Originally Posted by
UltraRant
It is actually very easy to talk this down to $20. Still outrageous, but it's a matter of principle.
For safety at night: I won't risk walking alone at night in Addis. There's too much that can go wrong. There seems to be too little control of what's going on at night and also regular power blackouts happen frequently (including street lights).
I did try to talk 'em down, but everyone held firm. But the area between the airport and the southern tier of hotels isn't much of a high-crime area since there's nothing of value there. Of course, high traffic plus bad driving...
that's the pedestrian hazard.
But if you're Norwegian, how can you be outraged by anything? The 1 km
bus ride to my OSL airport hotel cost like 80 kr ($10). When my jaw visibly dropped, the driver smiled and said, "Welcome to Norway."
(In Oslo, in the old days, if you were ambitious you could walk Fornebu. But Gardermoen... I don't think so.)