So let me get this straight. Parking your car for five days at the airports long term parking costs KD10 (KD2 a day). Now if I park my car there for twenty days and then lose my card do I also end up paying only KD10? Is that why the parking is always full and there are a ton of cars that look like they’ve been parked there for months?
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Nope. The 10KD is the extra charge for losing the ticket in addition to what you owe. They have Automatic Plate Recognition cameras at all the entrances and they review the system to know exactly when you entered the lot.
Yes, some of my friends did that before.
about a year a go i used this service for about 4 days or more and i paid like KD6
Ah one more thing, now i think they check upon your passport for arrival and departure + the KD10 if you really lost ur card.
What??
I did it once and i told them that i lost my card, They checked my car plate and it was on a list with the cashier and they told me “You should pay 32 KD and additional 10 KD for the lost card” = 42 KD. So i decided to show them my card and save 10 KD and end up paying 32 KD!! .. The best solution is that you park your car for 20 days or whatever you want and ask your friend to come with his car and swap cards. so you’ll pay 1 KD and he’ll tell them that he lost his card and will pay 10 KD since his car is not on the list. So the total cost would be 11 KD instead of 40 KD.
Ironical…, if your friend can come to swap the card, why park your car at all? Simply ask him to pick you up on arrival. Else, simply hire a limo from the airport, it may cost you anything upward of KD 7. Long parking is not suitable for more than 3 days, doesn’t make sense.
Fibonacci: Thats a pretty cool loophole
Here’s another bright idea: just get a cab there and back!
Its seems like a good loophole, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they figure it out. The ANPR probably also logs the card’s serial number along with the plate number. They can figure it out when they are trying to establish when the second car came in..
Ahhhh…the bad memories 🙁
I thought the same way you did Mark, and it cost me 59 KD 🙁
I was thinkin on doing it the next time I travel.. thanks Mark 😀
Why do u wanna leave ur car there ;/ ,.. just ask someone to drive u there !!
why on earth would i want a friend to swap cards with me when i arrive, ill be exhausted or else not even bothered to drive. Is it worth having someone to come all the way to do the swapping for you when you could get the best cab service out there to ur place for 10kd max?
Kuwait is so small guys, 3an il mi9a’7a 3ad
no one is being serious here we’re just having some fun
heeeelp. MoC sent us a new paper with tens of URLs within Youtube for us to block. please spread this around.
if its specific urls of certain videos thats ok, as long as they dont block ALL of youtube
@pux
indeed
yeah the problem is the list is too long and ridiculous, technically it will be a challenge for us and for almost no gain!
if you were to put a number on how many pages are needed to list ALL the objectionable stuff (and they ARE weird and laughable things mentioned), compared to the 5 pages they sent us, how long do you think it would be?
and technically it’s almost impossible for us the ISP to comply with this law.
they will force us to buy equipment and THEN after we try and fail to encompass everything they don’t like, who’ll bear the cost? if ISP’s pay for it, the cost will be transferred to the customers naturally. and achieving nothing.
and who’s to say that when we fail to catch everything, they’ll ask to stop the whole site?
If you are travellng for more than 2 days it then turns out to be cheaper to park at the Valet parking, cause its 1 KD per day there and the long term Parking is 2 KD a day.
I HATE Valet parking, but it saves me a bit of KD’s, and they park it in the shade.
we have valet at the airport??
yes i use the airport valet parking most of the time when a trip comes up with no plan they are not bad i mean no car damage so far.
i think they are depending on trusting the customer … LOL ..
in dubai .. theyve got the same idea, however there are cameras watching the whole parking .. so they will find out how long u really were there !
Hey Mark most of them cars you see for ages collecting dust like fossils from the monolithic era are cars leased by my fellow american & european colleuges who didnt want to pay the bills. LOL ….what they do is after the end of their contracts they skip town scott free and use what this great country of Kuwait has given to US & European citizens…The freedom of travel to enter and leave the country without restriction as long as they have’nt committed a crime of any sort. And those xpensive cars that they can afford to rent or lease on the fat salaries they are paid with ????? They leave them at the long term parking at the airport for the leasing or rental agents to hunt down.
Is it any wonder that car rental, phone companies and even ministries for that matter have become wiser & put travel bans on americans and europeans when the bill exceed a certain limit ? Mind you though not all American and European citizens are the same there are some really great responsible one out here as well .. Like they say ” Not all five fingers are the same” :-0)
The airport valet does indeed cost 1KD per day. However, the really shitty part is that your car is kept in an open air lot under the super hot sun!
You all have to remeber that stealing is not only when you take someone’s money or belongings !! Not paying your bills is stealing too ! So if you want to be a thief,,,then it is not difficult.
Valet parking would most probably be best… I was thinking about parking my car in the normal parking when i travelled to bahrain, but took a look at the cars that had been parked there for ages and all of their tires had be punctured with scratches down the body…
Talked with the kuwaiti guy in charge of the long term and asked him bout those cars vandalized, he admitted it was the ppl in charge of the car park that did it… He said the reason they did was coz they own the airport around 500-700KD in parking fees.
I would watch out, get the valet instead.. much better!!
hey adrenalin i perfectly agree with you coz i work for one of the reputed rental companies here in kuwait and i am working at the airport counter and just for your records, we at the airport check all the parking lots at the airport 4 times a week just to find out how many customer have run away after leaving their cars in the parking lot without paying the rental charges
Adrenallin & manish
Last time I rented a car at the airport few years ago they require a credit card. They also place a hold on your card on the rental amount until you bring the car back. If you didn’t bring the car back and they could not reach you then they report the car stolen by the renter. So if they try to exit or enter Kuwait after certain time they will be flagged. It is standard car rental procedure world wide not only in Kuwait.
Bobader
Absolutely on the money there, but have you thought of this… you are an individual from a foreign country working in Kuwait having a salary bank account in a Kuwaiti Bank which has provided you with a credit card from said account based on the fact that there is a monthly pay cheque coming in to pay your monthly credit card bills. You dillegently pay the minimum required payment required by the credit card company as well as the standing order from the leasing /rental company every month and on all accounts keep your nose clean until the fateful day comes to skip town. Thats when you max out our credit card for cash & leave the account active with the minimum amount in the account to cover the credit payment and leave the country. What do you stand to lose?? Simple slightly less than you would have had you stayed in town. that is the minimum charge left in the account.
What happens next ?? The credit card company as usual every month deducts its minimum % charge from the account automatically leaving probably zero or probablly a couple of fils in the account and when the date for the payment to the leasing company to get paid by the standing order comes around they get zilch because there is no cash in the account to transfer in the first place so they revert back to the credit card and to the amount held as security to cover the bill for that month you miss out and lo behold it bounces back because your credit card has been maxed out and cannot support the transaction. Mean while you have allready left the country a month ago leaving behind an active account with no cash coming in plus a leasing bill that would have probably been paid by your credit card. Plus a car in some parking lot somewhere collecting interest in the form of dust 🙂
I can guess what your next question will be .. What about the final settlement that the employer pays to the individual? Good point .. However again usually whenever a company transfers the salary to an individuals account it comes in and shows up on your statement as a monthly salary however other payments such as bonuses or final settelments are handeled by seperate accounts that show up as plain transfers. Had it shown up as Final Settelement Transfer that would normally alert the bank to hold the amount until all bills.. be it credit card or standing orders be setteled. But since it does not show up this way the banks , credit card companies and leasing companies are none the wiser. Even if it did come that way there is a way around it an individual could always ask for the amount in the form of a cashiers cheque made out to the individual rather a bank transfer and most companies almost alway oblige the request.
So in the end we have monolithic 4,6 & 8 cylinder creatures collecting dust in parking lots and drive ways all over the country 🙂
They are having a log of the car parked overnight everyday… so if you lost the card, they will charge you the number of days * 2Kd per day + 10KD for the lost card
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Adrenallin
You are right, this is easily doable. I knew a guy here in the States 6 years ago who did something even worst than this. He had many credit cards with total limit more than $80,000 which he gathered during the years he has been in the States. When it was time to go back home he bought a car from a dealer friend, shipped it to his home country, and left the States for good!! LOL
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does anyone know how you get your vehicle out of the short term parking once they have let the air out of your tires because it was left ther to long?
How do I go about the valet parking procedure. Is ther any contact number.
Vallet parking phone number 24810831