Airport Parking Connection continues to grow at a healthy pace, providing more location and

fare options than ever. While travelers have been enjoying multiple parking options and low fares all across the country, they will now have the benefit of new lot choices throughout the sunny state of Florida.

Airport Parking Connection, with great pleasure, announces a new business partnership with

Premier Parking USA. Premier Parking provides outstanding airport parking services and continuously strives to maximize parking value for the customer while minimizing stress and hassle. Airport Parking Connection feels that the partnership will certainly be a good fit and looks forward to working more closely with the company in the near future.

With three new lots immediately available for parking reservation, Airport Parking Connection will be announcing more parking options in conjunction with Premier Parking over the coming months.

In our second installment of our seasonal feature, ‘Getting though the Holidays without a Tow or Ticket’, we turn our attention to the city of Atlanta. While some of you are gearing up for a holiday season in the city with festive lights and ice skating in Centennial Olympic Park or the Annual Children’s Christmas Parade – many are booking flights out of the city to see loved ones all over the country. If you’re flying out of Atlanta, you’ll be pleased to find that parking rates are among the lowest in the country, with airport parking offering some of the best deals in the A-T-L.

                We’re already almost two week s into October, and a cloud of holiday travel stress is slowly creeping over us like fog atop the Chattahoochee River. Having just booked my flights for Thanksgiving, the last thing I want to think about is booking anything towards the end of the year holidays, and I know many of you feel the same. Airlines are already selling out and prices are skyrocketing. You can expect to pay hundreds more if you don’t compromise travel dates and times. This is supposed to be a season of giving, why do we always feel like we’re getting taken advantage of?

                Supply and demand is the simple and trite answer. Unfortunately for us travelers, it is good business practice to monitor trends in travel and price your services accordingly. However, if you’re booking flights out of Atlanta, there is one facet of your holiday travel experience that won’t be completely exploited – parking.

                Atlanta is boasting some of the lowest parking rates in the country, and airport lots are no exception. The Courtyard by Marriott Atlanta Airport North and Days Inn & Suites offer reserved parking for rates well below the national average. For example, if you wanted to leave your car parked at the Marriott while you fly home for the week of Thanksgiving – it would only set you back $41.92 (for 8 days). The $4.99 daily fee comes out to a monthly rate of $154.69, which is well below the national average monthly rate of $166.26 (Atlanta Business Chronicle).

                So when you’re browsing holiday flights only to find that the promo code is not working and blackout days and rewards points will be the end of you, remember that parking is the one portion of your travel bookings that will always be simple and cost efficient. Hold on to those extra bucks that you save by booking parking reservations with Airport Parking Connection and revel in the victorious feeling of scoring a good deal amidst the inflated prices of this holiday season. Sometimes the gift of savings is enough to put a smile on your face. 

If only shopping for your family was this easy, the holidays would be a breeze!

You can find the aforementioned rates, among other reservation options online.

Parking in San Francisco is enough of a headache already. Holiday parking? Pass the Aspirin, please. Inspired by public outcry on social media networks for solutions to holiday parking woes, APC has decided to step in and help. This article will guide you through this chaotic time of year and get you through the holidays without having to spend the New Year disputing parking tickets or dealing with impound lots. Long term parking in cities like San Francisco can be done quickly, easily, and without breaking the bank.

It’s crunch time for holiday travel. Millions of Americans across the country will be flying to hundreds of airports, spanning thousands of miles – all in the matter of a few months. It’s a stressful time for everyone involved, and often times people are so focused on their flights being in order that they forget what they’re going to do with their cars.

 In major metropolitan areas like San Francisco, thousands of apartment owners aren’t blessed with the luxury of a reserved parking spot. The parking meter enforcers in San Francisco work on most holidays, and even in cities where Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day are free, all of the days surrounding the holidays are fair game. With holiday travels often spending a week or more out of the cities the live in, street parking is simply not an option.

So what do you with your car when you’re flying back east to see the family?

We couldn’t help but notice how many times this question gets asked when we’re on Quora or Twitter, so let’s discuss a couple options:

Many people’s first thought runs to Craigslist.org. Craigslist is a massive online community that allows you to post classified ads, completely free, for just about anything - from job postings to selling old furniture. Many people rent parking spaces and chances are you’ll find a couple options in your respective neighborhood. However, you do run a bit of a risk when dealing with this free service. As much as we believe that people are inherently friendly and good natured, you don’t know exactly who you’re dealing with. Finding long term parking with Craigslist runs the risk of being overcharged for a spot that has no security and no real guarantee that the spot will be available for you in the first place. With no receipt, order confirmation, or security – is it really worth it?

There’s a lot of things that can go awry and cast a dark cloud over your happy holiday, and we would certainly hate for it to be a mishap related to parking. We believe using airport parking facilities is the best way to counteract these potential problems. Airport parking lots provide long term parking in a secure area, away from the street and often monitored through the day and night. Reservations can booked online for discounted rates, and just like the flights – the earlier you book, the better.  

Your holiday experience should be enjoyable and stress free. You work too hard throughout the year to have your time off tainted by a ticket, tow, or under-the-table parking spot fiasco. Treat yourself to a stress free holiday by booking a long term parking reservation online and saving time and hassle at the airport.

A quick search yields pricing options that are just as good, or even better than anything you’d find on Craigslist. Look here: San Francisco Airport Parking.

Many families today are on a tight budget, and they might believe that the idea of a vacation is out the window. It doesn’t have to be that way. What you might want to do if you do not have as much money for your vacations is find ways that you can budget and save leading up to the vacation so it isn’t such a financial burden all at once. The following are some tips that might be able to help some families get to the point where they can still take their vacation when the time comes.

Cull the Number of Vacations

How often do you and the family take vacations each year, and how long are those vacations? Some families will take two to three vacations a year. Others will go on one long holiday for two to three weeks. It might not be practical to do this for people who are on a budget. You have to be able to get back to work, and you have to make sure that you will have enough money to pay for the vacation. Instead of taking an extra long vacation or taking several vacations a year, you may want to take just a single vacation. Doing this will still let you have the time you need to relax, unwind, and enjoy your family, but it should not break the bank.

Save Each Week

One of the mistakes that many families make and that they pay for throughout the year is that they simply put their entire vacation on their credit cards. Even if you have a low interest rate, you are still going to be paying interest on your vacation. This means that in reality, the vacation is costing more than you thought it would, and you are probably going to be paying on it all the way until your next vacation when you can just add more debt to your credit card.

Something that you might want to do instead is offset the amount that you are spending on credit by using cash for some of your vacation needs. For example, if you put away just $20 per week, and your significant other did the same, you would have $160 per week saved or $1920 per year if taking an annual vacation. This means that you could put that money that you save toward your vacation and pay for things such as the airfare, the hotel, or the meals. That’s with just $20 per week! If you saved a bit more and cut back on some of the things that you really do not need, then you could probably pay for just about your entire vacation.

Think Practically

When you are planning your vacation, think practically. You can save some money by finding places to stay that have their own kitchens. Eat some of your meals at the hotel or in the cottage so that you do not have to spend money eating out. Little things like this can make a vacation far more affordable.

Cue the “Jaws” theme music. Carmageddon is back. The city of Los Angeles is closing a 10-mile length of Interstate 405 from 7pm on Friday, September 8th, until 5am the following Monday morning. One of the busiest and most frequently gridlocked highways will be shut down, leaving hundreds of thousands of drivers to fend for themselves in finding alternative routes around the overpopulated city. Here at APC, we ask the residents of LA: is this a blessing in disguise?

The city of Los Angeles has been synonymous with overcrowding, overpopulation, and worst of all: traffic. This blog writer has spent 4 years fighting beltway traffic on Interstate 495, just outside of Washington DC, and nothing could’ve prepared me for the time that I’ve spent in LA. I thought I was pretty clever when I timed my drive through downtown LA at 1am on my way home from Ventura, but apparently 10,000 other drivers had the same idea. I was swamped.

                For this coming weekend, it’s only going to get worse - or will it?

                Residents everywhere are gearing up for the second year of the infamous Carmageddon. Food is flying off of the shelves in supermarkets faster than it would the night before a hurricane, and once again, people expect to be trapped in their homes for a few days.  

                This is a bad thing, right? Maybe not. Weekends are commonly just as stressful as the work week, if not more so. I personally feel the pressure every weekend to spend my “free” time accomplishing a project around the house, or bouncing all over the city, trying to cram as many friends and as much fun into a 24 hour day as possible. Often times you spend the entire weekend worrying about making the weekend a justifiable reward to how hard you worked during the week.

                This is the weekend where you put all of those worries aside. Forget about taking 3 trips to Home Depot to fix the shelves in the kitchen cabinets – that’s for next weekend. This isn’t the dreaded SoCal rolling blackouts. In fact, Angelenos will find themselves with all of the amenities that their place of residence normally provides, along with some time to actually enjoy them for a change. Hang around the house with your family. Catch up on some sleep. Give your parents a call (we know you’ve been meaning to). Eat well, sit back with a drink in the sun, and have some good conversation with those that you care about. This “staycation” might be exactly what the doctor ordered to get your head on straight. Chances are, all of those things you HAVE to do this weekend will be there next weekend.

“Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering”. Do you know who said that? That’s right. Winnie the Pooh.

We’ve got a lot to learn from those little guys. Maybe I’ll spend the weekend lounging on the couch, re-watching some of my childhood cartoons. After all, I’ve got nothing to do this weekend.