Originally Posted by TominLazybrook

I'm currently in Florence. We're staying a few miles outside the center. Last night, rather than waiting on the bus, we attempted to take a taxi back to our hotel. We were near the train station. We saw 250+ people in line at the taxi line in the train station and no cabs pulling up. Easily an hour in that line. We then decided to walk over to other taxi lines in central Florence. Every taxi queue had dozens of cabs, every single one was filled with cabs parked with no drivers visible. No cabs were pulling in those queues. Ended up just taking the bus. Was there a strike or were the cabs simply all waiting on boutique fares from the fashion show. Or is there something special that we need to do to get a taxi in florence?