 Poster: A snowHead
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I vaguely remember reading that you have to pay for parking when using the XSCape slope at Milton Keynes? Is that correct, or is there a paarticular arrangement for slope users who park there?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Nope you definitely have to pay.
£60 ticket if you don't, as a friend found out to his disgust.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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You have to pay, and the amount varies according to the colour of the zone. Generally, the further from the doors, the cheaper it is.
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| alex_heney wrote: |
| You have to pay, and the amount varies according to the colour of the zone. Generally, the further from the doors, the cheaper it is. |
How far would I have to walk to get free parking? 
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You have to pay?! Gosh!
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rob@rar, if you park at the western end it's only 25p/hour (purple zone). You just then have to run the gamut of all the KFCs etc to get to the slope entry.
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| kermit wrote: |
Nope you definitely have to pay.
£60 ticket if you don't, as a friend found out to his disgust. |
is it a private parking company, if so just ignore the parking ticket, these companys rely on people being scared and paying up. free parking rules
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rob@rar, no special arrangement for slope users. The outside purple area is cheap and the inside red area is relatively expensive. Cineworld used to reimburse parking but not sure if they still do. I think gym users also get some kind of concession. See http://www.xscape.co.uk/snow/milton-keynes/about-us/car-parking/?PHPSESSID=69b9
Last edited by After all it is free  on Fri 31-08-07 17:51; edited 1 time in total
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| graeme wrote: |
| kermit wrote: |
Nope you definitely have to pay.
£60 ticket if you don't, as a friend found out to his disgust. |
is it a private parking company, if so just ignore the parking ticket, these companys rely on people being scared and paying up. free parking rules |
Are you sure this is true? 
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| slikedges wrote: |
| graeme wrote: |
| kermit wrote: |
Nope you definitely have to pay.
£60 ticket if you don't, as a friend found out to his disgust. |
is it a private parking company, if so just ignore the parking ticket, these companys rely on people being scared and paying up. free parking rules |
Are you sure this is true? |
as long as its a private parking company, then yeah its true, relies on contract law. i dont know of any cases that have gone to court, many people basically tell them to "sod off, take me to court", never hear anything again
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rob@rar, park outside the KFC and as near to the street as you can, i think it is the purple zone and is the cheapest. All day is £2.75 FOr instance.
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Driving a car costs about 30-60p a mile including depreciation. The parking at MK is really cheap compared with a lot of places. I continue to be amazed that people will drive half a mile out of my home town's centre to park outside my house to avoid a 50p parking charge.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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As long as you put more than £1.75 in the Purple ticket zone you get till 8.30 the next morning. Near KFC by the road is the closest you can get.
Or wait 1 year and you can park at Hemel for free, right on the doorstep.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Thanks for all the advice - it will be a test of my will power to park by the KFC and not pop in to say hello...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Thanks for asking this rob@rar - I'd have never noticed until it was too late! See you and the others tomorrow.
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Park near Sainsburys or Waitrose. They are just across the road from XScape. It is 100% free.
Don't say I never do anything for you guys
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Whitegold, used to be 2 hours max didn't it?
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Slikedges -- I don't know, tbh.
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| graeme wrote: |
| kermit wrote: |
Nope you definitely have to pay.
£60 ticket if you don't, as a friend found out to his disgust. |
is it a private parking company, if so just ignore the parking ticket, these companys rely on people being scared and paying up. free parking rules |
That may work for the supermarket type car parks, where there is free parking provided you meet the conditions and don't stay too long, then a severe penalty if you go outside thta.
But it doesn't stand a cat in hell's chance of success wuth a normal pay and display type car park.
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So they not only have rip-off prices but they charge you to park your car so that you can pay them said rip-off prices... sheesh! 
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I usua;;y park on the bit next to the road, which is (I think) 20p per hour. Not bad really. Saves hassle, as everyone else wants to fight it out for the free parking spots.
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John Lewis has free parking all day from 9.30 
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I didn't think parking costs at MK were too bad at all in comprison with parking in my local town - we did Puple zone when I went - paid the £1.75 as mentioned above, and just walked past all the shops into the end with the slope - I guess if you have huge amounts of gear is not ideal, but I didn't think the walk was too bad and that the £1.75 was very reasonable for the relative location to the slope - imho you'd have to be a bit of tightwad to resent £1.75 for all day.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Megamum, same here. To park at Xscape for a few hours can cost you just a quid if you go in the 20pph section.
Parking in Rugby town cenetre where I live is all on residents parking stickers and £1-per 30mins meters. Disgusting!!!
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rob@rar, what's the deal with telemarking? Went to MK a bit back and a couple parked next to me were explained they were doing it but before I coud ask what it was, they'd shot off.
Is it that running on skis thingy, with the pivited binding that lets you raise your heel? Didn't think MK would be big enough for something like that.
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Specialman, yes that's what it is. The toe of your boot is fixed into the binding, with a cable which hooks around the back of the boot to secure it. The boots can flex because they have a sort of bellows arrangement above the instep/toe area.
It was my first time doing it and MK was plenty big enough. In fact we didn't use much more than half the nursery slope as we were getting used to the difficulty of balancing and making some basic turns. In some ways it is very different to Alpine skiing and your body's instincts have to be challenged to make progress (imagine if someone changed the pedal arrangements in your car so the clutch was in the middle and the brake on the left!). It was only on my very final run that I managed to link three turns, and they were wobbly, inelegant things at best 
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Specialman, It's not the running on skis thing, that's Langlauf or cross country on skinny skis. Telemarking is like alpine skiing when you're going down hill, except the bindings allow to heel to be free so the technique is different. You have to put skins on the skis to walk up hill, unlike cross country skis which have 'fish scales' on the bases.
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But the purple parking is cheap enough at £2.75 for 11hrs. Where as 
