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Old Feb 11, 2008 | 5:18 am
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pardino
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: MC
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Originally Posted by boxo

OT: The next morning, one of the FTers left his Blackberry in the taxi to the airport.
I've left my phonecell once on a taxi in Rome after a trip FCO-downtown. When I realized it was half an hour later. I called my number from the hotel, the taxi driver answered to my phone and came to the hotel to give back the phone. I insisted to pay something for that, he didn't accept anything!

Apart from that, FCO is one of the worst place for taxi-scam. You see taxi drivers, limo drivers, not authorized drivers, others, all asking different fares. Their preferred target are Japanese tourists. Always choose a regular one and check that they apply the fixed flat fare to te center of the town.
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