NCP King Street

I don’t have a whole lot of love for car parks, especially ones that look as worn and dilapidated as this one. We used to park here pretty much every time we came into town but I got emotionally worn down by those ticket re-​sellers and after an agressive confrontation, stopped parking here. (If you don’t know, this car park used to have paper ticket machines, which people would ask you to give to them when you left. They would then try to re-​sell your ticket to people entering the car park and had a tendency to get a bit shouty if you refused).
Thankfully now the paper tickets have been replaced by parking machines where you input your car registration to pay. If you don’t have change, you can do it by phone (or app) and once you’ve called one, it will remember your car details and card so it is really quick to process.
That, combined with the fact that city centre parking is now £3 an hour, this is a good place to park if you’re going to be out in Merchant City. I paid £6.40 (including the phone payment fee of 40p) for 10 hours parking yesterday.
The downsides of this car park: it’s not in the nicest part of town, the car park itself is filled with holes and there aren’t really properly marked lines. I’m not sure how safe your car actually is here seeing as it’s just an open space, that being said I’ve never had any problems. It’s super handy for St Enoch shopping centre, and the parking here is considerably cheaper than the St Enoch mutli storey.