Like UBER, Spot Hero was introduced to me by #2 son Joe who does a lot of traveling for business.
Spot Hero is extremely simple; If you’re driving to an event and you want to find parking you simply download this app, enter the address you’re going to and available spots and prices will pop up on a map. Choose the one you want and you’ll prepay for the space, and you’ll get a picture of what the spot looks like. This is frickin’ genius. Recently we used it going to the Boston Symphony and rather than pay the $30 event parking at the big garage next door, we opted to go with this app which offered us a parking spot in a tiny hidden parking lot not much further away for less than half the price.
The app will even give you detailed directions to find your spot, and when you arrive that spot will have a sign on it with the number you’ve been given for it. You put your own license plate number in so that the spot owner knows it’s you when you get there. You also put in an amount of time you want to be in the spot. To show you an example, that garage space if we parked from 1pm to 10pm (we planned on grabbing dinner) would have been $60— Spot Hero price? $14.
So what do you do if there is a problem, like if someone is in your spot when you get there?
Well, each signed spot says you will be towed if you park here without using the app, and the app gives you the contact info of the person who owns the spot. On this particular day we arrived at our spot in a parking lot that we would have never found without the app and sure enough some moron from Ontario was parked there. We reached out to the owner, sent them a screen shot of the illegally parked car as well as a screenshot of our own confirmation and within seconds he secured us another spot a block away.
This second spot was even closer and even more hidden, down a back alley which is very James Bond ish.
Five stars for the app— I will NEVER go into a city again without it.
This is a GREAT App.