Band three of four
A Week to Two Weeks, the Band This Desk Actually Exists For
Somewhere between six and seven days the arithmetic turns over. Most operators on the airport mile stop counting days and start counting weeks, and that is the point at which a reservations desk is worth the trouble of using.
01What changes at seven days
Two things at once.
The unit changes. A daily figure becomes a weekly one, and a week is usually priced below seven times the day. This is why an eight day trip can cost less than a six day trip at the same lot, and why rounding your return date down is a bad habit.
The car starts to notice. Three days of standing does very little. Ten days does something, and what it does depends heavily on the month. That is the point at which a grade of stall stops being a preference and starts being a decision, and it is the reason the calendar exists as a page of its own.
| Length of stay | Days | What the band is for | From, per day |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under four days | 1 to 3 days | Usually the band where the airport's own front lots win. Read /airport-lots/ first. | $7.00 |
| Four to six days | 4 to 6 days | The first band where a reservation off the field starts to be worth the walk. | $6.25 |
| A week to two weeks | 7 to 13 days | Priced by the week rather than by the day at most lots on the airport mile. | $5.40 |
| A month and over | 28 days and up | Priced by the month, and the band that needs the most lead time in winter. | $4.10 |
Those are floors as of August 7, 2026, not quotes. The number that applies to your dates is confirmed by telephone or by return message before anything is held, and taxes and any addition belong to the operator. The rates page sets out every addition that can appear.
02The four questions worth asking before you agree
We ask these of the operator on your behalf, and the answers come back in the quote. They are printed here so you can check that the quote actually answered them.
- What are the gate hours, and what happens outside them? A lot with an unmanned gate at four in the morning is not a problem if you know it in advance and a problem if you do not.
- What is the van interval, and does it change at night? Two to seven minutes of driving is the easy part. The wait is the variable.
- Is the stall a marked stall, and is the grade the one quoted? A shaded stall means a canopy belonging to that operator. It does not mean the canopies over the field's own front lots, which are not ours to book.
- What are the overrun terms if the return date moves? Flights move. The answer to this question is the difference between a small adjustment and an argument.
03What a week of standing does, briefly
The long version is in the desk sheets. The short version, because it changes what you should book:
- Between May and September a car on open ground gets very hot, and the interior takes the worst of it. A shaded stall is worth more in these months than in any other.
- Dust settles on everything for the whole year and more so in the monsoon weeks. It washes off.
- A car nobody moves for ten days is a quiet, sheltered object, and desert wildlife finds quiet sheltered objects interesting. What you can ask about is a lit, swept, regularly driven row. What nobody can promise you, including us, is that nothing goes near the car.
04Lead time in this band
Ordinary weeks: a day or two is plenty. Between January and March, when the winter visitor season is on, a week of notice is sensible and three days is tight. That is not scarcity theatre, it is the local pattern, and the calendar names the weeks.
05Where to go next
- A month and overMonthly pricing, and what a month in the sun actually costs a vehicle.
- The calendarMonth by month, what the weather does and when supply tightens.
- Desk sheetsTen sheets on what a measured number of days does to a standing car.
- Reserve a run of daysEleven fields, no card, nothing held until you agree.