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Traveler Beware in Vegas [taxis]

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Not good news for tourism in Las Vegas . . . taxi drivers ripping off passengers taking out of the way routes. No surprise to me, other than that someone studied and reported it!
 
It's been going on for years, but not just in Vegas. We took a tour of Barcelona once with a taxi ride that should have only been 2 or 3 kilometers. Any major city can boast the same problem.

All I can say is it must have been a slow news day in Vegas.
 
When coming from McCarran airport, it's called "getting tunnelled". I.e., going the long way through the tunnel when not necessary. In general, people call it getting "long hauled".

The Nevada Taxi Authority takes complaints very seriously. If you're planning to use a taxi in LV, keep their phone number in your phone. Just threatening to call them usually brings a cabbie around very quickly. I've heard reports of people getting free fares after getting tunnelled and then threatening to call the Taxi Authority.

-Bob
 
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Its not something new, and we've (the locals) mentioned it here before, If you are going to or near "The Strip" you don't want to be "taken through the tunnel" unless it is Friday or Saturday night.

On the other hand, if you are going to Grandview, Cancun, or WorldMark on the Boulevard, you need to go through the tunnel.

Fern
 
When I know I must take a cab in a big city I get a mapquest printout or take my gps and program the route. Its worth it just to see the cabbies reaction to hearing the gps voice checking his driving decisions.
 
Fern Modena said:
Its not something new, and we've (the locals) mentioned it here before, If you are going to or near "The Strip" you don't want to be "taken through the tunnel" unless it is Friday or Saturday night.

On the other hand, if you are going to Grandview, Cancun, or WorldMark on the Boulevard, you need to go through the tunnel.

Fern
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Anything South of 215 and the Strip, would use the tunnel. Anything on the Strip North of 215, shouldn't use the tunnel, except for Mandalay Bay. For downtown, it depends upon traffic, but you could go straight up Paradise and avoid the extra mileage added to the time and mileage. For any of the TS's or hotels on the West side of town near Red Rocks Casino, like Cliffs Edge, I'd take the tunnel and 215 West to Charleston or Flamingo. As far as the East side of town goes, forget it.

I wish they would complete the mono rail between the airport and the MGM, but the Taxi Authority has too much pull over the County Commissioners. The 2nd best thing would be to have fixed charge zones like they have in Washington DC, but that's an impossibility also. Money talks, suckers walk (Sammy Hagar)
 
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Not limited to Las Vegas! I've had that same experience with a taxi in Anaheim and just a few days ago in St. Louis. :mad:
 
And once in Seattle I got taken for about $20. extra. The next trip, a year later, I found out just how much of a trip I'd been taken on.

Ouch!

It happens all over...

Fern
 
When I lived in Prague many moons ago, taxi rip off is an ongoing issue.

When I visited a few years ago and was running late meeting a friend for dinner and jumped in a taxi at old town and found the meter was running 2-3x faster than it should so I demanded to be let off right away and telling him I know he tampered with his meter.
 
derb said:
When I know I must take a cab in a big city I get a mapquest printout or take my gps and program the route. Its worth it just to see the cabbies reaction to hearing the gps voice checking his driving decisions.
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95% of the cabbies I ride with are not sufficiently fluent in English to be able to catch that.
 
I got longhauled in SLC from the airport to my office, a trip I have taken scores of times. When the cabbie took the first wrong turn, I asked why she was taking the long route. She argued that it was 'six of one an a half dozen of the other'. I said, "Fine, I know what it costs and I'll pay my usual amount." she squalked when the amount was half the meter price, and never to call their company. I told her not to worry about it- I wouldn't.

Jim
 
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