Costco parking | Informal Campsite

March 1st, 2024 by Mean Streets

"Vancity Vanlife" channel on YouTube posted a video on February 29th, 2024 showing himself and three other RVs camping overnight at Costco in Nanaimo. So it appears overnight RV parking is still allowed? Can someone check on this? I am away on the lower mainland of BC. Otherwise I'd check this myself. Thank you.

December 11th, 2023 by envioussibling53

No longer allowed overnight parking

November 24th, 2023 by statisticalbomb93

Stayed the night here after getting off the ferry. Had a number of other folks doing the same. No issues.

August 15th, 2023 by eliedevalence

Ok for one night. Pretty quiet. We park just by Kal Tire.

July 26th, 2023 by Sea2Sea Canada

The security guard that chased us and others out of the nearby Walmart was the one that told us about Costco. There were several other RVs there when we arrived after the store had closed. Some noise from trucks at the loading docks about 100 metres away, but no worse than traffic noise at a Walmart.

July 16th, 2023 by powerplay8780

Still allowed, had a quiet night with a few others campers/rv

November 19th, 2022 by shaniquemorees

We arrived around 18.00 and there were no other rv's parked at all, so we asked inside just to be sure and they said we were more then welcome to stay the night and could park where ever we wanted as long as we leave before 9am. We still parked in the back just to be out of everybody's way.

November 15th, 2022 by felixhuellen

Stayed one night. Good place, as Walmart in other citys.

November 6th, 2022 by melody_cabral

Stayed two nights here, had other vans/rvs parked around as well so definitely felt safe. Would recommend this over some other parking spots around Nanaimo that we checked out, this was the best option.

September 19th, 2022 by Mean Streets

Overnight parking is still allowed here as of September 17, 2022 when I stayed overnight here again. Overnight road construction on the highway is almost complete. It was pretty quiet when I stayed here on the 17th. Costco is a great place to stay the night.

September 5th, 2022 by celyne.renaud

Après avoir été chassé du Walmart situé de l’autre côté de la rue à 23h, nous nous sommes déplacés au Costco. Tranquille et sécuritaire. Plusieurs autre RV déjà présents.

September 5th, 2022 by celyne.renaud

Après avoir été chassé du Walmart situé de l’autre côté de la rue, on nous a invités à déménager au Costco. Tranquille et sécuritaire.

August 14th, 2022 by fanny

Good place to sleep ! No one bothered me😊

August 3rd, 2022 by thielquin

Stayed a night. Quite. No issues. Seemed like there were several other people camped out. A security guard at Walmart even told us to come here sayin “ no one will bother you”

August 3rd, 2022 by Mean Streets

Costco appears to allow overnight parking at their Nanaimo location. I have had no problems parking here overnight. One morning I woke up and counted 14 RVs parking here overnight. It can be a tad bit noisy because of the highway, which runs right beside Costco. And right now (August 7, 2022) the highway department is doing road construction between 9:00 PM and 5:00 AM along the highway beside Costco, so it's extremely noisy. See my profile for other, better overnight free camping/parking locations in Nanaimo.

June 19th, 2022 by towenbak

Very big parking lot, employees saw us staying there and had no problems or issues.

April 28th, 2022 by merlingrieb

had no issues parking overnight there. just stay far from the entrance. Walmart is Not allowed (signs are saying so)

January 28th, 2022 by Winter

Parked overnight for two nights, no issues. Nowhere else in this area allows overnights, don't use Walmart, Superstore, or Home Depot. Costco is a bit noisy, there's trailers and workers moving around all night.

January 26th, 2022 by justkeepgoing

Just another parking lot but been crashing here off and on for the past 3 months. Lot fills up pretty quickly in the morning. Some traffic noise but not to bad.

October 11th, 2021 by richard_chiasson

Stayed over night in the back by the thrift store no issues

October 2nd, 2021 by Making Lemonade

Security at a nearby Walmart sent me here when I tried to stay overnight there. it's just a parking lot, but if you need a place to just sleep as I did, then this works.

September 30th, 2021 by Marieloup

A quelques minutes du traversier, parfait pour une nuit.

September 5th, 2021 by cormierlaurene

Stayed one night in the back corner. Quiet. One other van stopped (arrived after and left before us). No problems.

August 18th, 2021 by ronandsharolyn

We were kicked out of the Walmart parking lot at 11:30pm so came here. Parked behind Costco and were not bothered. Had an early ferry crossing so great place for a 1 night stay! The pic is the view from our kitchen window lol

August 5th, 2021 by simone.silcock

Stayed one night. No troubles. We stayed at the back corner near the Salvos Thrift store. A few people walking past on the thrift store side and someone was digging through their bin in the early evening.
Workers are parked in the Costco parking in the evening as well.

July 26th, 2020 by vmelissad

ok to sleep overnight. we asked one of the employees. however, no toilet opened overnight.

October 14th, 2019 by terryfiset

No problem here behind the store! Talk with the security and he tells me its allow but not along the building!

October 10th, 2019 by dillonjjanzen

Stayed here for one night. Arrived around 130am to 4 vehicles staying the night on the west side. Parking lot was completely full the next morning so recommend staying on the outer edges to allow customer parking. Quiet, no issues.

August 11th, 2019 by Vantono

well lighted parking lot and an RV and a van parked with us as some cars that park there at night
actually really quiet with lots of space

August 11th, 2019 by mackenzie8910

Good, safe place for overnight parking. I’d recommend parking in the lot away from the front doors and not too close to the loading trucks since they load all night.

July 28th, 2019 by melanie.m.schweiger

Stayed 2 nights with one other camper, no problems.

June 22nd, 2019 by gilbert.pjb

well, it's a Costco parking lot. can't expect much.

April 29th, 2019 by leahpettit17

We arrived; no signage to discourage overnight parking. 2 employees greeted us, directed us to the parking behind the building, and told us we were welcome to stay the night as long as we didn’t plug in.

October 1st, 2017 by Horizon Transition

All the parking around are "no overnigth parking" but no indication in the Costco Parking and the Home Depot. The second one was a small parking and we didn't try, but we passed a night behind Costco, looks like the employees parking. We were juste in a corner where are few trees. No problem.

Behind the trees there is a garbage that look to be used for dumper, so we saw few people getting there during the night.
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