Manchester Forum: Parking near Opera House?

Many carparks in the area - a new muli-storey just down the road. Not sure of the price.

The carparks that handle city workers during the day re-open for events at the theatres/arena. Their usual full day rates of around £5 go up to £8+ for the evening though.

If you're OK with a 15 minute walk - just drive around the city centre until you find a free space - as long as you're within the city centre you'll be a 15-20 minute walk of the Opera House. The area around Fountain Street / Spring Gardens / King Street would be OK. I THINK parking in metered bays (which is pretty much all you've got in the city centre) is only free after 8pm (although this may have changed since I last parked in town for the evening - 2 years ago).

Hi, Parking at metered bays and the many single yellow lines has been free after 6:00pm for as long as I can remember. I don't think there as been any recent change, but I have been wrong before. :)

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That's wonderful information - thank you all very much.

I'll look at the nearby streets first - we'll be arriving in plenty of time, so can always "top up" until 6pm for the meter, then it's free after that.

Many thanks again!

CarolineJ

Live and learn... thought it was 8pm last time (but it was years ago - could well have been 6pm!). Certainly didn't know about the single yellow lines! Thanks.

Yeah, the parking after 6pm/on yellow lines thing is a great and little known dodge. It used to be even better as it was free after 12 noon on Saturday and all day Sunday but now I think the council have tweaked it so it is just after 6pm weekdays and Sat and all day Sunday.

The free parking runs all night through till 8am so it used to be a god-send when you had guests at a city centre apartment with no extra parking. If it was a three hour meter they could park after 6pm, load the meter so it clocked through till 11am the next day, and then have a relative lie-in before they had to move it. Most of the central meters do now seem to be one hour or two at most.

The council have also spoilt the fun by latterly removing a lot of the bays and changing single yellows for doubles (all part of the council's strategy to drive cars out of Manchester!) but i did note at the weekend that the row of bays round the corner from Piccolino (turn right at the top of Clarence St, alongside Lime) which had been shut for the construction of the (lovely) Chancery Place building have now been reopened.

As they've been shut for so long they seem to have dropped off people's radar as there were ten bays in a row empty on a Saturday lunchtime when everywhere else in town was stacked out. The Opera House would then be a five-ten minute saunter across Albert Square, and down Deansgate to Quay Street.

Cheers

Thom

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