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Originally Posted by mrrolleyes
There will be cars everywhere and I’m sure the 2 mojor hotel parking lots will be shows in themselves.
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For our first trip to Luft in 2018, the "host hotel" was the Fairmont Marimar overlooking the Santa Monica Pier. I'm not a guy who has money. I work for someone else 55-62hrs a week, but I was convinced it was going to be a Luft style Porsche Party in a beautiful setting so I made reservations at $450/night.
We roll up in my ****box Carrera and there wasn't a Porsche in sight, and as a southern commoner, I was a fish out of water. They were going to charge me (at least) $50 to valet my car off-site! I convinced them to put their valet in the passenger seat and let me park my car in an (out of sight) on-site parking with like four other P-cars (all of them under cover.) The stay was not anything to write home about and the bar below our window kept me up late, as did the anticipation of the show on Sunday.
I had enough so Sunday morning we checked out (a day early) and parked our luggage behind the hotel desk so we could go to the show in Torrance. We had to back track to Santa Monica to pick up our luggage on our way out of town.
For 2019 I got an Airbnb with gated parking, right down the street from Race Service. The location was great for us.
20 minutes after the Luft7 email was sent out I called Aloft to inquire about parking, and was relieved that they had $10 self parking in their garage. I expect the garage to be crammed full of air-cooled goodness because they said they sold out immediately but were adding more rooms and would call me back. I reserved two separate king rooms for us and another couple.