jim, Ive stayed at the Roosevelt hotel in manhattan, not the waldorf ofcourse, but still midtown, and valet there was around 30 per night.
The thing about the city is that you can walk a few blocks and find overnight parking at a reasonable price.
In this area of philly were going to, there are few garages and none Id want to walk too late at night, or in cruddy weather.
parking by the hour during daytime hours is ridiculous in manhattan, but overnight, once businesses close down, is not that expensive.
rob-my sil is a starwood member?
they ask when you make a reservation.
The room was listed for 272 a night with restrictions.
We were part of a party where rooms were blocked off, so 200 a night.
As a starwood member, my sil was quoted 325 a night. Ridiculous.
this is a regular hotel, nothing fancy. and this is Philly, its not the center of LA., NY or Chicago.
Im with Rob on this, and this is why everyone sees tons of empty storefronts all over the cities.
Philadelphia is known to be unfriendly to autos. Watch the TV show parking wars, everyone complains owning a car in Philadelphia is challenging.
I took my wife out to lunch today around 12:30 in my local village. Just a quick bagel/sandwich and coffee.
The big church down the block usually lets out around this time so the streets are busy and parking is difficult, but theres no charge for street parking on sunday.(meters are free on sunday)
A woman pulled up in front of the store, we were sitting at a window seat, and she got out of her car and left it in the bus stop.
Immediately, a code enforcement officer was writing a ticket. Her daughter(maybe, could have been just a friend), sitting in the passenger seat, got out and went around to the drivers side, didn't say a word to the officer as he stood there Im guessing writing down her veh ID number from the windshield, and she just pulled away.
She is an idiot.
First, the officer has her plate number, and if she thinks she can ignore this ticket, shes crazy.
she will get it in the mail with a court date, and she must appear.
When she ignores it, a warrant will be issued. Noone will pursue the warrant ofcourse, but in the event she gets pulled over for any traffic violation in the future, she will be arrested, all for a 100 dollar ticket she chose to ignore, and from the looks of her laughing when her daughter came back to get her, I doubt very much she will pay the ticket or care about it.
Foolish woman.
Parking might be a bit of a chore on sunday morning where I was today because of the church, but with a bit of patience or a block or two walk, you can get it and I don't think it hurts the local businesses near me. Bus stop parking is frowned upon, anywhere.