I used Royal Crown Taxis to help transport me from my home, to Manchester Airport ahead of a recent…read moretrip to Manchester Airport, having been giving the cheapest quote from them in a mini-bus.
Since the Uber revolution, I normally have hated using taxis but sadly with Uber's inability to prebook and with it being hard to get a taxi in Middleton on the best of days, let alone trying to get a mini-bus very early in the morning, I had to go with Royal Crown on this occasion.
It might be useful to know they have two contact numbers, with both still being in action after Royal and Crown merged to create a larger taxi firm, which still seems to lack behind Connect Cars and Diamond Cars when considering the biggest firm in Middleton. The numbers for Royal and Crown are:
0161 643 0000
0161 643 6464
Using two numbers, helps to ensure you get through quickly as soon as possible which definitely beats other firms including the likes of Middleton Cars, a smaller rival to Royal Crown who seem harder to get in touch of, with only a single number in use.
Royal Crown are based on Lakeland Court in the Langley area of Middleton, but they seem to have taxis all over the town.
The driver who came to pick me up, getting there seemed a little rude and impatient, as when I was picking my friend up, also going to the airport he just got out of the car, walking up and down and staring into the window, which was quite rude considering they did only take literally minutes to get to the door, and it was a shame he didn't wait patiently, and try to build some conversation and show some good levels of customer service.
I was also upset to have to also pay the £2 to get into the car park to drop me off, as well as the fare which was frustrating.
On my way back, it was also concerning, I'd gave the details of my return journey to my driver, and I actually was not contacted by the company to update me on my taxi, so was sat outside the airport 10 or so minutes after arriving in Manchester from Paris on time, and going through baggage security, which shown they didn't track the flight as promised.
The mini-bus picking me up, on both journeys didn't seem very nice, they were simply not nice vechiels and quite old, having used an UberXL before, which is like a mini-bus, I found them much nicer, cleaner and the drivers much nicer so this was a shame.
Due to the level of service provided by Royal Crown and the quality of both the journey and the car, I sadly would not recommend them in the future, as they seemed to be less reliable and trust-worthy especially on services which are pre-booked and to Manchester Airport, which is a shame as especially at this time of the year, they should be trying hard to be the best, not the worst company transporting passengers from Middleton to the Airport.