SP+ Parking

Space is weird and you only find out that you need to take your ticket with you by the time you are going down the stairs. Also, the garage is NOT ON LINCOLN so if you’re like me trying to make the early bird with 5mins to spare on the first day you try and park there, do not turn right on lincoln when coming from beach but instead stay straight and turn right at the end of the block into the steep driveway. The early bird special at $ 25 makes this location a steal otherwise.

Why the negativity? Sure this garage is tiny and sure the employees are rude beyond belief. But what do you expect? It’s Chinatown, you should expect tiny spaces and rude people.
I’ve never had a horrible experience with this garage. 364 days a year you park your car yourself, with the keys in your possession the whole time. The only exception being holidays or events or so forth where they’re forced to load up the cars back to back and take your keys.
That being said, this garage isn’t horrible but it isn’t good either. Tiny and not even cheap. This place basically my last resort when there are absolutely no street parking.
Oh and if you think Hei La Moon validates parking. You’d be wrong. The grocery store downstairs (G Mart) still does though I believe, if you spend $ 100.

The Central Parking garage located at 2 Atlantic Avenue on Lewis Wharf is a nightmare. Not only is the garage cramped and poorly designed but the staff is beyond rude.
The driving aisles are so narrow you can’t see to check who’s coming around the corner so you have to crawl through the garage in order not to hit anyone coming in the other direction or backing out of a space around the turn.
When you leave you take a chance of having to wait for the attendant in the booth which has taken 5 – 10 minutes + for me repeatedly. Then if someone is in the booth — usually one particular attendant — you have to endure her yammering away on a personal call on her cellphone.
Last night I parked when it was clearly posted at the gate that it was $ 16 to park until 8:00 am. I left at 7:41 (after waiting for someone to show up in the booth) and was charged $ 20.
I’m done with this garage. Never again.

Do NOT park here! I was naturally attracted to this parking lot because of the lot’s proximity to my office. However, after only the second time parking here, my car’s side view mirror was damaged by the valet service. After spending about an hour trying to file a claim with them, nothing ever came of it. They didn’t return my phone calls, they never replied to the claim that I filed; they didn’t even give me a refund of my $ 35 parking fee for that day.
When you arrive at this lot, they ask you for your keys and valet your car. The cars are packed like sardines in this establishment and so it is no wonder that my car was damaged. They did not alert me to the damage, I had to figure it out myself. I noticed as I was backing my car out of the parking space that my side-​view mirror looked funny. I got out of my car to inspect and found that the cover of the light on the bottom of my mirror was shattered. I looked around the lot and was able to find all of the broken pieces that came from my car on the floor. The pieces were a few parking spaces over from where my car was left. I spoke to the attendant and he told me that I had to wait for his supervisor to come. I waited for over a half hour on a Friday night for the supervisor to arrive. He took a report and pictures and I never heard from them again.
I recommend parking at the lot on top of South Station’s bus terminal on Atlantic Ave. The lot there is only $ 24 a day if you arrive after 9am and less ($ 19?) if you arrive earlier. They also offer valet parking and I have never had a problem there. The attendants are actually quite nice to me as well.

I almost hate to rate and review this. It’s such a gem! I don’t want others to park here!
Ok, I can’t be that selfish but the parking above South Station is the BOMB-​Diggity-​Squash yo.
We parked here on a Friday morning (amazingly so many spots available) didn’t pick up until almost midnight on Sunday. Total cost: $ 40. WOW.
It’s right near Chinatown (and Hot Pot Buffet) and easy access to 93 North. Love it.

This Parking deserves a NEGATIVE ranking.
Probably The Ultimate Worst Parking lot in the East Coast.
Please note that:
(a) It’s probably one of the only parking in Boston where you pay a «Valet» charge, but you have to park your own car. (!)
(b) There is no mention whatsoever of mandatory «Valet».
© They provide you with a ticket that mention that your car is damaged (?) (just in case…)
(d) They are so eager to grab your keys that it’s a challenge to try to exit your own car.
(e) The «Valets» are just plain rude.
Avoid at any cost: Take a cab! Take the T, Walk if needed to.

Worst parking in Downtown Boston. They take your keys after you leave so they can maneuver cars to pile up in crazy ways in a very cramped parking space.
They failed to LOCK my car, and didn’t leave my car in neutral after they moved it. After I told them what they did, there was no apology, just a blank look.
It costs just as much as other places in the area — so save your sanity and go elsewhere.

I would give this place a «0» star if there’s such an option. We were there in mid May, paid a $ 24 deposit at the entrance as demanded, drove up the ramp, found a spot but somewhere someone gave a message not to park at that spot. So we drove further up and found as described (in the 2008 review) that for each extended ‘space’, two cars were parked lengthwise. We drove up to end of the building (probably 2 levels up, 3 levels at the most), found that the way to go down is to back our way to the ramp’s turning area and made a 2 point turn to right the car. There an attendant told us to leave the key with him — he would valet the car, claiming that he would not touch anything inside the car. On the wall, there was a wooden box with keys hanging in it. We decided that we did not want to park there anymore as we were on the way to the airport and had all our bags in the trunk. No way could we leave the car key with them. So, we drove our way to the exit but was told that we still had to pay $ 6 (parking rate for the first ½ hour) even we did not park and was in the structure for just minutes. Wish I had found Kiwi’s post before hand.
Avoid this place. It is a mess.