Rental cars in Samoa and other Independant State of Samoa Transportation Tips

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Category: Car/Motor Home
Getting TO/AROUND: You don't need a car for your whole stay as the busses goes to most places, but a few days on your own wheels may be a good idea.

If you want to travel the island of Savaii with a rental car, pick it up in Apia and take it on the ferry. There are hardly none available in Savaii.

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Category: Bus
Getting TO/AROUND: For getting around the island of Upolu on a strict budget you can take one of the buses. They depart from the main market, Maketi Fou, and the fish market, next to Apia bay, on a flexible schedule, maybe half an hour early or one hour late. Make sure you are there in good time as they may leave early, but if the bus is not filled up they may drive around town to pick up more passengers.

This is also a highly recomended for culture inputs, as you probably will meet many friendly people, and see villages and private gardens that you wold not get to by your own in a car. The buses are all different with unique decorations. They might be crowded and don't be surprised if you will have to let a kid sit on your lap. Sometimes they bring along building materials, fresh produce or other items hard to carry. The driver might stop at the shop to let passengers go shopping or at someones house for a short visit.

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'Mode': AROUND
Category: Car/Motor Home
Getting TO/AROUND: If you are taking a taxi, make sure you agree on a price with the driver before you go, to avoid awkward situations, as they may come up with different prices and strange solutions. When asking several drivers i usually ended up with just as many prices.

On Savaii a taxi driver suggested that the owners of the place I was going to could pay him something extra, and when we arrived he told the owners I had promissed him that they would pay him the double of what I had allready paid him. I'll let this story go in the drivers favour and say that it perhaps was all due to a missunderstanding.

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