These have risen to $4 per hour/$14 per day 
(previously $3 per hour/$12 per day).
Excluding GST, the previous hourly rate of $2.73 might have been raised by say, 10% to cover the cost of living, raising the hourly rate from $2.73 to $3.00, then adding the GST makes the hourly rate $3.30. One has to wonder about the difference between $3.30 and $4.00 and who in Council is getting it.
Should you feel aggrieved by the increase, you should let Council know.....I'm sure they'd agree and lower the rate to something more respectable.
A very unfair system. Over priced and very difficult to pull $14 in correct change out of your wallet or car. It's almost as if they are counting on it, just for the fines. For those like myself who don't live local it would be nice to have the option to buy parking permit stickers from council. Or at the very least the option to get a ticket from the machine at the beach and pay online within a few days. Maybe WV could look into something for windsurfers who don't live local to the bay!
Elwood parking machines take credit cards. Doesn't Green Point? Always feels less painful to just whip out a credit card rather than parting with $14 of coins (which I never have enough of anyway).
Wasnt there some sort of print it yourself Bayside sticker posted here a little while back???
"you can buy a year permit from bayside council, it was $160 last time i saw."
Well, when I tried last year, yes and no. Yes if you are a resident in Bayside and can prove it with a driving license or rate notice. No without a license or rate notice.
Surelly it would make good business sense for council to sell these permits to non-baysiders? $14 insane! It is a worrying trend around the bay, it has made me think twice about going to the bay.
This topic has been done to death. Read carefully as the post below will potentially solve all your problems.
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/Victoria/Bayside-Beach-Parking/
y sorry i see it now on their website.
I didn't think it was always this way.
Non-residents are unable to purchase Beach parking permits.
There is free parking either along beach road for Dendy St beach, or on Beach Road all along Hampton beach.
Green point and Ricketts: not so much,
but i think you can park at the top of the cliff at Ricketts, maybe on an opposite residential street, and carry your stuff down the stairs.
Green point you might be able to carry it across from Brighton Station carpark.
I've carried my kit a lot further.
Well you could hock yourself to the eyeballs and buy a grossly overpriced property in bayside and get a free sticker!!!
You do realise this policy is all about keeping that Bonno Blaster riff raff away from our superior beaches 
Drive south. Once you pass frankston you can park on the foreshore for free all the way to portsea!
It was interesting to note today that Kingston Council have a $3.00 per hour/$11.00 per day parking fee.
