San Fernando Public Lot

I’m so mad at this spot right now. I knew I wasn’t paying attention about the difference between $ 5 an hour and $ 5 for ththe night. My bad. I was ready and willing to pay all $ 15 no biggie. But the machine was not taking any cards. The guy in front of me tried 5 different cards. All said invalid. I tried mine and the second I put my ticket in, it said cash only. So now I’m by myself, since my friend took über, walking in the rain 3 blocks to the bank of America on 4^th to get cash for the parking lot. I am not a tourist. I lived downtown for years and purposefully picked a parking lot near where I had dinner so I did not have to walk alone.

Dangerous lot. My car got broken into one month. Then 3 months later, someone keyed the width of my car trunk. This is a new car that hasn’t got 1000 miles.
Lots of punk kids skateboarding from the top floor down to the bottom. I’d suspect it’s one of these punks who did it.
If you have a new car, do not park here. Too shady. I’ve since avoided parking here.

FK this parking lot! As a designer I know when they purposely put in small print so that on the go drivers will not read the small text on the fly. Sign says $ 5 as most typical lot charges. That’s not cases with this ripoff parking lot. I ended paying $ 20 to get out. Shame on them for deliberately tricking customers! Don’t say it’s our fault that we should read when you know you should write it bigger. Gonna seek professional help, you guys are a fraud straight up!

Worst parking lot ever. I’m not even exaggerating. They charged me $ 25 for parking here, while every other parking lot in the vicinity was charging $ 5 an hour. What’s worse is that it was a slow day and I could have easily parked at the Pavilion parking lot for $ 5 or parked at San Pedro and gotten a validation for free. How did they get to their $ 25 parking fee? because I parked there for 5 hours ($ 5/​hr). Anyone, I mean anyone that has parked in downtown SJ knows that all of the parking lots are $ 5 after 6pm, so when you see a sign with a $ 5 sign, you figure it’s just $ 5 for the night after 6pm, like EVERY OTHER LOT IN DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE!!! NO ONE, I mean NO ONE looks at the fine print when cars are high beaming you because you are pulling into a parking lot. I’m sorry for the all caps, but that’s how stupid I think this lot is. How do you make an exception for one dumb lot to charge $ 5 an hour when EVERY other lot in this city charges $ 5 TOTAL after 6pm? This is just one of the bad things about this city that makes no one want to return. Fix your city SJ, I don’t care where you start, but this stupid parking lot should be on somewhere on your list…

Apparently the $ 5 all day sign really means $ 20 for 1 and a half hours!!?
There was plenty of street parking at 5 when I was parking, but I saw the «public» lot only charged $ 5 for the day, per the sign that pulled me in. I will be contesting the extra $ 15 that the automated gate charged me when I tried to leave — that price would have been acceptable if there wasn’t a hand written sign in front saying otherwise when I arrived.

Beware! $ 4 per hour fee is now the standard rate at this lot — it used to be a fixed rate for the whole day and now is $ 4 per hour — I found out the hard way, don’t make the same mistake!

Love it, the elevator takes me right to the movie theater. Cool! Free whenever I come here because the theater validates parking.

Do not park here!!! I had validation, but they still charged me $ 6, which is the full amount for the period of time I was there. When they charged me, I assumed that I didn’t have enough validation — I was there for 2 hours for a haircut, and thought the salon might have only given me 1 hour of validation, and I didn’t know how much the rate was. But it turned out that I actually had 2 hours of validation and it’s $ 3/​hr, so $ 6 is the full amount without validation. Then when I called the parking company, they gave me the run-​around: the SF phone number (from the receipt) told me to call the SJ office, the SJ office told me to call the manager, the manager told me to find out exactly what type of validation stickers the salon gave me, and after I got that and called him back, he said he would fax me a refund form that I would have to send in. I never got a fax from him. I gave up — it isn’t worth all this trouble for $ 6 which I am not really believing I’ll get back.

You are the suck! I did not see the «Parking Lot Full» sign till I got to the entrance and I already passed two other parkings lots so I could possibly park closer to my destination. You and your 2 dollar fee is a ripoff. It is not worth two bucks to park there. I had to circle around back to the other parking lot which was even more traffic at 5 to 6ish. What makes it worse was trying to make it on time to a movie that I was already late.
GOOOOOOO downtown parking. Park on the streets… its free.

This place is almost always full and if you do decide to park where there is not a marked spot you will get a $ 28 ticket from SJPD! Go to the Pavilion Garage or behind the Rep instead!

Very visible downtown lot and conveniently located but always packed so it’s rare that you’ll get a spot unless it during dead hours of the day.