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Franky speaking the taxi here just dun give a damn weather u are thanchart or not lol just go to RCA u know even thais get cheated sometimes best way is just
Open the door, Tell him the location if he quote u a price then just close the door and flag another. But sometimes if the price is reasonable i just get in
Franky speaking the taxi here just dun give a damn weather u are thanchart or not lol just go to RCA u know even thais get cheated sometimes best way is just
Open the door, Tell him the location if he quote u a price then just close the door and flag another.
You can do that provided you going for a short distant. I lived in the next province of bkk, taxis never open price to go my house before.
That is if u know the way bro... u expect bros here who are there 1 or 2 times to know the way around bkk ? lol
I use GPS to get around, it also show most of the entertainment places, under Places of Interest, most, if not all golf courses are listed. Frankly speaking, with the GPS, getting to most places is a breeze..... traffic jams included.
so far I have learned that in Bkk if the driver keep repeating the name of the place you tell him to it's becoz: 1) he don't know the place 2) he is thinking of telling you not to use meter and 3) he is hinting that pay me extra on top of the meter becoz he doesn't want to go where you want him to go.
Have anyone notice what the Thai do when they stopped a taxi?
They do not go in but open the door and asked the driver if he want to go where the passenger want to go.if not the Thai will just wait for the next one.
only Thananchat will just go in and tell the driver where he wants to go once you do that the driver know that you are not Thai no matter how good your Thai is.That's when he start to wayang
since talking about thai taxi,
one tip to share when you arr at bangkok airport.
usually people will go to arrivial hall outside to take taxi
but you can actually go to departure hall and take a taxi , they are more happy and glad to take u. but have to speak abit of thai for this trick
Have anyone notice what the Thai do when they stopped a taxi?
They do not go in but open the door and asked the driver if he want to go where the passenger want to go.if not the Thai will just wait for the next one.
only Thananchat will just go in and tell the driver where he wants to go once you do that the driver know that you are not Thai no matter how good your Thai is.That's when he start to wayang
I think you're wrong about this thing. I hailed, and asked the taxi, never ever I hailed and go inside the taxi, and tell him where the place I would like to go, still the taxi want to charge me extra by going further than a honest driver would go.
Even my gf who is A THAI talked to be driver the location, still the driver on purpose or not on purpose, drives longer route. Maybe this way they can earn a lil extra ess when there's a lil customers for last few hours when they started their shift.
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Originally Posted by sentsggirls
since talking about thai taxi,
one tip to share when you arr at bangkok airport.
usually people will go to arrivial hall outside to take taxi
but you can actually go to departure hall and take a taxi , they are more happy and glad to take u. but have to speak abit of thai for this trick
What's the different? Taking arrival or departure hall? I supposed there's traffic control who disallow you from taking at the departure hall.
I think you're wrong about this thing. I hailed, and asked the taxi, never ever I hailed and go inside the taxi, and tell him where the place I would like to go, still the taxi want to charge me extra by going further than a honest driver would go.
Even my gf who is A THAI talked to be driver the location, still the driver on purpose or not on purpose, drives longer route. Maybe this way they can earn a lil extra ess when there's a lil customers for last few hours when they started their shift.
What's the different? Taking arrival or departure hall? I supposed there's traffic control who disallow you from taking at the departure hall.
Not sure but if there is traffic control @ departure hall they dont stop you from taking a taxi there.
300 baht most drivers happy to go to inner bkk! As there is not a lot of customers there after they do a drop off.
8 plus years going to bkk and im impressed with the taxi drivers, worst ive had is not want to turn on meter, and one had no idea where he was going-i eventually got dropped off across the street from where he picked me up..............lol.
What's the different? Taking arrival or departure hall? I supposed there's traffic control who disallow you from taking at the departure hall.
fast and good and sometimes get discount because they do not have to wait for long time and imagine you are a driver, you come from bkk inside to airport and then have another customer straight after that, money within an hour .
no shock stun asking to off meter or add on top of meter fare if going inner bkk.
but need to speak thai for this trick.
fast and good and sometimes get discount because they do not have to wait for long time and imagine you are a driver, you come from bkk inside to airport and then have another customer straight after that, money within an hour .
no shock stun asking to off meter or add on top of meter fare if going inner bkk.
but need to speak thai for this trick.
So taking at departure hall does it mean we don't need to pay the 50baht on top of the cab fare?
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