In Reply to: not all taxis are honest posted by rokka on Sunday, 5. August 2007 at 18:48 Bali Time:
Have to agree on this, about three weeks back we hailed a taxi in Seminyak and asked to go to Poco Locos in Legian at the end of Dyana Pura we turned left instead of right, my suspicions were raised but as we were with friends who had spoken to the driver while I put our stroller in the boot I remained silent. We continued travelling north through Seminyak until we reached La Lucias. We then said to the driver, what the?? To which he replied well maybe you like this better, no we wanted to go to Poco Locos so off we went and again he took the longest possible route almost going into Kuta our fare was almost 60,000 [for a 12,000 rupiah fare approx.]we gave him 20,000 and said our gooodbyes. Overall the blue taxis are excellent but we managed to score a badone that night, which had never happened before.