This place is a scam. More on that later, but if you're TL;DRing, just know it's a scam. Downtown Berkeley has its share of awful parking garages. This isn't the worst one, but it's pretty bad. Its design is atrocious. Instead of just building a squarish parking structure in an empty lot, they built this one into an existing building, so there are all these random walls everywhere. The only way I can think of to describe the interior configuration is that it's a long diamond. Now try to fit parking spots into those curved edges. There are also random single slots between walls and columns. Its design is just horribly inefficient. Once you've finally found parking, if you were able to, you probably won't know how to get out, because the signs are confusing, and the elevator and the exit seem to be in completely different places. The painted walking/wheelchair paths on the ground make absolutely no sense, either. My main gripe with this place is that its posted prices are lower than what the machine charges you. That's right; they charge more than they say they will, which is a violation of California law. I hope someone sues the bejesus out of whoever owns this poor excuse for a parking garage. This being the City of Berkeley, it's probably owned by the city but managed by some two-bit contractor. Beware, visitors, beware! You're generally better off getting more fairly and honestly ripped off at the newish structure on Addison Street. read more

I park here every day for work at the project across the street. So far complaints, automated, clean, and safe.

Sunday 1pm, looking for a parking place in downtown Berkeley for eating at Angeline's Louisiana Bistro. Right turn from University Ave onto Shattuck Ave. First couple of blocks, with the usual on street parking blocked off by construction. Would go down 3 blocks on Shattuck, looking in vain for on street diagonal parking, separated by traffic islands. On street parking is $3.50 an hour, 2 hours max, 9am to 6pm Monday-Saturday, credit cards accepted. Today is Sunday, so anyone with half a brain is going to take any vacant spot on the street. Make a U turn on Shattuck, and come around the other way. Blocks of filled parking. Turn into Kittredge Street, site of a movie theater, and there is Oxford Garage, rates $2 per hour, and flat $5 rate after 6pm. Go down the ramp to the gate, where I pull out the ticket, which raises the gate bar. In I go, past an empty spot right at the entrance -that's why it is empty, as you would have to maneuver the car around a concrete column, and between another car. Could do it with my 2017 Honda Fit, but not the larger 2017 Honda Civic. Now if there was no parking available, no ticket would appear, and you would be SOL, having somehow to back up your car, with a string of cars behind you, going up to street level! Underground parking garage, shielded from the elements, well lit, but with little cubby holes for parking left and right. We drive around in a circle, finding it about 95% full. Most of the open spots crowded by concrete columns, or crossovers over the parking line. Half way through we find an empty spot next to the elevator, and just do squeeze my compact 2017 Honda Civic into the spot. Small and tight parking spaces, in eco friendly Berkeley, not designed for SUVs nor full size pickups. Take the elevator up to Oxford street, and smell a whiff of urine. Homeless people behind every column right across the street from the University of California campus. Ticket reads 1:09 pm, but by the time we find a parking spot, and walk to Angeline's it's 1:30pm, with a 20 minute wait. 2:45pm finish lunch, and head back to the garage entrance on Kittredge. We try the door to the elevator, but they are locked, and have no choice but to ignore the sign saying "Do not Walk on Ramps", hugging the sides so we don't become road kill for cars coming down the ramps. We plug the ticket into the payment machine, and pay $4 with my credit card for two hours, receiving an exit ticket, which when inserted into the exit booth, raises the exit gate. Drive up the ramp to street level, where a small buzzer rings, notifying pedestrians that a car is coming up the ramp. If you come back after midnight, you are SOL, with the entire parking structure behind closed doors and your car locked up for the night! Parking lots in downtown San Jose open 24/7, but this is Berkeley, with a severe shortage of housing. This is apparently to discourage the homeless from using the garage as overnight sleeping quarters. It is what it is. read more

Extremely deceptive business practices - with all the time in the world these crooks could be easily litigated. Called in to dispute how in the world a $22 max daily could become a larger number. Individual went through mental gymnastics to insist it was $44. Then, when I said it was $66, changed his logic to ex post facto justify the larger number. Just leave your car on the street and let it get broken into to save money- would rather a hobo get my golf clubs than these crooks get my money read more

One of the most exasperating things about going out is parking, or lack thereof. So once you lock in someplace, you keep coming back. Thats how I feel about the Oxford Street Garage. I first used them when I tried Angelines for dinner before going to a show in San Francisco and I was very please with the location and ease of use. I also like that it is very clean and there are security guards present. Last Friday, we went to Angelines http://www.yelp.com/biz/angelines-louisiana-kitchen-berkeley#hrid:yL25I-vLS_3dEBZPPCWjag for dinner again, before heading to the Marsh Theater http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-marsh-theater---berkeley-berkeley#hrid:2JHdGjfwilgRpVe7wJPIpA/src:self in the Gaia Building to see the Don Reed Show, http://www.yelp.com/biz/don-reed-oakland#hrid:AWrkrs_x4uhYLKPeHtjT-g/src:self again (yes, it was that good). So it's a rainy night, but this garage is located right between Kitteridge and Allston way, so it's perfectly between both locations! How cool is that? And, after 5pm it's only $4.00. I know, you can park on the street for free, but is that really economical when you are driving in circles on a Friday night in downtown Berkeley? And think of how much exhaust you are pumping into the air while making those loops? Is it really worth it to save $4.00? read more

Oxford Parking Garage - Parking Near Me - Berkeley, California

I have never felt the slightest need, and rarely had the opportunity, to speak to anyone while inside the Oxford Garage. May it ever be so. Fully automated. Well lit. Clean aside from the occasional blunt wrapper in the east elevator and no trace of that clinging creepiness so many parking garages can't seem to escape. I always feel like i have the whole place to myself, despite the other vehicles which prove that not to be the case. Only $5 after 5 o'clock, and 5 stars. read more

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BEWARE! Don't let this convenient parking structure fool you w/ their cheap hourly fare. If you plan on hitting up the bars after hours, this dump CLOSES at MIDNIGHT! Really??? The bars in the area closes at 2am. That's when they get your wallet. You're forced to come back the next day and pick up your car with a $20+ parking fee to pay for. There's poor signage. The only sign we saw was not anywhere we were near, nor visible to notice. It sorta blended in with the color if building. I wouldn't be surprised if this was intentional. Anyway, the 1 star is for being lucky that my car was there, with all 4 tires and windows in tact. read more

Oxford Parking Garage - If you're planning on hitting up the bars, beware! - Parking Near Me - Berkeley, California

Bait and switch at it's best!! If a sign reads "2 hr. For the first 4 hours" I would expect to pay approx 8.00? but somehow this scam system charged 17.00 plus!! bullsh#t!!! read more

The thing about urban street parking is not just knowing where to look for parking, but also when to give up. It's 7 p.m. on the Friday before the Berkeley graduation and you have a reservation at Gather; face it, you're not going to find street parking: Save yourself 30 minutes of driving in circles and park at the Oxford Garage. The funny thing, though, is that there will always be some people who insist on finding street parking. I've been in their cars and it's never very fun. And it's also quite silly considering that the Oxford Garage is priced very reasonably. Between 5 p.m. and midnight you can park your car for a flat rate of $4 (though you need to come after 5 p.m. or you'll be charged the normal rates). Even the normal rates are very inexpensive: your first hour will only cost you $1.00. To give some perspective, many of the lots in Downtown SF charge $3.50-$4.50 for the first 15 minutes. If you'll be spending your evening at the California Theatre, Gather, Shattuck Cinemas, or Great China (whenever that place opens again) this is the place to park. Up to 1 hour $1.00 1+ hrs $3.00 2+ hrs $6.00 3+ hrs $10.00 4+ hrs (daily maximum) $15.00 After 5PM flat rate $4.00 read more

Back in the day these secret garages didnt exist. now with all these new fangled buildings, they've actually thought it out and put parking underground. Went to Gather a while back and my friend parked under it! How damn convenient. If you don't have the opp to BART into downtown, there's a decent place to park now if you have to drive. read more

Closing time is clearly marked as midnight all over the garage, gates were locked at 10. Pricing is also misleading

Absolutely ridiculous. Show up to park for a concert and return before the garage closes at midnight. But now there's a taped sign over the time they close that states 10:00 pm instead of 1200. Called the number and no one answers. DO NOT PARK HERE. read more

Well, this was very convenient for 2 vans. Parking was cheap with $4 being total for each vehicle. Parking is limited and I was lucky to find 2 spots. I was happy with the service as it was a block away from places to eat and check out. This is a busy garage. Very well lit and feels safe. Do beware, I have not seen a service person and apparently after midnight, they close. So keep that in mind. read more

THEY CLOSE AT MIDNIGHT. The texts on the signs that say so are extremely small. You're almost guaranteed to miss it. Looks like their business model is to screw people who park their cars there late at night to go to the cinema, restaurant, etc. read more

Don't drive in when "full" or near full, though there's no way to tell. Attendant won't let you in or even let you in to just get out immediately. Tells you in a smug and unapologetic tone to back out even if there are multiple cars behind you. Up a steep hill, onto a busy street. Ridiculous. read more

This facility is a racket, DO NOT PARK THERE! We parked our car at 8:30 pm, to catch a movie in the nearby theater on Kitteredge. When we came out of the theater at 12:20 am, the parking garage was locked. There is an announcement at the entrance that vehicles left after 12 pm can be claimed only next day, but this announcement is written in small letters over the dark background, and there is no light near it, so it is impossible to see in the dark. Further, there is no annuncement which tells you that the overnight parking counts as $17, and that if the next morning one comes to pick up the car later than 11 am, there charge is not hourly but another $17. By manipulating the visibility of information about the costs and time of parking, the garage collects a hefty $38 for overnight vehicles, and $17 for vehicles parked for more than 4 hours on the same day! In our situation, we picked up the car at about 2:30 pmnext day, so the charge should've been $17 +$5, which is the announced $5 cost for parking after 8 PM +overnight , but they charged us $38. What this garage does is illegal. The information is either not posted correctly, or misldeading, and then vehicles are hold hostage becaue the attendant cannot open the gates without a paid ticket. They get away with what they do because nobody will spend time on arguing for $20 overpay. However, when we were checking out, another person in the same situation just paid $38. So it is a system - avoid this garage. read more

DO NOT PARK HERE!!!! Parked for a Cal football game. Was told by the attendant that the lot would be open late due to an event. Arrived to the garage at 12:20am and the gate was down. Called the number on the sign, the person refused to open or send someone to open. Tried to call back later but the coward refused to the answer the phone. Absolute scumbags!! read more

It was full on Sunday night so dun know what it's like inside n we had to backup the car from basement level to ground floor in order to get back on the street $5 flat rate if enter after 5pm next to California Theatre n gas station across the street read more

I parked there on Friday July 3 and had a bad experience. You bring your parking ticket to the cashier and pay before you go to your car. When the ticket was scanned, the cash register read $6 (3 hrs.). The cashier insisted that the cash register "was all messed up" and I actually owed $10 (4 hrs.). I had handed him my only bill, a twenty, and he would only give me $10 back. Another man was in the booth but refused to get involved. I finally left without the $4 and can only assume he pocketed it so the register would balance out at the end of the day. In fact, there wasn't even money in the register, just a pile of bills sitting on the counter with which he made change. To add insult to injury, they don't even validate for the California Theatre three doors down the block. You have to park in the Allston Way garage to get your parking validated. read more

Whoa! Yesterday I turned into this garage entrance and descended to the ticket booth. No ticket would come out. The bar would not raise. Cars were waiting behind me. Finally a message flickered on the screen indicating that the garage was full. I had to get out of my car and walk up the ramp to tell all the cars waiting behind me that they had to reverse into oncoming traffic. This of course took forever because it's so very unsafe. There is a lot of traffic there, including bikes and pedestrians. This horror scene, which made me late to my event, could have been easily avoided with a street-level sign indicating the garage is full. Hello, this is not a new concept! Or at least allow the cars to come in to turn around and exit safely, if the sign is a bit too much to ask. Good lord my heart is still lurching from having to back up a steep hill blindly into oncoming traffic. FUN. read more

Stupid pricing that could fool almost anybody assuming they use rational pricing logic: DO NOT assume you qualify for the $4.00 fixed rate unless you come after the magic fixed rate hour. If you do assume, you"ll end up getting shanghaied the full $15.00 instead. In other words, these idiots don't make you pay hourly until the fixed rate deal begins and then switch you over like they should. Buyer beware! read more

We couldn't get the machine to take our credit card. The. Machine said $7.50. When the parking attendant helped us, it became $10. She said we were 3 hours and 1 minute. That minute in which we ask for her help cost us. She wouldn't forgive 1 minute. I won't park there again!!! read more

Was I disappointed! I chose this garage because of the $4 after-5 p.m. flat rate. I entered at 4:25 p.m. to go to dinner and a performance. I thought I'd be billed $1 for the time up until 5 and then $4 for the rest of the evening. The bill was $15 when I returned about 9:15 ; I was billed at the maximum $3 an hour rate. The explanation of rates should be clearer. read more

Buyer beware!!! Signage is very misleading. Any parking over 4 hours is charged maximum daily rate. I arrived at 3:30pm and stayed 5 hours and 8 minutes. I thought that I would receive the hourly rate of $2/hr and or possibly be charged the hourly rate until the flat nightly rate of $5 kicked in. No, I was charged $17 for being over the 4 hour limit (which is not clearly stated on the sign at all). Sign says $2/hr up to four hours, then it states $5 flat evening rate if in after 5pm. Then it says daily maximum rate is $17. It does not say that the daily maximum kicks in one minute after 4 hours. What a scam!!!!! It seems very intentional to me since there are no warnings posted about that at all. read more