How difficult is parking around the MCI Center Washington DC?
 

Their website just says parking for 10,000 cars in the vicinity. Is this in garages or lots close to the center? Have tickets for tomorrow to the Wizard/Heat game...my husband is a Shaq fanatic. Thanks for any tips!

what direction are you coming from?

there's a limited number of street parking and a fair number of ramps/lots, but i'd park in a Metro lot and take a red, green or yellow line train. it lets you out right at MCI.

just don't come down the east fork of the red (Glenmont, Forest Glen, Silver Spring, Rhode Island) because of a weekend construction closure.

thanks for the info...we could park at Greenbelt and go in, I think the green line would be direct according to metro map I looked at. Just wondering if its easier to drive in. We are coming from north of Baltimore.

There are lots of garages in office buildings around the MCI center, but fees are high and the area is really crowded when the visiting team has big names -- gridlock for the Lakers, maybe not quite so bad for the Heat? Metro would be the easiest, as long as you can avoid the Red Line this week. Any train to Gallery Place or Metro Center will put you closer than you could get in your own car.

Greenbelt to MCI (GalleryPlace/Chinatown) is a piece of cake, and with free parking weekends. I stayed at the Red Roof Inn next door to MCI center last year when there was a game, and while I've seen worse traffic situations, I'd still wonder why anyone would bother driving if the Metro was an option.

Just to follow up, they called and did drive all the way in and right to a parking lot beside MCI center for $20.. dont know how long itll take to get back on beltway but oh well, they made it easily. Thanks again for the tips! He just didnt want to try to figure the metro, we only use it every few years or so.

luugis - Glad to hear things went well. However, I don't understand what there is to "figure out" about the Metro. There would not have even been a change in trains between Greenbelt & Gallery Place. Maybe it just seems second nature to me, but I grew up in a community that had no public transportation .. nor school buses, and I have no problem looking at maps and figuring what I must do to get where I need to go.