5 Star Parking

I park here for work. Beautiful building downtown a few blocks from the harbor and across from the Santa Fe train station, so you know parking is going to be costly. Currently, the parking lot is full and only available for monthly parkers. Nothing bad to say about the garage itself. They do provide 4 spots for quick in and out access if you aren’t staying for long.

First off, I am hoping this is the correct location. I parked in a ‘5 Star’ lot, kitty corner from the 402 E. Broadway building. Okay, qualifiers aside…
$ 10 for an hour? $ 22 for one to two hours? $ 30 frigging dollars for the day???
For $ 30, you better wash and wax the car and have someone waiting to shine my shoes when I return. And, my car better have a full tank of gas as well.

This place is expensive. 15 dollars a day. If you are going on a cruise ship choose another place. There are lots nearby that service the airport that will let you park your car there and then they will shuttle you to the cruise ship terminal. Around 8 to 10 dollars a day. Security is minimal. Fences, lights.
Good luck!

This parking lot is always full. Be it the middle of the day, or the middle of the night, you can bet that by 10am or 10pm it will be hard to find a spot left in this lot.
I live right next to this establishment. And let me tell you, the view from my bedroom window down into this lot, is for PRIME people watching.
Now, being that I live downtown, I understand the importance of being quite when I leave places if it’s past 11pm. Some people go to bed at reasonable times, and I don’t want to interrupt their deep sleep. For me on the other hand, I don’t mind the noise all that much. It’s not keeping me from sleeping, because I usually get the majority of my work, done from the hours of 11pm to 4am, so I’m up anyways. But I feel that this parking lot, brings out the worst of downtown.
Some of my neighbors don’t take the noise so lightly. A few weeks ago, around 3am a lady yelled down to ask a group of men to be a little quieter, and how did they respond? They threw a huge rock straight into her window. It’s gotten to the point, where I am down for a little sling shot through the window, or water balloons from the roof. I don’t mind the kids hanging out in the lot, but when it’s 2am and you got two gold cars with butterfly doors, bumping «stanky leg» for half hour straight while ghost riding the whip, (not an exaggeration) something has to be done, right?

I don’t even know if this is the downtown parking structure that I actually parked in, but the parking attendant was awesome. The guy was like Cheech Marin. We drive up to the parking lot:
Me: How’s it going man?
PA: good, dude, 12.00 $
Me: Cool
PA: Park anywhere you want, reserved, handicapped, whatever, I don’t care.
My Best Friend: HAHA, handicapped. Dude, I’m handicapped. I have tourettes (which he does). I should apply for a handicapped sticker.