My experience with Blacklane chauffeur cars – with 10% discount

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• Rob says:

  11 Apr11 April 12:07

  She works for me, she is a woman travelling on her own and her safety and security is top of my list.

  • Wivus says:

    11 Apr11 April 13:21

    Company policy for us when travelling to Non-E.U, U.S. destinations. All staff, male or female, have a car booked by the hotel if they are not being collected by suppliers or hiring a car. For the sake of a couple of hundred pounds extra over the year we deem it prudent.

  • Roger I* says:

    11 Apr11 April 21:05

    Understood, Rob. Good points from a responsible employer.

    But they do seem to reduce the value of your promotion of Uber, unless tagged with an asterisk saying ‘ recommended for males only’ or similar.

    I almost feel sorry for asking.

• RoyC says:

  11 Apr11 April 12:27

  I’ve used Blacklane several times and they’ve consistently provided an excellent service in several locations. Yes, Uber will be cheaper if available, but you’re not comparing like for like.
  If it’s your first booking and you have several trips to book, then do them all together and all trips are given the 10% discount. Well it did with me.

• N says:

  11 Apr11 April 12:29

  OT – LYS Airport, is the tram the only way to/fro the airport? 50eur for 2 people return is daylight robbery

• Jeremy says:

  11 Apr11 April 12:43

  OT but your opinion is greatly appreciated. Would you recommend ANA (All Nippon Airways) or Lufthansa Business class for a flight from Europe to Japan?

  • chris says:

    11 Apr11 April 14:50

    My vote would be ANA definitely …

    ANA is 121 lufthansa is 2:2:2. ANA is japanese efficient and has similar seats to emirates (not the wood effect but the layout) Also no German airport change and lounge which is often a grim experience.

• Bob M says:

  11 Apr11 April 13:39

  Delighted to say thanks to the advice on here I now have a BA 241 voucher in my Executive Club account and my wife has one in hers.

  If we want to use both of these to book a family holiday flight do I need to make 2 bookings with one voucher on each?

  • Genghis says:

    11 Apr11 April 13:48

    Yes

  • Rob says:

    11 Apr11 April 15:00

    Yes, two bookings. This is an issue if one of you has status and can select seats for free and one of your doesn’t.

    If both vouchers were in your name, eg one from the current year and one from last year, you could use them both at once.

    • Bob M says:

      11 Apr11 April 16:15

      Thanks both of you.
      No status involved so should be a straightforward procedure.

• S879 says:

  11 Apr11 April 14:54

  OT: I am doing the Hilton Diamond challenge and still have a few stays to do. I also work in the public sector. I know points stays count. If I book a stay with the Hilton Public sector discount, would it still count? Lastly, if I add my husband as an additional guest and he does the stay without me (won’t use the Public sector code for that), would that be fine?

  • Rob says:

    11 Apr11 April 14:59

    Yes, both fine – best if your husband pretends you are arriving later though, just in case they swap the name on the booking to his which would invalidate the points. Happened to me at an IHG once.

    • S879 says:

      11 Apr11 April 16:31

      Thanks Rob

• Caleb Wong says:

  11 Apr11 April 19:13

  How many times can you do Hilton Diamond challenge? And can you do a Diamond challenge if you are already one?

  • S879 says:

    12 Apr12 April 11:50

    I am doing this the 2nd time. Not sure how many times you are allowed but when I enquiried they replied to say I could take the challenge if my first challenge was before 19th July 2016.

• Talay says:

  12 Apr12 April 01:44

  Flew 4 x Etihad flights in the last couple of weeks and boy are the planes showing their age.

  The 777s from AUH to BKK are like something out of the ark and even the A380s are looking tired. I have photos of sticky tape holding things together and the arm on my seat simply fell off as the screws had unwound from the underneath. The plane wasn’t clean either.

  Spirits downgraded again to “Russian standard” or whatever crap that is supposed to be, wine must be sub £5 a bottle now, mezze offering is shocking compared to what it was years ago and overall the offering is going to the dogs.

  Even staff are now (presumably cheaper) East Europeans who try but are out of their depth and ill trained. Worse, the A380s are severely understaffed and more than once I had to go walkabout to find someone when my light went unanswered.

  An honest opinion is that they now need to be a significant discount to Emirates or Qatar to retain business and that is going to mean even more cuts.

  Are they doomed ?

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