Most ADD flyers never leave a car here overnight
At Addis Ababa Bole (ADD), almost no frequent-flyer reports mention official long term parking, even in multi-year FlyerTalk threads that run over 20 pages. The airport does have official parking areas at both T1 and T2, but they’re treated as short-stay or drop-off zones rather than somewhere to leave a car for a week.
Both terminals, T1 for regional flights and T2 for most Ethiopian long-haul routes, sit off the same airport access road, so any official Long Term Parking is within a few minutes’ walk or shuttle of the terminal doors. What’s missing online are hard numbers: no published daily rate in ETB, no clear maximum-stay policy, and no on-record security details for multi-day parking.
Community posts from Ethiopian Airlines regulars mention the free STPC hotel and shuttle program for layovers over 8–12 hours, but still skip any mention of leaving a private car at ADD. In practical terms, that means even people flying Ethiopian monthly on ADD–Europe or ADD–US routes with T2 check-in default to transfers, not car storage.
FlyerTalk reports and trip reports from 2018 onward repeatedly describe using hotel drivers or private hire cars for both drop-off and pickup in Addis. A typical pattern: book a driver by the day, pay a fixed ETB cash rate, and have them wait offsite rather than paying airport parking, even for early-morning departures around 03:00–04:00 from T2.
If you’re set on using Long Term Parking anyway, treat it as “use at your own data gap.” Take a timestamped photo of your car and the row, ask a security guard at T1 or T2 what the daily limit and price are in ETB, and then build at least 20 extra minutes into your arrival to handle any payment queue when you return.