Orlando, FL: Know of cheap/free convention center parking?

I'll be attending a conference next week at the Orange County Convention
Center in Orlando, Florida. I'm advised that parking is $10 a day. I'm cheap
and I don't want to pay $10/day on top of my rental car. Are there cheaper
alternatives? I do not mind a walk (a mile or so.)

Thanks!

Ken Fine wrote:
I'll be attending a conference next week at the Orange County Convention
Center in Orlando, Florida. I'm advised that parking is $10 a day. I'm cheap
and I don't want to pay $10/day on top of my rental car. Are there cheaper
alternatives? I do not mind a walk (a mile or so.)


Legally? No. However, just down the road is a Bennigans which has
a rather healty parking lot. An easier walk though is in the other
direction towards a shopping center (Mercado or something like that)
with again fairly ample parking. Technically they all have those
"can't park here unless yer shopping here" kinda signs but I don't
know how closely they watch. If ya got a mind to risk a tow, the
Peabody across the street has some self parking but they watch it
pretty close when conventions are busy. There's a bus that
runs up and down International Drive and you could try to park
all the way up at Belt Outlet Mall and take the bus. I think it's
a flat fee for as many rides as ya want.

just park at the mall.....go in and buy something at one fo the stores,
something cheap like gum at the CVS....

then you are good to go......

Which Mall is this? What is the name?


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just park at the mall.....go in and buy something at one fo the stores,
something cheap like gum at the CVS....

then you are good to go......

couldnt tell you the name.....just any ole shopping center will do
though......

I leave my car at the local target sometimes when we are going skiing
so as to have it close to the highway saving my buddy the time of
running me home....never once had a problem.....

On Tue, 31 May 2005 12:45:16 -0700, "Ken Fine"
wrote:

I'll be attending a conference next week at the Orange County Convention
Center in Orlando, Florida. I'm advised that parking is $10 a day. I'm cheap
and I don't want to pay $10/day on top of my rental car. Are there cheaper
alternatives? I do not mind a walk (a mile or so.)

Particularly with a rental car, you could park right across the street
in the Peabody Hotel's guest parking areas. To make it look good, just
walk into the hotel and through the lobby before exiting and croosing
the street to either convention hall. Or by a newspaper, or a coffee,
if you're struck by pangs of honesty. 8

BTW, if your rental is from Hertz, there's a Hertz counter in the
Peabody, so parking there is somewhat legit.

-- Larry (posting this from the Peabody right now, with a rental car
in the lot...)