kkf123 Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 Only two choices for falang w/o transportation: walk long distances or pay moto taxis insanely high prices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProfessorFart Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Motos are 10B for a short trip 20B for a longer trip within Cha Am. Hardly insanely high! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeaceBlondie Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Hua Hin has both kinds of tuk-tuks, with three or four wheels. I use them occasionally. Cheaper than taxis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naka Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdinasia Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 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 .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ovenman Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeaceBlondie Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkf123 Posted May 21, 2006 Author Share Posted May 21, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProfessorFart Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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