Airport car parking - parked in wrong car park!

molerat

Man drives into car park and gives the attendant £5. Attendant says "park in bay 25". Man says OK, drives along and parks in bay 28, locks up car and walks away. Man comes back later and as he is driving out the attendant stops him and says "you parked in the wrong bay, that will be £150".
Would you give him £150, i doubt it. What is the difference here. What is the quantifiable loss ?

molerat

goater78 wrote: »

You didn't mention a refund but you seem to think the OP should not have to pay for a service because they had also paid for a different service.

OP paid for 2 weeks parking in a MA Plc car park at Manchester Airport.

System

molerat wrote: »

Man drives into car park and gives the attendant £5. Attendant says "park in bay 25". Man says OK, drives along and parks in bay 28, locks up car and walks away. Man comes back later and as he is driving out the attendant stops him and says "you parked in the wrong bay, that will be £150".
Would you give him £150, i doubt it. What is the difference here. What is the quantifiable loss ?

That's not what happened. They parked in a completely different car park.

System

molerat wrote: »

OP paid for 2 weeks parking in a MA Plc car park at Manchester Airport.

No they paid for 2 weeks parking in the jet park at Manchester airport.

marywooyeah

molerat wrote: »

Where is a refund mentioned ?

No refund is mentioned, that poster was giving an example of an analogous scenario to highlight the reality of ops situation. Op mistakenly parked in the wrong car park, so he needs to pay the fee for that car park.

WTFH

molerat wrote: »

Where is a refund mentioned ?

The "refund" is that he's already paid to park in a different place so he doesn't think he should have to pay again - therefore he wants a refund for one of his parking payments. i.e. he has paid twice but he thinks he should only have paid once.

Obviously I don't want to pay for parking again,

OlliesDad

I would say that the OP definitely owes the difference in price between the long stay car park and the jet park. I doubt that MA kept the space originally designated for the OP free for 2 weeks, and therefore they shouldn't charge the full amount (i suspect that it was kept free for 24 hours.

johnwilliam_2

Dear danped ,

Yup some times we need to pay for our honest mistakes and those mistakes will give us few alerts . Any how mistake is at our end and we should accept those ones....

System

OlliesDad wrote: »

I would say that the OP definitely owes the difference in price between the long stay car park and the jet park. I doubt that MA kept the space originally designated for the OP free for 2 weeks, and therefore they shouldn't charge the full amount (i suspect that it was kept free for 24 hours.

So if I prepaid for two weeks in a hilton hotel but then decided to spend the two weeks in a different hilton hotel I would only have to pay the difference in price between the two hotels? Or if there was no difference I wouldn't have to pay anything?

Country_Cousin

goater78 wrote: »

So if I prepaid for two weeks in a hilton hotel but then decided to spend the two weeks in a different hilton hotel I would only have to pay the difference in price between the two hotels? Or if there was no difference I wouldn't have to pay anything?

Or actually take it a step further - you prepaid for 2 weeks in a Hilton Hotel and then decided to spend 2 weeks in a better Hilton Hotel with better facilities that was more convenient for you ...