We always park at the airport Hilton which has covered parking -- it's $15 a day, and they have free shuttle to/from the airport. I remember returning twice from a trip when it had snowed, and I was thankful to have the garage parking.

This May I'm going for 15 days so I'm going to do the one-way rental car each way. $73 up and $114 back. Expensive, but cheaper than driving my own/park/shuttle, etc.

If $15 per day is to much, what do you consider reasonable?

You can try to park at a train station lot and then take the train to the irport. But those lots have no security - and I wouldn;t be comfortable leaving a car there for several overnights. Even if it isn;t stolen it might be towed as abandonned.

Reply to man, Interesting, do you recall how long you waited for the hilton shuttle and was the ride length more, less, or about the same as the wait time and parking lot transit time for the P6/7 buses

Check out this thread. The folk over there like ABC:

www.flyertalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=602226

And they don't like Park2Go:

www.flyertalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=594929

John, We haven't had to wait more than 5-10 minutes max from Hilton to Airport, and they drop you off at your terminal (3-5 minute ride). They may advertise they run every 15-20 minutes, but I've never had to wait that long. Coming back I've had to wait up to 15 minutes max. You have to take the monorail to P4 to catch all the hotel shuttles. I've been doing it for the past 7-8 years.

Mucho Mahalos man!
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I used EZ Way parking recently (at the Four Points Hotel). This was $8 per day with an online coupon (http://www.longtermparking.com/COUPONS/cpezwayewr.htm). I would say the whole experience was adequate.

Reply to MIG, much obliged, do they valet park in a covered garage.

Reply to man, is the parking at the Hilton valet or self-parking

It's an outdoor lot at the hotel. You park the car and leave the keys. When you get back they have your car running and warmed up for you.

The Hilton is $14, and it's valet/garage. Coming back you give the driver your ticket number, and he radios ahead to have your car ready.

BTW, I don't own any stock in this place -- I've just been very happy with them. Will be using them next weekend.

I'll speculate Hilton's closer to -ery.

Yes it is!!

We take the Tpk to exit 13A, pay the toll then follow 1/9 North. You'll see it on the left. (You will see the brewery straight ahead. If you pass it, you've gone too far.) Jughandle onto McClellan St. Once you cross over the bridge, take an immediate left, and you are there.

Thanks all for your responses. What kills me is I only live about 20 minutes from the airport, if I could walk I would, haha! I live fairly close to a train station, so we could take the train, change in Secaucus, then head to Newark Airport, but the only problem is the train near me only runs weekdays, and we are coming back on a Saturday. $150 to park my car in the economy lot just seems like such a waste of money. Thinking about doing the FOUR POINTS Hotel, but still a little worried about the security in the lot. The car rental idea sounds "interesting". Probably ALOT cheaper than limo and parking lot!

Have you priced a regular taxi.We park at my in-laws(they are about 15 minutes away)and a taxi is $30 each way.

njsusan-Thanks for the taxi tip, that's the solution.

You don't say how far you are from the airport or how long you're going to be gone.
My latest thing for more than a one week trip is to rent a car for one day, dropping at the airport and renting another on return to drive home. It ends up being cheaper than parking alone. But then that's in Florida where rental cars are really cheap.

I'm 20 mins. from my home airport and always use a taxi; it's similar price to mentioned above ~$35 each way. Parking at my airport is $22/day.

GailLK: I agree with njsusan. I'm about 15 minutes from Newark. Depending on the length of the trip, doing the taxi thing usually ends up being cheaper!

You guys are lucky. The best public transportation I can find to our nearest airport is a shuttle at about $60 PER PERSON, so renting a car for the day is way better!

My company Rekop has been using Park2Go for the last 2 years. It takes us 5 mins to airport asnd they pick up within 10 mins. Our compamy has enjoyed this service and has zero complaints. It is only $11 day and very safe & secure. I highly recommend them. If you want to park your own car and keep your keys they never say no. Try it.

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Old thread.

Looking for updated info for 2010! Anyone stayed at ABC at the airport lately? Still recommended?

lol Here I was reading this three year old thread thinking that $15 a day for parking at Newark didn't seem so bad compared to other places less "metro". But I bet it's more now -- three years later?

I'll give my experience with Newark parking. We were gone 10 days and got back last night - we used EZWay and had their Internet coupon for $10/day (+15% tax of course). They took us directly to the airport - at 4 a.m.! Coming back, we had their card with phone number, called as soon as we had our luggage and waited for 15 minutes to be picked up. It went very smoothly for us. After we were picked up, another group was picked up, but they had to wait 1/2 hour. Could have been that EZWay only had one driver then as it was midnight. Who knows?

My only complaint was that 3 miles were put on the car while we were away (I wrote down the initial mileage, but had meant to put it on their form so they would know I was recording it - too bad I forget. Anyway, this way, at least I knew they didn't drive all over creation, but the lot isn't big enough to warrant 3 miles of moving the car around... and what would they do for 3 miles??? The A/C was also turned to the lowest temp and the driver's seat was reclined more than I would ever do. The car was used for something, but there was nothing missing and no damage. We weren't really upset about it.

Sounds like someone took a nap on a hot day . . .

Sounds like the Seinfeld episode where Kramer parks his car in a city lot, suspects some funny business is going on, then gets in trouble when he shows up in his amazing technicolor dreamcoat...

kwren, when the police come knocking at your door to find the car that was involved in that bank robbery -- then you'll have your answer!

yikes Neo - you have such a sense of humor! I'll laugh all the way to jail!

I thought about someone napping, but that doesn't explain the 3 miles - unless they drove to the back of the lot every day so as not to be caught by the boss! I've heard of cars having 20 or 30 or many more miles on the odometer when the people returned to various lots! Putting the mileage on the form supposedly helps, assuming you remember to do that.

Seat reclined, AC turned low --- "napping"???? Surely you're not THAT naive, kwren!!!!!

That WAS actually my first thought Neo, ask my husband what I said, but then with our kids in the car I had to tone it down! LOL

They must have driven down to the bank to make a deposit!

Ah, now you've got it!

There was a recent report on Fox 5 about Park 2 Go, where a woman discovered 70 miles added to her odometer when she was on a trip and parked there for a week. It seems some of these fly-by-night off-airport parking lots are a little sketchy.

I'd be very upset if even 3 miles were added to my car while it was parked. EZ Way Parking does get a lot of complaints posted online.

If you are going on a 10-day trip and have to pay $10 per day to park, that's $100, at $15 per day it's $150. If you can get round-trip Limo transport to EWR for $185, why wouldn't you just pay that and be done with it? Then your car is safe at home and you don't have to worry about scrapes and extra mileage on the odometer. But if you live only 20 minutes from the airport, I'm a little surprised that it costs over $90 each way. I pay less than that and I live in Manhattan, about 30 to 45 minutes from the airport.

We live near Harrisburg 3 hours from the Newark airport and 5 of us were going on the trip. 3 miles was a drop in the bucket compared to what we put on the car to get there. I know we were lucky someone didn't joyride the car.

Renting a car cost more than gas plus parking at EZWay and had additional hassle of pick-up and drop-off. Staying in a hotel for the free parking cost a whole lot more. We won't even touch the limo option obviously. Sometimes you just gotta drive.

I think newark airport parking facilities are improving now as they are getting complaints like Ezwayparking.com some of the other campaniles are now coming up with some great offers and services.

My radio station settings were changed too!