Another fun one from a different trip. We were in a French town that had an underground parking garage. We enter the garage, it's packed with cars and we think 'great, we'll be here a few days and won't need the car'. A few days later is a Sunday and we head over to the garage to leave and...the whole garage is sealed up like a bomb shelter. It's closed on Sundays. I had never seen this in a US garage b/c normally if they closed at all they would just open the gates.
After walking around a bit, I was able to translate enough French to find a call button. 20 minutes later I managed to get an attendant to come let me out. The garage looked like something from a zombie movie - pitch black dark and 1 or 2 cars left.
Another fun one from a different trip. We were in a French town that had an underground parking garage. We enter the garage, it's packed with cars and we think 'great, we'll be here a few days and won't need the car'. A few days later is a Sunday and we head over to the garage to leave and...the whole garage is sealed up like a bomb shelter. It's closed on Sundays. I had never seen this in a US garage b/c normally if they closed at all they would just open the gates.
After walking around a bit, I was able to translate enough French to find a call button. 20 minutes later I managed to get an attendant to come let me out. The garage looked like something from a zombie movie - pitch black dark and 1 or 2 cars left.
I always check the times on parking garages now.