Safeway Market | Short-term Parking

October 30th, 2022 by d

Read reviews about the $48 ticket in the other location, but decided it was weight the risk as rv parks around here are $50 and up. But I stayed overnight on Sunday night along with 4 other rvs and vans, the Safeway is open 24 hours so it didn’t feel like the van stuck out. And no knocks and no ticket!

September 18th, 2022 by b2p

good place for a night. save, clean, quiet. several campers in cars, vans and rvs

August 25th, 2022 by cjerickson2019

Is it possible to remove all the listings that are closed? It’s such a waste of time looking at listings I can’t use. Thank you in advance.

April 12th, 2022 by andy.sam

Great and about only van friendly park up for Carmel. What a gorgeous town and beach. Very quiet carpark for a peaceful nights sleep

July 24th, 2021 by melodyromerobarnett

Stayed for one night in the parking lot. No one bothered us and we felt completely safe. There were other RVs and vehicles that camped out for the night.

July 12th, 2021 by Az95833

Stayed one night with zero issues . Lots of people in busses, cars , and van conversions . Safeway open 24hrs , with restrooms .

June 13th, 2021 by teal.bowden

This Safeway has a huge parking lot, easy for every size rig. There are some nice and dark spots under trees, as well as double long spots for bigger rigs. We spent the night and there were other RVs, sprinters and a few vans, seems like the only free place to stay on the northern edge of Big Sur.

May 28th, 2021 by Kylee Brooks

Stayed here for the night without issues. Found a nice spot under a large tree. Lots of other campers in the parking lot. Great place to stay and see Big Sur/Carmel-by-the-sea/Monterey area!

May 23rd, 2021 by pjmammedaty

Safeway parking lot, few other vans/RVs. An incident happened and a lot of police came but never bothered us or anyone else sleeping.

October 2nd, 2019 by kustomkyle.com

This is your place to park in Carmel.

Like the other reviews, I was told by a friendly officer at the other parking lot to come here. No problems through the night.

September 10th, 2019 by Veronika Ondrovicova

Originally we tried to stay overnight at a nearby parking lot, but in the middle of a night we were asked by the police to leave. The cop was were nice and he told us to go here to Safeway parking lot.
And it was way better here. There are toilets and running water in the supermarket and in the morning you can shop for groceries and strong coffee :).

September 2nd, 2019 by imke184

We arrived at 7pm and no other rv was there. At 9-11pm more vans were coming. We could sleep here without a problem. There’s no other place nearby so we were happy that we could stay here. We didn’t see any security guy.

August 11th, 2019 by contigoalfindelmundo.be

A friendly cop sent us to the safeway parking when we were parked at the public parking in Carmel. We had no issues at the Safeway parking lot. A lot of other campers. We arrived after midnight and left before 8am.

June 14th, 2019 by grayitwin4

Stayed one night with no issues, but the next morning a security guy told us there’s no overnight parking

May 7th, 2019 by j.krohn84

Really quiet at night. Felt super safe. We arrived at 8:30pm and left at almost 11am in the morning after a good breakfast and some shopping. Wifi is super slow though.

May 6th, 2019 by maks190

Nice place to stay for a night before going on highway 1.

April 14th, 2019 by aurie_doucet

Quiet as described. Lot of others (van, RV, car).

March 26th, 2019 by findingthehome

As described. Very quiet, and a pleasant surprise to find after we had decided that Carmel was too fancy and touristy to have a spot for vagabonds like ourselves

March 8th, 2019 by charlesray55

Safe nice parking lot others spent the night also

February 17th, 2019 by Reveur

Mostly quiet, didn't other RVs that night but haven't been bothered.

December 28th, 2018 by tyler

Pulled up around 8pm, one other rig here. Cop pulled in after us but didn’t say anything, my guess is this is their hangout spot too. Safeway open 24hrs and has a restroom, a nice plus. A little bit of noise but I would definitely stay here again.

December 10th, 2018 by jake.johnson322

Stayed here for one night with our 159" Promaster, one RV and one other smaller van in the lot with us. Nice and quiet, felt safe. Quite spacious as well! Only a 10 minute drive from the gorgeous Carmel Beach, highly recommend.

November 7th, 2018 by johanroos1961

Great place and free for visit Monterey and Carmel. Shop 24/7 open but No noise at all in the night. Several campers that night. Police drive true bit said nothing.

November 4th, 2018 by familybehindthecurve

checked it and there are plenty of no overnight signs plus the local sheriff's patrolling the lot whilst we shopped there so we didn't stay and went to the public lot next to the photography center of Carmel which seemed better suited.

October 30th, 2018 by wonderworld.com.br

Stayed here one night without problems. Nobody bothered us. Some others RVs and cars overnighting in the same area. Free WiFi from Safeway, bad signal. A bit noisy in the morning.

August 23rd, 2018 by konstantin.pastbin

We came and parked around 10:30pm. There were a few other RVs and campervans. A few minutes after a security person came by and told us overnight parking is not allowed.

August 9th, 2018 by michaeldconnolly83

Stayed 2 nights no problem. There are some no overnight signs but when the number of RVs outweighs the number of signs you know it's probably fine

August 5th, 2018 by Ohlavan

As described before, it's a plaza with many parking spots that allows people to overnight. We pulled over at 9pm and there were around 10 rigs. Super quiet at night, it felt safe.

July 15th, 2018 by georgepocock1

Felt very safe and secure. There were a couple of other RVs and several camper vans around. No issues at all. Excellent food at the fish market next to Safeway’s and very cheap compared to town

April 6th, 2018 by julianamarcella

we stayed for one night. there was one more RV and three van with people sleeping. we had no problems

December 8th, 2017 by lironmichaeli14

I stayed obe night here. Very nice place to park for the night. Quite and no problem. There was also 3 rv's and another car, parking for the night as well, next to me. And also, there is a Starbucks bear by where you can find free wifi and free bathroom.

November 30th, 2017 by vismaplanete.com

Overnight parking ok, safe, quiet, free wifi, others friendly travellers, grass for dogs and lot of shops, good for some nights ;)

November 28th, 2017 by albatros-on-tour.de

There were at least 4 other cars with people sleeping in them (3 vans - 1 car). Nobody bothered us. It got a bit noisy around 6:30am. Sounded as if containers were moved/loaded.

November 23rd, 2017 by glougloumercedes

it is a sheriff who give us the adress place of parking super market