Parking at south mimms
 

Cant seem to find the charges. Wife wants to park her car there from friday pm until sunday am but the signs and website only indicates 24 hours. Does anyone know if you can park longer and what it might cost ?

cheers

Charges are incurred per 24 hrs
Well it's like that when I park my truck there ... I would assume it's the same for cars , pcv etc ... & yes it's a overpriced feckin $hit hole :)

Personally , if it's just a car & your having a wknd close by , I'd consider parking your car at either Hatfield or potters bar & jumping in a taxi , only 5-10 mins either way

yes thought it would be pricey but she is getting a coach from there for a weekend away. So what you ae saying is that the charges are per 24 hours. does that mean she pays beforehand or after her stay ?

You pay & it's valid up to 24 hours

South mimms is the place I try to avoid parking truck,its a sh1t hole and p1ss stinking 😁

Clear as mud :lol1:

How the hell is she meant to pre-pay for more than 24 hours ? leave midnight friday, come back at 5am sunday. so over the 24 hours and I bet the parking eye will bloody notice

I thought they simply recorded your entry and exit - than matched that to a list of payments

so a match of a car's number plate entering and leaving within the 2 hours, does not generate an invoice

a care leaving after the "free" time limit would invoke a database "lookup" against a list of payments - a match and no action

no match, and a fine is produced

so in effect whilst you are parked they would not do anything - until you left

so how do you pay for more than 24 hours, everyone keeps on banging on about 24 hours yet no-one has mentioned the fact or how you can pay for LONGER than 24 hours.

god its like being in some bloody management meeting here with a lot of 'blue sky thinking' yet no-one actually giving a straight answer :mad::p

Here's a crazy thought - maybe there just aren't that many people around who are in the habit of leaving their cars unattended at motorway services for days on end?

Here's an even crazier though - have you tried calling the place up and just asking them?

when I parked for the day - at a service station on the M42

I had to buy a ticket at the WHsmith shop

I went in and said

"can I park my car for 8Hrs", the women on the counter said "yes, that will be £8.40"

I paid that amount and received a printed ticket

maybe you need to say

"can I park my car for - |insert number of hours here|"

I was taking the piss but cheers I shall just call up












and not waste anymore time here. Must remind myself not to ask or answer the hordes of bloody iname questions like, what fridge shall buy, or other crap :thumb:

Tell her boss to pick up the tab seeing as how he will be banging her all weekend :p

Tony
I park a artic : I park , walk over , hand over my key fuels card & im charged .
Lorry is now permitted to stay for 24 hrs
After that I would have to walk back over ...
Cars ,, there are charge notices attached to the lamp posts ...
Said charge -24 hrs ,, I have no idea how you could make the sign say
" 24 hrs but 48 for Tony's other half :)
Maybe you could ask Dynamo to work his magic or something ha ha

Just wing it , the ANPR might not see her / it's not always works in the truck park , for real !!!!

Perfect answer and that is all I needed to know. I guess if my wife says 30 hours she will be fine, that is unless it is staffed by markjmd :lol1::lol1:

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Bit left field but sounds as though you are speaking from experience :lol1:

She is off to Disneyland Paris :thumb:

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I use the truck stops for the dogging meets :D

It's not a perfect answer if it was £8.40 for 2hrs 1 minute - 23.59 ha ha

From memory I did ring them up, (because it was not clear on the website) and they said buy a ticket from the tills at WHSmith

Right some info for you ....
The shop in mimms is located next to the waitrose department , top left of main building towards the coach park .. At the till is a black ANPR tv screen , you registration is typed in & a picture will appear of your vehicle , confirm the registration then you push how many days you wish to stay for - fixed 24 hour period after 2 hours free stay ... So your missus & her boss can type in 2 that should do it ... I don't know the price of a car per 24 hours but as its mimms pretty sure itll be more than £10
Hope that puts it 2 rest for ya

Yes, I remember now too

I gave the women behind the till my reg number, and she showed me a CCTV image of my car entering the car park - and asked me to confirm it was my car

Before printing a receipt/ticket

That's not even a real place .. she's getting bummed:luxhello:

Thanks guys for your replies,I think we are there :thumb:


Now about this new tumble dryer :Suspiciou:D