Seattle Center Parking

This is a negative star review.
This multi-​level lot is recommended by the hotel customer service across the street.
The limited free hotel parking for its customers was full at 5:30pm.
*No in/​out privileges for all noted lots outside of the hotel*
The ripoff: our hotel recommended this across the street parking option so when we arrived and paid $ 15 cash they only THEN advised what we paid would be only good for 10 hours (expires 4am)!! Attendant says would have to pay more at 4am — perhaps as much as $ 15 (I realized afterward she had no idea how long we were staying so of course there’s no way to guesstimate how much more we would need). Regardless feeling cheated we refused to stay in the lot and they refused to refund the just paid $ 15. Instead the attendant gives us a blank form to complete and an envelope which she says is the only way to refund us (through the mail). She then got confused on how to let us out so being in we drove to the out gate around the booth where the man yells at us to put our ticket into the machine (where it would disappear forever). When we state we will be doing the refund — the only way suggested — he states we should have a receipt (we don’t). He seems frustrated at us and finally opens the out gate.
After much more driving around in a city we don’t live we end up driving back to the hotel underground lot and simply waiting until someone finally left. thank goodness.
We examined the «form» thrust upon us and note that they were supposed to have partially completed it and hadn’t.
Worst lot and attendants ever. Visitors beware. If you have a smart phone load «best parking» for anywhere cheapest parking options.

*** RIPOFF ALERT ***
Same terrible experience as Karen, attendants take your money before telling you the «overnight» parking is actually only 10h long, which ends up in the middle of the night. Then if you ask for refund, they refuse to give back the cash you just have them and hand you a form to mail for the refund, probably hoping you will cave in in front of this hassle and pay the extra time.
It is false advertisement, extortion and bad faith in general… I’ll call it highway robbery!
Should I mention that on top of that the attendant laughed at my foreign accent? I know now why this parking was almost empty, locals know it is A TOTAL RIPOFF AND THE WORST SERVICE EVER. They deserve to go bankrupt!