British Airport-transfers

Sabrina
5 months ago

I have used this company several times and never had a problem. The cars have always arrived as arranged and are of good quality smart and clean. The return date of our trip in March 2020 was completely changed due to Covid and they changed all our booking with no extra cost to us. We have recently been away again and both pick up and retuen were great. On the return Journey we were picked up in a very clean mercedes driven well by Ovidiu who was happy to help with the luggage. I often travel on my own so its important for the car service to be reliable and I happily use this company.

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Sally
5 months ago

Prices are good. Had to wait a little while in the airport when I returned, but that's partly because the flight arrived early, and they assign a single driver for each trip, so you don't get a pool driver. Overall, friendly, good service.

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Moises
7 months ago

My daughter is an international violinist, though needs wheelchair to get around … and packs a great deal into suitcases ..

Brilliant to have drivers turn up early for agreed time, drive us to the entrance of the airport and do the loading/ unloading of bags/ wheelchair & instruments.

Drivers very jolly & personable and helpful.. big thank you to @Boris who came yesterday. Can pay online, so nothing for my daughter to do when she's travelling on her own.

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Bridget
1 year ago

A joke of a company. Avoid at all costs. We had a transfer booked after travelling from Australia, all agreed in advance. We鈥檇 booked two rear facing car seats for our baby twins, and had even taken a call from the company to advise us to upgrade to a bigger car to accommodate this. On arrival, we were met by the driver and made our way to the car park. Once there we asked to see the car seats and he produced ONE booster seat. Completely unsuitable, leaving us with no way to get home safely. We spoke to the company and they said that they had no other cars – they couldn鈥檛 care less – and so we suggested to the driver that he must know some way of getting the seats delivered to us. He called a friend who turned up 10 minutes later with a selection of what I can only describe as 鈥渃ar seat bits鈥? Just a selection of pieces…. a base here, a cushion there. The driver says 鈥渟o we鈥檙e good?鈥? No chance! We cancelled immediately and made our way back to the terminal. After exhausting every other avenue, we ended up in a London taxi who took us on our 90km journey. This ended up costing us almost double the cost of the booked transfer. They were happy to take our money, talk us into an upgrade, then failed to deliver what we鈥檇 booked. It would have been an inconvenience, but with 6-month old twins in tow it was a disgrace. Disgusting behaviour from all involved. Please avoid and send these clowns out of business at the earliest opportunity.

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Fernando
1 year ago

I was really afraid when already ordered this service and then checked Trustpilot reviews. But everything went smoothly. The driver showed up a little bit earlier, we got to the airport smoothly. Also, I wasn't charged anything because I've got 15 min late. And the price was twice lower than average on the market for my situation (4 big suitcases).

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Joe
1 year ago

My 3:30am car didn't arrive until 4:20am. Calls to the office resulted in false promises. The ride was from London to Gatwick airport, flight at 6:20am. I had been in trouble had I had check-in luggage… They take no responsibility. Avoid.

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Salvador
1 year ago

Disgusting customer behaviour. I used this company a number of times in the past and have found them generally to be ok, albeit consistently turning up 5-10 minutes late. Earlier this week though they texted me less than 24 hours before my return trip with a request to call them urgently (they had my number so why can you not call me?). I called and was explained that due to a cycle tour in London my taxi ride would either be 25 pounds more expensive, be delayed for an hour, or be cancelled if I didn't want to accept either offer. Unfortunately for the company I was very aware of the cycle tour and knew because of the timings it would not cause any significant delays – it was scheduled to be finished almost an hour before our expected arrival in central London. So I refused to pay the increased fare, trying to explain my rationale. Both the call agent and the manager were pretty rude, interrupting my sentences and not letting me speak. I don't appreciate when someone is trying to cheat me, they should have honoured the quote they initially provided as it is common knowledge the cycle tour was scheduled for that date more than a year ago, not last minute. I refuse to be cheated out of money, and I refuse to be spoken to in a rude manner. On the call, I cancelled all future trips I had booked with them and explained I'd refer to pay double or triple their price in order not to deal with them any longer.

Half an hour later they called to ask whether I'd found an alternative and offering to still transport me for the original quote. Naturally, I declined the offer. I'd rather walk if I had to. Also turned out the next day the cycle tour had no impact on my travel time, it took 10 minutes longer than the trip to the airport (which was at 6am on a Sunday so to be expected!) due to a traffic jam in an area where the cycle tour didn't even pass. As expected…

Honestly, don't be tricked into accepting a higher rate. They simply try, and rely on customers thinking they don't have an alternative.

Never ever go with this company, I have learned my lesson!

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Margaret
1 year ago

Ordered a return journey to Gatwick for my partner and child. Asked for a front facing baby seat – there was not one on the 4am journey to the airport. I called to ask why and they apologised and said the return journey would definitely have one. I checked again before the return journey and was assured it would. I then had to change address of return journey – they had to take another journey fee and refund the first which was cheaper even though address was closer. The return journey didn鈥檛 have a child seat. The driver shown my partner a booking screen which had no mention of a child seat. Customer service couldn鈥檛 explain and offered no resolution. Said to email management – I did but over three weeks and no reply. Delboy company, use kabbee instead or Addison Lee.

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Garrett
1 year ago

Our flight was early and the company refused to find us a new driver or organise an earlier pick up which is within 1.5 hours of pick up time as advertised. I will never book a car with them ever again. The manager also spoke to us in an extremely bad attitude and refused to accept oral customer complaints.

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Timothy
1 year ago

We had to wait at Heathrow for 10 minutes before our driver appeared, but our plane was 15 minutes early arriving. Very comfortable car and communicative driver, but my wife and I were concerned about his driving, as his preferred position was one hand on the wheel and the other either rubbing the back of his neck or drinking (coffee or soda we think). Consequently we were wandering slightly from into and out of our lane on the M25. When I mentioned this our driver he did put both hands on the wheel for all of 5 minutes before reverting to his single-handed default position.

There were multiple delays on our route home mainly due to the closure of the M26, but our driver, to his credit, found alternative routes, with the aid of his online phone software and got us home in pretty quick time, for which we were grateful.

We shall use British Airports Transfers again next month, but hopefully we will get a driver who will keep two hands on the wheel!

Booking ref 110219 OMJ

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Neil
2 years ago

One star is too generious! Website price quoted is not what they then call to say. They do not honour the prices quoted – avoid and reported to CMA and Transport For Lonond

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Russell
2 years ago

Website price not honoured.

Their website quoted 拢145 and even booking submission went through. As confirmation was not received for some time I phoned them to confirm. They advised that the ppirce needs to be will be 199 and refused to confirm my booking. They unilaterally cancelled despite me giving them full payment at time of booking. I will never use them again and hope they don't this to others. I will also need to keep an eye to sure that refund comes through and my card details are not misused.

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Rosa
2 years ago

My card was immediately used for fraud once i tried to pay.
DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY>

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Rodolfo
3 years ago

If I could do 0 stars I would. Very unpleasant experience. Tried changing the time for our taxi as the flight was delayed 5 hours they wouldn't let us change the time which means we had to cancel the taxi. This was the full amount of the journey as well as a cancellation fee. Really angry, can't believe a company can be so disrespectful when the flight delay is not in our control. As they are a airport Transfer company I thought they would be understanding with flights being delayed. Angry and upset.

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Parker
4 years ago

We orded a taxi from Northwood to Gatwick and return from Gatwick to Northwood. On both occations the cars arrived on time, they were clean and the drivers were reasonably helpful.
Next time we travel to the airport we will use them.

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Jodie
4 years ago

I booked a pick-up service and didn't receive any confirmation emails or texts. I did check my junk folder many times as well.

On the pick-up day, the driver called me out of the blue and said he was at the airport but I couldn't find him. I didn't use their service at the end but found out today they charged me almost 拢100 without my authorisation.

SCAM. DO NOT USE THEIR SERVICE. AVOID THE HASSLE.

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Lindsey
5 years ago

I used to drive to LHR and Park. I now use British airport transfers. Service is great, price is much cheaper then using my own car.

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