Super Shuttle made a stupid mistake to begin with and did a terrible job to solve the issue. I booked a super shuttle from Cancun airport to hotel zone, and another from a Cancun hotel near bus terminal center to the airport on the Super Shuttle website, one week before my trip. The drop-off and pick-up addresses are not the same, so I did not book a round-trip. Instead, I booked the from-airport and to-airport trips separately. But they still messed up.
Our trip from the airport to hotel zone was fine. We waited for about 20 minutes and the van was very full, but that was not unexpected.
When we left Cancun, I had the worst experience ever with Super Shuttle. Our flight was at 8:30 am and the website told me to expect my driver to arrive at my hotel at 4:30 - 4:45 am. The day before the trip I did not receive any emails from super shuttle to confirm the trip, so I called using my Mexican cell phone number for at least five times during the day, the evening and right before sleep in order to confirm that the driver will show up as what was "agreed on" on my reservation. But nobody at their Cancun airport ever picked up the phone. Well, maybe they will just show up. So in the morning we waited for the shuttle from 4:30 to 4:55 at the hotel lobby. But no drivers showed up. I tried to call the super shuttle at Cancun airport about my reservation to double-check the trip, and again, nobody ever answered the phone. Then I called the customer service number I happened to see on the website. Someone pickup the call and told me that the driver went to the hotel where they dropped us off!!! He was surprised that we changed our hotel. OMG! How could you assume that people do not change their hotel during their vacation?!! He claimed that I may have filled out a wrong address for him!! Excuse me?! I have my hard-copy confirmation page in front of me which showed that the pick- up address I filled out online is the correct hotel address, where I was expecting to see the shuttle! He tried to blame on me for a few minutes including having the hotel staff double-checking the hotel address, and then he said that no driver would go to my hotel area and he would refund the amount I paid for the reservation. Then the phone suddenly got cut off. I did not call him back because we had to rush to the airport and I thought the full refund was the best he could do that that time.
We finally managed to find a taxi and arrived the airport before it was too late. Anyways, it was all right as long as we did not miss our flight. Well, I thought is was ridiculous for them to make such an assumption, but I thought it was normal for people to make a mistake. They can basically fix it and move on. HOWEVER, that was not the end of my terrible experience with super shuttle.
About one week later, they did not refund me, so I called the customer service. I talked to a lady, and she asked about what exactly happened and said someone would contact me about the issue and give me a refund. But they NEVER did! One month later, still no refund received. So I called them, and waited on the customer service line for ever to speak to to someone; in return, they asked me to call them back during the following day to talk to someone in a particular department.
I have tried to call them more than eight times to get someone to talk to me using my international phone. I also have called them two times and at least once more to get the refund from the US. Why on the earth, I, the consumer, who is doing everything I can to solve the issue, has to push so hard in order to get the $20 refund????!!!!! Is this a joke?
My perception is that Super Shuttle DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR CUSTOMERS, even after THEY made a mistake. I felt as if I were the person who stood THEM up at 4:30 in the morning in Mexico for the trip to the airport! ! How ridiculous! I have been using super shuttle for my personal and business trips for over three years. This is how they treat loyal customers!
My recommendations? DO NOT USE THEM!!! if you know alternatives.
But, IF you still want to use Super Shuttle Cancun, as you may not know any other companies, here are my recommendations:
1. Always double-check with them. When you get a chance to talk to super shuttle in person at the airport (when you leave for your hotel) double-check your pick up location with them. They DO NOT read the information you filled out in the system. Do not assume that they are reliable!
2. If your drop off and pick up addresses are different, again, double-check when you see them, and/or check that before you leave the US, because a) their Cancun airport phone number doesn't work! b) They would assume that your pick-up and drop-off addresses are the same.
Good luck. Enjoy your trip! read more