Do you want to safe some money? Do you want to hire a taxi but in your desire price. No problem! Travelling through taxi is not a such big deal but if you wanna some reliable source of travel in a low-cost then it would be headache for you. Specially when you’re travelling in abroad. It’s easier to find low-cost taxi driver locally than in foreign. But if you remember some tips when you’re hiring a taxi, you’ll must find taxi driver with low price.
First search out about local taxi services company. Also check their price and services for possible range of yours. Some new or small companies give you better services in such a low-cost. Find one of them and hire which suit you.
Sometimes, individual taxi driver can charge less money than company services. If you’re convenient with one of them then hire ones.
Always choose metered price than fix fare. Metered price is much low price than fix price. But you should also remember that some driver takes a long route if you agree with metered price. So first think that, either your time is more important or your money.
Bargaining can work sometimes. If you choose fixed fare than metered price then bargaining can decrease your charges. But bargaining not work at all and specially for metered price.
If you’re travel locally and used to travelling through cab, then it’s better to hire familiar taxi driver than any new. He will low his cost for maintaining good relationship with you.
You can skip a tip. This is last choice, if you won’t find low-cost taxi driver. Just avoid the tip of taxi driver or you can decrease it. For example of you’re used to give 15% of tip to taxi driver. Then you just give him 10% or bit less.
Juanita Strang has decided to take a break from the rat race and travel for two years. She is an avid traveler, but first she had to earn enough money to fund her adventure. She was born in America but now lives in Australia with her husband. Together they have three children who are all growing up fast!
