Archiv für » April, 2010
Praise for easyJet…..yes, praise!
Budget airlines always seem to get the rough end of the deal when it comes to reviews and handing out compliments and in the past I have had some not so favourable experiences with the ‘cheaper’ airlines of this world, but I am about to hand out praise to easyJet for their handling of the [...]
In Car iPad
There’s been an awful lot of hype surrounding the recent launch of the Apple iPad, a tablet computer that allows users to undertake normal computer based tasks from what looks like a giant iPhone. I’m sure if you’re interested in the iPad you will already have read all about it, but you might not have [...]
Car hire in Cardiff – Sixt branch profile
Branch History Sixt Cardiff opened in 2010 at the well known premises of Dragon Rescue which is easily located adjacent to the entrance to Cardiff Docks, Sixt Cardiff is managed by Richard Stock who has been involved in the Vehicle Rental Industry for nearly 25 years.
Sixt Cardiff open for business…
We are pleased to announce that our new rental location in Cardiff Bay opened yesterday. The new branch will offer a large fleet of high quality cars and vans from the worlds leading manufacturers all available to hire on a long and short term basis. Sixt Cardiff, located on Rover Way in the Cardiff Bay area [...]
Free Upgrade or Sat Nav for Rentals over 4 Days at Heathrow
To celebrate Sixt’s new in-terminal desks at London’s Heathrow Airport we are offering our retail customers a free vehicle upgrade or free Sat Nav to our retail customers who book a car for more than 4 days. The offer is running all the way up until 31st May subject to availability. Sixt only offer rental [...]
Happy St George’s Day
There’s something very strange in England, as a country we tend to celebrate St. Patrick’s day far more than we do for St. George. Maybe this is down to St. Patrick being associated with large green hats and black and cream pints with shamrocks drawn into the head or perhaps it could be down to [...]
Congratulations for the 5th Anniversary of YouTube Uploads
On February 14th 2005 three employees from PayPal registered a website with a simple premise, allow people to upload and share videos easily. This one idea grew into an internet phenomenom that in just one year, following the launch of the site, was sold for $1.65 billion to Google. The 3 founders of YouTube, Chad [...]
Google Adds Sat Nav to Maps Application
Google have rolled out the latest Beta version of their Maps application on their Android platform phones in the UK. Allowing all Android users, who are on version 1.6 and above, to use their mobile phones as a fully featured Satellite Navigation device. Over the last few months the Maps app for smartphones has seen [...]
Top Blackberry Apps to beat the Ash Cloud
Having recently posted an article about our favourite iPhone and Android apps, we realised that none of the staff here have any idea of what is going on in the world of Blackberry phones. This is simply because the people in our office don’t have one and didn’t think we should be trying to decide [...]
Munich to Chesterfield by road
Four Sixt UK employees, 900 miles, 17 hours, 8 cans of red bull, 2 cars, 1 flask of coffee! Our epic journey by Catherine & Dave… Whilst many tourists have been turning to car hire as an alternative to air travel, some of us from Sixt UK were also caught out by Eyjafjallajökull’s sudden eruption [...]