Where to park at Krasnaya Polyana resorts

The resorts of Krasnaya Polyana in Sochi are notorious for a shortage of parking space and high rates for paid parking. Especially many problems occur in the high winter season,when you can find a place only in paid parking. Tow trucks do not sleep here, and have fun collecting cars of guests with numbers from other regions parked in the wrong place, trying to avoid cars with local numbers and taxis. Evacuated cars are taken to a special parking lot on Estonskaya Street, 72/2, this is across the street from building 111 on the same street. The phone number of the unified evacuation center is +7 (862) 266-06-36, the Traffic Police +7 (862) 268-00-03.

And now we will tell you in detail about the cost and conditions of parking at all resorts of Krasnaya Polyana and in the village itself, and also reveal some secrets of how and where to find a free place.

But first of all, it is worth saying that the approach to finding parking depends on the type of your trip:

• Day trip. If you want to visit one of the resorts of Krasnaya Polyana in the form of a day trip, we advise you to immediately tune in to the inevitability of payment. The fact is that there are free parking spaces here, but they are located in non-tourist residential areas away from attractions and lifts, and as a result you will have to walk quite a long way on foot, which is unacceptable for a day trip. And to find them without knowing the area, it will be very difficult: you will lose a lot of time. Therefore, we advise you to immediately look at paid parking near the place or lift that you planned to visit.

• Multi-day trip. If you plan to settle for a few days at one of the resorts, it is quite possible to find free places for long-term parking. But this can not be done everywhere. For example, in the resorts of Gazprom and Rosa Khutor this is a completely impossible task, but in the center of the village or in the resort of Krasnaya Polyana it is quite realistic.

Overview of the parking situation by resort

In each of the resorts/areas of Krasnaya Polyana, the situation is strikingly different:

• Krasnaya Polyana

  Since the main part of the resort Krasnaya Polyana resort, called Polyana 540, is located on the territory of the village of Estosadok with residential areas, it is quite possible to find free parking spaces here, especially if you decide to settle in one of the mini-hotels or guest houses in the village. In our opinion, this is generally the best place of all three resorts, where you should go by car. But the level of this resort "Polyana 960" is higher in the mountains – a fully paid zone with a barrier at the entrance.

  💵 pricing plans: the first 30 minutes are free, then 200 rubles / hour or 700 rubles/day. Guests of hotels and apartments of the resort-400 rubles/day. For more information about all tariffs and the layout, see the official website - https://krasnayapolyanaresort.ru/how_to_get/.

• Rosa Khutor

  You will have to park only on paid multi-level parking lots, since almost everywhere there are prohibiting signs. And do not look at the fact that under these signs there are cars with local numbers: what is allowed to locals is not allowed to tourists. But there is one single place where you can put the car for FREE quite legally. This huge platform on the upper level of 940 meters on the part of the resort, called "Rosa Stadion", is located next to the Lower Station of the cable car "Wolf Rock".

  💵 pricing plans: the first 20 minutes are free, then 200 rubles / hour or 800 rubles/day. Guests of hotels and apartments of the resort-400 rubles/day. For more information about all tariffs and the layout, see the official website - https://rosakhutor.com/about/info/parking/

• Gazprom

  There are no free places at all, the entire resort area is paid for parking cars. Already at the entrance you will have to pass through the barrier, and at the exit pay for the time spent on the territory.

  💵 pricing plans: the first 20 minutes are free, then 100 rubles / hour or 500 rubles/day. Guests of hotels and apartments of the resort-350 rubles/day, there are also subscriptions for users of sports services for a month and a year. Learn more about all tariffs on the official website - https://polyanaski.ru/tariffs-and-prices/, go to the "parking" tab on the page that opens.

• Krasnaya Polyana Settlement

  All the main streets in the village are equipped with "stop prohibited" signs, but if you really want, you can find free places on the outskirts and in the alleys. True, it will not always be possible to do this. In winter, for example, all the narrow alleys are clogged with cars of visitors, besides, many placements mark and take "their" places nearby, not allowing anyone to put cars there. We advise you to check in the booking object before the trip whether they have such a "private" parking, so that there are no problems with neighbors on the street.

Where to find free parking in Krasnaya Polyana

And now, as promised ,we "burn" places in resorts where you can legally park your car. The situation may change, so we will be grateful for additions in the comments on the topic on our forum.

• Large free parking on the upper level of 940 meters at the "Rosa Stadion", this is the upper level of the resort "Rosa Khutor" (parking on the map)
• Berezovaya Street in Estosadka (parking on the map. This street has roadway thickenings and convenient dirt platforms. And, by the way, on this street there are also several inexpensive options for living, and, well, the center of the resort "Krasnaya Polyana" is within walking distance.
• Small streets and alleys in Estosadka (parking on the map), perpendicular to the main Estonskaya Street. These are, for example, Listopadnaya Street, Garazhnaya Street, Automobile lane, etc.strictly north of Estonskaya Street. Everything south of Estonskaya Street is a paid zone.
• Free parking for one hour near the supermarket "Perekrestok" on Estonskaya street, 105 (parking on the map. Officially, it is only for store customers, but in practice, nothing prevents this rule from being circumvented.