edinburgh cheap parking, where ?

zvonkokracun

haven't been to edinburgh for years, mainly because last time we were robbed parking the car at the castle. now we need to collect visas and i was interested if anybody knows of anywhere within a bus ride to the centre other than the park and ride parks, which are too far away?

La-Cara

I think you could park at The Gyle or Ocean Terminal shopping centres for free then get the bus into city centre from there for £1.20. Or try to find a train station that has a free car park, Musselburgh and Wallyford both have them, takes 5-10 mins to get to Waverley.

scotsbob

For free parking in Edinburgh, or any other location in the UK, you can use this website

http://www.freeparkingspace.co.uk/

alanrowell

Plenty of free on-street parking - but not in the centre.

And rather than use the likes of the Gyle where they do get sniffy if you stay too long why not use one of the several park & rides around Edinburgh

http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/directory/2/park_and_rides

sicker

Bridge Street, Portobello.
Always plenty room in free car park except summer.
10 minutes by 26 bus to Edinburgh centre.

Always_Harassed

The park and ride next to the airport has free parking and you just need to buy your bus ticket into the city. Have used a few times and there is a good service, clean waiting room with toilets. Think the return fare is around £3.00

alanrowell

Always_Harassed wrote: »

Think the return fare is around £3.00

That's the cost of an adult day ticket on Lothian Buses. The fare is £1.20 for any single bus journey whether you go one stop or 100 stops.

It also means it's pointless hunting around for sidestreet parking or at shopping centres as the cost for the bus is going to be the same.

SaverKate_2

I've just moved to the area and I am really struggling to get my bearings/figure out parking. Does anyone know any parking nearer to the city centre coming from Comiston? Really need to take the car ideally. The ones I have found online near the city centre are really expensive.

geewhiz

SaverKate wrote: »

I've just moved to the area and I am really struggling to get my bearings/figure out parking. Does anyone know any parking nearer to the city centre coming from Comiston? Really need to take the car ideally. The ones I have found online near the city centre are really expensive.

Would really need to know where you are going and on what days to give you any ideas or you can check out the parking zone maps on the council website

Mymymy

SaverKate wrote: »

I've just moved to the area and I am really struggling to get my bearings/figure out parking. Does anyone know any parking nearer to the city centre coming from Comiston? Really need to take the car ideally. The ones I have found online near the city centre are really expensive.

Nope - Comiston is the end of the free parking (during the working week) coming in from that side of town, I park there and get the bus on up.

SaverKate_2

Ah. I really need to take the car. It is only a couple of times a week but I'm heading to Princes Street or thereabouts and parking up for around 5-6 hours. Some of the car park charges are way out of my budget as well, so I was hoping there might be somewhere to park that would be a bit cheaper. The castle street one will be £12.50 a visit, which is really way more than I can afford on a regular basis.

Not sure if it is just me not really knowing the area but so far I'm finding parking in Edinburgh a bit of a challenge (maybe that's just because I don't have much money, mind) but I've lived in a couple of cities and it is certainly feeling more of an issue here, at least for me.