In Reply to: taxi desk is open posted by Roo_Ted on Thursday, 26. February 2015 at 16:32 Bali Time:
Sometimes when I catch taxis from Bali Airport, I pretend that I do not speak Indonesian. If I buy a taxi voucher, I hear the taxi driver bragging to the other taxi drivers that the whitey has paid a fixed price. If the driver had agreed to use the meter, he would be intimidated by the other drivers.
Once, I purchased a taxi voucher and tried to catch a taxi to Central Kuta. The taxi driver started reciting his script in English that I would have to pay him extra as my hotel was in Legian. I went along with the script and replied in English that my hotel was only seventy metres from Bemo Corner and thus in Kuta. The driver said in English that if a hotel was on Jalan Legian, then it was in Legian. At this stage, I was bored with the script and told him in Indonesian that I had often travelled to Bali. At this point the driver shut up and drove in silence.