I Tested 1 STAR Car Park REVIEWS - NCP Rupert Street Car Park Bristol
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- Опубліковано 13 лют 2024
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To be honest, you wouldn't go to Bristol through choice, and according to the reviews, you certainly wouldn't use the NCP car park on Rupert Street. It's interesting to look at being a concrete brutalist type structure and today it almost looks out of place.
But what about the bad reviews.... is it really as terrible as some would make out.. I went to Bristol to investigate.. - Авто та транспорт
Next up Dogging sites. Best places to park to take your canine friend for a nice walk.
We have that in Bristol too, it’s called the Downs park
Rivington near Chorley
For both types 👍🏼
I think that you might be thinking about the site Auto Shaggings, easy mistake to make especially if you have fat fingers (typing I mean) I have that happen to me quite a lot, only an hour ago I ordered, best not to say to be honest 😳
I actually hope he does this.
I sense a new series on the horizon.
Now this is the sort of breaking , investigative content that the main stream media would never tell you about.
Love the content man, never know what to expect.
Hard-hitting journalism at its finest
The last time I parked in Rupert Street, whilst watching something in the Hippodrome nearby, I came back to my car to find people doing a drug deal behind my car after walking past someone urinating next to the pay machines. Also, the pillars are right next to where you'd want to open your door to get out/in your car. Apart from that, it was terrible.
Get a car with a door in a different place?
Get a car without doors
Park in the opposite direction?
Were the drugs good at least?
Just when I think Jon can’t innovate this channel anymore, he crosses a new frontier into the field of reviewing reviews of car parks. I hope there will be many more of these.
And here we are reviewing his review of reviews
About the car park shapes, he's probably talking about the ones on the inside of the 180 degree turns, they are definitely not standard car park shape :)
yeh i presumed they were not dim enough to overlook this and were just looking for reviews to refute for the bit, spaces that are hemmed in with columns are also impossible to extend to increasingly prevalent american SUV sizes, so are a pain for such morons to fit in and open their doors: ideal
@@xeode Basically anybody *living in a city* and driving a big SUV needs their brain checked, anyways. There might be some exceptions for people who really do the outdoors - but from my experience, those don't drive SUVs, but prefer 4x4 estate cars (or real off-road vehicles, which are most times even smaller) anyways.
@@IgorRocktbased on those prices, I'm pretty sure it's seeing more use from people coming into the city for work or events than it is from people living there.
Don’t all car parks smell of piss? 🤣🤣
Always, because when the mayor opens a new car park , he has a ceremonial piss in the stairwell
😂😂😂
Maybe not for the car park in Canary Wharf tho. 🤔
@@deheerdeheerlove the outside of the box thinking!!
It's what the P in NCP stands for.
Neglected
Cannabis
Piss
As A fellow Bristolian. I respect this ground breaking report that is left out.
The idea of knocking things down or do an insurance job on a historic building just to build student accomodations is the norm for Bristol
Not just Bristol, it seems to be the norm across the country now.
Been into Bath recently…?
How many city center students does Bristol actually have... The shear quantity of accomodation for them boggles the mind. The market must surely be tapped out by now... What angle am I missing?? Will these be converted to regular flats and sold in a few years time?
@@insanityideas It's the same in Sheffield. They hate cars there too. Problem is half of the tram system is indefinitely out of operation due to a broken rail at the moment. Strangely just as its due to go into public ownership again in April...
@@insanityideas built cheaply for students then sold off to the highest bidders… probably. But then I wonder if anyone will still want to live in or visit Bristol, they’re systematically ruining it.
Just like old Top Gear, hard hitting consumer advice. We need more of this sort of content. 👌
to make it even more like old top gear maybe John could do a bit of Woolarding whilst talking to camera.
We tried the multi storey above the Quadrant in Swansea at Christmas time. The smack head couple sitting across the stairwell sorting through their shop lifted items as we stepped over them were very pleasant. 10/10.
But at least the Quadrant only charges £1 per hour.
@@henkmeerdink2088 yes, very reasonable.
That’s be kind Bristol for you!😂
It was heroin users sitting up against the wall shooting up last time I was there.
Good old Swansea. At least it doesn't have the piss smelling subway anymore
You may have seen the notice on the payment machine that says that they no longer take cash payments. A couple of years ago I had to rush my wife to A&E at a nearby hospital and parked in that car park. You guessed it, I left home in such a rush I did not have my credit cards, although I had cash, my car was trapped in that car park! Luckily I managed to get a kind person to pay my parking by card and I gave them cash to cover the cost!
I think pay & display carparks in hospitals are the main way the NHS is funded now. I've dropped people off at A&E then said "text me when you're done" just to avoid the parking. Sure, you might have a broken ankle but it's not worth nearly a tenner in parking to sit with you for six hours.
To be fair most of them are cashless now because the ones that do take cash keep getting robbed.
@@Barcrestand because then they have your financial details.
@@ncot_tech NHs carparks are typically managed by a private company which may have nothing to do with the hospital, like car parks in retail parks and supermarkets
Loved the vintage footage of the tiny cars dashing into the generous space!!
RIght?! This is why I love my little car to park downtown daily.
Now imagine those parking spots with massive pickups (I'm in 'Murica) and they have to back them in for some stupid reason.
I've just been to the multistorey carpark at Ropewalk Shopping Centre in Nuneaton. I'm on foot, but went there purely for the stairwells.
They are adorned with AMAZING artwork from local street artists!
My one complaint was the strong smell of weed at the top of one of the stairs, but hopefully that will clear up soon!
Weed smell is temporary, but good art is... also temporary.
Actually everything is only temporary, come to think of it.
...Want to go smoke some weed? I know a good place to do it.
If you breathe deeply enough, you may be able inhale enough not to give a shucking fit about the smell
love the little feature of "girl from Ipanema" as the lift music and outro music.
Okay I’m not even joking here but I currently work at this car park while I’m at university and also pretty unhealthily obsessed with brutalist architecture. I was excited getting this job because at one point I also noticed the beauty in this building (which was also designed to resemble a UFO landing strip) but while I’m at uni I now clean these car parks regularly and am quite passionate in making it a pleasant place to be and upholding a good standard, party because these car parks also house a lot of Bristols homeless, and whether we like it or not these car parks and the stairwells are a sheltered place to sleep at night. It’s also rewarding to me that even though it’s just a shit job while I’m at uni I get to clean these spaces everyday so those who are less fortunate who do have to sleep there are at least sleeping in clean stairwells. But bless up to the original guy posting this video, ima show this shit to my boss 😂😂
Ah. The Girl From Ipanema. Pure class. I have never seen anyone review reviews before. Top work. For reference, I often eat meals watching videos but chose not to this time to deconflict the smell of urnine from my fish, broccoli and potatoes. Thankfully, this element was trace and no disgust was incurred.
Locking out people who don't want a shitty app from the actual price of the parking is heinous. I hope NCP goes under.
ditto, couldn't happen to a more fitting candidate
I can't believe I've just sat here and watched a review of a car park. Curiously I was going to park here for the nearby hospital a few weeks ago, but decided instead to get the park and ride (total cost: £7). Turned out to be a good choice as we were there more than 4 hours so would have had to pay the extortionate daily rate. Good review, nice sense of humour.
Charging schedule is dreadful. One minute later than the four hours I’d paid for, and charged for 24 hours. Won’t be parking with NCP again, in Bristol or anywhere else.
utter cowboys, or whatever the word for organised corporate anti consumer cowboys is, number one of half a dozen companies I will use again under any circumstances
@@xeode I'd bet they own that building outright by now. It's all pure profit for them. They could quarter the price and still be in champagne. Why do they need to swim in the damn stuff?
@@I_Don_t_want_a_handle A 60 plus year old concrete structure will require some expensive maintenance from time to time. The salt from those cold winters that we used to have will be in the concrete promoting rust. The place also looks like it is being regularly painted is certainly being litter picked daily. Not all profit then.
I parked in the wrong NCP carpark in Bristol (I had the wrong address for a hotel). Realised about five minutes after going in... Still had to pay £3.95 to get out
Reminds me of the hospital car park in Cambridge that I was in for just over 14 hours a couple of weeks ago while my wife was having surgery. £24 for the first 6 hours I think it was (might have been 8) but then it stayed at that fortunately. Still, cheaper than the town centre in Cambridge.
Great vid, I like this new series!
I usually park in Cabot Circus multistorey just down the road - newer, cleaner, more secure (seemingly) and a darn sight cheaper... £3 to park from 5pm to 7am, perfect for an evening knees-up in Bristol!
I used Cabot Circus a few times when our son was living just down the road from it. The carpark is ok but perhaps a name change to "Helter Skelter" might be more useful.
@@MrBreadman1966 Ha ha, yeah! Trick there is to park on the ground floor 😉
The Charlie Wilson building at Leicester Uni, featured in your mini photo montage, is, thing of pure beauty.
Ah yes, the Chilly Willy. Beloved. No, wait, the other thing.
At one point the University had a plan to do something about it. Anything from a lick of paint to a B-52 strike. But like so many plans featured on this channel, it didn't happen.
Did anyone notice the lack of cars in the car park? I know it was a tad expensive but I didn't see another car on a Monday?
"Sex Club Blue lights" Jon has taught me something new again.
Does the Swede have cloth or vinyl seats?
Did you drift your way up?
Elevator music at the end. Nice touch.
I like the Alexandra and Ainsworth Estate.
I have 'sex club blue lights too, and when they get old they flash randomly and seductively
OMG. Catalyst of a new series?! I definiately need to see more of these investigations. Especially that NCP in Nottingham that tried to fine me for _considerate_ parking. And failed.
Which one? Mount street NCP is I’m sure the same or very similar design to this steaming turd
@@regularguy3665that’s the one that collapsed a few years ago. And then there’s the maid Marian one which is on its way out
I want a way of liking a video more than once, because I just got home a bit drunk, a little unhappy because my knee hurts. This video made me laugh. Thank you.
How did I not realise that this content is what was missing from my life. This has made me strangely complete. And why can I virtually smell the sweet musk in that damn staircase..
to be fair to the negative reviews, I did have a car broken into there on a Sunday afternoon back in the early 2000s. But I've used it to park for shopping during the working week without any issues. (well I did before Bristol council wanted to charge me more to drive there than NCP do to actually park)
With those charges it's not surprising it was empty.
The city is for the students now and it is nice along the quay. Lots of places to eat. And the two things to see there are the Brunel Bridge and the SS Great Britain.
A city for students? That sounds viable...
:-( You just brought back a painful memory of parking in that car park many years ago
I had driven from Southampton to Bristol for a meeting in my 406 Coupe. I parked on the outside facing in.
When I returned later there were cones placed around a car that had 'rolled' across and nosed itself into one of the inside pillars, it was mine
After getting that repaired I always parked in gear on any surface that wasn't level. Brake discs cooled and released the handbrake pressure?
Try fitting your modestly sized Saab into a space in Pepper Street NCP in Chester..
*modestly sized sex club
I don't know about piss, but I definitely smell the start of a new series. Cracking stuff Jon! Keep up the good work 👍🏻
Your review had now had 420 helpful votes now thanks to me. Nice!
Well done. A perfectly adequate review of car parking reviews.
But that's just my review of a review of reviews of a car park.
⭐⭐⭐⭐
I may have to review this ....
"funny shaped parking spaces" - I assume he parked on one of the curved ends. TBH, a wedge shape like that sounds ideal to reduce the risk of doors being bashed into the neighbouring vehicle.
At least it’s still there. Hobson street car park in Oldham was refurbished at great expense to the council, and ultimately us, only to discover before the grand reopening that there was a serious structural issue. There is some good drone footage of it being blown up….
Ah, Hobson Street car park. I remember it vividly. It was always a bit crap and I remember them closing it the first time because it was suffering rather badly thanks to the newer (and much nicer) Spindles car park opening up nearby. Then it mysteriously reopened around the time I needed to go to the records office next door to get a copy of my birth certificate. It was very dark in there, probably because all the water ingress had fused the lights, and I remember talking to the attendant and he told me they'd opened it up to see if there was any demand for it. I guess there must've been, what with Medtia Place being just up the road. But yeah, the lovely refurb job was a total waste of time, thanks to the person who supposedly inspected it first time did his job very badly indeed...
ex Bristol student. Used to park at Rupert Street for the Chinese supermarket on Nelson Street. The corridor doss smell like piss all the time (maybe they cleaned it or maybe I'm a snowflake millennial). The parking spaces are way too narrow for modern cars and the pillars is right on the door once you're parked. It is unique though and I hope the garage on ground level could be reopened.
At least the entrance/exit is perfectly straight, unlike NCP Nelson Street nearby, where I clipped a rim at the exit.
The Girl from Ipanema. Good choice of ending tune there.
Never understood why my home Town of Basildon thought the residential Brooke House was a good idea, slap bang in the middle of a shopping centre
I wonder how many 'prangs' happen there? We are so used to multistorey carparks being one-way I can imagine it being quite a shock to some folk who are not paying attention, to have cars driving towards them. An interesting video, thanks.
Try reviewing car parking in Brighton especially on the seafront!
That really is daylight robbery. 😏
Or the centre of Winchester
Or any central london rip off parking.
It's a fabulous building, too many people can't see the value in keeping the architecture that formed our world. My own town "carlisle" has an abnormal 10 storey office as it's civic center that many want demolished, but it's ICONIC.
This review assessment style video needs to continue, hilarious 🤣
I've parked there when staying in the premier inn next to it, they give you a decent price if you stay there. No issues, good location for a car park, but it did seem a bit dingy
Edit: apparently it's a 15% discount, I remember it being more...
It was probably a significant amount cheaper before the Bristol stasi started their vindictive campaign on the motorcar.....
This was absolutely great! More automotive relate reviews please! I too have nightclub-esque blue lighting in my car
I don't even drive and this is thrilling content, love it.
You should review NCP's Glasgow Central car park. Walked through there as it connects from Platform 15 in the railway station as a 'shortcut' once. Never again, fuck that place is grim and a proper labyrinth!
What point has my life reached that I'm watching you do a car park review John???😂😂😂😊
That's actually a really cool car park design, as a farly low car owner, the usual sharp ramp transitions make multistoreys a no go. I would actually petition for the preservation of such structures if I was a local. It should be taken care of though
Can't quite fathom the correlation of Girl from Ipanema piano jazz at the end to a car park in Bristol. That aside, nice review. 7 on 10.
My goodness! You do get about Jon. 😂
Weirdly, I do actually think that it’s quite graceful from the outside. Fine example of the concrete shuttering chippys work too. Genuinely surprised that it isn’t listed.
What, pray, is wrong with trapezoidal parking bays that are slightly wider where the back doors open for aiding removal of screaming crotch goblins!😂
I could happily watch a series of this! Definitely could go viral too
Thanks for the review. I live in Bristol and I've never been in there because I can't get a mortgage for the fees, that and the welcome that cars get in the centre of Bristol (only slightly warmer than they gave to the Royalists in the Civil War).
But the key in your review is that they want to turn it into student accommodation. The last non-student living in the centre of Bristol tried to switch the lights off when they left but they couldn't find the switch.
The centre of Bristol only has nightclubs, students, eateries, students, Primark, students, and boarded up shops - would anyone who wasn''t drunk/stoned want to go there - hence the hallucinations in the reviews you found! The smell they reported was probably from the eateries.
Jon you have missed a motorway out on the Secrets of the Motorway series! The A666(M) from the M61 to Bolton. Its a small sper motorway, but may still count 😁
There was one Bristol multi-storey cap park that accepted my old Land Rover Discovery in for height but then on one corner I hit a lower part of the roof on the inside of one of the ramps! I think it was the Nelson Street one!
This is a fantastic addition to your video collection, well done Jon 🐻
Cardiff Westgate Street NCP. Across the road from the Principality Stadium. Very expensive, narrow ramps and spaces , actually smells bad and blighted by constant break ins.
Worse car park ever!
Fwicked car park review. I must say these short reels are entertaining Jon. Keep up the good work old chap!
My ex used to have a "Purple Princess", which is probably something similar to a Violet Vandal.
Four seasons car park in Mansfield in Nottinghamshire - truly useless, half closed, and definitely has the odour your looking for.
As I drove in there once, up the long ramp, someone threw a shopping trolley from the top. Just missed the car!
I really expected there to a bloody great dent in the end wall where someone drove up like you did, but didn't hit the brakes!!
I remember when Park Safe in Derby down the road, was named one of the top ten safest places on earth along with Fort Knox. That place used to be terrible at one point. lol
Well done getting the correct incorrect spelling (Vandle) in your review. Something most commenters here failed to do 🤣🤣🤣
Surely someone being so impressed that they take the time to give a car park a 5 star review is way weirder than leaving a 1 star review...
What a fun concept! I would enjoy loads more of this!
Lee Circle car park in Leicester is a very similar design.used to have a sainsburys and i think before that a tesco's at ground level.
Try Lee Circle car park in Leicester (also NCP). It’s of a similar design, but two interlaced decks so you have the added fun of taking a gamble on which “deck” has the best availability of spaces (fun fact: the place is grim so I don’t think it’s ever particularly busy)
This is definitely the content we come on UA-cam for 👍 top work Jon
Great work, Jon, but you didn't do a Noel Phillips style loo review. Just the stairwells to hell.
I use that car park quite a lot. Admittedly the disabled bays. Maybe the comment about the odd shaped spaces was referring to the fact that people seem to insist on parking in gaps which aren't actually marked out as spaces?
Prices are definitely ridiculous, though.
Nice new review subject, the building reminds me of the Lee Circle car park, Leicester.
Thanks. I enjoyed that more than your great road journeys. I probably drive further to get to a supermarket than some of the great English road journeys... and it's a very scenic drive.
Perhaps the pillars next to the spaces made them “odd shaped “ or at least made it awkward to open all your doors ? Loved the closing music, the Girl from Ipanema wasn’t it ?
thank you for your invaluable service, john
Now the pentagon car park “the brook” in Chatham is a hole, lots of alleyways and dodgy stair wells, Solomon’s road is like a plowed field I swear the DWP have cameras on it to test if you can get from the disabled car park to the assessment centre 😮 that end of town is rougher that a badgers badger
I live in a Northern yorkshire town and our multi-level 1950s concrete car park is 30p for the first hour and 50p for the second.
Love your video, I live in Bristol and never use this car park as it is so over price and a nightmare to get to when you are driving from the South of the city
Please do more!! This is gold compared to most other channels!!
Bleddy brilliant. I just watched a review of a car park, and really enjoyed it. 👍😀
First time I've thought to pause the list of contributors to see my name :D Good stuff as always.
Oh the people love them. However the council hates the people.😅
Best opening 15 seconds of a video I've seen in... I can't remember how long.
awesome video, will you be doing more of these 1 star car park review videos
Look up the Erith or Dartford automatic car park (1950/1960) this was a carpark that parked your car for you, My Grand father was a prototyper for Vickers and GEC and was involved with the project, He said it worked on a similar priceable to those child puzzles "the ones with the picture in a square made up of 3X3 squares but on missing so you could side one always into the space" of cause after the conflict we worked with VW and they came up with a high rise tube version for the factory !
@TurboTimsWorld, Wait What???…😮
This is the best video I've ever seen about anything
Thanks Jon. This is super useful consumer advice! The exact thing I subbed for! I've noted this in my fileofax for when I next visit Bristol.
Any chance you could review a carpark space near Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester, as I'll be there next month for work, and the smell of p#&s makes me feel uneasy, as does the colour violet.
Thanks! If you need me, I'll be doing whatever it is I get up to!
Reminds me of Coventrys old demolished west orchard car park, although that had stairs only.
Hi Jon. I hope this a ‘pilot’ for a future series. 👏👏👍😀
If you plan to do more car park reviews consider the new multi-storey Crown car park in Ipswich. Used to be a concrete monster but is now a new modern metal one.
It looks like a great place to lark around on with a fixie, or bmx, preferably when it is quiet so as not to be an a hole.
It also looks like the car park where my mate stoved in the door of his Escort in about '92. One of those pillars got in his way, but in all fairness, we were all pretty stoned. We were on our way to a hi-fi convention, so I guess that makes it acceptable...
It's a much better layout than many multi-story car parks I use. You can see every free space, in order, as you go up. Of course, that would lead to congestion the lower down at busy times, but I like it.
"It doesn't smell that bad, maybe they have cleaned it up a bit" you mean... someone has taken the piss.
Extracted the urine.
I'm not into cars. I've never been to Bristol and probably never will. I don't like car parks. Why did I enjoy this video so much?
What an awesome episode!
I can't wait for more car park reviews.
First thing I did as soon as I finished watching this video was jump onto Google to find your review.. and Indeed I found it.. Great stuff.. I really hope this is a new series.. All the 1 Star Car Parks. ;D
the things that need to happen for that car park: 1) new safety barriers, 2) a good clean, 3) better car parking spacing, 4) fix pricing
That has saved me a trip to Bristol, Well done!
Great idea, do more of these, secrets of the car parks.👍
One of the interesting bits now removed from this was the elevated walkways that went from mid level across the road. It was part of a part built, never finished elevated walkway scheme that was meant to allow cyclists and pedestrians to be separated from the roads and allow free flowing traffic. There is *very* little remains of of the scheme left, just a bridge and some walkway over by cabot circus/castle park. There was a good book about it but rare to find on ebay..
Brilliant, more of these please
That car park is quite unique and how it’s been built. Very interesting.
Nice to see Town Square, Basildon there!
In respect of the dogging site reviews may I just say this you, Sir, are a genius. I reckon 1 million subscribers beckons within hours of first review…
Looks like Lee circle in Leicester that’s s**t too lol. Great video.