Any noticeable changes in Taxi Rate Behavior?

[bucknaway]

I'm wondering if there is any noticeable change in the behavior of Taxi Workers? I remember Babylon having a post about the cost to take a motorbike from Babylon to Saladang and it was around 30 baht but the guys waiting for customers outside charged far and above that rate and would sometimes settle for 50baht.

I also read that Phuket now has true taxi service with metered taxi's and Bangkok style taxi service at the airport. One of the main reasons I stopped going to Phuket was because of the extremely high taxi rates.

How about Pattaya? At night are the rates still higher than before the bars close?

I wonder if things in Chiang Mai have changed any with the tuk tuks?

[christianpfc]

Mocy taxi stations in Bangkok and Pattaya now have price tables in Thai:
http://christianpfc.blogspot.com/2014/0 ... ables.html (http://christianpfc.blogspot.com/2014/08/mocy-and-taxi-price-tables.html)

Wherever taxis or mocy are waiting for customers, you can expect to pay a higher price.

Phuket has a public transport system that is sufficient for my needs. I saw few genuine taxis (like those in Bangkok, windows, aircon), what they call "taxi" in Phuket are all songtheos (but smaller than those in Pattaya).

In Pattaya I use songtheo, 10 Baht.

No recent experience with Chiang Mai (planning to go next month).

[bucknaway]

In Phuket, the new taxi system may not have been in place when you were there.


PHUKET: The Phuket Land Transportation Office (PLTO) will on Monday (September 1) introduce a new system that will allow more meter taxis to pick up passengers from Phuket International Airport. - See more at: http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-new ... oJc6q.dpuf (http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-new-system-of-airport-meter-taxi-will-launch-on-monday-48471.php#sthash.XXCoJc6q.dpuf)

http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-new ... -48471.php (http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-new-system-of-airport-meter-taxi-will-launch-on-monday-48471.php)



Phuket Airport gives meter taxis unfettered access

PHUKET: Ninety three drivers of meter taxis тАУ two thirds of the 139 meter taxis in Phuket тАУ registered this morning (September 1) to serve passengers at Phuket International Airport on the first day of the airportтАЩs тАЬfreedom meter taxi serviceтАЭ.

- See more at: http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-air ... 1hJul.dpuf (http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-airport-gives-meter-taxis-unfettered-access-48508.php#sthash.Ysa1hJul.dpuf)

[christianpfc]

There is a public bus from airport to Phuket Town; to Patong you would have to change there.

Taxi will be faster, but more expensive.