[Grammar] a/the parking lot for a visitor/visitors

[Snappy]

Situation: I want to invite a friend of mine to my apartment. My friend can visit me by car.

In the above situation, are the following sentences okay?
1. You can park your car in a parking lot for a visitor. (I feel that this sentence is okay if there is a visitor’s parking lot but my friend does not know about it.)
2. You can park your car in the parking lot for a visitor.
3. You can park your car in the parking lot for visitors. (I feel that 2. And 3. are okay if I want to denote that there is only one visitor’s parking lot.)

I would like to hear native speakers’ opinion.
[FONT=&quot]Thank you in advance.[/FONT]

 

[Barb_D]

Try one of these two:
You can park in the visitors' lot.
There is a visitors' lot you can park in.

 

[bhaisahab]

Situation: I want to invite a friend of mine to my apartment. My friend can visit me by car.

In the above situation, are the following sentences okay?
1. You can park your car in a parking lot for a visitor. (I feel that this sentence is okay if there is a visitor’s parking lot but my friend does not know about it.)
2. You can park your car in the parking lot for a visitor.
3. You can park your car in the parking lot for visitors. (I feel that 2. And 3. are okay if I want to denote that there is only one visitor’s parking lot.)

I would like to hear native speakers’ opinion.
[FONT=&quot]Thank you in advance.[/FONT]

I would use #3.

 

[TheParser]

Situation: I want to invite a friend of mine to my apartment. My friend can visit me by car.

In the above situation, are the following sentences okay?
1. You can park your car in a parking lot for a visitor. (I feel that this sentence is okay if there is a visitor’s parking lot but my friend does not know about it.)
2. You can park your car in the parking lot for a visitor.
3. You can park your car in the parking lot for visitors. (I feel that 2. And 3. are okay if I want to denote that there is only one visitor’s parking lot.)

I would like to hear native speakers’ opinion.
[FONT=&quot]Thank you in advance.[/FONT]

***NOT A TEACHER***Snappy, good afternoon. If you ever visit the United States, you will be amused to learn that Americans spell the parking lot in at least 4 different ways: (1) visitors' parking lot (probably the "correct" way according to the rules. (2) visitor's parking lot. (3) visitors parking lot. (4) visitor parking lot. (Of course, I'm not sure, but I think no. 3 and 4 are the most used. Americans, in general, avoid unnecessary apostrophes and unnecessary plurals.) Have a nice day.