Continuing on with my theme of too impatient to park, I offer you another convienent, but $$$ expensive location to park in Boston. This one is probably my least favorites for a variety of reasons - but mainly due to it's expense. It's owned by the same guy who owns the one on Staurt St, but he jacks up the prices just because of it's location on Newbury Street. A little side story - why do I know this? Because the same staff that works at the Stuart Steet location also works here. How do I know that? They know me by name and my car. Yeah, I'm starting to wonder too if this insisting of parking in lots around Boston is a treatable disease or a mental disorder. $36 bucks is steep for 4 hours considering most lots around Boston cap off at $25 bucks for the day. That there shows you the owner is taking advantage of location and the uber rich clientele of Newbury shops. This one is located on Newbury + Dartmouth and is a great location for just that - Newbury, Bolyston, Public Gardens etc. But seriously if you can appreciate a walk, I'd park at the other place I recommended on Stuart Street. I rarely go to this one unless I'm really late for something, or have guests with me that may not like a long walk. The othe thing that I do like about this lot is it's in a safe location and valet. The 2 star rating is soley for location, safety and the super cool staff that works there. Regardless of it's expense I feel the need to review this one to support the others out there that are street parking challenged like me. To be continued...... read more

$42 for 2.5 hours on a Thursday evening. No cash accepted, credit card only and the one you swipe in with is the one you have to swipe out with. So when I swiped in my credit card didn't work. They acted like it was my card and got frustrated with me. Finally, someone else tried to swipe their card and it didn't work. No ones cards worked because the machine was broken. Finally they manually entered the my card and I parked there (hey, I was running late and desperate to park). Big mistake. On the way out, I had to swipe my same card again and it said "invalid user" or "invalid info" or some such. So I told the attended (now a different person entirely) that the previous attendants had to manually enter my card when I entered because the machine was broke so maybe the system didn't recognize my card on the way out. He yelled at me, told me I was stupid and that I had two options: use another card which I had to give to him for some weird reason or "leave my car there forever." Um, what?! He kept insisting that I needed a second card so I gave him my original card and told him it was a "different one" then he went into the booth, wrote my card info down, swiped it on another machine, then came back out, gave me my card and said I had to swipe it again to get out. Um, what?! He didnt say it actually, he mockingly said it like he was talking to a 5 year old. When I asked why he had to write my card info down he started yelling at me again and saying that I was asking questions he couldn't answer and that I should leave or "stay there forever." I replied that my whole objective was to leave this ridiculous lot and that maybe we should call the police. He yelled at me to swipe my card again, so I did out of desperation, finally the gate lifted and I drove off (the whole time I had been using the same card, so what suddenly changed to get the gate to lift? NO CLUE). I also called my credit card company and told them to cancel my card and send me a new one. I didn't trust that attendant nor would I ever recommend anyone park there based on high cost, horrific customer service, and suspicious credit card practices. One of the strangest and most unsettling parking experiences I have ever had. STAY AWAY from this place! read more