To quidsin,
First of all, please get to know the parking system singapore has, which i personally thinks is very effective even though it can be slightly expensive.
durain has provided a very good link to the HDB website on the parking coupon system. Do pop by there and read through.
I was scratching my head also when i read your post about the sticker tickets thingy. You will not be able to find any of it in Singapore.
Anyway, it is quite hard to find a parking in Holland Village especially at night as there is too many people driving there for food, drinks or just to chill out. it is even more rare to be able to get a day parking coupon at the 7-11 store in Holland Village! However, the coupons are easily available anywhere in singapore, be it at the petrol station, convenient stores, supermarket, or even in some of the grocery/chinese medicine shops.
If it is your first time and maybe the last time you are driving here. Okay, you are forgiven, but if you just got your car and started driving, then you better learn your lesson. Go get some coupon and store it in your glove compartment for convenience. I recommend you keep a 50cents stack and a $2 night parking stack (1 stack is sold for SGD10).
quidsin Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:30 pm Post subject: Coupon Car Parking
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Can someone please explain to me what this coupon car parking thing is all about?
We were in Holland Village for the first time last night and managed to find a car parking space, a rarity I'm told! Anyway, I asked some guy where the sticker ticket mahcine was located and he looked at me like I was mental? He said that I had to buy a day parking coupon from 7-11 shop. So off I went and the charming lady behind the counter said they only had night coupons left. She said I could try the magazine shop so i went over there and they didn't have any either. So, what do you do....well, there were these guys in little uniforms patrolling the car park so I'm thinking they'll be able to sell me one, but they didn't have them either. But, they did Valet Parket or $8 per visit..wow!!!
So the moral of the story is, sometimes I'm amazed how efficeint and orderly stuff works in Singapore but then on occasions you find the most screwed up systems you could ever think of....and this is one of them...gees.
