Originally Posted by Jaimito Cartero
There are two taxi's that I prefer when in Bangkok. #1 is the Blue/Red colored ones, the other the Green/Yellow. Even though their vehicles are sometimes not sparkling new, they won't try the ripoffs (well, not as often as the others). This last trip, I got one of the purplish metallic ones, that each time would ask where you were going. I was always going just a few kilometers, and refused to take me. I think they were just looking for long trips. So they're on the no fly list for me.
Um... no. Green/yellow cabs are owner-operated, so they run the gamut, but definitely have the highest risk of totally shot cabs (I've had water leaking through the roof on me and drain out through the holes in the floor!) and rip-offs, because there's nobody to maintain standards. Red/blue and all the other colors are rented to drivers by taxi companies, which maintain them to certain minimum standards and can fire the cabbies if they get too many complaints.