Save your money: taxi

mardi 28 avril 2015

Small tips !

On 11:29 by Mélanie Mottier in bars, clothes, food, freezing, offpeak, payment, street, taxi, Transport, walk No comments

SAVE YOUR MONEY EVERYDAY

In this article I will give you several small tips that you can apply to make small savings!

First, freezing! Freeze your prepared food or food you can not eat before the expiration date can help you save some money on food and on top of that it avoids waste!

Bring your own plastic bag! The bags are not free, of course they are only 5 pennies but buy them regularly can increase the amount and moreover it is better for the environment!

Off peak hours! Especially with the train, avoid traveling during peak hours, tickets are more expensive and in addition there are more people that's less enjoyable. Similarly for taxis, some hours are to be avoided, such as weekend evenings, it is more expensive and more difficult to find a taxi!

Don’t go shopping (food) every day, set yourself one day a week and for shopping and with a budget, it will avoid you to buy everything and anything.

Use your little coins in automatic machines, instead of piling them into a corner the 1, 2 and 5 pennies can sometimes be helpful!

Walk ! Glasgow city can easily be explored by walking from one point to an other if you take the time. It makes you do some exercise and it is nicer than being crowded into a bus or subway full and paying!

mardi 24 février 2015

Tip 3 : Hampden Taxis

On 14:53 by Mélanie Mottier in apps, taxi, Transport No comments

The city of Glasgow is mostly accessible by walking, but sometimes you want to travel a little farther away and you have to choose another kind of transport. If you do not have a car four possibilities are available for you:

Train: interesting for the long journey from one city to another
Subway: interesting to move from the city center to the west end, but the metro is closed the night
Buses: serve the entire city for prices generally below 2 pound, do not work all night
Taxi: Transport available anytime, relatively High Price

The bus remains the most appropriate transport, but do you think it is the cheapest?

When you are a group of friends I recommend you to use the taxi: 3 or 4 bus tickets are as expensive as a taxi divide by the number of passengers. The advantage is that it will take you wherever you want and you don’t have to walk after.The taxi is more profitable when you are a lot of person.

Here's my tip to spend less by taxi: The free application for smartphone, Hampden cars

This application permit you to order a taxi with your smartphone, these taxis are cheaper than the taxi you can find in the street!

How to use it?

First you have to register and give user details: First name, Surname, Telephone number and e-mail address
Once registered you can book a taxi simply and quickly.

How to order a taxi, step by step:

1. Open the application

2. Click on “Start booking “

3. Enter the pickup address: click on “Search” and write the correct address or the name of the place you are (It could be a house, a street, a restaurant, a nightclub etc.). The application will display some suggestion select the good one.

4. Enter the drop-off address (The same as the pickup address)

5. Choose your ASAP : pickup date and time

6.Book

7. Check the status of your booking :

- Confirmed : your booking has been made you have to wait for someone to take charge of it

- Accepted : the taxi should be on its way, you have to wait

- Cancelled : your booking can’t be supported, you have to try again later

During this time you will receive a message on your phone and/or an e-mail, two kinds of possibility:

- “The car is on its way” You booking just be accepted, you will find in the message the model and colour of the car, with the license plate.

- “We are sorry, we have no car available …” your booking just be cancelled you have to find another solution or wait.

8.You can track your taxi and follow his route until it arrives

9.The taxi is here, the driver just check your name , and go