Airport parking or transfer
Paid airport parking or a transfer? The real total
Daily parking rate, fuel for two trips, tolls, wear and the risk of finding your car damaged or gone. Here is how it compares with a fixed-price private transfer.
Leaving the car in a paid car park looks cheaper because people only look at the daily rate. The real total also includes fuel for two trips (dropping the car off and picking it up are two journeys, not one), tolls, wear on the car and the time lost between shuttle buses, tickets and hunting for a space with your luggage.
A private transfer works the other way round: a fixed price agreed on WhatsApp before departure, door to door, with the driver waiting for you at arrivals. No space to find, no shuttle to catch, no car standing idle for a week.
Car in a paid car park
- Daily rate that grows with the length of your trip
- Fuel and tolls for two journeys, not one
- Shuttle, tickets and space hunting with luggage
- Extra mileage and wear on your car
- Car left unattended for the whole holiday
Fixed-price private transfer
- Fixed price per vehicle, up to 8 people
- VAT, tolls and driver already included
- Door to door: leave from home, return home
- Flight tracking and free waiting time
- Your car stays safely where you usually keep it
Run your own comparison
Enter the actual daily rate of the car park you are considering (rates change often, check the operator's website) and the one-way distance from home to the airport. The car cost uses a conservative €0.25/km estimate for fuel and wear, over two return journeys.
Car + parking
108 €
63 € + 45 € · parking + car cost
Fixed-price return transfer
92 €
≈ 23 € per person
In this scenario the transfer costs less, and your car stays safe.
The risk no car park can remove
Vehicle theft in Italy is not falling. The 2025 vehicle theft dossier by LoJack Italia, based on Ministry of the Interior data, counts 136,201 vehicles stolen in 2024: 3% more than in 2023, over 75,000 of them cars.
Apulia is the fourth Italian region by number of stolen vehicles, with almost 17,000 cases. No car park, attended or not, can guarantee zero risk: the longer the car sits there, the wider the exposure window — plus parking dents, hail and sun damage.
With a transfer your car never leaves its usual spot and is not abandoned in a lot for a week.