Renting a limousine can be tricky. Like other forms of service, limousine services vary from service provider to service provider. What are the general guidelines for choosing the right limousine service, so you don't miss that important conference, or you don't end up late for your own wedding?

1. Determining the best value for your money

More often than not, consumers would like to save when they engage a service provider for their needs. This is a valid concern- everyone wants to save money whenever they can. However, there is the question of value when it comes to the most inexpensive choices when it comes to limousine services.

More often than not, prices are low when the vehicle being used is old- which is something that you might want to reconsider if you wish to arrive in style. If you want something memorable for your wedding, then getting the most inexpensive limousine might prove to be a mistake-because in the drive to save money, you run the risk of embarrassing yourself on your special day.

2. Setting the schedule right

Of course you want to arrive on time. But how do you set the right coordinates when it comes to time? The trick is planning ahead- way ahead of the actual time of use of the limousine. If you're leaving for the airport in two weeks time, then it would be a good idea if you schedule for the limousine service to arrive on the appointed date but reserve for a limousine a week before that date.

In doing so, not only would you be holding the limousine service fully responsible for any kind of mistake, but you would be able to cancel if you wanted to. Getting the limousine service "just in the nick of time" would be a waste of money.

The reason for this is that there would be a chance that only the lousiest units would be available for immediate use. You wouldn't want to go to an airport a hundred miles away on a clunker that was made in the seventies and looks exactly like its purported date of creation.

Always remember that not all limousine service providers take extremely good care of their vehicles. To an extent what they do on a regular basis is to simply maintain a degree of cleanliness- but as for the physical maintenance, that depends largely on what kind of limousine service provider you are looking at.

3. Choosing the right limousine service

If you're in a company and had been bestowed the responsibility to take care of a particularly important client, then chances are, you would want that client to travel in style and in comfort. So you hire a limousine to take care of your client as he stays in your humble city.

How can this dreamy scenario turn into a nightmare with a blink of an eye? Two distinct ways, and both are connected to the package that you pay for and the kind of limousine service you choose. This is still largely connected to the relation between inexpensive limousine service and the quality of service that you should expect from "saving" a few dollars.

The first way this scenario can play out badly is when the chauffeur fails to take care of your client during the duration of the service. The chauffeur may become discourteous, or may fail to adequately deliver the kind of quality driving that a VIP would want to experience. If you saved a few more dollars than the next least expensive limousine service, then there might also be a chance that you have an inexperienced driver in your hands.

The second way is that of course, the vehicle may break down in the middle of a trip, and you lose your client.