Hefty private parking charges.

greatgimpo

Just want a few opinions here. Went to seaside and parked in a private carpark with a pay machine. The charges were approximately: 1 hour - £1.50, 2 hours - £3, 3 hours - £5.

If you knew you would be more than 1 hour, would you
a) pay 1 hour and ignore a 'penalty'
b) pay for 2 hours
c) pay for 3 hours just to be sure

Which would you do?

McKneff

Seems a bit daft, buying the first two to make up to 3 hours equals £4.50.

I would pay for 2, then if I needed a little more time, go back and pay for an hour.

So - 3 hours for£4.50

Tobster86

Avoid the car park altogether and find a residential street. I pay enough tax as it is, and my heath would benefit from the extra walking.

greatgimpo

Tobster86 wrote: »

Avoid the car park altogether and find a residential street. I pay enough tax as it is, and my heath would benefit from the extra walking.

It was at the end of a mile long road, leading just to the beach at Wells-next-the-Sea.

mikey72

greatgimpo wrote: »

It was at the end of a mile long road, leading just to the beach at Wells-next-the-Sea.

How full was it mid morning?

greatgimpo

Virtually empty.

mikey72

I'd pay the £5, as I couldn't be bothered waliking back. I want a decent car park, I want access to the beach, and I don't want to walk a mile to it, so it seems reasonable to pay for the service provided rather than blag it.

Coupon-mad

McKneff wrote: »

Seems a bit daft, buying the first two to make up to 3 hours equals £4.50.

I would pay for 2, then if I needed a little more time, go back and pay for an hour.

So - 3 hours for£4.50

This, same here.

mikey72

You'd walk back to save 50p if you were there for the morning? Or just pay for two but stay longer?

greatgimpo

I was hoping to appeal to the rebels and ask if they would pay the minimum as a token and then stay as long as they want and then ignore the demands to pay the 'fine'.

LincolnshireYokel

greatgimpo wrote: »

It was at the end of a mile long road, leading just to the beach at Wells-next-the-Sea.

Ohhhhhh I know it well, we used to camp at the campsite, theres a miniature train that runs down the side , and we used to crab on the harbour.

The rate the sea comes in is phenomenal. When the tide is out the beach is so wide you cant even see the sea, then a warning horn goes, and in the space of about 20m minutes the sea rushes in from nowhere and floods to a depth of 10 or 15 feet

My friend owned the very last beach hut, number 99, on the end of the row, with no other huts on the right hand side. Reasoning it was the last one, with no neighbour, he rebuilt it twice the size, expanding it sideway into the space. Wells council then argued it was the size of two huts, and tried to charge him two units ground rent. There then followed a three year long argument, my friend reasoning that if it was the last one, it couldn't be two wide. The locals looked on amused. It became known as 'The Ballroom'.

We used to go and have Christmas Lunch in The Globe in the village on christmas day. I loved Wells, we have many happy caravanning hols there.

This is the car park, here, isnt it?

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=wells+next+the+sea&hl=en&ll=52.972253,0.84967&spn=0.001228,0.002988&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&hnear=Wells-next-the-Sea,+Norfolk,+United+Kingdom&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=52.972253,0.84967&panoid=RXHVew0fuYy_e8_7_xnsIw&cbp=12,307.15,,0,0

The camp site was called 'Pinewoods', always used to remind me of British Films. Its all built up more, 30 years ago the road just ended in a 5 bar gate and a field.

This is where we used to crab

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=wells+next+the+sea&hl=en&ll=52.957258,0.851864&spn=0.002456,0.005976&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&hnear=Wells-next-the-Sea,+Norfolk,+United+Kingdom&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=52.957258,0.851864&panoid=7NskrIYBl4Lphyop4HKgbw&cbp=12,333.28,,0,0

The Globe

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=The+Globe+Inn,+The+Buttlands,+Wells-next-the-Sea&hl=en&ll=52.953828,0.851809&spn=0.001228,0.002988&sll=52.957306,0.851516&sspn=0.002469,0.005976&oq=wells+next+the+sea+the+globe&t=h&hq=The+Globe+Inn,&hnear=The+Buttlands,+Wells-next-the-Sea,+Norfolk+NR23,+United+Kingdom&z=19&layer=c&cbll=52.953828,0.851809&panoid=hVicLMTh2Q3Vt-dbFk49Ag&cbp=12,79.91,,0,8.48