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Happy New Year from Park Ride Fly USA

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A couple of days ago, I highlighted some of the content you enjoyed most on the blog in the past year. Now it’s time to look at the year as a whole, both on and off the blog. Offline, we’ve continued to add new off airport parking facilities to our lists. Some of the most recent ones include:

• V.I.P. Park & Ride (JAX)
• AmeriCar (SYR)
• Amelias Hospitality Inn and Suites (SLC)
• Chicago Marriott O’Hare (ORD)
• San Diego’s Park Shuttle & Fly (SAN)
• Payless Parking (MHT)
• Select Airport Valet Parking (BOS)
• Park Plus Airport Parking (EWR)

Our Midway Airport Parking Facility also had some great reviews this year from Elite Yelp members. Here’s one description of the excellent service they got with our airport parking facilities.

I love this service and recommend it to everyone.  If you book online it’s only $10 (ish) a day and the shuttle service to and from is quick to pick up and drop off.  I’ve never had to wait more than 5 minutes for them to grab me from the airport on my return and they always pick you up from your car before you’ve even unloaded all of the bags. – Shannon S.

In March, we made it possible for you to make airport parking reservations right from our Facebook page, with a new welcome tab specifically designed for the purpose. We’ve been getting more active on Facebook this year. Some of the updates you liked and shared most included our post on NaNoWriMo,  our guest post on San Francisco, our profile of Justin Mussler and our Black Friday deals post. Facebook has made many changes this year, including preventing automatic imports of posts via its Notes application. However, you can still follow our blog via the Networked Blogs application.

Soon after, in April, we launched our mobile site, so that the increasing numbers of people using mobile devices to make travel arrangements could book their airport parking from their smart phones and have similar functionality to the web interface.

Our most recent online development was the launch of our Google+ profile and Google+business page. Those are still being developed, but expect more from us there in 2012!

On the horizon for 2012, look out for a refresh of our brand and a streamlined website for a faster, easier consumer experience in booking airport parking reservations. We’re also continually evaluating programs as we look to bring more value to our customers, so expect to hear more from us on that next year.

Season’s Greetings from Park Ride Fly USA

Drumroll, please! Park Ride Fly USA is now on Google+. We have a shiny new page where we will be sharing our latest blog posts and travel stuff for those who want to follow us there. And I also have a Google+ profile specifically for this account, under the name Sharon PRF to avoid confusion with my personal G+ account.

So why have we waited so long for a Google+ account, when they were available to some back in July? The truth is that we wanted a business page for the airport parking reservations business so we decided to wait till now and do them both together. We’ve tricked out the page with a few of our site photos to get started.

What can you expect from us on Google+? Well, it’s a work in progress. We’ll be sharing more of the travel stuff we find interesting as we already do through Twitter and Facebook. I hope to have the chance to connect with you there, too. All you have to do is click the profile button in our sidebar to go straight to the page or follow this link to find the Sharon PRF Google+ profile.. See you there!

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Park Ride Fly USA LLC (http://www.parkrideflyusa.com), owner/operator of leading off-site airport parking facilities since 1987, is proud to announce the launch of their new beta mobile site. The mobile site provides customers with a quick and easy way to make airport parking reservations via popular touch screen phones like iPhones and Android platform phones.

Over the last few months, Park Ride Fly USA LLC has experienced a sharp rise in the volume of traffic from mobile devices, reinforcing decision to release a mobile site. The new marketing initiative will serve as an integral part of the company’s efforts in providing a flexible booking system that best fit the needs of the traveling consumer.

“With such a strong request from our customers, we thought it was time we catered to those who are accessing our booking site via touch screen mobile phones,” says Susan Trimarchi, Director of Online Sales and Marketing. “Our new mobile site offers our customers a simple way to make their off-airport parking reservations on the fly, avoid the long lines at the airport and have direct access to travel information. All of this at their fingertips.”

The new mobile site, http://m.parkrideflyusa.com has been designed to emphasize ease of use on touch screen mobile devices. iOS (Apple) and Android phones currently make up over 90% of Park Ride Fly USA’s mobile traffic. The site adapts to the size of the customer’s phone screen and navigation is designed specifically for mobile phones, creating a convenient way to utilize portable technology for a positive booking experience. Recognizing the importance of a simple booking system for business and leisure travelers alike, visitors will find searching for airport parking quick, easy and above all, mobile-friendly. Furthermore, the beta mobile site is considered evergreen; where new features are scheduled to be added on a continuous basis, including access to additional parking services and travel information.

About Park Ride Fly USA LLC
Park Ride Fly USA LLC is a family-owned business based out of East Berlin, Connecticut that offers safe, secure, reliable airport parking facilities, hassle-free “curb-to-curb” service, guaranteed reservations, exceptional customer service, affordable rates that beat most airport parking lots. As the founder and operator of http://www.ParkRideFlyUSA.com, they also own and operate three offsite airport parking facilities: Indy Park Ride & Fly in Indianapolis, Midway Park Ride & Fly in Chicago, as well as Albany Park Ride & Fly in New York.