The money
What an Airport Parking Quote Is Made Of
No figure appears anywhere on this site. That is a decision with a reason behind it, and the reason is worth more to somebody comparing two quotes than a table of numbers nobody stands behind.
Why there is no rate card
Where a desk holds agreements with operators it can publish what those agreements yield, and the figures carry weight because somebody is bound to them.
This one holds none. It asks, per request, and reports what comes back. Putting a daily figure on this page would mean publishing a tariff belonging to nobody here, enforceable against nobody, and whoever planned around it would learn the difference at the barrier.
Where the money goes
| Part | Whose it is | Stated here |
|---|---|---|
| The ground the car stands on | The operator | No, it is their cost and their tariff |
| The roof over it, or the plowing instead | The operator | No |
| The person who runs the lot and drives the van | The operator | No |
| Tax and whatever else attaches at the barrier | Levied elsewhere, collected by the operator | No |
| What a driver hands this desk | This desk | Nothing, ever |
What you are paying for takes the first three apart in eight entries, and what gets added at the gate covers the fourth.
The daily rate, and why it is not the whole number
Every operator quotes a daily rate, and every operator means something slightly different by it. Some count a day as twenty-four hours from drop off. Some count calendar days, so a car left at eleven at night and collected at one in the morning nine days later has been there eleven days by their arithmetic.
Ask which. It is the difference between two quotes that look identical, and it is the second question after the total.
What a quote actually contains
- A range, because several operators answer and they do not agree.
- For each: the rate, and the total at the gate including everything. Two numbers, always, because one of them is the one you actually pay.
- The operator's name, so the questions this desk cannot answer can be put to somebody who can.
- What it does not cover, named rather than implied.
It is free, it binds nobody, and it goes stale rather than converting into anything.
Starting from, confirmed by telephone
Where an operator gives this desk a starting figure, it is passed on as a starting figure and confirmed by telephone before anything is held. No fixed sum is published on this site and none is promised, because a fixed sum would be a promise, and the promise would be somebody else's to keep.
Prepayment, and what this desk can actually say
Some lots take payment at the gate and some take a deposit in advance. Which applies is the operator's arrangement rather than this desk's to waive, which is why no prepayment is not among the things this site states on the claims table.
The narrower truth belongs entirely to this address: not a cent moves from a driver to this desk, ever, and there is no card field on any page here.