Why Arent There Tuk Tuks In Cha-am?

[kkf123]

Only two choices for falang w/o transportation:

walk long distances or pay moto taxis insanely high prices.

[ProfessorFart]

Motos are 10B for a short trip 20B for a longer trip within Cha Am. Hardly insanely high!

[PeaceBlondie]

Hua Hin has both kinds of tuk-tuks, with three or four wheels. I use them occasionally. Cheaper than taxis.

[naka]

Motos are 10B for a short trip 20B for a longer trip within Cha Am. Hardly insanely high!

Agree ... but not everone wants to sit on a mototaxi and you would want very good insurance

Strange that only Bkk sees the need for aircon meter taxis.

Naka.

Edited May 11, 2006 by naka

[jdinasia]

Left out the songtheaws .... and the samlors ...

but motorcycle taxis are cheap there .... MANY times in Town I'd pay a bit over the going rate though to hire 2 .... (one to drive me home on my bike and the other to drive him back ....

[ovenman]

Strange that only Bkk sees the need for aircon meter taxis.

Air-con meter taxis have made their way to Chiang Mai but were allowed because the local songtaew/tuk-tuk mafia were given the taxi concession to operate.

[PeaceBlondie]

Hua Hin has air/con taxis, but most of them want to go long distance, at least to Cha-Am, preferably to BKK or the airport. As jdinasia points out, songtaews can be hired for private use. I usually use the fixed-route, ten-baht songtaew, such as a few hours ago.

[kkf123]

Everytime I wanted to use a mototaxi they would quote an absurd price like 60B for what would probably be 20B in Bangkok. I tried to negotiate and spoke a little bit of Thai, would then walk away go to 7-11 and come back and it was the same story. No choice but to pay triple or walk over and over again, but perhaps you are a better negotiater then me.

On the mainroad, there are alot of buses, pick ups going by though.

[ProfessorFart]

I'm a crap negotiator but never experienced that. Maybe you just got unlucky. In my experience naka if you ask them to drive slow they will.

I agree about how good it would be to have metered taxis the length and breadth of the country but could you imagine the chaos in some of the smaller towns?