Small passengers: reserve an airport transfer to PHL with a child car seat

A count and a kind

Two answers about seats are all the request needs: the number of seats and the kind of each. You know your child, so you pick the kind; a name, an age, a weight or a word on health stays with you. The office passes your count and your choice to the car company exactly as you wrote them. Choose the number of each kind with the three seat boxes on the form, or give them when you call +1 (302) 656-7483, in a shape like one of these:

• one rear-facing seat
• two forward-facing seats
• one booster and one rear-facing seat

Settled before the car sets out

Seats belong to the start of the request, not to the curb on the morning of the flight. The car company has its own way of handling child seats: some bring them, some ask families to bring their own, and the written answer says which applies to your ride.

Putting the seats on the request moves the question to the very start. The car company reads it before it sends a fare, and its answer reaches you in writing while you are still deciding, so the seats are settled before the car sets out for your street.

You hear about seats before saying yes

The car company that has a car free for your time reads the seat count and answers in writing whether it brings the seats. That answer comes with its written fare, before you say yes, and the fare names what can sit outside the from-figure: gratuity, extra stops, waiting past the time it names, an airport charge if the company adds one, a toll if the route uses one.

If the company brings the seats, its answer says so. If it leaves them to you, you learn that in time to bring your own, or to withdraw the request with no charge of any kind. After your yes, the company confirms the ride in writing with its name, the car and the pickup time; until then the office calls it a request received.

Sedan or SUV with car seats

Every child counts as one of the people in the car. A sedan carries up to 3 people and an SUV up to 6, and the fare covers the whole car, each way, for any mix of adults and children. One parent with two children in boosters fits a sedan; two parents and two children need the SUV.

Seats take room, and so do the bags of a family flying out for a week. With two or more seats and large cases, the bigger car is often the easier choice; the page for an SUV airport transfer to PHL for up to six people describes it. Fares differ by ZIP, and the page for a private car to PHL from Greenville, DE shows both figures for 19807 as one example.