Originally Posted by
Kettering Northants QC
We eventually gave up using taxis and went over to hotel cars, significantly more expensive but a lot less hassle. Those taxis you describe as waiting outside tourist attractions are, in my experience, the same ones also waiting outside the hotels (along with unlicensed operators).
Good hotel doormen will never put you in an unlicensed taxi. And they will make sure the meter is turned on before you get in. You can make that request to be sure. Given that, I've never had a problem with taxis at hotels.
Taxi or Hotel car, either way the poster seeking advice needs to be aware that in Bangkok unless your hotel is next door to where you are there is no such thing as quickly nipping back to the hotel.
Agreed. Normally it is less than 20 minutes from the Oriental to the GH. Although as in any city, an accident or some other big disturbance can make it much worse.