Addison Lee buys Tristar – and get £10-£20 off your first Addison Lee app bookings

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• Roger says:

  4 Jul4 July 06:29

  I’d like to get an estimated price/quotation, something I can easily do on the Uber website.

  I’ve played around with the AL website, and it seems the only way to find out, if at all, is to sign up for an account and book. Surely not?!

  • tony says:

    4 Jul4 July 06:44

    You don’t need to book but you do need an account & have to go so far as telling them what time you want the car before it will confirm the price. Advantage with AL is that the price is fixed (no time element) and – unlike the fixed fares on Gett – you will get a driver at that price.

• Mike says:

  4 Jul4 July 06:59

  I always assumed that AL got most of their business from corporations. I always seem to end up with them when I have work travel anyway (which I don’t book myself).

• Boi says:

  4 Jul4 July 08:07

  OT: what do people think of driving from Leeds to Heathrow ( catching an evening flight)? We have so much luggage and 3 kids in tow so I think train will be too much.

  • N says:

    4 Jul4 July 09:14

    Check europcar one way £1 hires

  • The_Real_A says:

    4 Jul4 July 09:36

    I do it often, and provided you have a comfortable vehicle is perfectly convenient. Remember if you are paying for 1-2 weeks of parking you can often get a hotel+parking deal for very little more. There is an MSE and AMEX credit from holiday extras right now that stacks and gets a substantial discount.

  • Mr Dee says:

    4 Jul4 July 14:16

    Should be easy enough, check JustPark out as well for price comparisons

    • Boi says:

      4 Jul4 July 17:13

      Thanks all. Other half was getting worried about traffic and thinks we may take 6 hours plus!

      • harry says:

        4 Jul4 July 17:59

        Your other half is right, if you’re going to be prudent. in normal traffic it’s 4 hrs. However, you are of course flying. You need to allow extra time for traffic/ accidents then dropping the car off.

        4 hrs journey + 2 hours prudent extra time & car park + 2 hrs check in before flight means you should allow 8 hrs before your flight.

        Cutting it fine means missing your flight, angry family, bad start to holiday, huge extra cost.

        Adding in a bit of extra time = you catch your flight and at worst kick your heels for an hour or so extra, that can be quite pleasant in a lounge.

        • harry says:

          4 Jul4 July 18:13

          Put it this way: in the old days I used to literally fly by the seat of my pants – I loved getting to the airport just in time and breezing onto my flight. Once I forgot my passport in Glasgow, realised & asked check in to hold the flight whilst I drove home to grab it, they said they couldn’t but they did actually hold it once I got back to the check in desk a second time & whisked me to the gate! Plane left 10 mins late but I got my flight.

          Those days are gone. You really do need to allow 2-3 hrs check in time depending on airport – Bristol says 3 hrs and 3 hrs at Bristol is exactly what you need sometimes.

          (Anybody not paying for their flights probably doesn’t care too much lol)

          The only time I ever missed my flight was with my wife & her strange sense of timing, & who still insists on cutting it fine.

          Guess what? A few months ago I got a strangulated call from my wife asking me to change her car park booking to chauffeur meet @ airport so that she could actually catch her flight. She won’t learn.

          Don’t be a ‘cuts it fine’ if you are with your family & paying for everything with your own money!

  • Fenny says:

    4 Jul4 July 18:18

    There are roadworks on the M1 between J20 and J18 and the bottom part tends to get very busy at certain times. If you come off at J20 (Lutterworth) and take the A5 down as far as the A43 at Towcester, you can then either rejoin the M1 or cut down the A43 to the M40, which is usually much less busy.

• Roger says:

  6 Jul6 July 11:20

  Thanks to Tony upthread who said: ‘You don’t need to book but you do need an account & have to go so far as telling them what time you want the car before it will confirm the price’. I did just that and got to the Thank You screen.

  Since then, nothing. The credit check can’t be taking two days, so I’m left wondering if they don’t want my non-West End address.

  Anyway, if I can’t even get an estimate – unlike Uber – I’m unlikely to bother with them.

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