SKOT wrote:

Or if you can, park in the very under-used (and not too badly priced for London) Euston car park and avoid the costs altogeher.

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£8 for two hours 40p for an hour up here in towns, free at shopping mall. No wonder a lot of folk wouldn't go to London even if you paid them.
We refuse to go inside the m25 even at work, if they want anything they come to us, or go without

They're ripping you off big time and you put up with it

There are some reasonable car parks......I park at Blackwall DLR (couple of stops from Canary Wharf) when I am in London and its £9 all day and has a man keeping the riff raff out......plenty of fatties and sports in there  2017 4.4 SDV8 Autobiography
2012 4.4 TDV8 Westminster - Gone, but not forgotten

stan wrote:

our UK ford galaxy is a people carrier type vehicle...

Thanks, Stan.