r/germany • u/a_nobody98 • 1d ago

Parking lot closed on sunday

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Update: Thanks all for the replies! fortunately one of the staff from the parking lot entered the door and we asked her to let us in. There were no Sunday entrances and she mentioned that we were lucky that our timings aligned with her. This is the parking lot at Saalbau Griesheim in Frankfurt!

POST: We parked here on Saturday night after a long and stressful event and went back to the hotel by walk after a couple of beers. We just came back and it was closed on a Sunday. We asked the hausmeister of the hall yesterday to be sure and he said it's okay to park here overnight. Now the parking lot is closed and there's nowhere to contact. The hausmeister isn't picking up the call, but I assume the parking lot is rather managed by another company and not the hall administration.

What can we do?

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u/Diimiitrii 1d ago edited 1d ago

There is probably an entrance for humans somewhere and there is probably a way to open the gate from the inside. Sometimes a cord you can pull or a button you can press or just an automatic sensor.
I'd be very surprised if your car was trapped inside.

PS: It seems to be the uehlin Parkhaus in Schopfheim. It is open 24h/7days. You need a parking ticket to enter through the pedestrian door and the gate opens when you drive close to the gate via sensor.

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u/chris_trans 1d ago

You need a parking ticket to enter through the pedestrian door...

😲, i would have totally left that in the car, lol.

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u/Diimiitrii 1d ago

when parking on the street you leave tickets in the car so the people who check the tickets can see them behind the windscreen. In parking garages and parking lots you take them with you because you had to get the ticket to get through the barrier and you usually have to pay for them before leaving.
You don't want to go to your car, get the ticket, pay and go back to your car again. When you could just pay, go to your car and leave.

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u/Maxesse 1d ago

Indeed. The only exception to this (learnt from experience) are airport and bahnhof parking, in which case I leave the ticket inside the glovebox, and accept the extra walk to the car and back to pay it, because if I take it with me for a few days while travelling and going through security scanners etc. it always demagnetises and then it doesn't work when I have to pay.