WHY AIRPORT TRANSFERS INSTEAD OF TAXIS, UBER OR PUBLIC TRANSPORT?

• Your driver will wait for you in the arrival hall. Once you have collected your luggage, maybe huge and heavy, you will not have to go around the airport to look for the taxi stand and do the queue (often long) to get into a car. Or even worse, you won’t have to look for buses or train stations, queue for tickets and walk with luggage to the departure point. Furthermore, should the flight be delayed, the driver will wait for you anyway, without additional charges, as all the flights are constantly checked (this is the reason for which you need to provide arrival flight number on the booking application).
• No risk of being overcharged by dishonest drivers. To who has never happened to run into an abusive driver, or in a taxi with a tampered taxi-meter, and pay twice or three times more the actual cost of the ride? This eventuality is particularly frequent after landing in a country for the first time, perhaps without knowing the language, the roads and the actual costs of the services in the city that we are visiting. The abusive drivers, but also regular taxi drivers, know this very well and usually they do not hesitate to shamelessly take advantage from such situation. In the absence of effective controls from the authorities, all over the world, our only defense is to book an airport transfer well before leaving our home country, as the rate printed on the confirmation e-mail will be exactly the amount to pay.
• Airport transfers have fixed-price (no taxi-meter). As already mentioned, the rate written in the booking confirmation e-mail matches exactly what you will pay, regardless of red stop lights, detours, traffic, bad weather or any other type of unexpected event. Therefore, the budget for your travels will more protected, since there will be less unexpected expenses as well.
• Once you booked an airport transfer, the service is guaranteed. Once you get the e-mail confirmation of the airport transfer, the availability of the service is formally guaranteed, which is not obvious if you travel without a reservation or if you look for a taxi on the spot, perhaps (imprudently) even last minute. Did you ever call a taxi to go to the airport, and this came after a whole hour? Holding a confirmed transfer reservation, the driver will arrive exactly at the booked time and there will be no risk of “sold-out” or late transport, neither during peak days or times.
• Airport transfers are often cheaper. The prices of airport transfers, especially on longer distances, are much more convenient compared to taxi (for a short ride between 2 addresses in the same city, a taxi or Uber may be cheaper, but when the distance become 20, 30, 40 miles and beyond, perhaps along extra-urban roads, airport transfers becomes progressively more and more convenient). And airport transfers may be convenient also compared to public transport. Suppose that from Milan city you need to get to Milan Malpensa airport and you are a family or a group of friends of 5 people.
• Flexible payment methods. If you wish, you can pay for the ride at the time of booking, so you can travel with less cash and without the need to rush to a money change agency as soon as you land at the destination airport. And if you need to cancel, no problem, the payment is refunded without any charge. The payment is of course still possible also in cash or with a credit card to the driver, as long as this payment method is allowed by the agency where you are booking.