"Should" I have paid for parking here?
"Should" I have paid for parking here?
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Somewhatfoolish

Original Poster:

4,993 posts

211 months

Stayed at the Holiday Inn in Bloomsbury for 4 days. Parking charge £112.

From my reading of the notices I'd have to pay £100 discounted to £60 if paid quickly if I simply didn't pay.

Now I'm expensing my parking and I can't expense "fines" (I appreciate that technically the 100/60 is not technically a fine, I am using the word in its non anal sense) so I'm fine with that. But had I been staying myself in the unlikely event I'd decided to drive in to central London for leisure would I maybe have been better off just waiting for said "fine" invoice and paying up immediately? Or is there some way they'd have "done" me for more?

Countdown

48,126 posts

221 months

Wouldn’t you have had 4x£100/ £60 fines (1 fine for each day that you stayed?)

Somewhatfoolish

Original Poster:

4,993 posts

211 months

Countdown said:
Wouldn t you have had 4x£100/ £60 fines (1 fine for each day that you stayed?)
Didn't see anything in the wording that suggested that but annoyingly I didn't take a photo and I can't find the T&C online. So it's possible but I don't think so.

Countdown

48,126 posts

221 months

ISTR cars parked on DYLs having multiple yellow parking fines on the windscreen. If it was going to be just the one fine for multiple days then it would work out cheaper than most NCP car parks.

Plus4Four#

185 posts

6 months

Look at this.
https://www.holidayinn.com/hotels/gb/en/london/lon...
Gives details of parking available.
Basically you pre-book or pay when arriving.
Did you do this?

LosingGrip

8,720 posts

184 months

Im in a Holiday Inn currently and had to put my VRM into a computer at the start.

BertBert

21,041 posts

236 months

Somewhatfoolish said:
Didn't see anything in the wording that suggested that but annoyingly I didn't take a photo and I can't find the T&C online. So it's possible but I don't think so.
I bet the terms are silent on the matter of multiple days and not paying. Without them though it's impossible to know!