When travelling overseas, the most popular public transports will be bus, MRT or taxi.
Bus is the cheapest mean of transport, but the downside is that commuters have to be very familiar with the various bus routes.
MRT, on the other hand, is a better choice as passengers get to know which station to alight when purchasing the ticket and of course no traffic jam.
Sadly not all cities in Asia have MRT.
Taxi is considered the most expensive transport to travel on.
But for tourists, taxi is also the most convenient way to travel.
Traveller can be sure that taxi will definitely transport you from Point A to Point B.
In reality, not all taxi drivers are honest enough to use the shortest route.
One of the reasons for doing so is that they know you are tourist and that you do not know the roads well, so they can make extra cash out of it.
Ever heard from a friend, when she visited Bangkok, she paid 2,000Baht for a taxi ride just to transport her from hotel to Pratunam Market.
The hotel she stayed was just 10 minutes walk to Pratunam Market.
As it was her first time there, she decided to take a taxi.
The taxi driver asked for 4,000Baht and she negotiated to 2,000Baht.
At one point of time, she was so happy thinking that she had made a good deal by slashing half the price.
With that amount she paid, she could have travelled from Bangkok to Pattaya!
Just last month, I had the worst taxi ride in Bangkok.
Normally it took me around half an hour to 40 minutes by taxi to travel from Suvarnabhumi Airport to the hotel at Sathon via toll road.
Instead that whole journey to my hotel took me more than 2 hours.
All thanks to this con artist taxi driver who took me for a joy ride.
P/S: Although you can take down the taxi driver's particulars and lodge a complaint, but god knows any action is taken against him.
