Odyssey Parking BE WARNED

drew2k9

i hate parking attendants who have authority complexes, melts my head! but on the other hand all the carparks i use have very nice down to earth attendants who will point out a space if the palace is near full, and if it is "full" then they will find somewhere for me to park out of the way!

smokiewater

Nothing worse than going into a busy car park and finding cars taking up 2 spaces while you are driving round trying to find a space, so in principle I can see the odyssey's point. However trying to enforce this on someone parked out of the way and not actually taking up two parking spaces seems a bit extreme!

At the events we attend there is a standing joke about 'Yellow Jacket Complex' when the power of the high vis jacket just seems to go to their head!

Are there none of those Parent & Toddler parking spaces at the Odyssey that you get at shopping centres? They would give the 3 door car more room!

furr

Hi there! I had a similar experience when I was parked at Smyths at Forestside (ok so it was 3 years ago, but it still gets to me!)
My hub and I had parked, walked over to the registry office to register the birth of a child, walked back, bought some stuff in Smyths, only to discover our car had been clamped! We called a parking attendant over and gave him a good rant. He said that it stated CLEARLY that only customers of that particular retail park were allowed to park there (R.Office was just outside it) and it was 'out of his hands'. We said that we WERE customers, showed our receipt for Smyths, but were told no, we had to pay the £55 fee. We even threatened to get the police and were told that they would be 100% on the side of the parking attendant.
To make us EVEN madder, he let it slip that he'd watched us walk out of the carpark (with a baby in a car seat) but couldn't have warned us because he was 'half way up the car park' at the time. GRRR!! We ended up paying..... Tell you what, I'd fight it the whole way nowadays!

caz2703

Here's one that shows "one rule for one". We were at an appointment at the Ulster last week and due to the distance from the car park to the maternity building, hubby very kindly dropped me off and did the long walk on his own. There were literally only a few spaces left in the whole of the Ulster which annoys me as the disabled car park is the closest to maternity, massive and underused. But I digress ....

Across the road were 5 Plods putting notices on cars parked on the road outside McDonalds (not the main road, the link road). So can you guess where the police had parked? Yes, they were in McDonalds car park! Now even though we'd called in to satisfy my orange Fanta craving you can bet your bottom dollar if we'd left the car there during my appointment we would have been ticketed/clamped. Mind you, chances are the plods called in when they'd finished but where do you draw the line?

Lirin

Who's actually issuing the parking tickets in the Odyssey?

darwin-rover

Sounds like the OP was parked in the middle of the lane or in a disabled space (Odysseys disabled spaces are at the end of the rows). I cant really see a parking attendant handing out a ticket for no reason , regardless or peoples views of them.

mia1830

smokiewater wrote: »

Are there none of those Parent & Toddler parking spaces at the Odyssey that you get at shopping centres? They would give the 3 door car more room!

No not that I'm aware off, I did say that to the parking attendant and he said to use the disabled!!! Really I would fully take a fine for a disabled space, thats just not on they are there for a reason!!

mia1830

darwin-rover wrote: »

Sounds like the OP was parked in the middle of the lane or in a disabled space (Odysseys disabled spaces are at the end of the rows). I cant really see a parking attendant handing out a ticket for no reason , regardless or peoples views of them.

Did you read my post??? I was parked at the end of a row with NO parking space on the other side. Re-read my post and it explains why. Did you also read that he said I could park in a disabled parking space but that I explained that none of us are disabled and that is not fair on those who need these spaces.

Don't mean to sound rude or cheeky but people should take the time to read posts properly before replying.:T:T

caz2703

I had a run-in with a BMW driver who parked his car in a parent & child space leaving me, 6 months pregnant and with a toddler to park in a normal space to walk slowly and gingerly across the thick ice to do the shopping. I mentioned it in-store and the supermarket said there was nothing they could do but if there are no parent & toddler spaces to use a disabled space instead. I can understand if there are no disabled spaces that someone with a blue badge can use a P&T space but really ....... is there anyone who would deprive a disabled person a space?

parkmoy

Oh and Im sorry for ranting at the parking attendant but was a bad start to the morning!!

I agree that to issue a £100 fine for what you did is just plain stupid but why rant at the attendant? After all he did point out the rules and save you the potential ticket so maybe you should have said thank you to him. He doesn't make the rules.