200 Stuart Street Garage

The parking garage is convenient to theatres, however 1 of their elevators is broken and has been for nearly a month. If you don’t mind waiting 20 minutes for an elevator then park here.

I drove into the garage at noon. When it came time to leave at 6pm or so, I couldn’t find my ticket. They insisted on charging me a full $ 40. Needless to say, after I left I found the ticket after all. They refused to give me a refund or credit for parking on another day. That’s an unforgivable rip off.

BEWARE… Went to see BMG show in the theater district. click and park prepay online is a rip off. The bar code scan does not work. so you are out the $ 11.50 for the prepay, plus $ 22.00 cash fee to leave the automated parking lot.

They have a sign out front, $ 10 parking, and in very smaller print, first ½ hour, etc. etc. I think this sign is great, it gets people to park there. It certainly saved us from saving money on the street. +1 star for the web site and feedback from the Unilocalers, and for them keeping the list of places that validate on the web site — keeping it secret helps us support the parking deck, and +1 for BMG telling us about their ticket for discounted parking (I tell you, we could not shut up the blue men from talking more about it).
I’ve parked there before, and I’ll probably park there again, but I just to want to call out their helpful (to them) sign.

I was able to prepay online and received a great rate by printing a barcode I had to hold under the scanner when I wanted to leave. It is a bit unusual in that there are no attendants anywhere.

200 Stuart Street Garage is located in the Revere Hotel that was once the Radisson Hotel by the Theater District, diagonal from Vapiano in the Transportation Building.
Their rates are:
$ 10 — Up to 1 hr.
$ 14 — 1 to 2 hr.
$ 18 — 2 to 3 hr.
$ 22 — 3 to 12 hr.
$ 40 — 12 to 24 hr.
Lost ticket $ 34
I knew that they validated for Pigalle, but it was nice to see that they also have a list of places that validate posted on their website —
So as of this review in January 2013, they offer $ 10 validated parking for up to 3 hours after 3:00 p.m. for the following:
*Flemming’s
*Maggiano’s
*M. J. O’Connor’s
*P. F. Chang’s
*Pigalle
*Rock Bottom
*Rustic Kitchen
*Erbaluce
*Tantric Bar & Grill
*Da Vinci
*Amaci Salon
*Shubert Theater
*Wang Theater
*Colonial Theater
*CitiCenter Performing Arts Center
*Vapiano
*Emerson College Theaters
From personal experience, after 3 hours, the validation took care of the first $ 2 of the $ 22 fee for 3 – 12 hours parking.
I guess they don’t get a whole lot of business since they only have one kiosk for paying before you head off to your car. The garage itself was bright enough and wide enough, although since space in Boston is at a premium, the parking slots were reasonable without being generous.
Being open 24 hours is a plus.
After a bit of research, it looks like that for a short walk, parking weekday evenings (after 4pm) at the Boston Common Garage would have cost $ 12 — an $ 8 savings for perhaps an additional 5 minutes of above ground travel… likely worthwhile in good weather, but a little less so during these frozen days of winter.
Or for the same $ 20, without the need for validation, kitty corner from Revere is the garage at the Transportation Building (aka CityPlace) with its flat evening rate. So, basically, you pay for the convenience of parking by this little corner of the city.