Each room has its own dedicated guide, driver and four-wheel-drive vehicle.

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Traffic congestion from the airports to the capital is notoriously bad and several drivers have actually lost their way. (One team had to use an iPhone to guide the driver to its hotel).

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Elias, our driver and guide, stopped and turned off the engine.

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He compares the software to a GPS device used in a car: It's helpful as a guide, but the driver still needs to look out the window.

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Aside from the Remote Lands fee for a private driver and guide, the entire cost of the experience goes back to the research base for the continued care and preservation of captive and wild panda populations.

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An Ipswich taxi driver has been fined for refusing to accept a blind couple and their guide dogs in his vehicle.

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Mr Metcalfe apologised to the council but said the driver told him his navigation system did not give any warning about the concrete tracks, which guide buses along parts of Cambridgeshire.

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