72% of LA hotels that publish a parking price say parking is free

Key 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.

How many LA hotels say what parking costs?

292 hotels say whether they have parking at all, and 285 of them say they do. Fewer go on to state the price: 214 hotels, or 47% of the 453 hotel websites we have read at least one detail from.

37 of the hotels we read say they have electric vehicle charging.

Where is hotel parking free, and where does it cost the most?

The split between free and paid parking depends on where the hotel is. The table counts, for each area, the hotels that state a self-parking price and how many of them say it is free.

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.

Which hotels state the highest self-parking prices?

Prices are as the hotel states them, per night unless its page says otherwise.

Only values a person re-read on the hotel’s own page are named here.

What does valet parking cost?

30 hotels state a valet price, with a median of $60.

Only values a person re-read on the hotel’s own page are named here.

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How we got these numbers

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.

How facts are collected and scored in general is on the methodology page, and the full open dataset is on the data page.

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