Parking plan @ Queen Elizabeth

OH and I have been puzzling over how to handle the parking situation at QE when labour starts… IYKYK - it’s abysmal 😂 so what happens when we rock up for the birth and all the drop off spots outside the maternity unit are taken up by the cars of similarly panicked new parents, (usually adorned with parking tickets)? Will he have to drop me as near as he can get and then spend the next half hour or so finding a space before he can come join me? Interested to hear people’s experiences (specifically of getting parked when birth was imminent, not for scans/appointments) tia x

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The carpark spaces do have a huge impact! But at certain times the car park does get empty. My husband always dropped me off and then went to the carpark directly behind maternity on that same road that you turn in on. There was always spaces there and quite convenient tbh

As long as not on double yellows tickets aren't enforceable/not council run. It can be a nightmare mon-fri 9-5 but outwith it's absolutely fine. There is a gravel carpark across from kids multi storey and maternity whivh is either £5/6 which is manned and can always get parked but closes somwtimes around 9pm. To minimise stress could park there if daytime and if necessary move once quieter

We always managed to get a space in the one across the road, in front of the kids a&e. Including when I was going in once my water had broken, it was about 1130 pm mind you. But labour hadn't started yet, if it had felt more urgent might have got him to drop me off while he went to find a spot.

Don’t worry there is always spaces x I spend 2 weeks in special care with my baby and my partner always found a space . And if we were struggling he would just drop me off and then he would go find space

We took a taxi 🚕

I gave birth twice there and luckily for me both times I arrived very early hours of the morning so no issues with spaces. However if it had been daytime our plan was to drop me and he'd go find a space

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