LA Live Parking Garage

There are three parking lots associated with LA Live: West Garage (1005 Chick Hearn Court), East Garage (888 West Olympic Blvd) and Lot 4 (967 Georgia Street). The West Garage and Lot 4 are the only two parking lots that recognize that Regal Cinema validation of $ 6 for the first 4 hours. The East Garage does not and it seems that is done for crowd control.
A tale of caution with regards to the movie cinema validation, once you get it stamped — ONLY PAY WHEN YOU’RE READY TO LEAVE. The parking system assumes that once you use one of the automated pay stations that you’re going to exit within 20 minutes. It gives you 30 minutes to exit without charging you. Should you go over that 30 minutes it will charge you $ 5 for the first two hours after you’ve paid. With that said, you can hustle the system. Say you go to the movies and pay your $ 6 after having been there 4 hours. If you want to stay and eat you will be charged $ 5 for the next two hours for a total of $ 11. However, if you wait to pay your parking until you leave you’ll be charged the maximum of $ 25. I’ll explain, the movie validation covers the first 4 hours but one minute passed the 4 hours it will charge you $ 10 for that 30 minutes. It will charge you an additional $ 5 for each 30 minutes there after. So if you go to the movies, and stay for dinner and drinks for a total of 6 hours then you’re going to pay $ 25.
There are only a few restaurants that offer validation but they only cover the first 2 hours (or $ 5) so I would recommend checking because the parking attendants say they can’t tell you and thereby steer patrons to certain places. But if you go to dinner and find a place that does offer the $ 5 validation and you go to a movie while leaving before the 4 hours you’ll only pay $ 1 for parking.
Yes, the parking is super tight in the East Garage, the West has more room and space. Lot 4 is just better but fills up quickly on $ 8 Tuesdays for Regal while the West Garage fills up whenever there’s an event at Staples Center, Microsoft Theatre or BOTH.
I usually check
for the event calendar then plan my time accordingly to avoid crowds and street closures.
Last, best time to enter the parking lots for dinner is after 9:00pm (ON THE DOT) because the maximum you’ll pay is $ 10 (it’s there late night charge). But check the time on your ticket when you enter because if you enter at 8:59pm the standard rates will apply of the $ 30 maximum in the East and $ 25 in the West and Lot 4.

If you happen to actually somehow get a validation for this garage by some sort of magic it won’t actually cover the entire $ 35 parking fee. Had to still pay $ 10 to exit WITH VALIDATION.
Don’t park here! Its that simple. I come downtown a lot for work and have parked in many places and this is the worst place to put your car. Park ANYWHERE BUT HERE!
I would give zero stars if it were an option.

It’s a pretty expensive parking structure. There are many paring structures throughout LA Live. I parked in the east underground lot. The total came out to be $ 30 (which is the daily maximum) for about 7 – 8 hours. It’s expensive but I knew that ahead of time. The structure itself is easy to maneuver throughout. It’s got good and easy to understand signage. The only thing is that it’s hotter than heck down there.

WACK, CRUMMY, DUMB parking place.
We dined at the restaurant — they didn’t validate, watched a movie — they didn’t validate (for this lot only), and came out to a $ 30 parking bill.
It’s hard to find parking here, it’s HOT AS HELLLLL down there, and they are really expensive.
Again. Wack, crummy and dumb.

These guys are greedy crooks! Went to a première and parked in the east lot owned by LA live. Apparently my $ 25 validation ticket is only good in the WEST lot that had limited access because of police street closures. So I had to pay $ 25 to park in the east lot. It’s all owned by the same company. What is the difference?!?

Booooo. $ 5 for the first 2 hrs and $ 50 every 30 mins after that is HORRIBLE. Look to spend $ 20 – 30 depending on how long you stay. It’s a hassle just to navigate to the garage and to your space. That alone eats up 15 mins. God forbid it’s a huge event you’re there for and have to find your way out with the mad rush. I’d rather pay $ 10 flat rate and walk a block.

Huge underground parking lot at LA Live.
Usually plenty of parking because no one wants to pay the crazy prices.
$ 5 for 2 hours, after that, your screwed.
A lot of places stopped validating this lot so expect to pay when you park here.

parking is expensive. the attendants (especially this one girl, wish I would’ve gotten her name) were rude and useless. when we asked for help she acted like the weight of the world was on top of her. it’s like good customer service doesn’t exist anymore.

Believe me when I say it pains me to write one star reviews. Let’s see – $ 5 for first two hours and $ 5 for each additional 30 min. Ended up paying $ 25 which is max. It takes a good amount of time and experience in playing «Rush Hour» to find a spot. Had to SQUEEZE into a parking spot turning from one lane only, so be prepared for a 10 point turn to enter and leave a parking spot with a full sized sedan on a Friday night. Now imagine for a second you were carrying a family and had an SUV or minivan and tried to park in such a situation. No movie theater validation on the east side where I parked (Georgia st garage is where you should be for that, but no external signs for indication). Park somewhere else.

Parking and shopping, eating, or catching a movie?
Prepare for a $ 25.00 total regardless of validation if over 4 hours. INSANE!!!

It’s way too expensive to park down here if you are not going to the overpriced Regal across the way. Regal validates. Everywhere else in that area is a hit or miss with validation. I try to take the subway or a bus whenever I go down there because it’s not like I’m there to shop. They should have an obscure snack shop (that accepts credit cards too) that offers validation with purchase like Hollywood and Highland does.
Pros:
Covered parking
Pretty secure as parking lots go
Multiple entrances
In the heart of the LA Live area
Multilevel
Good lighting
Enclosed escalators and Elevators
Cons:
Expensive if you can’t find a place that validates
Customer Service is not consistent
No regulation on how other cars drive as in no bumps to slow dumb people down
Not enough signage
The cone system of blocking everything off to confuse customers

As expected over prized parking! $ 25 on a Thursday, Living in Las Vegas we NEVER pay for parking. We did see other lots outside the LA Live area going for $ 10 – 15 all-​day parking but we were running late for our event so kinda had to pay the $ 25. It’s really confusing getting to the parking garages no real signage directing you to the garage, Parking staff are rude, unfriendly and not in the business of giving you directions, such as «where can we find an ATM»?.

If you’re here when there isn’t an event going on, it’s great. Other than that, plan on spending a lot of time searching for somewhere to park. I wish they had installed the light system other LA structures have installed so that you can easily see what’s free and what’s available down each row. It would certainly save a lot of time & headache.
Also, this place can get expensive fast. I was there for only a couple hours and parking already cost me $ 20. Madness!

Yeah no doubt it’s expensive. If you can go to 888 S Figueroa, their prices are cheaper by far, except you have to walk a couple blocks. However we turned in here by mistake and there was no way to get out. Luckily we landed on a $ 15 flat fee day and we ended up staying for a number of hours. So I guess it worked out. However the normal rates do look painful. But I guess you cant get any close to LA Live than it’s own lots. Be prepared for people hawking you as you leave if there’s an event that evening

Typically I hate parking garages, but it’s a necessity. we were having a bit of a hard time finding a spot so we ended up parking in an ‘employee reserved’ spot which we were nervous about but it was that or be late for our event so… we parked there. Very grateful we didn’t get a weird ticket/​fine/​towed. so yay! thanks for not sucking that way. :)

I parked here because I had advance notice that the restaurant I was eating at – Rock N Fish — validated parking.
Caveat: Not many of the restaurants/​bars in LA Live validate; in fact, Rock N Fish is one of the few that does.
However — despite validation, and the reassurance that even though I exceeded my 2 hour limit, $ 5 is all I would pay — I attempt to leave the structure and find that I owe $ 15. My Validation ticket is for $ 5 off of my parking total. That’s a cruel joke considering that they charge $ 5 for every 30 minutes. Does New York City even have the gall to charge those rates?
There’s a lot to park for $ 5 for the whole night just across the street from the entrance to this garage. Don’t support this extortion racket.

It’s seldom that I ever go for the one star, but in this instance I really don’t know why anyone would have any kind words to say about L.A. Live’s parking garage.
Let’s lay it out there, the rates are just too damn much for what you’re experiencing. There’s nothing here that you can really get in and out quickly enough to not have to pay through the nose in rates. Even with validation it’s just not worth the price of coming here.
I’ll go one step further and point out that the stigma that parking in L.A. in general, let alone a place where a sports game, concert and so much more events are happening at the same time just screams «DO NOT COME HERE» and is probably why the mecca of downtown social gatherings is generally a vast wasteland.
It’s all due to the fact that parking here sucks. Though I will suggest that if you are even thinking of going to anything at L.A. Live, it’ll most likely be during the hours that parking meters in the 1 – 2 blocks away range will be off and you’re better off hoofing it the 2 blocks in there opposed to having to deal with strange validation hoops to jump through and what not.
But yeah, $ 5 for parking with movie validation still seems too high — especially considering the price of movie admission these days. Yes, I did just have a «back in my day…» moment.

***Parking in Downtown LA is expensive so it is no surprise that LA Live’s parking garage is pricey; the one nice thing about this parking structure though is that it is pretty easy finding an open space on a non-​major-​event night; if you are planning on going to Regal, please note that you need to park in the right structure next to the theater; they only validate for that structure, which is $ 5 for 4 hours with the purchase of a movie ticket***
For other parking options around LA Live, there are several nearby paid lots. The parking at those lots can be just as high or even more than LA Live, but they don’t charge by the hour like they do at the LA Live Parking Garage (where a max ticket will cost you $ 25).

Good points: The restaurants and Regal theater validates, but only knocks $ 5. Going to a concert costs $ 20 to park. Unless you’re lucky and get a great spot, you’re better off parking in one of the lots on Fig or Chick.
The negative stars is getting out after the concert and the garage locked most of the exits. Bottlenecking occurs and it took half hour to leave because there’s only 1 exit among all the arteries.

$ 5 first two hours
$ 5 per half hour after that
Max $ 25
first 30 mins free