The Best Ride in New York

With the Euro to Dollar exchange rate being so good at the moment there are more reasons than ever for Irish people to take a short trip to New York. Indeed the numbers who make the journey every year is already astounding considering the size of the population.

Having never been to New York the mental image of a yellow cab is the one that sticks in my mind when I think about taxi/hackney type services.

While reading the Blank Top Chronicles blog recently I saw somebody mention a car service which seemed to be something different to a taxi service.

Looking it up on the web it appears that the closest comparision to it here is a hackney service. However a car service can be more than that too. One I found was Dial 7, which is cutely called 'the best ride in town' by New York Magazine. They guarantee to provide a reliable Newark, JFK, Westchester and LaGuardia airport car service.

The cars seem fancier than the type generally used as hackneys here in Ireland and Dial 7 describes itself as a car and limousine service. They accept online reservations too so it is possible to make a booking to have a driver waiting for you when you arrive in New York.

What I think is a really nice feature about Dial 7’s airport pick-up service is that you are given a free phone number which you can ring to be directed to your driver upon arrival.