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Old 09-19-2008 | 04:40 AM
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Originally Posted by SilkySmooth
I second that. Preflight has the nicest vans (leather seats and a free USA Today in the mornings), courteous drivers, the most frequent van service in PHL, and they give you an EZ Pass type transponder to use the van lane all while automatically charging your credit card $70/month. Do the math. I think you'll find that its cheaper than $6.95/day for most schedules. To sign up, drive up to the booth, tell them you want to sign up for monthly parking, drive to the back of the inside of the indoor parking building, and sign up with the personnel in the back office. I think you may need your airline ID. Good luck!
Do you get the indoor parking for $70.00/month? I may do this for the winter. Hmmm, Who wants to rent my employee-lot pass for $50.00 month?

Seriously, I rode the employee-lot bus the other day with what must have 80 of the TSA's finest. What a refreshing way to finish a 13 hour day- with some 300 pound guys' ass in my face for ten minutes. The bus service is very good in terms of frequency, but at certain times of the day, various shift changes make the busses look like Tokyo Subways (minus all the clean, polite Japanese people). Preflight sounds like a pretty good deal.
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Old 09-19-2008 | 02:23 PM
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I think I might do the preflight option. I talked to them on the phone and actually the crew rate is $65 a month.

Say I leave my car there for 18 days a month (initially anyway, until off reserve), that works about to be about $3.60 a day which is not too bad.

They were nice on the phone. I still can't believe the airport parking authority hung up on me the other day.
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Old 09-19-2008 | 02:24 PM
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I still can't believe the airport parking authority hung up on me the other day.
Welcome to Philly.
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Old 09-19-2008 | 02:29 PM
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Welcome to Philly.
Thanks but after two decades I've seen enough! Snowballs at Santa, I was at the Phillies game where JD Drew was getting D size batteries thrown at him and the announcer came on and said "please stop throwing batteries at the visiting team outfielder" , 500+ murders in a year, the list goes on.

After a year on the west coast and lots of travel in the rest of the country I'm outta the Philly factory ASAP!
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Old 09-19-2008 | 05:15 PM
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Thanks but after two decades I've seen enough! Snowballs at Santa, I was at the Phillies game where JD Drew was getting D size batteries thrown at him and the announcer came on and said "please stop throwing batteries at the visiting team outfielder" , 500+ murders in a year, the list goes on.

After a year on the west coast and lots of travel in the rest of the country I'm outta the Philly factory ASAP!
How did this turn into yet another Philly-bashing thread? I was just trying to help you out with parking. And what is "the Philly Factory" exactly?
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Old 09-19-2008 | 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Dashdog
How did this turn into yet another Philly-bashing thread? I was just trying to help you out with parking. And what is "the Philly Factory" exactly?
Well, Slice said welcome to Philadelphia in response to the Philadelphia airport authority hanging up on me after being rude and grumpy from the start. I replied to his welcome to Philadelphia saying thanks but I've been welcomed enough myself after living in the area for years. Not necessarily Philly-bashing as much as answering Slice's welcome remark.

And I do appreciate your parking tips.
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Old 09-20-2008 | 08:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Slice
Welcome to Philly.
After commuting for 2 years from Philly I'd say that people there are much more genuine than Californians. I should know, I lived in the O.C. For 8 years. And I loved California. Philadelphians, from my experience, have been refreshingly normal.
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Old 09-20-2008 | 10:51 AM
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pansies. philly rocks! its a shame you dont know how to handle being there...
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Old 09-20-2008 | 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Slice
Your other option would be to piggyback in and out of the lot. I saw it all the time when I was based there...or maybe try and work out a deal with one of the local hotels that has shuttle service.

Philly has recently installed a human being at the gates in and out to track the piggy backing. Appears a large number of cars had been stolen out of the lot. If you don't swipe in you were never there.

You can park at the lagoon, they have a 24 hour shuttle runs on the half hour. Take the essington exit off of 95. Go south until it T's turn right then first left puts you in the lot. A lot of crews stay there. Not sure that they allow it but I would just go in like I owned the place. No one ever said anything. There is also a Hampton 1/2 a block from the employee lot, just walk into the lot and take the shuttle.
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Old 09-20-2008 | 03:18 PM
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pansies. philly rocks! its a shame you dont know how to handle being there...
I meant the airport and many of the workers. The Philly natives in general I thought were great when I lived there...
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