Santa Monica Parking Structure 6

Parked here all week while staying at the HI across the street, and it was great! No problems whatsoever and the price is okay ($ 14 max. rate) for the convenience and they safety and proximity to the hostel, beach, and 3^rd street.

Not enough electric charging stations. Went their twice and not once has one open. Wasted 20 minutes looking for one.

Who the heck reviews parking structures?! I do!
Gorgeous view of SM beach from top floors, I don’t mind parking all the way up there because of this. Seriously. It’s breathtaking.
This a newer structure and I love it – 90 min free like the rest of the ones in downtown SM, clean, charging for electric cars, and best of all there’s a beautiful stairway along the front of the structure so you can enjoy the views going down. Forget the elevator, get some exercise and use the pretty stairs!
Plenty of self-​pay stations on the ground floor to use before going back to car. Right next to the promenade, next to a bunch of restaurants by the beach. I can’t complain, this is one of my fav structures in SM.

This is a good spot in that you get 90 minutes free. However, if you go over, it adds up. I was parked for 5 hours, so about 3.5 hours overtime and it ost me $ 8.50 which still isn’t that bad. When you see the pricing notice the rates are per ½ hour.
Take a photo of where you parked, what floor you parked and and which exit you come out of in order to figure out how to get back to your car and not enter the wrong side.
I’m giving this structure high ratings because the spaces are striped decently, not narrow and compact; it’s covered parking, so shields cars from the elements and heat; it does offer free limited time parking; and it’s conveniently located to the Santa Monica Mall and 3^rd Street Promenade too.
It’s a popular place, so be aware it’s not always easy to find a spot, and when you go up or down, in or out, drive slow, it’s small and narrow enough where there’s an accident waiting to happen between other cars and pedestrians, and especially when you’re looking for parking, the slower you go, the greater the chance you’ll have the right timing to get a space as someone is about to leave rather than overshoot opportunities and pass up parking spots.

Of all the parking structures in Santa Monica, I like this one the most. Free the first 90 minutes. One dollar for the next hour and then a dollar for the following half hours. This parking structure is new and clean. Fir those with electronic cars the city offers free charging stations (they have at least 10 stations).

OVER AN HOUR AND A HALF just to exit on a Saturday night. I called the city phone number on our ticket to ask what was happening and was told it was not unusual for a busy night. Eek. Great way to spoil our tourist visit to the city.

BEWARE when parking here.
My vehicle was broken into on Friday evening May 16^th. The THIEF damaged the passenger window frame and stole items from my trunk. Not to mention leaving a stench of cigarette inside my car.
Zero cameras. No onsite security. Think twice when parking here!!!

Good placement location for the actual structure. The rates are as follows: first 90 minutes free, $ 1.00 for the first hour thereafter, $ 1.50 each thirty minutes after that first $ 1.00 paid hour. Sorry if that was confusing. It’s a short walk down to the pier and beach, which was the purpose for my visit. I parked on the west side of the structure on the 6^th floor. However, the machine on the ground floor on the west side does NOT accept cash, only plastic, so you may have to walk out and around to the other side to use a machine that accepts cash. Also, there are two elevators on the west side; the one on the left goes to floors 1 – 4 (it might be 5, can’t remember exactly), the one on the right goes to floors 6 – 8. It can be tricky if you’ve parked on the fourth floor but get in the elevator on the right, as it will go straight to the sixth (or fifth) floor, since that’s the lowest floor option of buttons that you’re allowed to choose from.

I thought this structure was perfectly placed… Such convenient parking to hang in SM and best way to avoid the parking ticket peeps. 2 hrs for free. What more can you ask for. If we need to be in SM, this is our parking spot.

So your driving down 2^nd Street in Santa Monica looking for parking on a busy weekend and you see the sign, two hours free parking, $ 3 flat rate on weekends. Don’t fall for it’s, IT’S A TRAP! Everybody else and their brothers, sister, neice has the same idea.
It’s a long drive/​search to the top to find those last few spots and then when you want to leave, (which is when everybody else wants to leave), it’s a long wait in line to excape/​exit. Which is exactly what you want to do after a night of dinner, movies and drinks.
Maybe it’s just me but it always seems to take me ten minutes to get out of this place; just when I’m not in the mood to wait that long to go home and sleep off my good times.
On the other hand, if you get here when nobody else is around, two hours of free parking is good. But hey if it’s not that busy you could take your chances with the parking meters. Just watch out for the Santa Monica Parking trolls; they are so @#$%^ effective at knowing just when your meter expires.
Tip, park next door for $ 6 on weekends and save yourself the hassle.