Where do you park?

canchi

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When visiting incall, where do you park your car?
I never been to the ones on Yonge st., but I guess you would park at a nearby parking?
(I don't think any incall would have their building's parking for you to use?)

Downtown is bad, you just have to have it at after 6pm, so the parking would be cheaper.

Do you guys simply not drive or that is just part of the cost to you?
 
Where ever she asks me too.
 
Where do you park any other time in your day? Do you actually drive anywhere outside of the suburbs? I don't know of too many places downtown with free parking during the day. But even down in the financial district, you can still find metered parking for 3 bucks an hour. Even many of the new condos have paid hourly parking underneath. If you can't afford a few bucks to park, maybe you can't afford this hobby.
 
I have a ton of parking and am midtown and it is free. Day and night. When I go to a hotel asking me to pay, I never use the machine and have never gotten a ticket. I guess I just have good parking karma.

Let's face it when you park downtown it is going to cost a minimum of $12 and upward of $20 to park. That is if you want to park legally.

A lot of times when I go to a downtown hotel, I use the valet for $20 dollars. it is almost as inexpensive and with a $5 tip still worth it for the convenience of arriving without looking disheveled from walking a few blocks. I find when I do park in a lot and try and negotiate with the vending machines, they are invatiably broken and it is frustrating.
 
Where do you park any other time in your day? Do you actually drive anywhere outside of the suburbs? I don't know of too many places downtown with free parking during the day. But even down in the financial district, you can still find metered parking for 3 bucks an hour. Even many of the new condos have paid hourly parking underneath. If you can't afford a few bucks to park, maybe you can't afford this hobby.

Just wonder what others would do. At work in downtown, I got a monthly parking.
Just want to know if other would park right at the building or park at some public parking to avoid being spotted...
Price isn't the main issue, but rather available space.
 
I have a ton of parking and am midtown and it is free. Day and night. When I go to a hotel asking me to pay, I never use the machine and have never gotten a ticket. I guess I just have good parking karma.

Let's face it when you park downtown it is going to cost a minimum of $12 and upward of $20 to park. That is if you want to park legally.

A lot of times when I go to a downtown hotel, I use the valet for $20 dollars. it is almost as inexpensive and with a $5 tip still worth it for the convenience of arriving without looking disheveled from walking a few blocks. I find when I do park in a lot and try and negotiate with the vending machines, they are invatiably broken and it is frustrating.

Thanks, Marla. This is more or less the answer that I was looking for.
Guess I really start using hotel and have outcall to come to me.
I was using the Roy Thomson Hall parking the other day, and the lady did remember me when I was about to exit.
Need to start using non-attendant parking place. (But it would replaced by camera? Idk)
 
If the incall is downtown, then I park at a subway station for $2 then take the subway the rest of the way. I believe most of the TTC parking lots are $2 after 3pm and free on weekends. No sense in driving and getting into traffic and having to hunt for parking. Not worth the headache IMO. You could also park for free at a shopping mall like Yorkdale and take the subway the rest of the way.
 
Thanks.
Goal here is to avoid running into people I know, and not to do something out of the norm.
 
Loblaws at Jarvis and Lakeshore is quite a distance from Yonge Street and the transit in that area is mediocre at best. Kind of depends on where along Yonge Street the OP is going to.
Loblaws at College and Wellesley has free parking for 90 minutes with purchase of $20 or more.
 
I will try to find the cheapest metered parking available. Sometimes if cheap is too far (like underground City Hall), I say fuck it, and park under the hotel. (I carry a hobby bag and if it's a regular, might being wine or whatever in anther bag, so I don't want to lug my stuff over a long distance).
 
Carlton & Church?

I think so.

Gotta be careful with that Loblaws parking. It closes after 11 pm and doesn't re-open until 7 am (had to jet before the end of a movie I was watching at the old Carlton cinema once).

P.S. Some ladies who work out of a condo, etc., are near parking lots that are mucho cheap. Like $3 for several hours, or a little more for the night until 7 am.
 
Loblaws at College and Wellesley has free parking for 90 minutes with purchase of $20 or more.

Right, tho technically Carlton and Church. You can buy $20 worth of groceries, booze at LCBO, or cheap clothes at Joe Fresh.
As others have noted, there's enough street parking in other incall areas as well; I usually hobby on evenings and weekends so parking is not a big issue. I must say the parking around the newer incalls around the Rogers Centre and Cityplace are a bit of a pain.
 
Carlton & Church?

Yeah it would have to be since College and Wellesley don't cross. I didn't know that the Loblaws at Maple Leaf Gardens (I assume that's the one we're talking about) has any parking around it? Then again, it's been a very long time since I've been down in that area.