{
 "url": "https://journeyed.org/reports/la-hotel-parking-report/",
 "title": "The LA Hotel Parking Report",
 "headline": "72% of LA hotels that publish a parking price say parking is free",
 "summary": "Of 214 hotels in the Los Angeles area that state a self-parking price on their own website, 154 say it is free. Where a price is charged, the median stated price is $27.",
 "published": "2026-10-03",
 "dataCheckedOn": "2026-10-03",
 "cite": "Journeyed, \"The LA Hotel Parking Report\", data checked October 3, 2026, https://journeyed.org/reports/la-hotel-parking-report/",
 "license": {
  "name": "CC BY 4.0",
  "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
 },
 "sample": {
  "hotels": 2612,
  "withWebsite": 2227,
  "sitesRead": 453,
  "stating": 214,
  "statingLabel": "hotels that state a self-parking price",
  "factsCheckedFrom": "2026-10-02",
  "factsCheckedTo": "2026-10-03",
  "held": []
 },
 "stats": [
  {
   "value": "72%",
   "label": "say self-parking is free",
   "basis": "154 of 214 hotels that state a self-parking price"
  },
  {
   "value": "$27",
   "label": "median stated self-parking price where one is charged",
   "basis": "49 hotels stating a price, from $10 to $79"
  },
  {
   "value": "$60",
   "label": "median stated valet price",
   "basis": "30 hotels stating a valet price, from $25 to $79"
  },
  {
   "value": "8%",
   "label": "of all hotels state a self-parking price",
   "basis": "214 of 2,612 hotels in the market"
  }
 ],
 "findings": [
  "Of the 2,612 hotels in the Los Angeles area, 214 (8%) state a self-parking price on their own website in a form software can read.",
  "Of those 214, 154 (72%) say self-parking is free.",
  "49 hotels state a price for self-parking. The median is $27, the middle half runs from $21 to $37 and the full range is $10 to $79.",
  "30 hotels state a valet price. The median is $60 and the range is $25 to $79.",
  "11 hotels say parking costs money without stating the price."
 ],
 "tables": [
  {
   "question": "Where is hotel parking free, and where does it cost the most?",
   "caption": "Stated self-parking prices by area",
   "columns": [
    "Area",
    "Hotels stating a price",
    "Say it is free",
    "Charge",
    "Median charge"
   ],
   "rows": [
    [
     "Anaheim",
     "22",
     "13 of 22 (59%)",
     "9",
     "$27"
    ],
    [
     "Long Beach",
     "13",
     "9 of 13 (69%)",
     "4",
     ""
    ],
    [
     "Los Angeles (other areas)",
     "13",
     "11 of 13 (85%)",
     "2",
     ""
    ],
    [
     "Hollywood",
     "11",
     "5 of 11 (45%)",
     "6",
     "$20"
    ],
    [
     "Inglewood",
     "9",
     "9 of 9 (100%)",
     "0",
     ""
    ],
    [
     "Glendale",
     "7",
     "5 of 7 (71%)",
     "2",
     ""
    ],
    [
     "Santa Monica",
     "7",
     "3 of 7 (43%)",
     "4",
     ""
    ],
    [
     "Downtown Los Angeles",
     "5",
     "1 of 5 (20%)",
     "4",
     ""
    ],
    [
     "Koreatown",
     "5",
     "1 of 5 (20%)",
     "4",
     ""
    ],
    [
     "West Hollywood",
     "5",
     "2 of 5 (40%)",
     "3",
     ""
    ]
   ],
   "note": "Areas with at least 5 hotels stating a price. A median charge needs at least 5 stated prices. Hotels in the city of Los Angeles are grouped under the nearest neighborhood within 2 miles."
  },
  {
   "question": "Which hotels state the highest self-parking prices?",
   "caption": "Highest stated self-parking prices",
   "columns": [
    "Hotel",
    "Area",
    "Stated price",
    "Source"
   ],
   "rows": [
    [
     "The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel",
     "Dana Point",
     "$75",
     "Hotel page"
    ],
    [
     "Bay Shores Peninsula Hotel",
     "Newport Beach",
     "$55",
     "Hotel page"
    ],
    [
     "Mosaic Hotel",
     "Beverly Hills",
     "$50",
     "Hotel page"
    ],
    [
     "kodō hotel",
     "Downtown Los Angeles",
     "$50",
     "Hotel page"
    ]
   ],
   "note": "Only values a person re-read on the hotel’s own page are named here."
  },
  {
   "question": "What does valet parking cost?",
   "caption": "Highest stated valet prices",
   "columns": [
    "Hotel",
    "Area",
    "Stated price",
    "Source"
   ],
   "rows": [
    [
     "1 Hotel",
     "West Hollywood",
     "$75",
     "Hotel page"
    ],
    [
     "Surf & Sand Laguna Beach",
     "Laguna Beach",
     "$75",
     "Hotel page"
    ],
    [
     "Terranea Resort",
     "Rancho Palos Verdes",
     "$75",
     "Hotel page"
    ],
    [
     "The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel",
     "Dana Point",
     "$75",
     "Hotel page"
    ]
   ],
   "note": "Only values a person re-read on the hotel’s own page are named here."
  }
 ],
 "shares": [
  {
   "question": "How many LA hotels say what parking costs?",
   "caption": "What hotels that state a self-parking price say",
   "rows": [
    {
     "label": "Free",
     "count": 154,
     "of": 214
    },
    {
     "label": "A stated price",
     "count": 49,
     "of": 214
    },
    {
     "label": "Paid, price not stated",
     "count": 11,
     "of": 214
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "methodology": [
  "Every number on this page is computed from facts that Journeyed read on hotels' own websites, within each site's robots.txt, between October 2, 2026 and October 3, 2026. Nothing comes from booking sites, review sites or guest reports.",
  "The Los Angeles market on this site covers Los Angeles County and most of Orange County, from Malibu and Lancaster to Anaheim, Newport Beach and Laguna Beach, plus Avalon on Catalina Island. It has 2,612 hotels, motels, inns and hostels. 2,227 of them list their own website, and we have read at least one detail about the stay from 453 of those websites so far. A website our crawler opened but found no such detail on is not among the 453, so a share of \"websites with a detail read\" is higher than the share of all hotel websites would be.",
  "A hotel is counted only when its website states the fact in plain text. Our crawler reads up to 12 pages per site and runs no JavaScript, so a fee that appears only inside a booking widget, an image or a PDF is not counted. A hotel that is not counted may still offer or charge the thing; it has not said so in a form we could read.",
  "Shares are of the hotels that state the fact, never of all hotels, and each share shows its count. Hotels with good news, such as free parking or no resort fee, may be more likely to say so, which would make these shares look better than the whole market.",
  "Values are read by software and can be wrong. Before publishing, a person re-read the highest and lowest values against the hotel's page. Hotels are named in a table of highest stated prices only when that exact value was re-read by hand. Every row in the CSV links to the page it was read from, so anyone can check it.",
  "A median is shown only with at least 5 stated prices and an area only with at least 5 hotels stating the fact. The numbers are rebuilt with the site by published, deterministic code: the same fact rows always give the same numbers."
 ],
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 "csvUrl": "https://journeyed.org/reports/la-hotel-parking-report.csv",
 "markdownUrl": "https://journeyed.org/reports/la-hotel-parking-report.md",
 "methodologyUrl": "https://journeyed.org/methodology/",
 "publisher": {
  "name": "Journeyed",
  "url": "https://journeyed.org/"
 }
}