Toronto Parking Tips
Sep 15th, 2004, 10:37 PM
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Toronto Parking Tips
Finding a decent place to park your car in Downtown Toronto at a reasonable rate can be a daunting task. You will see signs such as $6.00 but the fine print says for the first 30 minutes. Parking at Skydome is $20. I went to one lot today and they wanted $10 from 5-6 pm and $15 for 6 pm to 6am. I drove away.
The best deal on parking is $6.00 a day in the parkade at Market Square at Church and Yonge. If you are staying at the Victoria Hotel, it is only a three block walk.
The other reasonable place to park is at Greenpark on Yorkville between Bayview and Yonge. I can take the subway from here to Eaton Centre. It costs $5 on Saturday and evenings to park here.
A third parking tip for tourists to Toronto is that you will find there are no parking meters and think that parking is free! A sure way to attract a $60 ticket on their windshield even though they were only gone 5 minutes.
Ticket meters are on green kiosks on the sidewalk. You can pay by credit card coins. Place the receipt on your dashboard.
Does anyone know where there are cheaper places to park in downtown Toronto?
The best deal on parking is $6.00 a day in the parkade at Market Square at Church and Yonge. If you are staying at the Victoria Hotel, it is only a three block walk.
The other reasonable place to park is at Greenpark on Yorkville between Bayview and Yonge. I can take the subway from here to Eaton Centre. It costs $5 on Saturday and evenings to park here.
A third parking tip for tourists to Toronto is that you will find there are no parking meters and think that parking is free! A sure way to attract a $60 ticket on their windshield even though they were only gone 5 minutes.
Ticket meters are on green kiosks on the sidewalk. You can pay by credit card coins. Place the receipt on your dashboard.
Does anyone know where there are cheaper places to park in downtown Toronto?
Sep 16th, 2004, 04:31 AM
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There is parking at Bell Trinity Square at 483 Bay Street, across from Nathan Phillips. It's $6 / day on the weekends, and we often park there when we are downtown. It's very convenient to the Eaton Centre. I think it's quite expensive during the weekdays - probably $17 - $20, and I'm not sure what the rate would be after 6 PM during the week. But it's a good deal on the weekends.
Sep 16th, 2004, 10:03 AM
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Parking underneatht he downtown office towers reanges from expensive to really expensive, during the day, during the week.
BEWARE; some lots have no daily maxim,um, and at $6 per half hour, you can hit $80 if there for an all-day meeting.
BARGAIN: under the downtown office towers in the evening and weekends.
OTHER INFO: once you cat a couple of blocks out of the real downtown core, prices drop. The really expensive area is inside a box bounded by Front across the south, Church up the east, and Simcoe up the west (just a block west of University AVenue)
In the Entertainment district (roughly the area south of Queen and west of University, week day prices start fairly low for 6am to 8pm early in the morning. Perhaps $8 for the day. Then as the lots fill up, prices change. The ticket-takers have signins int heir offices with all the numbers they need to raise prices.
Around 10am, prices often go to $10, except on Wednesdays, when they go hihger. That's matinee day at the live theatres.
By mid-afternoon on a day with a week-day baseball cgame, a convention at the convention center and a matinee, prices can hiot $20-25 in the afternoon, for the rest of the day, until 6pm.
Again, after 6 until the next mporning, prices vary depending on what's happening in the neighborhood. Baseball afternoons mean higher prices. This (after 6) is when it's best to park under the big office buildings.
Some of the street parking ticket kiosks are $3 an hour, and some are $2. In addition to tickets, check the times that parking is forbidden. Generally the tow trucks get your car within 15-20 minutes of the day-time parking ending and rush hour restrictions beginning. On some street, rush hour starts at 3:30 and on others it is 4 pm. (long, complicated political story about why.)
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BEWARE; some lots have no daily maxim,um, and at $6 per half hour, you can hit $80 if there for an all-day meeting.
BARGAIN: under the downtown office towers in the evening and weekends.
OTHER INFO: once you cat a couple of blocks out of the real downtown core, prices drop. The really expensive area is inside a box bounded by Front across the south, Church up the east, and Simcoe up the west (just a block west of University AVenue)
In the Entertainment district (roughly the area south of Queen and west of University, week day prices start fairly low for 6am to 8pm early in the morning. Perhaps $8 for the day. Then as the lots fill up, prices change. The ticket-takers have signins int heir offices with all the numbers they need to raise prices.
Around 10am, prices often go to $10, except on Wednesdays, when they go hihger. That's matinee day at the live theatres.
By mid-afternoon on a day with a week-day baseball cgame, a convention at the convention center and a matinee, prices can hiot $20-25 in the afternoon, for the rest of the day, until 6pm.
Again, after 6 until the next mporning, prices vary depending on what's happening in the neighborhood. Baseball afternoons mean higher prices. This (after 6) is when it's best to park under the big office buildings.
Some of the street parking ticket kiosks are $3 an hour, and some are $2. In addition to tickets, check the times that parking is forbidden. Generally the tow trucks get your car within 15-20 minutes of the day-time parking ending and rush hour restrictions beginning. On some street, rush hour starts at 3:30 and on others it is 4 pm. (long, complicated political story about why.)
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Here's some additional info which I hope may be helpful as well. I live about an hour away from Toronto and travel there quite frequently for business and pleasure. If you require parking in the downtown core, the best and cheapest place I've found is a city garage located at the Esplanade, behind the Novotel - downtown hotel. Rates there are $9 per day and it's covered and secure. This is a great location if you're attending a hockey game, and is a short walk to baseball and the theatre district. Plenty of restaurants on the Esplanade as well.
Another option I use for personal visits to Toronto where I'm staying overnight downtown for a day or two, or if I just want to save myself the stress and congestion of the downtown traffic, is to park at the end of the line of the TTC subway line and take the subway into downtown. Cost is $3 per person ($2.50 with volume purchase) to ride the subway and parking at most subway stations near the end of the lines is free after 3 pm on weekdays and all weekends. I can understand the subway can be a little intimidating, but do your research of stops and transfer stations and it's really quite easy and safe to navigate/use.
Hope this helps!
Another option I use for personal visits to Toronto where I'm staying overnight downtown for a day or two, or if I just want to save myself the stress and congestion of the downtown traffic, is to park at the end of the line of the TTC subway line and take the subway into downtown. Cost is $3 per person ($2.50 with volume purchase) to ride the subway and parking at most subway stations near the end of the lines is free after 3 pm on weekdays and all weekends. I can understand the subway can be a little intimidating, but do your research of stops and transfer stations and it's really quite easy and safe to navigate/use.
Hope this helps!
Sep 26th, 2012, 03:37 PM
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Christina16: Do you know any lots near TTC tube stations that allow overnight parking? The ones I checked had no-parking periods in the early morning hours, I suppose to deter tourist like me who want to stay for a couple of days.
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When we drove up from the US to do the Via Rail Toronto/Vancouver (and return after 3 days,) I did a fair amount of research on this. There's a Green Park garage at 2 Church St. It's got 2008 spaces, the rates were reasonable, and there were a couple nice bar-and-grills just outside the entrance. (Needed a drink after coming up from PA.)
I think the charge was for about 10 days, and came to about $156. It would have been considerably more had we stayed near the train station. We used a cab to and from said station.
I think the charge was for about 10 days, and came to about $156. It would have been considerably more had we stayed near the train station. We used a cab to and from said station.
