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Hunting for sphincter-throttling travel deals requires patience and tight refresh-button skillz -- but enjoying that $99 Cabo flight's hard when your Mercury Merkur's draining $99 a day in long term parking. Complete your cheapness, with About Airport Parking.

Park's a comprehensive airport parking lot search engine, designed by a Silicon Valley vet who desperately wanted to improve airline travel via Web 2.0, but struggled to develop a Gmap of morbidly obese aisle-mates. Just plug in your airport + departure/return dates, and Park'll spit back Gmapped options sortable by rate, distance, and user rating; refine your search with options like valet, self-park, covered garage, even oil change and car wash service, both apparently reasonably common on the West Coast (what, silver trays of cocaine and naked beach volleyball weren't enough?). Delve deeper into prospective lots through user-posted comments, generally valuable feedback that'll allow you to decide whether the "free coffee" is worth the "employee took the keys and stole the GPS".

Park lists every garage they find, but has developed relationships with certain lots to let you to lock in special discount rates by reserving a spot -- so when your travel thrift lands you in a herpes-infested Cabo kiddie pool, you'll be contented knowing your car's having a better vacation than you are.