Wow is all I can say right now! I am one of the parents who went in on this so called party bus for our children prom 4/18/17. Let me start off by saying he sent the oldest, falling apart bus for our children. It had no air, wires hanging, no water for the kids, no locks on the bus, no cover on the gas tank, no side mirror, had to guide the driver out, and wanted cash with no recipt given to us, but I do have pictures and recorded calls made to him and him not giving us a discount or another bus inreplace of the one he sent us. All he said he can do was make our kids have the worst experince of their senior year by telling us to send the bus back knowing they could not get transportion this late in the game. I will post pictures on yelp and any other site we can think of because I would not want any parent to have to go through. His name is Mike G and his number is(678)232-4545 and (404)543-2052.
I spoke, booked the bus and made the payment to Mike.
The day of the event-
It was my bachelorette party, we had dinner plans at 6:00 to have dinner and watch a show. The bus was suppose to get to my house at 5:00. Around 4:30, the bus driver called and said he would be a couple mins late. My mom asked him, how late? Like 5 mins or more. He said only 5 mins. It turned 5:20 with still no bus, I called the driver over and over with no answer. I called him from an unknown number, he answered with an attitude and said I'm on the way, I'll be there in 20 mins. I was freaking out and called Mike, since I booked with him. Mike informed me that the driver lied and wouldn't be there till 6:00. So had no choice but to take 2 uber xl because there was 13 of us. It cost us $205 just to get there, which we were late. The bus arrived at our location to take us home but the drama didn't end there. We got on a HOT bus. We live in Atlanta, GA so its still pretty hot. The AC wasn't working, he couldn't get the music or lights to work. It was a dark, hot silent bus. The driver, just started driving and when he would hit the gas the lights and music played but whenever he stopped at a red light they would turn out. The front door wouldn't shut all the way so the curtain blocking the driver and the party on the bus wouldn't stay down. Mike told us they provide ice and cups on the bus.. Yep you guess it, there was nothing. So there we were, in a hot bus with no AC, the lights and music cutting out and not being able to drink our drinks unless it was straight from the bottle hot because we had nothing. I will never book with them again. They were supposed to be booked for 10 hours the day of my wedding also, but we are going with another company.
My niece and 27 of her friends searched the internet for a party bus to take them all to the 2014 prom. The came across the reasonably priced Hot Atl Party Bus website because of a good review. I am writing this review to make sure that no one is ever fooled by them or their misleading website again.
I took over communication with Mike G once the kids decided to use this company because it made more sense for an adult to negotiate the specifics the pricing and the details of the evening. So that I don't have to re-live a very upsetting evening, I will just list all of the things that went terribly wrong on prom night:
1. The bus arrived 45 minutes late. Although we did change the original arrival time verbally, the email that I sent to Mike G to confirm the bus's destination included the new arrival time that we had discussed verbally (so it was in writing).
2. The address did not come up on GPS, so the driver chose ""the next best address"" (which took him in some random direction) instead of calling me to get turn by turn directions. I told Mike G (via email) that the address may not show up on GPS b/c my subdivision is very new, but he neglected to tell the driver---so the driver got lost.
3. I also emailed the address of the restaurant to Mike G, but he neglected to give that to the driver too so we had to waste more time getting the driver this info when he had already arrived 45 minutes late.
4. The company DEMANDED a cash payment due when the driver arrived, but the driver did not provide a receipt! Therefore, there was no way to prove that we paid our bill in full and there was really no way to ensure that the driver wouldn't just leave (once he dropped the kids off at their first destination). When we expressed this concern, Mike G didn't care. He told us that the driver wasn't going ANYWHERE until he got the entire cash payment. Me and all of the parents had to comply so that we did not ruin our kids' prom and make them later than they already were to dinner and the actual prom.
5. We were told that the bus they were sending seated 30 people. When we went to see the bus (about a week before prom) it was obvious that the bus did not seat that many people. When we asked for the larger bus, we were told that they only had one and it was rented out. In reality, the bus that they sent only seated about 22 people comfortably. THE KIDS HAD TO SIT ON EACH OTHER LAPS (in their formal attire) in order to fit on the bus).
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Wow is all I can say right now! I am one of the parents who went in on this so called party bus for our children prom 4/18/17. Let me start off by saying he sent the oldest, falling apart bus for our children. It had no air, wires hanging, no water for the kids, no locks on the bus, no cover on the gas tank, no side mirror, had to guide the driver out, and wanted cash with no recipt given to us, but I do have pictures and recorded calls made to him and him not giving us a discount or another bus inreplace of the one he sent us. All he said he can do was make our kids have the worst experince of their senior year by telling us to send the bus back knowing they could not get transportion this late in the game. I will post pictures on yelp and any other site we can think of because I would not want any parent to have to go through. His name is Mike G and his number is(678)232-4545 and (404)543-2052.
VERY unhappy
I spoke, booked the bus and made the payment to Mike.
The day of the event-
It was my bachelorette party, we had dinner plans at 6:00 to have dinner and watch a show. The bus was suppose to get to my house at 5:00. Around 4:30, the bus driver called and said he would be a couple mins late. My mom asked him, how late? Like 5 mins or more. He said only 5 mins. It turned 5:20 with still no bus, I called the driver over and over with no answer. I called him from an unknown number, he answered with an attitude and said I'm on the way, I'll be there in 20 mins. I was freaking out and called Mike, since I booked with him. Mike informed me that the driver lied and wouldn't be there till 6:00. So had no choice but to take 2 uber xl because there was 13 of us. It cost us $205 just to get there, which we were late. The bus arrived at our location to take us home but the drama didn't end there. We got on a HOT bus. We live in Atlanta, GA so its still pretty hot. The AC wasn't working, he couldn't get the music or lights to work. It was a dark, hot silent bus. The driver, just started driving and when he would hit the gas the lights and music played but whenever he stopped at a red light they would turn out. The front door wouldn't shut all the way so the curtain blocking the driver and the party on the bus wouldn't stay down. Mike told us they provide ice and cups on the bus.. Yep you guess it, there was nothing. So there we were, in a hot bus with no AC, the lights and music cutting out and not being able to drink our drinks unless it was straight from the bottle hot because we had nothing. I will never book with them again. They were supposed to be booked for 10 hours the day of my wedding also, but we are going with another company.
My niece and 27 of her friends searched the internet for a party bus to take them all to the 2014 prom. The came across the reasonably priced Hot Atl Party Bus website because of a good review. I am writing this review to make sure that no one is ever fooled by them or their misleading website again.
I took over communication with Mike G once the kids decided to use this company because it made more sense for an adult to negotiate the specifics the pricing and the details of the evening. So that I don't have to re-live a very upsetting evening, I will just list all of the things that went terribly wrong on prom night:
1. The bus arrived 45 minutes late. Although we did change the original arrival time verbally, the email that I sent to Mike G to confirm the bus's destination included the new arrival time that we had discussed verbally (so it was in writing).
2. The address did not come up on GPS, so the driver chose ""the next best address"" (which took him in some random direction) instead of calling me to get turn by turn directions. I told Mike G (via email) that the address may not show up on GPS b/c my subdivision is very new, but he neglected to tell the driver---so the driver got lost.
3. I also emailed the address of the restaurant to Mike G, but he neglected to give that to the driver too so we had to waste more time getting the driver this info when he had already arrived 45 minutes late.
4. The company DEMANDED a cash payment due when the driver arrived, but the driver did not provide a receipt! Therefore, there was no way to prove that we paid our bill in full and there was really no way to ensure that the driver wouldn't just leave (once he dropped the kids off at their first destination). When we expressed this concern, Mike G didn't care. He told us that the driver wasn't going ANYWHERE until he got the entire cash payment. Me and all of the parents had to comply so that we did not ruin our kids' prom and make them later than they already were to dinner and the actual prom.
5. We were told that the bus they were sending seated 30 people. When we went to see the bus (about a week before prom) it was obvious that the bus did not seat that many people. When we asked for the larger bus, we were told that they only had one and it was rented out. In reality, the bus that they sent only seated about 22 people comfortably. THE KIDS HAD TO SIT ON EACH OTHER LAPS (in their formal attire) in order to fit on the bus).