Do you use the valet??
03-21-2006, 06:34 PM
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Never Never Never!
A long time ago, my GF at the time got mad at me for not valet parking. (I offered to drop her off at the restaurant first while I find parking. She insisted on me using valet. I said NO WAY.) She got mad. I got even by dumping her. True story.
I also know of a true story about a Boxster owner leaving her car with a valet at a 6 star Las Vegas hotel. She had to get new clutch after that. I think she was negotiating with hotel management to try to get some money back. Not sure whether she was successful.
A long time ago, my GF at the time got mad at me for not valet parking. (I offered to drop her off at the restaurant first while I find parking. She insisted on me using valet. I said NO WAY.) She got mad. I got even by dumping her. True story.
I also know of a true story about a Boxster owner leaving her car with a valet at a 6 star Las Vegas hotel. She had to get new clutch after that. I think she was negotiating with hotel management to try to get some money back. Not sure whether she was successful.
03-21-2006, 09:18 PM
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Originally Posted by mborkow
no. i live in downtown sf and a valet and a taxi ride cost about the same. i leave the 993 in the garage and let someone else do the driving...that way i get to drink at dinner also.
03-21-2006, 09:45 PM
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Depends on the place. In my town, there is a restaurant that is one of our favorites and only does Valet parking. They know me there very well, and whatever I drive is parked in one of the 4 spots by the door....993, Benz or truck ('61 Roadster when we had that). And lets face it...a 993 is one of the lesser specialty vehicles they come across on a given night. It is only because I have been a long term customer who tips very well, that the 993 sits with the Rollers, etc.
In an unknown place...no, but neither would I park the Benz there either. Limos into the City are the only way to go.
In an unknown place...no, but neither would I park the Benz there either. Limos into the City are the only way to go.
03-21-2006, 10:01 PM
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When I was 16-18, I was a valet at a large Casino with nightly shows. All the big names! It use to bring in over 1000 cars twice a night. Once the show started the people were pretty well locked in. This gave the 20 drivers TWO WHOLE HOURS of DE classes like you never could possibly imagine. Everyone picked their favorite car and just went crazy. It was the world's best test center!
We had all the heavy hitters there so you could imagine the type of cars I'm talking about.
The lot was giagantic and there was a lake that use to freeze during the winter. We all learned skid control there while the wheels were spinning at 140mph, hell we invented drifting back then and didn't eve know it! Some of us would take the cars and go for dinner or pick up food for the others. To top it all off, we got a lot of money for teenagers! We wrecked a few cars and blew engines and trannies on others.
I saw things first hand that made me forever a firm believer of NOBODY DRIVES MY CARS!
NEVER! That's the early 70's for ya! Chris
We had all the heavy hitters there so you could imagine the type of cars I'm talking about.
The lot was giagantic and there was a lake that use to freeze during the winter. We all learned skid control there while the wheels were spinning at 140mph, hell we invented drifting back then and didn't eve know it! Some of us would take the cars and go for dinner or pick up food for the others. To top it all off, we got a lot of money for teenagers! We wrecked a few cars and blew engines and trannies on others.
I saw things first hand that made me forever a firm believer of NOBODY DRIVES MY CARS!
NEVER! That's the early 70's for ya! Chris
03-21-2006, 10:34 PM
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Anyone who would trust their car to a valet DESERVES the results. I will never hand over the keys to my Porsche to a bored 20 year old kid.
By the way, I worked as a valet for a while in college
By the way, I worked as a valet for a while in college
03-21-2006, 11:26 PM
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I think valet parking is a lot safer if you are at an upscale place, like a Ritz-Carlton...
12-17-00 10:43 EST
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- A 20-year-old hotel parking
attendant took a Ferrari on a joy ride and crashed into a
tree, a sheriff's lieutenant said Saturday.
Justin Burghardt, a valet at the Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel,
and another hotel employee, allegedly took the $170,000
car for a spin early Friday and hit a tree on hotel grounds
shortly after taking the keys from the owner, Orange County
sheriff's Lt. Larry Abbott said. The owner's name was
withheld, Abbott said.
The 1998 Ferrari 355 F-1 was severely damaged and may
be unsalvageable. Neither Burghardt nor his co-worker,
whose name was withheld, were injured. It was unclear
whether they remained employed at the Ritz Carlton.
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12-17-00 10:43 EST
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- A 20-year-old hotel parking
attendant took a Ferrari on a joy ride and crashed into a
tree, a sheriff's lieutenant said Saturday.
Justin Burghardt, a valet at the Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel,
and another hotel employee, allegedly took the $170,000
car for a spin early Friday and hit a tree on hotel grounds
shortly after taking the keys from the owner, Orange County
sheriff's Lt. Larry Abbott said. The owner's name was
withheld, Abbott said.
The 1998 Ferrari 355 F-1 was severely damaged and may
be unsalvageable. Neither Burghardt nor his co-worker,
whose name was withheld, were injured. It was unclear
whether they remained employed at the Ritz Carlton.
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03-22-2006, 12:11 AM
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Never, Ever!
When I travel to NYC I take a rental and they usually beat that up...I would not even chance one of my prides. I have been to a few places that wanted to valet one of my cars which I usually park somewhere else and walk it.
03-22-2006, 01:12 AM
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My story...
Nice restaraunt in Newport Beach, just got the car back from 4 weeks in the shop for my new top end (wife's birthday, yada, yada). Valet parks it, we have a nice dinner, I hand over my ticket and he's pulling it around when a cabbie noses too far out onto PCH and decides he needs to back up... I see the whole thing in slow motion. Valet honks my horn, cabbie doesn't hear it... BUMP.
He hit right on the tiny bumperette and spider-webbed the bumper cover around it. In the end I ended up with a new euro bumper on someone else's nickel so I guess I shouldn't complain, but no more valets for me.
Nice restaraunt in Newport Beach, just got the car back from 4 weeks in the shop for my new top end (wife's birthday, yada, yada). Valet parks it, we have a nice dinner, I hand over my ticket and he's pulling it around when a cabbie noses too far out onto PCH and decides he needs to back up... I see the whole thing in slow motion. Valet honks my horn, cabbie doesn't hear it... BUMP.
He hit right on the tiny bumperette and spider-webbed the bumper cover around it. In the end I ended up with a new euro bumper on someone else's nickel so I guess I shouldn't complain, but no more valets for me.
