Preferred airport/airline coming from midwest

mcat2
Tue, 19 May 2009 12:04:30 +0000

DS preferred BDL/Hartford too. The only downside is that the ticket tends to be slightly more expensive.

A related question: Once in a while, the CT Limo (which takes you from BDL to NH/Phelps Gate and vice versa) would not come at your reserved time (usually once every two hours). How do you handle this problem if this happens to you? The taxi from BDL to NH costs $111. If there are no other students who happen to be in the same situation (i.e., are “stood up” by CT Limo as well) and are willing to share the taxi cost , it really costs too much to take the taxi by yourself. (BTW, if this happens to you and you ends up paying the taxi fare together with other students, I heard it may be a big hassle to get back the money from CT Limo.)

I raised this issue because it did happen to us at least two times in the past. And I wonder whether you have some better idea. Most students are not old enough to rent a car.

A year or two ago, some students (maybe together with some student organization like YCC) tried to establish an alternative Limo service. The “experiment” failed only after one or two services I think ;-( Is the potential trouble mostly caused by the fact that the business volume is not large enough? SuperShuttle.com never fails us where we live.

I think this is one of the (rarely happened) unpleasant “Yale experiences” for an OOS student!