It's time to stop subsidizing parking spaces. Their land use is actually really expensive and that burden should be on those using the land for storing tons of metal, not cross-financed by those choosing more sustainable means of transport.

Fuck you dudes get a bike. Or Uber when traveling.

And stop using x.

And while I have your attention, dont forget to brush and floss tonight.

The root problem here is car dependency.

Capitalism creates helplessness in order to exploit it.

All sorts of comments here are missing the real problem: businesses had a chance to do online meetings. But they dont. So they send people everywhere, staying in hotels, driving up the costs, charging them for parking because they can.

The fallout is everyone pays more. It isn't just people on vacation paying for this.

It depends on the hotel but one strategy I’ve found is to tell them you didn’t drive or aren’t parked there as a bold face lie. They can barely pay staff to clean the rooms and they don’t patrol the parking lot. If they erroneously tow a guest or employee who forgot their permit or mid-remembered their license plate that would be really bad for them - it’s not worth the risk.

There's a beefeater (UK pub/restaurant chain) in my town that recently made their car park pay and display. Their customers have resorted to parking on the grass verges and pavements leading up to the building, causing safety issues (blocking views of turning onto a 50 road, covering pavement and forcing pedestrians into the road; that sort of thing).

I'm sure if the local council started charging them for the damage caused to the green, or even the damage caused by accidents due to their customers choice of parking, the car parking fee would quickly disappear.

Tbh, I'm surprised it hasn't already. Their car park is always empty now, so it's not generating revenue, and they used to have double the amount of cars you see round there now.. so my guess is people fucked off somewhere else, and this attempt at squeezing just resulted in a permanent loss of regular revenue

God forbid you pay for the things you use. 🙄

Passive-aggressive bullshit, brought on by emotional immaturity, and social anxiety.

Fucking children running around in adult bodies.

These people don't even consider by mistake the impact that their childish retaliation has on the environment, I find it deeply depressing

Based on all of those "Trivago" commercials I've seen I can only conclude that the whole hotel industry is a scam, trying to trick you into giving them more money than what the room is worth.

God forbid your 2 ton hunk of metal doesn't get free storage everywhere you go.

I propose a compromise: Parking is free, but there's a discount if you don't need car storage space.