Give your guests parking they can trust — and stop answering the same question every week
“Where do we park?” is one of the most-asked questions in every Edinburgh check-in. A custom guest-parking page, written by an enforcement officer, is a link you can send once and stop worrying about — and stop the tickets that turn into 1-star reviews.
👤 Why me
I’m an Edinburgh enforcement officer. I know which streets get patrolled hardest, where the loading blips are painted on the kerb, and which “free-looking” bay is actually a £100 ticket waiting to happen. That first-hand knowledge is what your guests need — and it’s not something a Google Doc from three years ago can give them.
The problem you already have
Every Edinburgh host, hotel and venue answers the same handful of questions about parking — every week, sometimes every day. When guests get it wrong, you hear about it in the messages, the reviews, and occasionally in a WhatsApp at 11pm about a white envelope under the windscreen wiper. The parking info you’ve pasted into your listing or welcome pack is probably out of date, missing the LEZ, and vague on the streets that matter. It’s costing you time and it’s costing your guests money.
Free for every host — use these today
Before we talk about the paid option: some of the most useful things on this site cost nothing, and you’re welcome to build them into your guest routine right now.
The street checker — covers 2,600+ Edinburgh streets. Drop the link in your guidebook or pre-arrival message and guests can look up the exact rules for the street they’re staying on.
The “got a ticket” hub — if a guest ever finds the white envelope under the wiper, send them here. It walks them through pay-or-appeal step by step, so it never has to become your problem at 9pm on a Friday.
The community — guests with a specific street question can ask there and get an answer from other drivers or the officer, instead of messaging you at 10pm. Every post is labelled by verification status.
A parking blurb you can paste into your welcome pack
📋 Copy & adapt thisParking near us: our street is in Zone [X] — [permit holders only / pay-and-display] [days and hours from the sign]. Outside those hours it’s free unless there are yellow lines. Don’t park on single or double yellows, in permit bays during controlled hours, or in loading bays while you check in. Heads up: Sunday mornings are NOT enforcement-free — yellow lines and permit rules still apply before charging starts at 12.30pm. Check your exact street here: edinburghparkingguide.co.uk/can-i-park-here/ — and if you do get a ticket, see edinburghparkingguide.co.uk/got-a-ticket/ before paying.
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🎁 Free personalised paragraph for your street
Not sure what to put in the brackets? Send me your street name and I’ll write that paragraph for your exact street, personalised and accurate, free. It takes me a couple of minutes and your guests will genuinely use it.
If that’s all you need, brilliant — use it with my blessing. The paid option below is for hosts who want the whole thing done for them, kept accurate, and branded to their property.
Want it done for you? Here’s what you get
A branded Parking for guests of [Your property] page, hosted here on Edinburgh Parking Guide — a link you can put in your welcome email, listing, printed pack, or QR card. Everything a driving guest needs to park safely and legally, in one place, kept current by the officer who wrote it. Take a look at a fully-built example first: see a sample page →
Officer’s pick of the 2–3 nearest safe streets or car parks
Exact zone, hours and price for each
The trap street(s) to avoid — and why
LEZ note if your property is in or near the low emission zone
Evening & weekend free-parking windows
Blue Badge & accessibility notes on request
Printable QR card for welcome packs
Direct link to my street checker and PCN help
Simple pricing, no subscription trap
One-off page
£50 one-off
Fully-researched, written from the kerbside
Live within 5 working days of enquiry
Free minor updates for 6 months
Yours to link, print or QR-code anywhere
Best value
Page + upkeep
£50 + £10/month
Everything in the one-off tier
Kept current as rules, prices & suspensions change
Priority updates during Festival & event periods
Cancel anytime
Launch pricing while I take on the first properties. Multiple properties (short-let portfolios, hotel groups)? Ask about volume pricing.
What this is not
This is not a display ad, a sponsored blog post, or a “featured listing” that inflates your ranking. Edinburgh Parking Guide is an independent officer-written guide, and paid placements would break that. What you’re paying for is a useful, honest page for your guests — my time to research, write and maintain it — hosted on a domain they can trust because I don’t let anyone edit facts on it.
Want to see it in action first?
Here’s a full example page for a fictional Old Town flat — exactly what your version would look like, showing the tone, the depth, and the officer’s notes that make it useful.
Get in touch
The fastest way to enquire — tell me a bit about your property and I’ll come back with any questions and next steps within a couple of working days. No payment yet.
✅ Enquiry received. Thanks — I’ll reply from an Edinburgh Parking Guide email within a couple of working days.
Your details are used only to answer your enquiry — see the privacy policy. Independent guide, not affiliated with any parking operator or the council. Written by a serving Edinburgh enforcement officer; no clients’ properties get preferential treatment in the main guide.
Edinburgh Parking Guide · Written first-hand by an experienced enforcement officer in Edinburgh
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