Comments on: Earn Hilton Honors points, and save $15, with Lyft rides in the US and Canada

By: AL

Lyft is ace. They post within seconds of leaving the ride in most cases, which is great. And I’ve always liked Lyft in the cities I frequent versus Uber.

By: Tariq

In reply to Thegasman. I guess it’s a consequence of the underhanded legal action against Uber to claim that their driver contractors should have employment rights.

By: Thegasman

Bit OT but surprised I haven’t seen Uber’s new pricing methods discussed on here. Essentially price paid by customer & fare paid to driver are now uncoupled. Uber charge passenger a fixed price determined by an algorithm & fare earned by a driver is set by a reverse Dutch auction hence the longer waits I now experience before being allocated a car. Seems a pretty underhand way of pitting drivers against each other.

By: Nick

In reply to dahokolomoki. If your hotel is in Boston city centre, the bus from the airport is free, reliable and pretty fast (give the busways and proximity of the airport).

By: dahokolomoki

I’d recommend downloading the Lyft app even if you have Uber. Surge pricing in the US is particularly fierce and common.

An example would be Boston Airport. To the hotel I stay at, the base fare is usually $40. I’ve seen Uber surge as much as $100. I’ve had $20-25 savings just by using Lyft instead.

Lyft isn’t always the cheapest though between the two.

Uber has more drivers and therefore the wait times are usually shorter. But in main metro areas, it doesn’t matter as both have lots of drivers.

The other reason why I use Lyft is because they are the underdog, and if they disappear then Uber will have a monopoly stranglehold. It is healthy to have a competitive market.

By: dahokolomoki

In reply to Stu_N. That's interesting. I have the opposite experience. I travel quite frequently to the USA east coast. Have a mastercard on profile and always use to pay rides, but over the past year never received any extra discounts or promos. In Boston and New York, I'd say it's a tossup between whether Lyft and Uber is cheaper for a particular ride. I think it depends on which one is surging more at a particular time.

By: Stu_N

Lyft also have a tie up with Mastercard. If you have a Mastercard in your profile and use it to pay for rides, that seems to get you 3x $5 discounts in a month and sometimes gave you15% off as well, never really worked out why.

Generally we check both and went for whichever was cheaper or quicker. Drivers we spoke to in Vegas and California last autumn said Lyft was usually cheaper for passengers but paid them more than Uber, which feels like a win/ win.

By: CamFlyer

A very easy way to pick up some points while in the US.

By: Anne

In reply to Harry T. I’ve found the same, the link to Hilton works well. Also tend to find Lyft slightly cheaper than Uber when we’ve visited the US, at least in California, Las Vegas and Nashville anyway.

By: Harry T

These post very quickly IME.