I downloaded Lynx to book a car to take me to the airport on one of those ridiculously early Ryanair flights. You know the ones.
My address can be tricky to find using google and often I found that the instructions I give on the phone aren't passed on to the driver which in the past resulted in what I absolutely despise doing: talking to people in the morning and directing them to my house.
The idea of Lynx is great: download the app, input your address, arrange a time, pay by card (or cash) and track where your driver is on the app.
You can input your address and support that by a placing a dot on a map. Perfect and fool-proof, right? Well...
About 5mins before the arranged pick up time, my driver is 200meters away. Just up the road. Great, me thinks, I get ready and go downstairs. It's winter and it's raining but he's around the corner so all good.
So there I am, 5mins, 10mins and then...the phone call. Ah crap! I hardly understand the person on the phone but I can guess what he's saying. He's not where he's supposed to be. I try to direct him to the address, he doesn't know the area, I wait another 10mins. I'm very close to just hail a cab at this stage. I'm cold, I'm running late for my flight and I had to talk, several times at this stage to someone who I can hardly understand.
Eventually, the driver finds me and I get dropped to the airport in an old and smelly car. This was the worst service I ever received by any taxi company. I'm not sure whether the driver couldn't access the map with the correct address as I couldn't ask him. I don't know anyone else who's also used the app so I don't know whether this was an isolated incident. I have deleted it however as I really don't wanna find out. read more