Aibu about parking charges at air b and b?

[Sancerresanwine]

I'm in a London Air b and b just leaving.

The people who own the flat want to charge me 4 pounds a day for the visitors permit parking - when a booklet of 5 costs a pound, if I've read it right on the Hackney parking website.
Is this a reasonable thing to do, to make a profit on visitors parking permits? I'm quite surprised!

I think people are on Air b and b to make a profit so no they anbu.

Looks like is £15.25 for a book of 5 (if get £1 discount for booking online. So they're making a slight profit for hassle of sorting them out but not a massive one.

hackney.gov.uk/visitor-vouchers

Aha thank you! Thought I might have got it wrong!

And most parking permits in London you have to go in person to a library or the council to pick them up or else you have to create an online account with sending in lots of documentation. Its a massive faff to coordinate.

And also, its £4. It would be a miracle to find anywhere to park in London for a couple days without a permit.

Surely you have to be a resident of the borough, so the value of the parking tickets is largely that they available for you to use?

Why don't you reject their parking and find a nice NCP car park instead?

For £4.00a day, you will not find any parking in London at anywhere near to that price. As previous poster said, find yourself a nice NCP.

Sounds a bargain to me.

£4 or £400?

If it is the first one when I cannot understand your issue.

If it is the second one then TABU

If you live in a parking permit area, you have to buy the permits so that if anyone with a car visits you, they can park in the street. You buy them in person from the council parking office, and you need to take ID with you. The number of permits you can buy is limited (here it is 360 hrs per year).
IMO, the air b'n'b people should have factored in the parking cost when pricing their room but £4 a day for parking in London for a day sounds unbelievably cheap. (Here it is £15 for 5 x 24hr permits - I'm not in London. )

If they were charging you 10x what it cost them they would still be being perfectly reasonable, and it would be your choice whether to pay it or not.

Yeah that's really cheap considering the hassle they have to go through to get them - just pay my

They are doing airbnb presumably as a business not a charity....

That is ridiculously cheap parking for London.. Many London places would be more than that for 30mins!

Quite often the number of permit books they're allowed to buy as homeowners is limited so to charge extra is fair. To be honest, even if that's not the case I still think their fee is fair.

If I were visiting London I wouldn't bother taking a car anyway. I think you're better off arriving by public transport and using public transport while you're there. A car is just a liability especially if you are staying near the centre.