TODAY ONLY: Win £200 of chauffeur drive credit with Blacklane

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• Steve says:

  29 Jun29 June 06:20

  I am really surprised that head for points is promoting this company. Their app is appauling and for anyone living outside the M25 their prices are ridiculous

• Paul says:

  29 Jun29 June 07:48

  Have entered and would love to win as it is the only way I would use them. Priced from my home to t5 and they are more than double the local taxi service. They also limit bags to 2 and passengers to 3 in an E or even an S class. No good to families.

  • Rob says:

    29 Jun29 June 08:32

    Not sure that would be a like for like comparison, unless your local cab company is running a Mercedes fleet!

    The comparison with Uber I did was a like for like against an Uber Mercedes and it was virtually the same.

  • HpW says:

    29 Jun29 June 12:03

    I have used them many times and can confirm they are really good. Slight premium over my local cab service, but far superior. Plenty of promotions as well , which help.

    Vehicle guaranteed, drivers always friendly and they are ok with being flexible on bags. My wife and I, along with our baby son, travelled back with them from LHR last week and had one full size case, stroller and four pieces of hand luggage. All in an E class.

    They have V class vans available as well.

• Ian says:

  29 Jun29 June 07:54

  Interested in any experience of using this service versus Tristar.

• Chris Schofield says:

  29 Jun29 June 10:00

  Never heard of this company… tried to do a quote.

  1) Doesn’t seem to accept postcodes.
  2) Tried Street address instead. Says “Please add a house number”. I don’t have a house number.
  3) Put in a dummy number of someone nearby. “Sorry we can’t find your address”

  How hard does it need to be?

  • Rob says:

    29 Jun29 June 10:42

    Lack of postcodes is a bit odd although, to be fair, I never use a postcode when putting an address into Uber, possibly because I will be on my phone at the time and unlikely to have the postcode handy.

    • Chris Schofield says:

      29 Jun29 June 11:46

      I tend to use postcode all the time – I’ll be chatting to someone on whatapp for example and if I need to get a car to them, I’ll ask what their post code is, not “what’s your full address and mother’s maiden name” 🙂

• Jon says:

  29 Jun29 June 10:11

  6PA

  • Rob says:

    29 Jun29 June 10:43

    🙂

• Matthew says:

  29 Jun29 June 10:57

  I’ve made a booking with them for a trip to LHR tomorrow. Original price of £53 more or less exactly the same as Uber Exec but with £10 discount via promo code 6C45N80Z it’s only £8 more than Uber X.

  I’ve experienced a fairly sharp decline in the quality of vehicles used by Uber so on the lookout for an alternative. Will report back with my experience.

  • Matthew says:

    1 Jul1 July 16:41

    Spotlessly clean brand new Merc E-class arrived 10 mins early. Driver was friendly and got me there safely and in good order so I’m pretty happy to recommend their services. Return trip tomorrow will provide me with another data point.

• whiskerxx says:

  29 Jun29 June 11:38

  Good luck everyone.
  I did consider entering just to use the car for a supermarket sweep, but thought someone else might get better value.
  I did also look up some prices on the website.
  At £282 one way for the 113 mile trip I make to Heathrow I doubt I will be using them anytime soon.
  Anyone living around Kensington might be more interested!

• Susan says:

  29 Jun29 June 13:51

  Just priced them up for my next trip (home to FCO) – €30 more than our regular Mercedes transfer so unlikely to use them again.

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