So all of you guys have stories about Valets I'm sure. Worst stories? Best Stories

Looking to see if anyone had a bad experience at The W?
Where else?

 

Well not in Seattle, but this was at Willows Lodge a couple of years ago. It was one of the first weddings I was shooting for the studio. I had the valet park my car. 8 hours later I came out to get my car, exhausted from shooting in mid-90's heat. I wait....wait a little longer.....finally walk out and ask what's with the hold up. They lost my keys!

I waited for close to an hour I'd guess. They were very apologetic at least and gave me a couple of free drinks in the bar while I waited. They had a town car come and pick me up so I did not have to wait any longer. It's about a 20-25 minute drive to my place from Willows Lodge. About 5 minutes from my house, they called me and told me they'd found my keys. They'd fallen off the valet stand and were on the ground behind it . The Town car was back the next morning to pick me up and take me back.

It was a big hassle, but at least they handled it pretty well.

 

A few years ago I went to the Bellevue Hyatt for an off-site, the valet parked the car right in front of the hotel. From upstairs I could see that he stayed in the car for quite a while, my guess is playing with the Nav and the stereo, it was weird but nothing too horrific.

 

or he tried to fix the button which popped out while playing with your stereo! hahaha j/k

 

I usually ask politely "where do you want me to park the car?" and I pay the valet fee + a tip no matter what. Most places will let me to do so, the ones that don't, usually do not see me again. I remember talking to Tommy once about creating a list of Seattle's exotic friendly restaurants...

 

If there is an open parking lot in front of the restaurant, I just skip the valet and park the car myself. The only time I use them is when I'm somewhere really nice downtown and parking would be a pain.
I hate it when i can see the car out in the lot, but I have to wait a few minutes while the valets go and get other cars ahead of mine... at that point I just want to take the keys and get out of there!

 

Oh wow, you are exactly the same as I'm; I pay for the valet + tip; most of them are fine with it, since they after your $$$ anyways.

 

I can't tell you exactly which one, but I witnessed few restaurants along the 2nd Ave in DT Seattle, those valet guys just park their customer cars on the street parking!! No wonder why their bumpers & wheels get damaged!

 

No stories because I would never valet my car anywhere

 

Agreed...no valet comes near mine if they want to live.

 

I'm not aware of any McDonalds that offers valet parking, so I've never had a problem.

 

LOL Larry. I never valet either, I prefer to park on my own.

 

I cannot bring myself to use valet parking as well, I would have really bad thoughts about what might happen and it would ruin my evening. I have seen some youtube videos of valets abusing cars (real scary!).

 

funny I will valet most places I go. most restaurants tell me where to park them and I pay the fee and tip as well.

I guess the W doesn't have problems. I've never stayed there but our hotel is booked we typically stay so we will try them out this weekend.

Atomic why will you kill someone? I'm lost?

 

I am forgetting the name of the bar underneath wild Ginger but even though I warned them of the height of my former D90 hardtop, they managed to hit the roof on something. of course they denied it and I have not used a valet since on anything but my truck.

I will say that the best valets in the NW are at Il Terrazo Carmine near pioneer square... also IMHO the best Italian restaurant in Seattle and Carmine has a black 997 C2S

also Canlis has good valets