I’m sorry for the anonymous answer but I don’t want to reflect badly on where I worked this summer as they were very good to me.

I worked valet at a hotel downtown in a relatively big city. We had a few places we could park cars, one lot that was two stories underground and only accessible by car elevator, a parking garage we shared with another hotel, and a surface lot across the street. The lot across the street was mostly used for the overnight valet to take cars from the garage that were checking out in the morning to so it was easier during checkout. The issue with it was the large HVAC building next door would have a lot of dirty mist coming off of it that would guarantee the car would get very dirty if we left it there for a long time. We generally only put rental cars there.

Anyways, this woman drives up and I go to greet her and the conversation goes like this:

“Hello ma’am, welcome to the _____, would you like to valet the car with us tonight?”

“Are there any other options? You valets run such a fucking racket. It’s unbelievable.”

“The only parking option offered by the hotel is the valet, you’re welcome to park in the public lots in the area”

“Jesus christ this is such a fucking ripoff, sorry, I’m not yelling at you this is just ridiculous”

Despite her claim, she was yelling at me, so I parked her car across the street for 3 days. I had to use the windshield fluid to safely drive back to return the car. She wasn’t pleased.