I benefitted alot from this website and would like to contribute my latest surprise.
Came back from bangkok yesterday. Upon arrival with my hubby, we headed for public taxi stand as many advised. We were given a chit, metered taxi with 50baht surcharge. Fair enough. We got up the taxi (plate number attached), my mistake was not checking on the meter thinking that its supposed to be metered as stated. The driver started up the highway and broke it to us he wans 400baht. I asked for meter, he says spoil. We politely ask to get out. He got fed up and on the meter and slowed the taxi to 40km/h!! He stated this is the speed we will get for 'metered' taxi. What a rude shock. We offered him 300baht. He clearly showed he wasnt happy but accepted telling us to pay toll, he sped up to 80km/h. He took us thru 2 tolls (40+35 baht) (we only needed to go thru 1 toll (35baht) on our way back to airport upon our return). Our hotel was at Pratunam area. He was smart to counter us asking for meter by slowing down so be prepared.
Throughout our 7 day stay, my husband really was hesitant to take taxi. It's not money, it's just having to face such a situation. Luckily we stayed pratunam so we walked.
We asked a taxi driver to pick us to airport. She said ok but never turned up. Time agreed was 6am. Phone number given was incorrect.
Dear travellers, please take note of the cab rides.
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on Jul 23, 2008
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