Hello all, this summer I will be doing a road trip in a small camper through Europe. I plan on visiting a few major cities. I've heard street parking fees in cities like Paris can be upwards of 75€/day. Does any one know if there is free street parking anywhere in Paris and in other major cities? Are there "park-and-ride" options like in the US? Thank you in advance!
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Tresana, Highlands Ranch, CO, USA
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My limited experience is that park and rides are fairly common at the end or the last couple stops of the subway. A long story -- we once stay at a hotel in the suburbs. We were about five minute drive from a park and ride very typical of the US but as I remember the parking was not cheap but it worked. It was the last stop on the line.
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Lake District, England
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In the UK they are very common. Stratford on Avon, Edinburgh, Oxford and York are just four examples but most major cities and even some quite modest towns have them. York I think has about 6 of them at various compass points on the city approaches.
It's always worth googling them.
They sometimes just pop up for major events when the numbers attending are expected to overwhelm the parking facilities of a town for that weekend. My own home town in the Lake District is one of those- we used to have Maritime festivals when a small town of 25,000 people was expecting between 4 and 8 x that number over the weekend. So the car parks of the local college and an out of town industrial park were commandeered. We have a transport rally in April, and the college car park will be used again as a park and ride for the 2 days.