That’s a neat want.

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Drive in on Sunday and park for free. Otherwise you’re gonna have to pay lol.

Park at Riverside and take the green line in. It's super cheap and safe. Definitely cheaper than getting towed

Cheaper to pay for it than get it for free. You can spend $40 on parking and spend 2 hours less on the subway.

Check out assembly square area

Seriously though, if OP's friend is too cheap to spend $6/day, Boston isn't the city for them.

It’s not exactly free, but most T stations have small parking lots that charge ~$5 to park all day. And, depending on which one you park at (I used to to do this at Eliot station on the green line a lot), you can often skip paying and no one will ticket you. And if they do, it only costs $1 over the original rate (at least it used to).

You get to choose two:

Hotel [ ]

Subway access [ ]

Free parking [ ]

It blows my mind that paying $2-$10 for garage parking at a station is a dealbreaker for people.

Imagine thinking you can find free parking in a city that requires residents to pay for a parking place at their own home/apt. You’re not going to find free parking. Most hotels don’t offer that anymore either(even in other states and cities). You paid for a parking space. It’s just how it works.

Park at a T station with a parking lot. Parking can be paid by mobile app at most now. 9 dollars a day, better peace of mind.

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Check out Station Landing in Medford, there are two hotels, 5 min walk to Wellington Station across that sky bridge, and at worst, only $5 to park in the T garage.

T station as in train station? Is it for sure $5? Where do I find that?

I’m pretty sure the Bunker Hill Holiday Inn has free parking. It’s a 15 minute walk to Union Square Green Line Station (and that’s a fun and safe area), or 10 minutes to Sullivan Square Orange Line Station (there’s a bus terminal there too, so it’s a little more ‘charactery’ at night).

Each get you downtown pretty fast.

How long would you need to park? An hour? A day? A week?

Park the car in the Riverside lot on the Green Line, then take the subway to and from the hotel. $6 per day. You could also use the covered garages at Alewife or Quincy Adams for $9 per day.

Here's the list, just make sure you only park in the garages that are listed as "Yes" for Overnight Parking: https://www.mbta.com/parking/stations-and-rates

God, your friend is cheap as shit.

Yes, “the T” is what people call the subway :) (and occasionally other transit within the MBTA)

According to the link bobby_j_canada posted below, at Eliot station it’s $9 on weekdays now, and $3 on weekends.

Tell your friend, George Costanza, that land in Boston is expensive and it's ok to pay to rent it.

> driving us to Boston and really does not want to pay parking

Lol lmao

He (Jason Alexander) attended BU, so knows about the cost to park.

When They’re so used to getting it free, it’s incomprehensible

Like at a hotel for a whole day.

Hello yes I would like Subway access & free parking

Commuters, Brookline residents, and student car dumpers have been using city streets for free for decades and the city won't do anything about it.

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You keep mentioning a hotel: do you also need a place to stay for the night? Or are you just assuming that anyone can park at a hotel even if they aren't guests? The Longwood Inn you keep mentioning only has free parking for guests; starting at $129 a day (without taxes) for a room is not a cheap way to get parking.

Assuming you are just day-tripping into town, your best balance of cost to convenience is going to be parking at a T station itself. I don't recommend parking at one of the further out ones; the rates aren't cheaper and you'll just be sitting on the T for up to an hour. I think Wellington, as mentioned above, is the right fit of cost to proximity to downtown.