Smith & Beretania Parking

Cheap parking with a max of $ 3 between 5 and midnight!
Minus 2 stars for danger aspect at night. The pedestrian entrance into the garage is surrounded by less than friendly looking homeless people/​drug users. If I were alone, I wouldn’t use this garage.

One of the great challenges in life is finding parking in downtown. I’ve spent a good portion of my life searching for parking, and sometimes the thought of having to look keeps me away.
The situation was more of the same when my boyfriend Jake and I were circling the streets of downtown one Friday night — just praying to the Parking Gods that we’d find a stall. While they didn’t hand us one, they did point us in the direction of this lot!
While driving down S Beretania St., seemingly defeated, we finally spotted a sign that said «$ 3 parking.» Not bad for downtown! Not bad at all! Little did we know that was just the maximum we could end up paying on a weekend, and only spent $ 1 on parking after having dinner at JJ Dolan’s! Talk about deals!
Weekend rates are $ 0.50/half hour, or a maximum payment of $ 3. The same rates go for weekdays after 5pm too. Just make sure you’re out by midnight!
Street parking will always be our first choice, but when all else fails we’ll be sure to have this ace of a parking garage in our back pocket.
ENTRANCE: On S Beretania St. (between Nuuanu & Smith). You’ll drive down a ramp to get inside the garage.
EXIT: Leaves you on N Pauahi St.
CREDIT/​DEBIT CARDS: Cash only.

This is my favorite parking lot in the downtown area, hands down. Quick and easy access off Beretania. It’s a bit iffy on whether or not there will be an open space, but that’s the situation at EVERY downtown lot that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg; I’ve been lucky to always get a spot. Covered parking, great location, and affordable rates – all very nice, but not enough to make me want to write a Unilocal!review.
What makes this lot worth writing about is their attendants: there’s something special about them. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but they’re really nice without being *too* nice, y’know? They just always seem positive; there’s a really nice vibe.
Oh, and the people who park there are really nice, too! Isn’t that funny? Instead of rushing to be first to exit, cars will chill and take turns.
All around, quality peeps, quality parking experience. :)
The only two things I don’t care for are the lip of the driveway at the entrance, and the speed bump before you get to the ticket dispensing machine. But that’s just me being way too picky. :)

I love being Downtown/​Chinatown but parking is always a hassle and can even cause unwanted stress. I’m the type of person that will have to make about five to seven rounds around Downtown/​Chinatown looking for street parking before resorting to park in a parking garage.
However, this parking garage is located in a decent and central part of the area. It is clean, well-​kept and well-​lit. The stalls do get filled up quickly, but not to worry, the attendants won’t make you pay if you just came in and couldn’t find parking.
I do tend to feel uncomfortable down there and going up the stairs or elevator, but be sure to remain aware of your surroundings instead of playing around on your phone.
Nonetheless, this garage is definitely a better garage than most of the other garages in the area and the prices (which my fellow Unilocalers have listed) are fairly reasonable.

Meet downtown? Where? OMG sketchy people, scary people…
However, thanks to this parking lot, I am now able to partake in the downtown food and fun and not feel unsafe, more or less.
This is the parking lot I use whenever I decide to go on any of my downtown adventures. The entrance is on Beretania Street, however you exit on one of the side streets, Pauahi I believe. It is located right next to a pretty scary park, so once you exit, walk like you’re on a mission. I do recommend not walking back to the parking lot alone as a female.
It’s pretty convenient for the downtown eating places and bars, short walking distances. The parking lot and elevator don’t smell like urine. It’s also pretty clean for Chinatown to be honest. The staff is really friendly as well. I asked them about parking prices and am I safe, what’s the fastest route to certain places, etc.
They have a great deal of $ 3 flat rate after 5pm, you just have to be out by midnight which is way past my bedtime anyways. However, it is exact, so you cant come in at like 4:59 or you get charged extra for that one minute. The rates are as follows:
Monday — Friday:
6am-​5pm
$ 0.75 per half hour (up to 2 hours)
$ 1.50 per half hour thereafter
Monday-​Friday 5pm-​12am
Sat, Sun & Holidays 6am-​12am
$ 0.50 per half hour
$ 3.00 maximum fee
I’ve had pretty good luck, always finding parking and the feeling of fearing for my life or being robbed and raped in the parking structure is minimal.

We came here during the Chinatown festivities, but sadly we did not find any open stalls. Instead we were stuck for 25 minutes in a long line of traffic trying to leave, but not a single car could move because the car at the cashier either did not have cash or enough cash. Luckily for that person, another driver walked over to help the driver pay… unlucky for us… we were charged $.50 for sitting there and waiting. :(

I often use this parking for weekend branches, weekday lunches, rarely at night. This get full quickly. This is relatively new but not much space. All about timing. I have been lucky with this parking.
Entrance on Beretania between Nuuanu and Smith.
Exist on Pauahi.
First 2 hours, $ 0.75 per ½ hr, $ 1.50 ½ hr thereafter; after 5pm $ 0.50 per ½ hr or $ 3.00 max.
PS. I think the address on the Unilocal is incorrect but no address is found anywhere…
Unilocal 365 — ¹⁸⁹⁄₃₆₅

Monday — Friday:
6am-​5pm
0.75 per half hour up to 2 hours
1.50 per half hour thereafter
Monday-​Friday 5pm-​Midnight
Sat, Sun & Holidays 6am-​12am
0.50 per half hour
3.00 maximum
lost ticket $ 21
We parked here towards evening and the price was right. However when we walked back I forgotten how bad Chinatown can get during late hours. Some meth heads were hanging out near the basketball courts kicking a homeless and stared me down. I would park here again because of the price, during the day time of course.