City of Sacramento

I have correct this review because my previous review was for a different parking garage around the corner not this one. This is actually my favorite parking garage because it’s open ²⁴⁄₇ and on weekend club nights after 8pm it’s like only $ 5 to park till early morning. It’s in the middle of downtown so there’s easy walking distance to a lot of great downtown Sac spots.

Terrible service.
We came in with party of 2 cars. About half an hour later when we got out, I decide to pay for my friend’s car behind me. I thought everything was good so I drove out into the street. Noticing my friends were lagging behind for a few minutes, I pulled over to the side of the street to wait for them. After we met up, they told me they still charged them. I decided to confront the Mexican lady about it and she told me to take it to manager. The manager still didn’t do shit. Fuck this place. Don’t park here.

This is my go-​to place to park for IMAX or dining at the Esquire Grill or Grange or any of the other cool things going on in the area. There are seven levels of parking at a pretty reasonable hourly rate, and a number of the local businesses validate the parking. I don’t think I’ve ever paid more than $ 5 for hourly parking.
On Friday and Saturday, they have a flat-​rate of $ 5, which makes parking for the TFO at the Crest easy and convenient. No worries about leaving your car in the street; six years living here and I have yet to have a problem leaving my car in the Garage here. There are security guards patrolling the well-​light, heavily populated space.
This isn’t to say there isn’t some grime around the edges. Like any garage in any urban space that’s near a number of transient hotels and that caters, in part, to a highly intoxicated club crowd, the stairwells reek of the smell of stale urine and the elevators seem as if something awful exploded inside it. But that’s expected for this sort of thing, so I don’t consider it a draw-​back. I mean… perfect world and all, it wouldn’t be an issue, but then again, if we had a perfect world, we wouldn’t need to Unilocal about things, right?
The other drawback — which I can not hold the garage responsible for, but as a head’s up — if you are there on a weekend evening, when it’s a flat-​rate pre-​paid ticket, and you’re leaving at bar/​club closing time, it always boils down to a game of exit-​gate roulette. There are 3 lanes that let you out and on Friday and Saturday you should already have the pre-​paid ticket to get you out and yet, inevitably, some car full of drunken revelers will have lost the ticket or can’t figure out how to insert a ticket into a machine, and suddenly that lane backs up and the people behind the obstructing car start to try to get into another lane, only to cause more logjams and traffic issues.
So plan ahead as you make your final approach to the gates; pick a lane that looks like the cars in it can handle putting a ticket in a machine with minimal problems.
All in all, this is an excellent garage — a decent, safe and affordable place to leave your car while enjoying a night in downtown Sacramento.

I use this garage a TON. Whether for a downtown race (such as SacTown Ten or Women’s Fitness Festival) or musical theatre, flat rate for event parking is typically $ 5. It’s close to everything, walking distance to C. Chavez park, Citizen Hotel/​Grange Restaurant, the Capitol, the Sheraton Grand, Convention Center, Community Center Theater, Cathedral, Cafeteria 15L, and the other establishments along the Kay (Ella, Crest, Esquire…). Great for my early morning races, late night musical shows, or if you don’t care for valet (I guess validation takes care of that). Of course parking meters don’t have to be paid after 6pm but you’d have to be really lucky to snag such a space so close to the Capitol.

If you’re like me and end up commuting in to Sac for some SRS business at the Capitol once in a while, there’s no better place to park. You’ll be proximate to the Capitol, and the $ 3/​hour charge isn’t bad unless your stay starts extending past the three– or four-​hour mark (max charge on weekdays from 6 AM to 5 PM is $ 18).
P. S. The garage is open ²⁴⁄₇ which is pretty legit.