The road in comfort: the winner of the competition advice «iPad for life hacking"
Tips / / December 19, 2019
Winner of competition "Send Layfhaker for the weekend and get the iPad mini"Denis Maltsev spends much time behind the wheel and knows how to make the trip better. You just have a good car, a pleasant conversation and savings. For information on how to find a combination of these factors, Denis tells readers Layfhakera.
BlaBlaCar - is a service that helps the driver find the passengers and to recapture the cost of gasoline, and passengers - to find the driver and save. BlaBlaCar focuses on long-distance trips.
In the spring I perevoz wife and daughter on vacation from Yekaterinburg in Serov, at the same time thinking about traveling to them on the weekend. It is 700 kilometers and a half thousand rubles, filled in the tank car. The solution was BlaBlaCar registration on site.
The first time I made a trip to BlaBlaCar service site on the eve of departure, and did not expect to find travel companions. But two hours three vacant seats were occupied. Over the next four months I saved 17,000 rubles and drove 6000 kilometers. Perevoz 40 passengers - as many seats bus.
road history
I use BlaBlaCar as a driver and I go to visit family. I know that I shall reach from Yekaterinburg to Vladivostok, though, at least to Kaliningrad and not spend a dime on gasoline. Every time I ask myself the question: "Who will make me company?". Trip reminiscent journey with friends. Most of my fellow travelers - nice sociable people, gloomy undecideds are rare.
In the first trip with me driving 18-year-old Ilya. He plays defense for the junior football club hometown "Ural", whose matches I look nine years. We talked about the limit on foreign players and football agents.
Another time I was driving the girls home in Yekaterinburg. Wife asked to take a companion, because we had one empty seat. I drove to the house of Oleg and saw a tanned man with snow-white smile. By the standards of the provincial Serov, he looked boldly fashionable trousers and brick-colored moccasins. His wife said that Oleg - a local businessman. Two years ago, he sold off assets, immigrated to Italy and took up gardening. From the conversation with him, I learned that to buy a house on 2 acres of land in the vicinity of Rome, less than 20 acres in the vicinity of Yekaterinburg. We talked about ways to clean swimming pools, the tourist industry and breaking the Russian mentality abroad. Oleg in gratitude gave me a lemon with his Italian plantations.
Hitcher Nikolay a year BlaBlaCar use as a passenger. Every weekend, he travels the route Yekaterinburg - Serov - Yekaterinburg. During this time, he had only three times to buy a bus ticket. BlaBlaCar Service Oleg became a self-sufficient way to travel.
Advantages and details
When necessary, I'll go through the service as a passenger, because it is more profitable than to use the bus or the train. The trip from Ekaterinburg to Serov bus costs 850 rubles and lasts five and a half hours. During this time, it flows into a spin, and the smell of diesel fuel begins to feel dizzy. Car trip with BlaBlaCar costs 450 rubles and takes four hours. You will ride on the Mercedes with leather interior, or on my Volkswagen with air conditioning and heated seats, enjoy the cool 30-degree heat and warm in the cold.
Not all drivers and machines are ideal. Passengers tell stories about forty years of VAZ "six" with faulty brakes. About the drivers, who are listening to chanson, so that the ears are wrapped into a tube. To avoid such incidents, service BlaBlaCar developed protection: after each trip companions leave reviews. Read them and you'll see how adequate companion, whether he is punctual, what music to listen to, I talk to him interesting. And thanks to the option "only for women" women traveling in the car without the presence of men.
That your trip was enjoyable, I gave the advice for drivers and passengers. Catch!
7 tips for drivers
- Complete your profile. Passengers will see with whom and on what will go. You get the advantage against a background of faceless proposals of other drivers.
- Put a competitive price. Cheap look attractive. Flexible approach to pricing. If the time until the start of the trip remains little to reduce the price.
- Bleed profile. If you do not travel, set the price below the market. For one or two trips you get the first reviews.
- Leave feedback. So a chance to review the response will increase.
- Describe the trip. Whence we leave, where will take a companion, arrival time, whether on the road stop. Keep them short and informative.
- Learn to negotiate. Agree on a time and place, tell the number and brand of car. Phone to a passenger before the trip to confirm plans.
- Be honest. Come to the appointed place on time. If you are late, then be upfront about it.
7 Tips for passengers
- Complete your profile. Experienced drivers will pay attention to the existence of photographs and prefer to passengers who do not hide data.
- Sign up for notifications. You will be notified as soon as the driver will publish a travel along your route.
- Read reviews from other customers. Reviews - this is your protection. You will present a portrait of the driver: that of a man, if he is punctual as the car drives.
- Phoned the driver. You determine its appropriateness and seriousness of intentions.
- Learn more about the car. So you understand the level of comfort, which is important when traveling long distances.
- Find out the number of passengers. Sitting three of us in the back seat Daewoo Matiz damn close.
- Be punctual. Come in advance to ride exactly took place.
Successful trips BlaBlaCar!