Parking fee – City centre

they don't issue ticket, how can I refund it..

I think the designer stores should lower all their prices because I can't afford to pay 10000 riyals for a Chanel handbag or 5000 Riyals for a pair of Jimmy Choos - Boycott them all until they reduce their prices where all can afford them!!

As for CC - I never went there in the past because of the lack of parking - now I can get a parking space usually so I go more often - so that negates at least one person's decision to boycott - and I know I'm not alone.

Are we still talking about this, the answer is simple, vote with your feet (or should I say tyres) and just don't go.

Oh my...! thank God I've check this post...very helpful for me not to go to city center. Parking fee is such an ouch of my pocket!...it seems it is better to take taxi then, you'll pay same amount afterall...but still hoping the management will lower it down to 2 riyals per hour...:D

will never stop. There are some people who prefers to scout for one hour just to find a parking space.Just wait 'til the system become smooth and maybe, all your inputs be heard by CC (and hopefully other malls), so wjen they start implementing the same (paid parking), noone will whine about it.  CC will never revert back to free parking so live with it! Expect the others to follow (hopefully not soon)! Lol!

If the tariffs have been implemented to prevent staff from surrounding office and construction site from using the facility free of charge and clogging it up during the week thus not allowing genuine shoppers the opportunity of parking then surely a preferable strategy would be, yes, to implement a pay for park Sunday thru Thursday and then just have the barriers open on Friday and Saturday ie free parking when offices are generally closed but genuine shoppers are out in force. Right now, it is the genuine shoppers who are being penalised and not necessarily the office workers who have been "abusing" CC parking facility. As I said earlier, I believe the fee is reasonable  but maybe its a point of principle - who knows!!

1. It is impossible to implement Singapore model here in Doha. Simply because here people can't use bikes as an alternative. Climate here is not so friendly most of the year. 2. The logic "If you don't like it - leave" does not sounds straightforward but smells kind of dictatorship style to me. Whatever is implemented should make sense. Pying 25-30 QR parking fee is too much if we consider leaving standards for most people in Doha. Local malls in Doha not just a shopping place but also the places where people socialize and escape the heat. I do not think it is right to solve the problem of CC neighbors parking areas (poor development assesment and design) simply by charging others who come to CC just for day to day shopping. Few QR is OK but 30QR for 3-4 hrs of parking is too much. This is cost of 10-15 kg of bread. Not fair to me.    

1. It is impossible to implement Singapore model here in Doha. Simply because here people can't use bikes as an alternative. Climate here is not so friendly most of the year. 2. The logic "If you don't like it - leave" does not sounds straightforward but smells kind of dictatorship style to me. Whatever is implemented should make sense. Pying 25-30 QR parking fee is too much if we consider leaving standards for most people in Doha. Local malls in Doha not just a shopping place but also the places where people socialize and escape the heat. I do not think it is right to solve the problem of CC neighbors parking areas (poor development assesment and design) simply by charging others who come to CC just for day to day shopping. Few QR is OK but 30QR for 3-4 hrs of parking is too much. This is cost of 10-15 kg of bread. Not fair to me.    

1. It is not possible to implement Singapore model here in Doha. Simply because here people can't use bikes as an alternative. Climate here is not so friendly most of the year. 2. The logic "If you don't like it - leave" does not sounds straightforward but smells kind of dictatorship style to me. Whatever is implemented should make sense. Pying 25-30 QR parking fee is too much if we consider leaving standards for most people in Doha. Local malls in Doha not just a shopping place but also the places where people socialize and escape the heat. I do not think it is right to solve the problem of CC neighbors parking areas (poor development assesment and design) simply by charging others who come to CC just for day to day shopping. Few QR is OK but 30QR for 3-4 hrs of parking is too much. This is cost of 10-15 kg of bread. Not fair to me.    

Ok, but dear this thing is discussed here 100 of times,  after every two days there is a CC thread, demanding people to bycott the CC, don't go there, sart protesting,i mean like why???this country is already a tax free zone, you are not paying tax at all...then few rayals mean what? those who are having cars, have some money in their pockets. they won't stop,and there are alot of other options, can go by Karwa, even one can park outside, there is alot of space, on front side across the road or on back side.why complaining every time. i don't feel this is narrowmindness..

Thanks to the authorities to have implemented a parking fee so now i can find a parking without cruising around in the parking lot for half hour or more.btw... till last month i was never charged for parking...

i agree with ingeniero... actually one of the reasons why this tariff  is being put up is to avoid the cars of a nearby construction area and the establishments near CC to park inside, where as this space is for customers of CC only. sometimes these cars are parked the whole day. on the other hand, its your own prerogative whether to come to CC or not. no one is forcing anyone to come there and the next day, blow up their complains against the the parking fee. and besides this parking fee thing, this will not be the last in Doha. Sooner or later, most of the establishment will have parking fee. this place will be like Singapore where, almost all the parking space are not for free and for those who does not like to pay the fee and does not want to line up for the ticket, it will inhibit them to use their cars. this is also one of solution for the traffic problem.

~smile even you are fasting~

i didn't get you at all... sorry for my poor understanding of english language, but can you explain please what exactly you want to say?

If you have a car then you surely can afford parking, no? And if you can't then stop complaining and go to another mall where the parking is free! In the end City Center is making sure its customers have parking instead of supplying free parking to nearby businesses. There are always taxis to drop you outside if you don't want to pay parking.

Thank you to CC for looking after your customers who are willing to pay to park their cars!

..life is getting harder, even to business establishment...though.

We went there last day and stayed for 4 hours but we did not pay any single penny. When I give the ticket to the person in charge and he saw my daughter playing in the back seat he told me its free and there is no need to pay. :)

I had to pay QR29 for 4 hours.. Out of my budgets..Wont go there anymore...!!!!

By the by - I paid QR18 for  4 hour stay on Friday - I dont think pesonally that is excessive. The problem and there IS a problem, with the introduction of the tariffs is I believe the traffic management - they havent got that right - cars taking up 3 lanes of a 4 lane highway jostling for position in the queue for the barriers is a recipe for disaster!!!

City Center has been very busy whenever I've gone there lately.  And I don't know why people are that upset.  What is in City Center that you can't find elsewhere in a different mall?  There are Carrefours and cinemas and restaurants and shops all over Doha.  If you don't want to pay a few extra riyals to park your car, just go somewhere else.

you have ALTERNATIVES!  Go to the other malls (but wait, since finding a parking space teher is now hard, you come back to CC and) whine the following day! You're just making your life miserable!A little change in old habit will do the trick!

Yeah i must confess Im having a problem getting my head around this - I would like to see some hard data to back up the OP's definitive statement that numbersare falling. I was in CC on Friday night and it was slow from 7 - 9 of course it was, its the Holy month - but sitting in Biella as I was, I had a first class view of the traffic snarl up on the main road as wannabee shoppers endeavoured to get into the parking area - THAT is where the problem is, outside the gates and there will be accidents - people were doing silly things - for a change!!

But my point - where is the evidence to validate the OP statement??

every riyal have its own meaning. if u pay 1QR less  computer will not take your payment my frnd...so dnot tell its just 2 or 3 QR money is money ......

This is getting debated on a new thread daily now

yeah bit problem with cinema goers though.... if you have something to buy then show your receipts 2gether with your ticket and khalas youll get 2hrs free, why worry... but for sure it would affect CC.

They must at least lower the rates or give the 2 hours free if you show your cinema ticket.....

And again,, there's always an option., you can go to other malls and stop going to CC or pay the parking fee and whine in QL afterwards :P

i went there last night around 9pm you still get to queue up to get a ticket for the parking

maybe you are a big rich guy , since you dont feel , those few rials. (we are not)

I find this hard to believe!

didn't feel, when i went there.. alot were there.. and one who want to buy something, don't think about those few rayals then atleast. what on earth you guys are living.. i think this compain is from the nieghbour buildings, whose employees used to park there, and no they don't know what to do

and it's flooding the board!

an organised campaign agaisnt CC!!