Park and Ride or Daily Parking at RDU? (Raleigh, Durham: coupons, apartment)
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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I am going for a VERY brief weekend trip. (fly out Friday evening, back Sunday evening)
Would you park in the daily parking or park and ride?
(ie, how often are the shuttles really from park and ride? is it hard finding a daily parking space?)
I've always taken a cab, personally, but I live in Cary and I don't use the airport's cabs (great service, extremely expensive... the driver even helped me get my bags up to my 3rd floor apartment).
I don't know anything about the park and ride, but I do know that I've looked into daily parking there and it is never very full. However, there are almost 10,000 spaces for that. And you would need to walk from your car, so depending on your luggage amount, this may not be the best option. It would cost you 10 bucks for the Saturday and then 1 dollar per hour on Friday and Sunday. So it may be fairly cheap, and you may be lucky to get a close spot.
I imagine the shuttles are fairly quick at the park and ride. They say 20 minutes between each shuttle... but I don't know myself if this is true . It isn't that much cheaper than daily parking, but at least they would take you directly to the door.
I quit using the park and ride once they opened the new daily and jacked the price up to $6/day for the park and ride (the daily costs $10/day). You will not have a problem finding parking the daily...on a Friday afternoon I'd go up 4 levels before I started looking for a spot.
If you do decide to use the park and ride, buses come every 20 min.
You can get a space in either the daily lots or the park and ride lots. The buses to the park and ride lots seem to run about every 15 minutes and take about 5-8 minutes to get you to your terminal. For your short trip, it may be worth the extra $8 to just walk to be able to walk to the terminal.
I've ALWAYS used the park and ride (about 13-15 times over the year) and buses are pretty reliable. Come every 15 mins i think. On holidays weekends they came in less than every 10 mins or so. Have a safe flight
I usually park either in the Park-n-Ride purple lot (near Aviation and I-40) or in the daily lot, depending on how many days I'll be gone, if I'm paying or the company is paying, how much time I have and how much luggage.
As long as it isn't a major travel holiday, these lots are usually fine. Christmas, you are better off taking a cab. We missed a flight Xmas day to Vegas due to full lots. Lost a full day of our trip because of that.
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Granted I usually expense it, but I always park in the Daily. You simply don't save enough money to justify the hassle, in my opinion. It's just such a short stroll to the elevators, and then to the terminal.
I always start at Level 4, however, even if the others say there are spaces. Sometimes I end up on the top. But it's still the same distance to the terminal once you're out of the elevator.
For an airport the size of RDU I find it absolutely ridiculous that their shuttles for the park and ride lots do not come often enough, meaning that the shuttles come to the lots every 13 to 15 minutes instead of every 4-6 minutes and on top of that, the shuttles do not run 24/7. Every city that I've lived has an airport with park and ride lots that have shuttles run 24/7 and they come to the lots on average every 6 minutes. That is exactly why I use longtermparking.com. They are located on Lumley Rd right behind the airport. The shuttles run 24/7 and there is 24hr parking.
PreFlight parking on WestGate/Lumley Road just off of 70 has online coupons so you can get a discount. They will also service your car while you are out of town if you need an oil change, inspection or car wash, etc..You can also get airmiles.
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