Paying Triple To Park
The price to park at Queen Alia International Airport just tripled over the last month. The charge for parking (if I recall correctly) used to be thirty piasters per half hour. But the new charge is one dinar for every hour or increment of an hour.
So you want to park for five minutes? One dinar. Fifty-five minutes? One dinar. One hour and five minutes? Cha-ching, two dinars.
As far as I can tell, none of the parking services have improved. There’s the same lackluster security monitoring ignoring the parking lots. And there’s still the overcrowding and the double parking. So in essence, it’s the same crappy experience, only now we get to pay triple the price for it.
Bama Bedouin April 20th, 2008 12:22 pm
I was at the airport a few weeks ago to pick up my husband and parked in the terminal 1 parking lot. When I got inside terminal l, I discovered that his flight was actually coming into terminal 2. Within 3 or 4 minutes I was back in my car to leave the lot and drive over to the terminal 2 lot. Well, the parking guy would not let me leave the lot without paying for the full hour! I would really like to know where this money is going. I can only assume that it is likely going to fund the new airport as well as the remodeling of the old airport - like we have enough traffic for a multi-milion dollar airport. What a bunch of crooks!
Pars April 20th, 2008 7:04 pm
Seems like taking a cab will be cheaper?
Um Omar April 21st, 2008 8:22 am
Dave, off the topic, but didn’t know how to contact you.
Do you happen to know who is in charge of US Marines here in Amman? Can you find contact info like an email. Thanks. A friend of mine had a sort of incident and would like to comment. Please email thanks.
Um Omar April 21st, 2008 8:27 am
Sorry, found your contact thing after I posted and it was too late to edit…
Dave April 21st, 2008 2:40 pm
Um Omar, be on the lookout for an e-mail from me.