Originally Posted by gfowler-ord-1k

Even though most merchants in SIN are very honest many taxi drivers are not. The most frequent ripoff is to add surcharges when picking up someone at a hotel. This will show in the "Extras" display on the meter. This happens to me about 75% of the time when going from a hotel to the airport. Another scam that has only happened once is not to use the meter and then display the previous fare which is much higher.