Great, thanks for info.
Before using Preflight, I used another one near Preflight where I left the keys, boy was that a nightmare.....they took my car, smoked something and 2am the night we returned I got a call telling me all that.
So I would never leave me keys again, and Preflgith has been pretty good, I just wanted to hear from someone who used phl long term parking..
Thanks for the info, also for the info on using bwi.
Chris
We used Economy lot many times until once while waiting for the bus post-vacation, we noticed around 3 PreFlight vans go by so I knew that's the company I would choose the next time!
Economy works similar to Preflight but on such a larger scale. Also the buses don't pick up or drop you at your car. When you get out of your car, you walk w/bags to nearest bus stop, let's say it's "M" section. You wait 15 mins for the bus to make it's usual route & pick you up. Then you get a good 10-15 min tour of the massive parking lot stopping at all the other bus stops. Same thing in reverse going home. PreFlight is dreamy compared to Economy and cheaper too.
We also tried Winner at a friend's recommendation. It's nice that they bring your car right to you and you can simply drive home but I don't like leaving my keys with strangers. Also they can see my address on my car's registration and know we're not home. I also didn't like how our driver was speeding along Essington Ave & through the drop off areas of PHL.
No thanks, I prefer to drive, park, lock it and take my keys.
So now we've been using PreFlight for many, many times. We have joined their frequent parker program and for every $57 (?) you spend, you earn a free day of parking. Also I could easily find their coupons in the Valpak mailers. Recently they changed their website that I can log into my account, prepay for my dates which automatically gets me the coupon rate w/o digging up a coupon or having to present my freq. parker card and can still redeem free days too. It's so easy. I just print out the page like a week before our trip and put it in my center console of my minivan and it's all ready to go. I just hand over the print out & the ticket I get when exiting, then they open the gate. I always overestimate my return as long as it doesn't add more to price, just in case of delay.
So let's say we drop off at 8am and we'll be exiting at 5pm on day of return, I can enter 11pm and still not incur another day's charge. You never know with afternoon t-storms in FL.
I've done the prepaid thing around 3x (though I forgot this last trip!)
IIRC if you go beyond your prepaid time, say 2 days due to snow, you simply pay the difference at the exit.
We had a Groupon for Central Air Park that was so cheap I couldn't resist as we had 3 trips that year we could use it for, like $25/week. You had to call them after getting luggage and going outside & then they'd pick you up. Once we picked up our luggage, I called and he asked if we were already outside at the pick up area. I told him no we got all of our bags though. He made me call him back after we got outside at pick up.
Really??!!! So around 20 seconds later I call him back to say we're outside. Never again. Even my kids were happy to go back to PreFlight.
They're nice & efficient & have seat belts on their vans.
