Originally Posted by
Duke787
Bumping up this thread. Does anyone have experience with these folks for an MXP to Lake Como (Bellagio specifically) car transfer
http://www.airportcitytransfer.com/t...-in-milan.html
They are significantly below the other companies I've searched so I'd like to use them but want to make sure they aren't priced so low because of some big negative I'm missing.
It looks to be company based in the UK that does airport transfers throughout Europe? Perhaps they are just the middleman and would book us via a 3rd party taxi?
Almost all car services in Italy are run by middle men. For the most part, car services only exist on the internet.
Some of the ones in Italy are just a guy operating a website out of an apartment in Atlantic City, New Jersey, London, Berlin, or anywhere else but Italy. When someone books a ride with them, they see if they have know drivers in that city, and they send them a text.
Each driver is probably enrolled in 5-10 car services. Except for rare cases, there is no real car service company, with actual cars and employees. It comes down to who the guy in the UK calls whether he is on time, doesn't show up, or shows up drunk. The guy operating the website in the UK doesn't have any control over anything, and never met any of the drivers.
Companies like this don't even own a car. It's just a website. Note that on their web-site they advertise that they can pick you up at the airport in Brisbane or Perth, Australia, Salzburg or Vienna, Austria, from Montenegro and Morocco, Istanbul, Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Geneva, Majorca, or wherever. It's not an actual company with an office, cars, and drivers
They are all paper companies, or websites. You book with them, and they try to contact a driver in that city. It's not a company with a fleet of cars in airports all around the world. It's a guy in an apartment with a website. You take our chances with any of them. They may know a reliable driver in Rijeka airport in Croatia, one of the airports they claim to serve, a somewhat reliable driver in Sharm El Sheik airport in Egypt, another one of their airports, and and an unreliable one in Vilnius, Lithuania, another place where they are, "located."
Car services are guys in Manhattan or Manchester who have a website. You give them your credit card info, and they try to find a driver for you. This one seems particularly ambitious because he claims to be able to pick you up at the airport anywhere from Civitavecchia (the cruise terminal in Rome), to Cancun, Mexico.
From the area code, he runs a website out of London. For sure, he has never met any of his drivers in Istanbul. Nobody can provide a rating of this company because he claims to have cars in Malta, Mauritius, and Milan, and he doesn't. You are not hiring his companyd, you are hiring whatever driver he happens to be able to find for you in the 75 places around the world that he claims to have cars in.
Do something simple. Call them up in London, and ask for their address. I'll bet they barely understand english, and will refuse to provide you their address, because the company does not exist. It's just a website.