Valet parking seems to be getting more common at some city locations that don’t have a good parking situation.
How do you feel about valet parking? Doesn’t bother you in the least, will do it if you have to, will never do it, something else?
Personally I don’t like some random person driving my car.
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It’s an added cost that has no reason to exist. Yes, let me larp as a noble. Fucking dumbassery.
let me larp as a noble
lol, my mother is a consumer in this market. 🙄
that’s basically the entire service economy at this point.
Eating out replicates having a kitchen staff, App that summons pizza delivery servant, another App to summon the coachman (rideshare), ect.
Not a moral judgement on individual consumers (assuming they aren’t dicks about it).
Yeah. Partly explains why I don’t eat out much anymore after the pandemic had me break the habit.
Sometimes this stuff is just me trading my money to save some time, but any time I start to hear the words “premium” or, gods-forbid, “luxury” in a sales pitch, I’m 100% out.
Learning how to cook was probably the only good thing from the pandemic. It’s good on the finances, it can be healthier, and it’s just a genuinely nice skill to have.
I start to hear the words “premium” or, gods-forbid, “luxury” in a sales pitch, I’m 100% out.
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Literal not a thing in most countries I have ever been too. Is it purely an American thing ? Do other countries have this ?
Toronto has at least some valet parking downtown and at the airport.
Useless. I’d rather park myself. Saves a few dollars in tips and saves time.
I don’t like some random person driving my car
Same. Especially post-pandemic. On the rare occasion I’m forced to use valet, I have to keep wiping down the steering wheel and shifter. I also hate it when they mess with my settings (seat position, AC, etc.).
I sit enough as it is, I’ll park on my own and walk my ass to the front door
Total money grab.
American absurdity. I don’t think it exists at all in the UK, except for Meet & Greet airport parking.
No thanks.
Necessary evil more than anything, but it does at least allow the valet to double/triple park and get more parking in a smaller area (at the cost of longer retrieval times at the end of the night), so at least it helps make parking space denser.
Hell fucken no.
For the most part, I really don’t like it. But I think it has one important use case…at large medical facilities/hospitals it’s very useful for an old person to be able to just walk up to the door as opposed to first being confused at where to go and next walking 3 miles from the garage to where they need to be. Everyone here pooh-poohing on valet needs to understand that cases like this are incredibly important and helpful.
Yeah my friend was talking about that, like an old person and their spouse arrive, the spouse needs assistance but the car also needs parked and not 1/2 mile away like is often the case with big parking garage systems. So the valet can park the car while the driver assists their spouse. But of course the hospital charges for the valet parking, and worse a big chunk of the limited spaces that were available are now valet only.
It shows just how stupid cars are in general. Think of it this way, the rich people who buy fancy cars to go to fancy establishments are inconvenienced by having to find parking for their car before they can go in, so they spend more money to get someone else to do it for them.
We all would have had a way better experience if we had really good public transit that completely replaces privately owned cars in cities and towns. This is both more convenient than any valet service, and better for a million different reasons.
I don’t currently drive since I live in NYC, but I feel that unless the facility is rather cramped or has some other oddity that most people wouldn’t be accustomed to, I think valet parking is unnecessary. Usually it takes longer and incurs an extra fee in the form of a tip and I always feel a little uneasy about letting someone else drive my car. Last year I went to a KBBQ restaurant in Los Angeles that required valet parking. It was by no means a fancy restaurant and just had a slightly smaller parking lot. It felt so silly to have a valet park my friend’s car in a spot that any rather average driver could manage.
I usually ride my bike whenever possible, but when I do have to drive, I prefer to park my own car barring a really compelling reason to use a valet.
