[Using Sakai] Conference parking ideas

[Nicola Monat-Jacobs]

If you're considering parking at Union Station, I'd probably recommend not renting a car and using the Flyaway shuttle service to Union Station.

http://www.lawa.org/flyaway

You can probably just rent a car for your "extra" site-seeing days from a local enterprise - much cheaper than renting at the airport. Or Zipcar, which is an excellent id, USC is not toooo far away.

- Nicola

On Jun 7, 2011, at  1:44 PM, Nate Angell wrote:

> Have you considered using a service like Zipcar instead of a normal
> car rental? They come with their own parking and appear to be mostly
> located around USC and UCLA:
> http://www.zipcar.com/losangeles/find-cars
> 
> - Nate
> 
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Matthew Jones <jonespm at umich.edu> wrote:
>> So I am going early and was going to rent a car, however I heard a rumor
>> that parking at the hotel was ~$40 a night! Seeing that I'll be there for 5
>> nights, and might not even use the car for most of the nights, it seems like
>> it might be a good idea to find a cheaper place to park it, or just opt to
>> return the car early. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
>> * I've read that parking at Union Station is a good option for general
>> travel downtown, and it's a pretty cool place to
>> visit. (http://goo.gl/0FXUM) I can't exactly tell what the daily rate is
>> [1], but searching around makes it look like it's around $10 max a day, so
>> much better than the hotel. It's a 15 minute subway trip + a short walk off
>> the red or silver lines.
>> * A slightly closer option is the garage at Pershing
>> Square (http://goo.gl/Bx3Jy) which is supposed looks to be about a half mile
>> walk and quick searches looks to be about $14 max a day.
>> There were no specials for in-out for either of these garages like the hotel
>> so it could potentially be more if I ended up driving anywhere, but it was
>> less parked for shorter terms. Open for any other ideas.
>> Also if anyone is going early this week and wants to do some sightseeing on
>> Thursday or maybe Saturday, let me know, I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing
>> yet. Hotel I'm staying at this week is outside downtown with free parking,
>> yay!
>> [1] http://www.yelp.com/biz/union-station-los-angeles#query:Union%20Station%20Parking
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