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Old Apr 5, 2023 | 8:13 am
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Originally Posted by ISTFlyer
As a local my suggestion would be to just take public transportation or take a yellow taxi from the taxi stands and do not rely on any private transfer or car companies which are usually tourist scams. Most of the touristic sites are close to each other so you could walk in between.

Public transportation to the airport also runs 24 hours a day, and unless you have *G status with any airline, it does make sense to go to the iGA Lounge before the flight but it is usually overcrowded.
Thanks. I was trying to minimize the amount of decisions and maneuvers we’d have to make because want to maximize the 12 hours we have and don’t mind paying for a car service. I typically spend quite a bit of time mapping out public transport routes and figuring out how to buy tickets etc and frankly don’t want to do that for such a short trip. According to a few quick google searches, 8 hours of car service is $100-150. That seems cheap to me, tbh. Why do you think they are scams? Do they not show up?
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