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- ronfishermanModerator
DougE wrote:
Here's the VIA bus system Park & Ride info. Lots of locations you could park your rig and ride the bus downtown.
http://www.viainfo.net/BusService/ParkAndRides.aspx
Clicky - DougEExplorerHere's the VIA bus system Park & Ride info. Lots of locations you could park your rig and ride the bus downtown.
http://www.viainfo.net/BusService/ParkAndRides.aspx - tatestExplorer IIThere are places to park a C, you might have to pay for multiple spaces though, and get there early. These will be within 10-12 blocks of Alamo, and connected by public transportation. Even in a car, we often cannot find parking within six blocks of the Alamo and Riverwalk entertainment area.
Most likely sites are west of Mercado, around I-10 and beyond, where the site of Fiesta becomes parking when not used for events. All I know of is paid parking, commercial lots more likely to take you for a price, rather than public lots letting you overflow a space. Public lots are also more time limited, commercial lots will sell all-day. Expect what you find downtown, willing to take a large vehicle, to not be self park. We often use a big lot under the freeway, don't know that I'd try to put a C there.
Other potential parking areas include lots around Alamodome, International Cultural Center, and Convention Center. A "trolley" styled bus for tourists connects most of these areas, on a limited schedule (hours not as long as most of the city bus routes). Availability at any of these places will depend on what is going on at the moment. Tour buses go to one or the other of these big lots after dropping off pasengers.
Other venues outside the downtown area have adequate parking: the other missions on the mission trail, most of the major museums.
Before my daughter lived there, I would put the RV in one of the several parks on a bus route, and ride downtown. While my daughter was there, we would do day trips from her home, It takes 2-3 days just to catch highlights of SA. Riverwalk in particular is a different experience at different times of the day, different days of the week. It can be morning or afternoon tourists, a noon business lunch venue, or focus of nightllife for affluent citizens and businees travelers on generous expense accounts.
Alamo and the oter missions are best visited by day, but to really see them you probably shouldn't plan for more than two mission visits per day.
There is almost always something going on somewhere in SA, so be sure to pick up a schedule of events, to plan the timing of your visit, and what you might do while you are there. - Home_SkilletExplorer II
Seymore wrote:
You might want to consider staying at the San Antoio KOA and riding the Bus to the Riverwalk. It stops right in front of the KOA3
Exacly what we do.
The bus service is very convenient. - D_E_BishopExplorerAnother vote for the KOA and Bus. We have a towed and got lucky and found a lot to park in close but next time, buses for me. Let them load and unload my wife's wheelchair.
- Jim_ShoeExplorerAgree that the Alamo is in the heart of San Antonio, about 500 ft. off the sidewalk along a busy street. The parking lot was across the street but it was full. No place for a 'C' pulling a toad.
So I saw it when I drove by. It looked a lot smaller than when Davy Crockett was standing on the wall in the Disney Classic. Next time thru, I'll overnight at an RV park, and see if I can hook up with a tour. - rjf7gExplorerI love the Riverwalk but have always flown and stayed in a hotel on the Riverwalk - have fun~
- mlts22Explorer III agree there. There is a lot to see in the SA area. After the Alamo, the zoo is a very good one. Sea World is open on weekends, AFAIK, Fiesta Texas is as well. Up 281 then 290 is Fredricksberg (note, the F-Berg area has a no-overnight policy, but there is a Jellystone winery that is pretty nice, as well as your usual KOAs and RV parks.)
Going west on I-10 lands you in Greune, another classic German town. - l001952119ExplorerJohn S.: Downtown San Antonio is very crowded like most large cities. Trying to locate a space to park the class-C will be difficult. You are better off staying at a campground which has a shuttle service or a city bus stopping at the campground. Just have to call RV parks until you find this service. In regards to visiting the Riverwalk and the Alamo, they are within a few city blocks of each location. You can walk to most of the interesting places in the downtown area. I recommend you contact the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce for a visitors packet. They publish an excellent tourism book and it is free. You can see most of the tourist sites in one active day. Enjoy!
- John_S2Explorerthanks,,, I mispoke.. meant San Antonio..... my bad!!!!
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