In Queenstown, New Zealand. Actually, staying in Frankton.

I'm about a mile away from the airport and Uber will display 7.50 NZD fare but says no cars available. Yet it looks like it will let me tap the big black button which says "No Cars Available." Wonder if that would make the drivers reconsider.

Change the destination to Queenstown CBD, which is maybe 4-5 miles away and it offers UberX for about 27 NZD.

Hotel says there aren't that many drivers around.

I dropped off my rental car next to the terminal a couple of days before departure. From there, Uber X is available to my hotel for about the same 7-8 NZD fare. Not sure where they pick up there or whether there's a fee to enter the airport.

Hotel says if I took a bus, it would be $10 instead of the normal $5 it would take to go into QT because they think there's some kind of drop off charge. Again, we're talking just a mile away.

But they also have a "special flat rate" of 18.50 NZD with one of the local taxi companies. I guess the taxis are just hanging out at the terminal and would want a higher fare to drive a mile here to pick up and go back to the airport.