10 Parking Lots Near the Coliseo de Puerto Rico: Prices, Hours and Distances

Use this parking guide, which includes prices, locations and tips, for your next concert or event at the "Choliseo" José Miguel Agrelot.

Finding parking for a concert can turn into a headache. So we set out to walk several streets around 📍Hato Rey, San Juan, to identify private parking lots that stay open during special events and concerts in the area.

This list includes regular hours, average costs, vehicle capacity and approximate distance to the 'Choli'.

🅿️ Trocadero 1

🅿️ Trocadero 2

🅿️ Spot Parking

🅿️ Parking VIP

🅿️ New San Juan Parking

🅿️ Chardón 113 Lot

🅿️ Muñoz Rivera 200

• Platea Tip: This multi-story garage includes a dedicated bicycle parking area as an alternative to motor vehicles, with regular hours Monday through Saturday, 8:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Those hours may be extended, and Sunday access added, during special events at the Choliseo.

🅿️ Estacionamiento Público – World Plaza Building

🅿️ The Garage Parking – Mercantil Plaza

Street and avenue suggestions for parking

• Avenida Arterial Hostos: This avenue is home to the Departamento de Hacienda, the Colecturía de San Juan, the Administración de Compensaciones por Accidentes de Automóviles, and a bus stop for routes 4, 21 and 22.

• Much of this avenue has white-line parking. If you arrive early, free parking may be available.

• The walk to the Coliseo de Puerto Rico is approximately 8 to 10 minutes.

• Avenida José Oliver: This avenue is home to the well-known 24 Marketplace, at the corner of Avenida Chardón. Street parking is available along the avenue, and the walk to the Choli is 9 to 12 minutes.

• Calle Vieques and surrounding streets: This street, near Caño Martín Peña, has white-line parking, as do the nearby streets Haití and Uruguay. You can also try parallel streets such as Popular, Pepe Díaz and Prudencio Rivera Martínez.

Other tips when looking for street parking:

• Make sure your vehicle is parked in a white-line space to avoid a fine.

• Do not block any garage entrance or exit, whether residential or commercial.

• Parking is prohibited on sidewalks and crosswalks; on a bridge or elevated structure, on a highway or in a tunnel; parallel to or alongside a stopped or parked vehicle on a public road; more than one (1) foot from the edge of the curb; in front of a fire hydrant; and in other situations specified by law.

• You can review the rules of Ley 22 of Puerto Rico's Vehicle and Traffic Act of 2000 to clarify any questions about prohibited on-street parking areas.

DACO launches parking pilot programs

Valerie Rodríguez Erazo, secretary of the Departamento de Asuntos del Consumidor, announced in July the launch of parking.daco.pr.gov, a new interactive parking page within the agency's website.

• DACO has launched parking.daco.pr.gov, an interactive tool for finding available parking lots in your area and their approved rates.

• The pilot project begins with the area around the Coliseo de Puerto Rico, with plans to expand across the Island.

"The initiative seeks to provide greater transparency and access to reliable information that directly benefits the public," said Valerie Rodríguez Erazo, secretary of the Departamento de Asuntos del Consumidor.

Journalist Cindy A. Burgos Alvarado contributed to the production of this guide.

This content was translated with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence (AI).