Fifth and Mission Street garage in downtown San Francisco and the fee there is $30, more that double what DLR is charging. Wow. |
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| Hans Reinhardt
Wed 5/7/2008 12:17p | than |
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| SingleParkPassholder
Wed 5/7/2008 12:22p | Well, more people are going to park in the Downtown Disney lot where the first three hours are free (so far, anyway) and then buy something in D.D. that will validate for two more hours. I know several people who do this already. If their stay is longer than five hours, they simply move the car. |
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| trekkeruss
Wed 5/7/2008 12:45p | <<Holiday World in Indiana, home of some of the best roller coasters in the world>>
Hardly anyone is going to Indiana, let alone Holiday World. That park is so far off the beaten path that it is at least two hour drive from the nearest large city.
Really, making a compaison between that park and Disneyland is rather like comparing the prices of housing in Anaheim and Santa Claus, Indiana.
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| believe
Wed 5/7/2008 12:47p | >>>Well, more people are going to park in the Downtown Disney lot where the first three hours are free (so far, anyway) and then buy something in D.D. that will validate for two more hours. I know several people who do this already. If their stay is longer than five hours, they simply move the car.<<<<
That would be fine, but time is money. If I'm in Toontown, and need to go back to the parking lot, it's like a 15 minute walk. Then spend another 10 minutes to move the car, and another 5 minutes to buy another item to validate the parking and another 15 minutes to get back to Toontown. That's 45 minutes of quality time I could have spent inside DL. And how much do I have to spend to get validation? So maybe it's not worth it - in the end I won't be saving anything.
Look at all the restaurants on Harbor Blvd - how many of you leave the park for lunch/dinner- it's typically cheaper there. And it's even closer than the parking lot.
DL knows that you are a captive audience and you're gonna pay.
At the Pantages Theatre, parking is about $8 and up. Staple center is something like $15 and up. For what, 3 hours of parking?
That said, of course I don't want to pay $12 to park. This is Southern California where people drive and expect free parking everywhere! |
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| wonderingalice
Wed 5/7/2008 12:49p | ^^Is that anywhere near Munchkin, Kansas? |
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| wonderingalice
Wed 5/7/2008 12:50p | 27 was for 25... ;-) |
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| Hans Reinhardt
Wed 5/7/2008 12:51p | "Hardly anyone is going to Indiana, let alone Holiday World. That park is so far off the beaten path that it is at least two hour drive from the nearest large city."
Yeah, I thought that was an odd comparison too. |
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| wonderingalice
Wed 5/7/2008 12:54p | People expect to park for free in So. Cal.?
That's news to me! *LOL*
$25 bucks a day to park - as a paying hotel guest - at the last two places Mr. Alice and I stayed in Redondo and Huntington Beaches. That is on top of an outrageous resort fee for that "free" copy of USA Today.
It's ridiculous, really. Gouging like that. |
