It was a special occasion splurge which I regret reserving. Anastasia assured me while booking that all limos are up to date, high-functioning and very clean. Cleanliness was my main concern. On the day of, we were sent a limo that looked and felt like it hadn't been cleaned in several uses. It was filthy. There were crumbs all over, spatters of liquid running down the inside of the windows, doors and bar area and general filth throughout. It was hard not to let it get to us. The handle of one of the doors had hot glue or gorilla glue seeping down from it, the sunroof, TV, CD player and wall dividing us from the driver were broken. The driver, John said that there was a prom the weekend before and the kids broke it. So......why are you still sending out this limo?
I intended to reach out to management, explain our experience and request some kind of compensation. Most importantly, I wanted them to know how dirty and unkept it was in hopes they could prevent this experience for other passengers in the future. What started out as a disappointing experience turned into an infuriating one which I now wish I had never started in the first place.
The following is the actual timeline of events I experienced JUST so that I could speak with someone. (lol!)
April 4: Emailed Prestige Limousine (PL) regarding our experience and sent legit photos of all the filth and broken parts.
April 6: I called PL to follow-up on email I had sent. Spoke with Sal who assured me that my email had been forwarded to the manager, Linda who would be responding soon. (Sal was a friendly and easy-to-talk to employee, regardless of the difficulty getting through to Linda).
April 8: I sent a follow-up email to PL requesting to be contacted.
At this point I found myself caring a lot less about the wasted money and more about just being taken seriously.
April 10: I called PL again, spoke with Sal and was told that the manager would be calling me in 1-2 days.
(I waited 3 more days and got nothing.)
April 13, 10:30am: called for a third time (yes I'm sure they were sick of me, but probably not as sick as I was for having to waste so much time trying to reach someone). I spoke with Sal (again) and was told that the manager would be in that afternoon and get to the bottom of this. Sal had been informing me that Linda knew what was going on and that the limo driver had already been confronted over a week prior.
April 13: 4:30pm In fear of the store closing and missing the manager AGAIN, I called one last time. Finally I was firm and said, I need to speak with the manager who I was told would be in this afternoon. Eventually I was connected with her! Hurray! But no hurray. She said she didn't recognize my name nor hear anything about my experiences or read any of my emails. WHAT? Ok- I don't care who said or didn't say what, but ultimately someone lied to my face. Or to my ear at least. After a lot of talk back and forth and what sounded like a lot of excuses, I was offered $50. A very small fraction of what we paid that day, but I took it; I was exhausted.
The $50 was not enough to prevent me from writing this review. The entire experience with Prestige Limousine was outrageously unprofessional and I would have liked to know that before choosing to give them my business.
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