Originally Posted by
Tchiowa
Actually I thought his original post was sarcasm. Even in terrible traffic, airport to downtown has never been anywhere near what he quoted.
Possible thought. Some posters have said they have encountered hot meters more than once. I've never had one and I estimate I've taken 3-5,000 taxi rides in Bangkok. But the descriptions of actual hot meter rides all seem to start at the airport, and I never take a taxi at the airport. So I'm wondering if that's the difference.
For those who have had the problem, did you pick up the cab at the airport? Or am I making too many assumption?
It was at the airport and traffic was very very bad, 1 1/2 hours from the airport to Conrad. 460 Baht was the airport surcharge included so more or less 410 Baht, I have no idea the fare for time in traffic jams, but this was really really bad Way back the traffic was way lighter so the meter stopped at less.
The taxidrivers playing games quoted a rate at around 600 THB.