parking at UCH

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Anyone know any insider info?

I know there is a hotel near Euston that charges £15 a day for its carpark so we could use that but is a little far to walk to hospital while in Labour so DH would have to drop me off and then go take the car himself.

What about outside of Mon-Fri 8-6? Is there anywhere nearby you can park in the evenings?

Anywhere else you know of that could be helpful?

Sorry to tell you but the insider info is that the parking is awful/nonexsistant.

Most of the parking in the area is Residents Permit holders Only - so you cannot park in them even at night.

There are a few places with single yellow lines nearby so your DH can off load you, get you into the ward then re-park later.

The hours they patrol are 8 till 6:30 BUT be very very careful as UCLH is in Camden but on the boundary of Westminster which means if you stray into Westminster it 8 till 8 so check very carefully.

We went in in the middle of the night so managed to get a single yellow spot immediately outside (lucky because I was a whale and not very mobile). He moved the car a few hours later to the closest NCP (Museum St - 10mins brisk walk). And as labour was vvvvvv long, he later got the car, drove it home and got the tube back (we're only 10mins away).

Sorry to be bearer of bad news but but central london parking is awful and there are no allowances made for being in labour it would seems.

Yup - there is no parking to speak of. We got a taxi into hospital (the poor driver was very nervous my waters would break in the back of the cab) and got another one home.

No insider info here really - other than we got a ticket when DH overstayed on a meter picking us up to go home and it was overturned when he wrote to them to explain. But prob not worth relying on that!
We got a taxi in when I was in labour (45 mins in active labout on the streets of islington after trying to hail a cab after we couldnn't get one to come to the house due to arsenal/spurs game, but that's another story!) - I think that's what most people seemed to end up doing.

ticket I can cope with - being towed away more of a problem!

jass77,

That sounds horrendous!!!

I must be whimp! I screamed all the way in the car to UCLH thru 4 contractions even tho we were in the car for only 10min.

every roadhump and every turn felt like agony and I kept screaming at DH to STOP THE CAR because I felt like my stomach was going to burst.

And he had to help me out of the front door into the car.

I could not have walked down the road for a cab. Am very impressed that you did tho.