Propark At Charles Square Garage

As the other reviews say, do print out the coupons from their website and keep a stack in your glove compartment. The coupon of interest is $ 7 for 7 hours of parking, 5 PM — midnight. To use the coupon, you must exit at the booth with the staff person in it rather than through the automated gate.
I always feel very civilized when I park in this garage, with its many elevators, clean appearance, and aisle after aisle of luxury German cars. As the other reviewers said, there is free charging for plug-​in vehicles, but there is also a valet service, a wash service, and plenty of security around. I imagine that if your battery went dead, they’d give you a free jump.
If the answer to a question is a place in Harvard Square, and you must drive, drive to this garage.

Another address for this garage located at the Charles Hotel and known as Charles Square Garage is 1 Bennett Street.
Oddly enough, I had printed one of their $ 7 flat rate evening coupons at
even though the plan was to park at the Harvard Square Parking Garage located at 65 JFK Street with an entrance at 20 Eliot Street, since with validation at Park Restaurant & Bar on Sundays thru Wednesdays the parking would have been free! But it turns out my DC ran late and didn’t want to waste precious minutes locating the correct garage.
Thus my coupon shaved $ 5 off their regular $ 12 rate for 30 min to 5 hours. Credit cards accepted.
The garage was well lit. Directional markers clearly painted. Some multi-​car spots were reserved for their valet service, but shorter self-​park spots were also available. Smaller cars are offered smaller parking spots for a smaller rate. Free juice (electricity) and air were available and well marked with posted signage
Two exits. We followed a sign to the one that was manned so that we could submit the coupon to a human being.

This is a really interesting garage. It’s clean, it’s brightly lit, and it’s one of the only usable parking garages in or near Harvard Square. They also almost always have coupons to print out for reduced parking at their website, which I think is awesome.
I’m a plug-​in electric vehicle owner (Chevy Volt), so I also appreciate their effort installing free charging stations. In a cutesy move, the garage has labeled these areas «free juice bars» and have painted the corresponding reserved parking spaces in fun colors. Unfortunately, their «juice bars» are mainly only standard 120V slow-​charging normal household outlets that can take up 12 hours to charge an electric vehicle. Their main quick-​charging 240V unit (one that can charge EVs in as little as four hours) can only service ONE car at a time… though it has THREE electric vehicle parking spaces in front of it.
Hilarity ensues!
The first time I used this garage, I parked my car, plugged it in, and went to go see a talk at Harvard that lasted about two hours (only half the time I needed for a full charge). When I came back to my car I discovered that some other jerk had unceremoniously yanked the plug out of my car — and plugged HIS car in! Ridiculous. (It was a BMW ActiveE…“typical”, I guess).
Anyway, I do applaud the effort to install the charging stations — and I further applaud garage management for not charging anything for the electricity other than what you pay for in parking. BUT, I’ve never been anywhere else where quick chargers were installed, free electricity or not, where there were less than two plugs installed. Most free quick charging setups have at least three or four plugs, or at least as many plugs as there are reserved spots.
It just doesn’t make ANY sense to have one plug for three spots.