Long Stay Parking

$18.00 per 24 hours adds up quickly in BGI’s Long Stay Parking.

This is the official long stay car park for Grantley Adams International Airport (BGI), sitting roughly 0.3 miles from Terminal T1. It’s on-airport, so you walk or take a short drop-off, not an off-site shuttle run. The published 24-hour rate sits at around $18.00, and a recent Barbados Hotel & Tourism Association note says that daily charges have roughly doubled compared with older pricing.

Long Stay Parking works best if you’re gone a couple of days, not weeks. At $18.00 per day, a 5-day off-island trip lands around $90.00 before any taxes or extra bands. Push into 10 days and you’re staring at about $180.00, which is where taxis from Bridgetown or south coast hotels start to look competitive, especially if you’re splitting the ride.

The car park feeds directly into the main terminal approach road for T1, so drop your luggage at the curb, then loop back to park the car if someone is traveling with you. There’s no strong chatter online about security issues in this lot, and no detailed breakdown of multi-day tiers, which suggests the airport is effectively using the base $18.00 daily framing for most trips.

Watch the pricing if you’re used to old BGI rates; the BHTA post specifically calls out that the 24-hour fee has doubled, so legacy “park for a week for cheap” habits don’t really work here anymore. Quick tip: run the math before you drive in—multiply $18.00 by your total days away and compare that to two taxi runs or a friend drop-off to see if parking long term still makes sense.