Parking your car

Whether it’s a quick stop or a long stay there are plenty of parking options available to suit your needs. Here’s a guide to choosing the right parking for your journey. 

Wait Zone – Free area to wait with your vehicle 

Pick Up/Drop Off – Drive in then drive out. No Parking

P120 – Short stay, up to 2 hours

Main Car Park – all other vehicle parking

Bike Port – parking for bikes. 

In both car parks, up to the first 15 minutes of parking is free, all other charges vary. 

Got questions? See our parking FAQs.

Ticketless Parking

We operate a Ticketless Parking system that uses smart technology to read your number plate, making entry and exit of the car park a breeze. Instead of tickets, your number plate is used to calculate the time in the car park and parking fee, where applicable.

Parking fees are calculated by entering your number plate details at the Pay Stations.

Pay Stations are located under the canopy outside the terminal building. Cash, credit cards, and EFTPOS are accepted.

PayWave is available at the car park exits, however receipts are only available at the Pay Stations.

Scroll down for the Ticketless Parking FAQ’s.

Use our handy calculator to estimate your parking costs

Parking Calculator

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*Please note: cost is indicative only. 

P120/short stay
Main/All day
Stay under 15 minutes
Free
Free
15-30 minutes
$3
$3
30-60 minutes
$5
$5
Per hour after 60 minutes (whole hour charge)
$5
$5
Max daily rate
$30
$19
Day 6 onwards (Day 1-5 charged at normal daily rate)
N/A
$10/day

How does Ticketless Parking work?

  • At entry, a camera will read your vehicle licence plate number, record the time of entry, and open the parking barrier arm – no ticket needed
  • When you’ve parked, make a note of your licence plate number
  • Go to the pay station and enter your licence plate number
  • Your fee will be shown – pay by cash, card or payWave
  • Drive to the exit – the exit camera will recognise your parking is paid, and the barrier arm will lift

On rare occasions, number plates can’t be read. If the barrier arm does not lift just press for a ticket. You can use this ticket to pay at the pay machine as normal before you exit.

Parking receipts

If you would like a receipt, you can request one when making your payment at the machines. It’s important to note that receipts are not available at the exit barrier.

If you have difficulties obtaining a receipt or have lost your receipt, please complete the receipt request form.

Please note: Receipts will be processed within 3-5 business days.

Request a receipt for parking

Receipt for Parking

Parking terms & conditions

Copies of our terms and conditions are signposted at the entry to each Car Park. You can also read a copy via the following link.

Where there is a discrepancy between the website displayed amount and the Pay Station displayed amount, the Pay Station is the correct amount that must be paid prior to returning to your vehicle.

View our parking terms & conditions

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Opening Hours

Monday to Saturday from 5.00 am

Sunday from 5.45 am

The terminal closes after the last flight of the day.

Terms & conditions of competition

  • For the purposes of these Terms and Conditions, “The Promoter” refers to Hawke’s Bay Airport.
  • By entering the competition, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.
  • The Promoter’s competition with entry via Facebook is open only to residents of New Zealand, over 18 years old.
  • No purchase necessary. Winners will not be required to pay to enter the competition.
  • Employees of the Promoter are not eligible to enter.
  • Facebook/Meta are not in any way affiliated or involved in the competition.
  • Each entrant shall enter the competition the Hawke’s Bay Airport Facebook page by adding a photo to the competition post. Private messages will not be accepted as an entry.
  • The Prize will be awarded to a randomly selected winner, using a random number generator. The Promoter will not be held liable if the named prize becomes unavailable or cannot be fulfilled. The winner will be posted to our Facebook page within 3 days of the competition closing date.
  • If the prize winner cannot be contacted within 3 days of the closing date, at promoter’s option the winner may be taken to have forfeited the prize and a substitute winner may be selected.
  • The Promoter will not be held liable for any failure of receipt of entries. The Promoter takes no responsibility for any entries that are lost, delayed, illegible, corrupted, damaged, incomplete or otherwise invalid.
  • To the extent permitted by applicable law, The Promoter shall not be liable under or in connection with these terms and conditions, the competition or any Prize for any indirect, special or consequential cost, expense, loss or damage suffered by a participant even if such cost, expense, loss or damage was reasonably foreseeable or might reasonably have been contemplated by the participant and the promoter and whether arising from breach of contract, tort, negligence, breach of statutory duty or otherwise.
  • Prizes are non-negotiable, non-transferable and non-refundable. No cash alternative is available. Where a Prize becomes unavailable for any reason, the Promoter reserves the right to substitute that prize for a different prize which may not be of equal value.
  • The name, address and phone number of the winner must be provided to the Promoter if requested and will be shared with the donator of the prize to enable fulfilment of the Prize.
  • In the event of unforeseen circumstances beyond the Promoter’s reasonable control, the Promoter reserves the right to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the competition or these terms and conditions, either in whole or in part, with or without notice.
  • The Promoter’s decision is final. No correspondence will be entered into.
  • The winner’s name and social media username may be posted on the social media profiles of the Promotor after the winner has been selected.