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Jan 29, 2018 | 1:39 pm

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Eltham

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Originally Posted by rwm818

wow...i would say yes. I've been the BKK 25+ times. It's generally ok from BKK, but to the airport, esp early flight (which the ones to US tend to be) - they almost always want flat rate.
Including the ones that come into a 4/5* hotel (JW, GH, InterCon...) the they "agree" with the bell boy to use the meter - then you drive out and say "you give me 500"

And the worst is from popular night spots - the taxi that picked us up at CoMo Metropolitan, and we asked for 2 stops (GH 1st, then JW)...at ~10 pm. Traffic was not bad - no way the meter would have gone past 100-120. And he "demanded" 250. We got it for 200...its just a huge PITA to say "stop, let me out" - over $2-3...oh well

I never use a taxi to/from BKK - I have no problem paying for a limo. In town, as I said, never happened. Maybe it is the “look”.

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