Why, oh why cruel world, do you demand that the cost to park my car is equill to that of a meal! In…read moretimes of recession, when peole have to scrounge for pennies, how can an overpriced heap of concrete junk like this demand such high prices. Yes you are getting safty, and a central parking slot with risking a warden slapping you with a £30 or so fine, but are you really happy? Do you feel a £4.90 tag for 2 hours is justified!? Do you think that when you fork out £9.90 for a 5 hour stop the whole concrete parking experience has been worth the price of a good meal!? No is the answer! park for free outside the city and enjoy the 15 minute walk into town.

I hate trying to find parking in the centre of Bristol. Luckily I live close enough to be able to…read morewalk in, but sometimes I have had to drive, be it for picking something up or if I am running late for something. NCP parking seems to dominate the 'long stay' market, with this particular car park and the one opposite castle park having a bit of a monopoly on the whole car parking industry. I do not understand how they have so much business though, the price is far to expensive. If you are there for 4 hours and 1 second you'd be looking to pay something near £10! which is a complete rip-off. I understand the need for security, and that parking space is expensive, but surley if it is so popular they can afford to use some of their profits to make the parking cheaper for all of their customers.

Millenium Square is quite a stunning open space in the city center. It is always filled with kids…read moreplaying around in the shiny silvery water features, flatland BMXers practicing their tricks in the middle of the square, or just people sitting around the benches and steps, having a good relax. This square plays host to a variety of things, such as a Sunday art market and numerous festivals when summer rolls by. There is a computery device on one of the square that provides some minutes of fun, where it points to any planet you type in, and tells you how many kilometers it is away from the earth. Interesting, but I think it gets abused by the drunk masses on a Friday and Saturday night. In the floor of the square is an analemma - lights that show the path of the sun as viewed from the earth. On the benches at another end of the square, are brass statues of historical figures, one of which I know is William Tyndale translating the New Testament. All these little quirks of Millenium Square give it its soul, despite it being just a big, flat, bare open space. Thumbs up!

A fabulous public open space. A great big screen for the sports-inclined and fountains and pools…read morefor the little ones. It may have been mid-March, but my little cousin adored the water. He splashed about with his dad for ages. Surrounded by lovely restaurants and lots of museums, etc. (@Bristol). Great for young and old alike.

In comparison to the money grabbing NCP at Queen Charlotte Street, The Mall is a refreshingly…read morefair-priced car park. It's £2 if you're parking for an hour or so and then goes up in reasonable brackets. And there are plenty of spaces, with the disabled and the family and the lower levels. I do really hate driving up the concrete spiral into it though (although driving out is oddly quite good fun) and you can see a few people have come a cropper by all the scrape marks on the wall. The exits are also clearly marked with obvious walking lanes for pedestrians and give way points. And the spaces are reasonable so even if you are for some reason driving a 4x4 in the city you should be able to park. There's also a valeting service on the ground floor as you drive in.

DO NOT LEAVE YOUR CAR IN HERE OVERNIGHT. It is quite simply…read morea robbers paradise. Numerous car smashed windows and belongings stolen. Not that they are on view they are just opportunist thieves. No security and Police not interested. Find another car park.

Here comes my grumpy old man rant…read more.. I can't belive the cost of parking, I swear it escalates at the same rate as petrol, I guess the thing is that big city centre parking lots feel that people don't have a choice so they can charge rediculous rates. If you want to park here for the whole day it'll cost you £14! (or £9 for 6 hours). I went to Bridport in dorset the other day (granted not the biggest place, and not really comparable to bristol) and I parked in the town centre's central car park and it cost me 40p for the whole day, now what is so special about this mamouth concrete hump that they can charge an extra £13.60! If you do want to park in the city centre and either want security or a car near after you get lumbered with many bags of shopping then I guess it's helpful... but still... £14!

Broadmead car parks are ideally located just beside the broadmead shopping centre. They do charge…read moremoney to park there for a day, but it costs less to park here than in cabot circus carpark, and it does not take long to walk to the shops from here.

We went to Cabot circus on Saturday and their car park was full. We parked at NCP broadmead but…read morewe're foolish enough not to check the charges before we went for a bite to eat and cinema. When we returned just over 4 hours later we couldn't believe the £15.20 charge; A lot of money for a dark unpleasant car park,much dearer than Cabot Circus, we won't be using your car parks again. It's shopping out of town for us.

Just had the worst experience trying to get out of this car park. Came in around 4 and got back to…read morecar less than an hour later, traffic Didn't move for other an hour and took another half hour to get out of car park! The staff said it was due to volume of traffic outside and that everyone was leaving at same time! Avoid at all costs on Saturday around 5!

I am not a fan of having to pay for parking, especially when it is in something that is essentially…read morean enormous glorified NCP. However, using the Cabot car park Is unavoidable, and it turns out to be a very pleasant experience. You want to try can get yourself onto the third level that id the one that has the bridge to the shopping center on. However, it fills up very fast. Otherwise you could go for level two if your car is looking a bit mucky, you can get it cleaned while you shop here! The car park is very reasonably priced especially during the later hours of the day when you only really find cinema goers using it.