--- title: It Costs $80 to Park Your Car at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland description: During the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, parking prices have quadrupled and hotel prices have increased tenfold. authors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Economy and Politics - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2016-07-19T18:41:29.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T02:55:17.000Z' section: Economy and Politics tags: - Election 2016 - Hotels - parking - parking prices - politics - Pricing - pubdesk - Scams - Tourism - Travel word_count: 310 canonical: https://money.com/republican-national-convention-cleveland-parking-price-gouging/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-CONVENTION](https://img.money.com/2016/07/rnc-parking-scott-baio-577593324.jpg) *Actor Scott Baio speaks on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.* Donald Trump must be proud. "Leverage is having something the other guy wants. Or better yet, needs. Or best of all, simply can’t do without," he wrote in *The Art of the Deal*. Or rather, as this week's [New Yorker](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all) explains it, the book's ghostwriter, Tony Schwarz, wrote those words, and pretty much everything else inside. In any event, Trump presumably *believes* in those sentiments. Therefore he must be proud of what local businesses in Cleveland are doing with something that many people can't do without right now—specifically, parking for the Republican National Convention. The [*Cleveland Plain Dealer*](http://www.cleveland.com/rnc-2016/index.ssf/2016/07/where_to_park_downtown_during.html) reports that parking operators in Cleveland are charging as much as $80 a day for parking this week, though most seem to be priced at $40 or $50 and a few are as little as $5. Understandably, regular commuters in Cleveland were aggravated with freshly jacked-up parking prices downtown. “I’m not too happy,” one commuter said to [*Crain's Cleveland Business*](http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20160718/FREE/160719814/commuters-get-sticker-shock-from-parking-rates). He was upset that his normal $5 parking lot was charging $10. But it could have been much worse. Lots near Quicken Loans Arena, where the convention is taking place, are charging $40 rather than their usual $10. And valet parking at one garage that normally runs $25 is now up to $80. ***Read Next: [Why the Republican Convention Is a Risky Bet for Cleveland](https://money.com/cleveland-republican-gop-convention-economic-impact/)*** The price gouging isn't limited to parking, of course. Cleveland hotels that were charging only $49 a night last summer have set [rates up to $749](http://fox8.com/2015/08/31/hotel-rate-hike-45-a-night-now-and-749-during-cleveland-rnc/) this week. [*The Atlantic*](http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/the-ludicrous-cost-of-event-spaces-near-the-rnc-convention/487925/) reported that several restaurants and bars in downtown Cleveland are making six figures just to rent out their spaces for a few days to cable networks and other organizations. “Let’s just say, it’s going to be a good summer,” one venue's general manager said, declining to say exactly how much it's charging to rent the place out. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/republican-national-convention-cleveland-parking-price-gouging/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Economy and Politics", "item": "https://money.com/economy-and-politics/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Economy", "item": "https://money.com/economy/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "It Costs $80 to Park Your Car at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/republican-national-convention-cleveland-parking-price-gouging/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/republican-national-convention-cleveland-parking-price-gouging/", "name": "It Costs $80 to Park Your Car at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2016-07-19T18:41:29.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/republican-national-convention-cleveland-parking-price-gouging/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/republican-national-convention-cleveland-parking-price-gouging/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-17T02:55:17.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "It Costs $80 to Park Your Car at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland", "articleSection": "Economy and Politics", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2016/07/rnc-parking-scott-baio-577593324.jpg", "width": 4000, "height": 2644, "caption": "US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-CONVENTION" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brad Tuttle", "url": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/#author", "description": "Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals.\r\n\r\n", "image": "https://img.money.com/2014/01/Brad-Tuttle.png?w=226&h=247&crop=1", "alumniOf": "Columbia University School of Journalism, MS", "sameAs": [ "https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle", "https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2016-07-19T18:41:29.000Z", "description": "During the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, parking prices have quadrupled and hotel prices have increased tenfold.", "abstract": "During the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, parking prices have quadrupled and hotel prices have increased tenfold.", "@id": "https://money.com/republican-national-convention-cleveland-parking-price-gouging/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-04-17T02:55:17.000Z", "wordCount": 310, "keywords": [ "Election 2016", "Hotels", "parking", "parking prices", "politics", "Pricing", "pubdesk", "Scams", "Tourism", "Travel" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Political economy", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_economy" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Economy", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy" ] } ] } ] } ```