On 4/6/23, we paid £97.74 to park my car for 3 days in the short term parking area at Bristol Airport. We arrived at the due time (4pm) on 3/10/23 and simply could not find a car parking spot. We spent 45 minutes driving round in circles with half a dozen other cars also trying to find a spot. We then phoned the number on our booking sheet only for a woman to tell us that she could not help us and that we had to fill in an online form! With the time of our aircraft project getting closer and closer, we had no alternative other than to park in an unauthorised spot within the short term car parking area which meant that we spent the rest of our holiday worrying what we would find when we got back i.e. the car clamped or indeed towed away. It was an absolutely dreadful start to our city break. I would never again ever use the short term car parking area at Bristol airport because of the stress that it caused