Firstly, this company DO NOT have their own drivers, they an agency that contract out their pick ups to a 3rd part.
If i could give a minus score I would, we booked and paid for a pick up to take my wife and myself to Gatwick airport, which was all confirmed 3 months prior to our departure, and re confirmed a week before departure,
The agreed pick up time came and went, tried to call the driver on the number supplied, which went direct to the divers messenger service, it's now 20 mins after the agreed pick up time, I called direct to Onward Travel Solutions, after a few phone conversations i was informed that the instructions had not been received by the sub contracted taxi firm and that the quickest we could get a taxi would be a minimum of 45 mins, which would not work due to the time left and the time we had to get to Gatwick to check in for our flight, this meant we had to drive ourselves down to Gatwick,
The agent at Onward Travel Solutions said that when we get back keep the receipt of the car park as they would reimburse us for the car parking cost incurred as this was not our fault, so we jumped into the car straight away and drove to Gatwick.
To be fair they did reimburse the outbound travel cost as well as the return cost.
on our return I duly contacted Onward Travel Solutions and was instructed to send the receipt for the car park and they would reimburse me accordingly , however on inspection of my bank account a fraction of the amount of the car parking fee was paid, I duly called the company to discuss this further, and was told that they will only reimburse any additional costs over an above the original cost of the original fair. (this was NOT explained to me at the time ), therefore I was not intituled to the full cost of the car parking fee, or the addition fuel cost I incurred getting down to Gatwick (which they brought up as I had not considered this ) , therefore they said I was not in their opinion not out of pocket.
I asked to talk to a manager, but was informed that I was in fact talking to the duty manager , I asked to talk to their boss, I was informed that that was the MD, I asked to be put through to the MD so I could talk this through and sort this out, but was informed that the MD was not in the office today, I then asked when would the MD be in? , which they could not tell me, I asked for the MD email address which was refused, and that I should send my email complaint to the MD direct into the sales office , which I was not prepared to do, it was only after more discussion that I was told that the MD would give me a call in an hour or so, and that all of the details of my complaint would be sent to the MD for review, later I received an email from the MD saying that he did not understand why I had been paid an amount towards the car park fee, I then quoted his company policy on this and pointed out the reason why, and that I was still out of pocket due to the additional fuel costs of getting down to Gatwick,
The MD responded that in their opinion they disagreed, I then called again to try and talk to the MD, and was informed that the MD was at Lunch and that I was only to communicate with the MD via email ONLY, - funny that, as the MD was not meant to be in the office today,
So, I can only deduce, is that this company's senior manager don't want to talk to his customers and that moving forward their customer engagement and complaint procedure need so be seriously reviewed.
It goes to say that I will NEVER use this company again and will not recommend them to anyone, and if asked why I will tell them of this woeful case read more