Long Stay Parking

CHF 15 per day gets you long-stay parking right by T1

Long Stay Parking at St. Gallen Altenrhein runs CHF 15.00 per day or CHF 90.00 per week, and you still park in the on-site lots about 0.5 miles from the terminal. Flyers on forums basically describe it as leaving the car in front of the tiny terminal building for “little money” compared with Zurich or Geneva.

All long-term spaces sit in the same general area as short-term zones, in the immediate vicinity of Terminal T1, so there’s no shuttle and no remote field. You’re looking at about a 10-minute walk from the furthest spots to the terminal doors, which passes for “far” at Altenrhein but would be considered front-row parking at a bigger airport.

Pricing is simple: CHF 15.00 daily caps at CHF 90.00 for a full week, so a 7‑day Vienna run or a seasonal charter doesn’t blow up your trip budget. That lines up with third‑party guides that call Altenrhein’s long‑stay prices comparable to other small European airports and cheaper than the major Swiss hubs.

Regulars on FlyerTalk don’t bother hunting for off‑airport deals; they just drive up and park close to T1 for multi‑day trips. With the airport this small and no shuttle lots in play, the trade‑off is clear: pay a modest long‑stay rate and keep the car within a 10‑minute walk of check‑in.

Tip: For anything longer than 4 days, do the math against the CHF 90.00 weekly rate before you pay; once you pass six days, treating the stay as a full week usually works out cheaper than stacking daily charges.