Parking MiPermit Bath

[Chrisgr31]

Anyone got any experience of MiPermit in Bath and in particular fouling up the payment process!

Having driven round and round the Charlotte St car park for about 20 minutes watched someone reverse into someone else in their desperation for space I eventually got a space. Then tried to pay. Turns out its £6.80 for 4 hours as its long stay but no cards accepted unless you use their app MiPermit where you pay 10p for the convenience! The convenience of using the worlds worst app!

In the process of using the app I managed to miss the first letter of my registration off the plate I registered. App gave no option to change it. When I called them they said I would have to pay again. Will I?

[Canon_Fodder]

No

[Sebring440]

Canon_Fodder said:

No

[hairy v]

Not at that car park, but once (in a rush) entered my old car's registration number. The parking company sent me a fine so I wrote them a grovelling letter explaining the circumstances and they let me off.

[ryanchan]

As a local resident of 5+yrs and a user of the app for maybe 2 I rarely struggled with it, could just be you were not zen enough to use it properly

[foresterlad]

maybe a little unfair?
I frequently park in Bath and often get asked about
use of parking pay stations

[DoubleSix]

Sorry OP… never had an issue with the app

[foresterlad]

maybe a little unfair?
I frequently park in Bath and often get asked about
use of parking pay stations

[Chrisgr31]

It has just appeared on Jeremy Vine, fortunately I didn’t end up paying £60 for something!

It does appear that they matched up my payment with the number plate as not heard from them about any penalty.

[vikingaero]

When I visited Bath last year, I did curse about another bloody parking app and why Bath has to have their own app. Fortunately you can just scan the QR code and pay on your phones browser. Even an elderly Dutch couple in their MG had no problem paying on their smartphone.

[PistonBroker]

I have 3 on the phone now as I had to download another when we parked in Lyme Regis last year.

Only to discover, once parked, that you could only park one car with it. We had the outlaws with us so Mrs PB had also driven and doesn't have a phone. I appreciate it would be relatively rare that you might want to pay to park more than one car, but it can't be entirely uncommon. I wouldn't have minded so much if the card machines weren't down as well.

I should be relieved we park and ride on the odd occasions we trek over to Bath by the sounds of it.

[XCP]

What does one do if one hasn't a smartphone, like me.?

[Red9zero]

XCP said:

What does one do if one hasn't a smartphone, like me.?

Most of them have a phone number to call or text and then you enter your details. If it`s one where you have to speak your details, good luck

[XCP]

Red9zero said:

XCP said:

What does one do if one hasn't a smartphone, like me.?

Most of them have a phone number to call or text and then you enter your details. If it`s one where you have to speak your details, good luck

Sounds a nightmare. I'll stick to the park and ride.

[TheLoraxxZeus]

XCP said:

What does one do if one hasn't a smartphone, like me.?

Yeah I absolutely hate this st.

It honestly wouldn't bother me if there was some application that every company is forced to use but the fact different areas use different apps is st. Then you get some machines that don't even accept any cash, only card. Then some are cash only.

Smartphones can be great things but not everything has to be an app.

Majority of the lights in my house are Philips Hue which imo is actually really good, the brightness and colour options and schedules + day and night more is really good when you're spending a ton of time in front of a PC. However my wife just got a new bulb from some other company so now I have this LED floor lamp that requires a separate app to control the brightness and the stupid thing defaults to bright as fk.

[AlwynMike]

At one (maybe more) of the east coast beach carparks (Huttoft?) the Council installed app only parking payment machines last year. It was free before that. Problem is, being that as its quite remote, phone signal is pretty poor to non existent depending on provider.
Don't bother going there now.

[NikBartlett]

Bath is utterly car unfriendly. I live 20 mins away and avoid it like the plague. The MiPermit app is all.over Wiltshire, easy enough to use but i guess the problem you had was with first time setup rather than subsequent usage ?

[Chrisgr31]

Well yes you need to download it, register etc all with poor data signal, bright light on screen etc whilst annoyed at driving round a car park for 20 minutes to find a space

[Durzel]

NikBartlett said:

Bath is utterly car unfriendly. I live 20 mins away and avoid it like the plague. The MiPermit app is all.over Wiltshire, easy enough to use but i guess the problem you had was with first time setup rather than subsequent usage ?

Is it? You've got Southgate multi storey which is massive, Charlotte Street as mentioned and The Podium one too, which I keep forgetting exists because the other two always have spaces. You can even park in Sainsburys for 90 minutes for free if you just need to pop in.