So, you’ve decided to plan a vacation to Bean Town, and you’ve figured out ahead of time that you want to hire a Boston coach service to make your vacation into one that you’ll never forget. Snagging a coach service to get around a city as dense and oddly-constructed as Boston is a great away to relieve a lot of the stress of navigating and driving around a strange place. With you and your family sitting in back and enjoying the most comfortable seats on the road, you can get to all of your events and locales on time without pulling your hair out.

The quality of any given Boston limousine service is easily discernable by a few things: punctuality, appearance, and amenities. Unfortunately for the average vacationer, it’s pretty challenging to discern these qualities from Topeka or Branson, so you’ll have to look for evidence of them from afar. A truly great company will have a branch near you, even if it’s centered in Boston; often several coach car companies with very similar philosophies and resources gather into a ‘network’ that can give you a preview of your Boston experience wherever you happen to be. If not, Internet research will have to suffice.

If you do have to use the Internet, here’s a cheater’s tip for getting some very honest commentary about almost any company online: go to Google, and type in the name of the company in quotes, along with the term ‘inurl:forum’. That will make sure that whatever mentions of the company you see, they’re from real people talking in a forum about the subject of their travels — not from some robot designed to post happy comments about a company to make it look good.

Once you’ve narrowed it down to a few companies through Internet research, all them all and ask about three things: license to do business, insurance on the vehicles, and adherence to safety standards. If they give the right answers to those simple questions and they have positive Internet commentary, you’ll probably end up very happy with the results.