Every tour ends where it started, so wherever you leave the car is where you’ll find it in two hours.
Arrive fifteen minutes before your departure time. The bike leaves on schedule and comes back on schedule — a late start doesn't buy you a late finish.
This trips up visitors constantly, and it's worth knowing before you're standing at a pay station with the tour about to leave.
City meters are enforced 7am to 6pm, Monday through Saturday. If your tour starts at 8:00 or 10:30 in the evening, the meters are already off.
Sundays and legal holidays are free of charge citywide. A Sunday afternoon tour is the easiest parking day of the week.
Each pay station posts its own limit, anywhere from 2 to 10 hours. A two-hour tour plus a bar stop afterwards can outrun a 2-hour space.
Get the app before you drive in. Houston's on-street parking runs through ParkHouston, powered by ParkMobile. Paying from your phone mid-tour is a great deal easier than walking back to a pay station.
Watch for residential permit blocks. Parts of Midtown are a Community Parking Program area, where residents hold permits that exempt them from the rules after 6pm — the signs on those blocks say something different to the ones a street over. The city's Midtown parking page has the detail. Read the sign you're actually parked under.
Sixteen people arriving separately is the slowest part of any tour.
If your group is coming from one place, a couple of rideshares to the start point removes the parking question entirely — and means nobody has to come back for a car later. Plenty of groups do this and then carry on somewhere else afterwards.
If you are driving, remember the tour returns to the same spot. Whatever you leave in the car is fine where it is.
Midtown from 302 Tuam St, Downtown and EaDo from 1500 Hutchins St.
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