A new service from Skyscanner offers car comparison and rental, as well as flight service. Here's what I discovered while visiting Skyscanner's offices in Scotland.
How many times have you searched flights with Skyscanner or how many times have you searched for hotels on this site? Don't lie. You've done it at least a dozen times, to stay low eh. Here, a few weeks ago I went to visit them in their offices in Scotland and to be precise in Edinburgh, and what came out was a chat about the world of travel blogs! Did you have any doubts?
La home of Skyscanner she is incredibly beautiful. One of those you see in newspapers and magazines, to be compared easily to the Youtube or Google offices. Modern offices, where the employee is not just a simple employee, he is an active person within the company who takes his space, or rather, who is given lots of spaces.
The seat spread over three floors, large glass windows let in the light, since in Scotland there is always a little mist. In the stairs of the building where Skyscanner is located, you can leave messages on the walls and you can draw whatever you want. There are markers to write on the walls, washable of course, and everyone who passes by, including guests, can write whatever they want. As soon as got the badge, given me at the entrance, I took a tour on all three floors, obviously accompanied by an expert guide from the company. I never could have gone alone, don't you think?
What struck me I will tell you perhaps in a little scattered order, but it is difficult to try to explain a workplace that ... to me seemed to have little work. We all know Skyscanner primarily as a flight search engine. One of the most used searches then is the one that I also like very much, the one that from my city goes to "Everywhere", something I've always found brilliant. TO Skyscanner in Edinburgh there are rooms where there seems to be nothing working.
Here they are table tennis rooms, video game rooms, each floor has several small kitchens where employees can store their sandwich, juice, make coffee and tea in the fridge. In addition, guests are also given a company-branded mug. Needless to tell you how pleased I was, given that I'm passionate about cups ^ _ ^ The environment in which the Skyscanner guys work seems to be really harmonious and also very free and especially stimulating.
Le meeting rooms in reality there are none, there are brainstorming rooms with colored cards scattered all over the walls. There are open rooms, where you can meet to exchange ideas and take stock of the situation. The environment is very friendly and working in such a peaceful environment really impressed me, it could almost make me change my mind about my freelance business.
Skyscanner recently introduced the car rental comparison. As with flights and hotels, Skyscanner offers all users the ability to compare car rental prices. By choosing where you want to rent it and where you want to return it, the dates and even the minimum additional services, Skyscanner offers a meticulous comparison among the most important car rental companies. And that's how it is I rented my car for the 10 day trip to Scotland.
Among the cars that there were to choose from, I preferred a car that was above all economic, as petrol is quite expensive in Scotland, especially in the north. I was not interested in a large car as I know Scotland's roads are small and as I already knew we would never drive more than 150km a day.
Ho preferred good car insurance instead complete, a helmet that would allow me - hypothetically - even to crash without paying anything. Since driving is on the left in Scotland and I had never driven like this before this trip, I preferred to invest something more in car insurance than find myself with a big problem to deal with at the end of my holiday.
In the end, nothing happened to my car, thankfully, but total insurance this is something I always do when I rent a car, and I always recommend that you do, because you never know what can happen - often it is not you, but it is others who cause a few scratches and then lose out, economically, it will be only you.
The car ran very well, never had a problem and was a faithful travel companion :)
